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The Great British Pinball Podcast Episode 17
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 33 min listen
Send us Fan Mail Neil and Scott talk all things UK OPEN, Labyrinth and Pinball Expo 2024 covering all the new games and updates for the show - Neil shares his disappointment with ABBA and his...
Highlights
- UK Open had 160 players over three days with more games than ever before
- Cactus Canyon delays caused by supplier delivering wrong LE apron design, requiring new supplier search
- Pulp Fiction LE delay caused by topper part issues requiring replacement
- CGC warehouse has approximately 500 games ready to ship pending final parts
- Avatar is too easy with one-hour game lengths possible; code is complex and unfun
- JJP needs feedback from operators about game difficulty; their games don't appeal to location operators
- Labyrinth has geometry issues but strong video interactions; first game sets high bar for Barrels of Fun
- New Cactus Canyon code is impressive; players won't revert to original code once played
- CGC uses silkscreen printing for playfields (learned from Williams era); offers superior durability and color depth vs digital printing
Notable quotes
“if only we had metallica to play our intro we would sound absolutely fantastic”
“it takes a village as they say and every village needs a clown. I will take that appointment with glee and happiness.”
“Does James travel because we could do with him at our tournament”
“they've got all this music in there. And I think all the video interactions are great...Rick and Morty kind of style Geometry issues”
“The code's shocking on it. The rules are just terrible...it's not fun um and and it takes away from a well designed game”
“a multiball needs to be earned in my book, and a multiball should be part of a special event...I don't want to have Guns and Roses, where it's blah blah blah lights multiball”
“Do it right or don't do it guy And that's why they're late. Basically His His way of thinking, doing is why the games are late.”
“you lose a lot of colour in the digital print...silk screen is just layer upon layer upon layer of colour, it's complex it's very complex”
“I mean look as an LE customer I want my game but in hindsight, this is a discussion I have with Josh Sharp, it's better to make all the mistakes on the other ones and then figure it out”
“I bailed on my my x-men...when they announced metallica and i'm not a metallica fan my wife is...but she absolutely was like i want metallica”
Entities
- CGC (Chicago Gaming Company)· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Pinball Expo· event
- Pinfest· event
- UK Open· event
- Avatar· game
- Cactus Canyon· game
- Elton John· game
- Labyrinth· game
- Metallica· game
- Pulp Fiction· game
- X-Men· game
- Backhand Pinball· organization
- David (Rego Arcade)· person
- Doug Duva· person
- Eric (Barrels/Labyrinth designer)· person
- Gary Flower· person
- James (technician)· person
- Josh Sharp· person
- Martin (Pinball News)· person
- Neil McCray· person
- Rob Burke· person
- Scott Rundell· person
- ZMAC (Zach McCurry)· person
- Beercade Sydney· venue
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