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Episode 45: Walking Dead Pinball Returns for 2025 - But Should You Care?
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The Walking Dead Pinball is officially back, remastered, polished, and ready to take another bite out of the hobby! 🧟♂️ But does this game really need a second run? In this video I give my initial...
Highlights
- Walking Dead Remastered features a new modular cabinet lighting system with internal and external expression lighting on all versions.
- The game includes a larger 18.5-inch full HD display with true color depth powered by Spike 3 technology.
- The well walker has been enhanced with a solenoid for active mechanical movement instead of passive ball-strike response.
- The crossbow mechanism now features a motorized ball-firing system with an encoder.
- Custom audio callouts include voice work from Merle and Michonne characters.
- The art package does not appear to feature foiling, which Stern associates with premium feel; foiling is not explicitly mentioned in marketing.
- Walking Dead Remastered lacks video show clips from the TV series, relying instead on custom animations.
- Only ~500 Limited Edition units are being produced.
- Stern's Spike 3 audio system has improved power handling compared to Spike 2, making default audio more acceptable without mandatory upgrades.
Notable quotes
“I watched 0.0 content on this. So you're going to get my live reaction after a little bit of alcohol, a lot of Korean barbecue.”
“Am I seeing expression lighting on the outside of the cabinet? Holy shit, Georgie. We have not seen that before.”
“I like what I'm seeing already. See, this is what I'm talking about, George. Bring in the innovation with the cabinet lighting.”
“now I'm not saying if you're a hardcore audiophile you're gonna find some issues with it but that's just because if you're an audiophile, you're an audiophile. You can't help yourself, right?”
“If you have never played The Walking Dead, then you're in for a treat. It's a great game. It's coded amazingly well. It's got some unique and interesting shots.”
“Metallica knocked it out of the park this feels almost the opposite.”
“no video assets this feels largely unneeded and a huge pass metallica knocked it out of the park”
“pinball has fallen into the lazy trap of remakes just like filmmaking”
“the art concepts are fine it's the effing color palettes that are [unintelligible]”
“A Stern remaster that makes more sense is something like Lord of the Rings with movie assets included. That would absolutely kill it.”
Entities
- Flip N Out Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Beetlejuice· game
- Evil Dead· game
- Jaws· game
- Lord of the Rings· game
- Metallica Remastered· game
- Star Wars: The Fall of the Empire· game
- The Walking Dead Remastered· game
- Transformers· game
- Winchester· game
- The Flipside Pinball Podcast· organization
- George Gomez· person
- John Borg· person
- Lyman F. Sheats Jr.· person
- Retro Ralph· person
- Robert Laskey· person
- Zach Sharpe· person
- Zombie Yeti· person
- Spike 3· product
- Electric Bat· venue
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