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The Great British Pinball Podcast Episode 18

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Send us Fan Mail summary In this episode of the Great British Pinball Podcast, Neil McRae and Scott Rundle discuss the latest happenings in the pinball world, including the anticipated arrival of...

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Highlights

  • Pulp Fiction LE is currently in air freight and will arrive within a week
  • CGC Pulp Fiction LE had to redo topper parts before shipping due to quality issues
  • X-Men pinball has widespread launch/leveling issues affecting ball routing
  • Stern is releasing a fix-it kit for X-Men to address launch and alignment issues
  • X-Men Premium/LE cabinets are narrower than legacy non-expression lights cabinets, affecting playfield alignment
  • Metallica LE includes limited edition banners (one of four variants) as standard with all LEs
  • X-Men code is on version 0.92 with a new update imminently planned
  • Scott's pinball club is financially stable but lacks emergency reserves and cannot afford facility improvements
  • Game of Thrones and Elvira Stern machines experienced board failures (node board and CPU board respectively)
  • Stern implemented unboxing achievements and launch party recognition for new machines like X-Men

Notable quotes

“Pulp Fiction LE had such a high kind of excitement level. Yeah. And it's in the toilet now. And loads of people have either cancelled their game or sold the deposit to someone else”
Neil McRae
“the reason they're doing it is to make sure the games are as good as they can be... on the one hand they could have just shipped it out with some janky part that didn't work... they got it sorted”
Neil McRae
“I hate floaty games I can't stand games that are floaty I find that the hardest thing, it's hard to predict where the ball's going to go”
Scott Rundle
“if they don't do that they're missing out there's stuff they can do to reward them it's easy it costs them nothing but it generates engagement with their customers it would be mad for them not to do that”
Scott Rundle
“it's not ideal, it's not killing us but it's not as it's just made things a tiny bit more difficult than than we'd have expected... we're not like in the Old Place were able to build up a little bit of a nest egg for emergencies”
Scott Rundle
“I'd rather have it so that software-wise just went, that's dead, carry on. Kill it, yeah, exactly. If you're on location and you didn't have time to come down and look at it... It could be losing you money.”
Scott Rundle
“when that node board failed, it just locked the whole game up. And what you want is okay, the board's failed, we're kicking it out, but we can still play some element of a game”
Scott Rundle
“I was absolutely shocked but I did find I found a pinball machine in a new location so there's an arcade... they had a Simpsons and when I was there the guy was actually cleaning it... it's actually got me in the mood to buy a Vuelix”
Scott Rundle

Entities

  • CGC (Custom Gameplay Concepts implied or manufacturer)· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Flippin' Out· organization
  • Pinball Republic· organization
  • The Great British Pinball Podcast· organization
  • George Gomez· person
  • Jason Werdrick· person
  • Joel (Flippin' Out)· person
  • Kerry Hardy· person
  • Neil McRae· person
  • Phil· person
  • Preston· person
  • Scott Rundle· person
  • Elvira Pinball· product
  • Game of Thrones Pinball· product
  • Godzilla Pinball· product
  • Iron Maiden Pinball· product
  • Metallica LE· product
  • Pulp Fiction LE· product
  • X-Men Pinball· product

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