
Episode25: 3 Shocking Pinball Rumors That Might Just Be TRUE
In this episode, I dive into an intriguing message I received about three pinball rumors and why they might actually be true. Could Barrels of Fun be working on an IP from our childhood that would...
Highlights
- Barrels of Fun has acquired G.I. Joe IP and is planning a pinball game
- Jersey Jack Pinball's next game after Harry Potter will be Sonic the Hedgehog, Beastie Boys, or Justice League
- Dutch Pinball has confirmed the Back to the Future license
- American Pinball developed a Cuphead pinball game
- Spooky Pinball's rumored upcoming licenses include Beetlejuice, Gremlins, and Motörhead
- Ryan McQuaid created a Sonic Spinball homebrew and may have been employed by American Pinball to develop Sonic the Hedgehog
- The original Back to the Future pinball game is not very good
- Electric Bat arcade in Phoenix had a record night with 129 people at Tuesday league
Notable quotes
“So I had someone come to me with a couple of rumors and they said these were from some credible sources. Now keep in mind this isn't really my wheelhouse so you got to take it with a grain of salt but the guy said, look you can't say who i am but what i'm going to drop for you is the real deal.”
“I think that is really exciting because gi joe has been one uh that i i watched gi joe as a kid... so i don't know, that kind of excites me. I'd love to know what you guys think. Is G.I. Joe something that you go, man, this would be a really cool title for a pinball machine?”
“Jersey Jack, look, Jersey Jack needs a win. I feel like they've made good games. Like, Elton John is really fun, but it's Elton John.”
“I don't want that for Jersey Jack. I don't want that for any of these companies. I want them to have hit games. It'd be really cool if they all had a game. It'd be so cool if we lived in an era where every single one of these companies had a game out that you had to have.”
“I would be really bummed out if back to the future comes out and there's like it's number one really expensive and it's limited to like 500 because i think that licenses me one that a lot of people want”
“American Pinball just seems so fractured that it'll be a shame because the things I've heard is that Cuphead is actually pretty fun”
“I want them to release a game that i that i think is mainstream enough that everybody would want one... and if you look at the quality of evil dead if you could do that but just bring a mainstream theme like the goonies i'm i'm in i'm totally in”
“I think these are some pretty cool rumors. Let me know what you think. I appreciate each and every one of you watching. I kept it to 20 minutes this time.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Barrels of Fun· company
- Dutch Pinball· company
- Flippin' Out Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Electric Bat· organization
- Christopher Franchi· person
- Kale· person
- Rachel· person
- Retro Ralph· person
- Ryan McQuaid· person
- Spooky Luke· person
- Back to the Future· product
- Beastie Boys· product
- Beetlejuice· product
- Cuphead· product
- Evil Dead· product
- G.I. Joe· product
- Gremlins· product
- Harry Potter· product
- Justice League· product
- Sonic the Hedgehog· product
- The Goonies· product
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