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The Great British Pinball Podcast Episode 22 - TPF25 Special

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Send us Fan Mail Neil and Scott cover a wide variety of the rumoured goings on at TPF and Scott shares some fantastic news about a new delivery coming! Apologies about the audio, we are going to...

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Highlights

  • Portal is the first P3 game with playfield elements in the middle third beyond just the back third
  • Chicago Gaming Company Pulp Fiction playfields suffer from inadequate curing time and lack edge cliffies
  • Nine players including Neil are sending Pulp Fiction playfields to Ron Cruzman for restoration/upgrade
  • Harry Potter LE price rumored at $20k with standard edition coming back
  • Lyman F. Sheets Jr. may have new code ideas for Medieval Madness remake
  • Play Mechanics/Rob Thrills working on Halo pinball as next major release
  • Alien vs. Predator rumored as Pinball Brothers' next title, not Alien Ripley
  • Pinball Brothers has 14-month backlog on replacement toppers, Neil still waiting on Alien Queen topper
  • Barrels of Fun may announce new game at TPF (rumored to be Goonies, G.I. Joe, or Fifth Element)
  • Stern appears to be holding Kong release to avoid cannibalizing other game announcements

Notable quotes

“Portal, to me at least, is a bit of a niche license... very old license, let's face it, they haven't released a game recently. I'm just a little bit worried that a lot of people in the pinball world won't know what it is.”
Neil McRae
“Goonies has aged very badly... I did a chump impression and you know I am... it's not it's a bit dated very badly in my view”
Neil McRae
“They haven't had time to let playfields cure. There's no question about it.”
Neil McRae
“If the ceiling becomes 20 grand for an LE that's just ridiculous basically, 5 LEs you buy a house man”
Neil McRae
“14 months is 14 months... the war is the excuse that I find that somewhat challenging... it's been frankly piss poor”
Neil McRae
“This way worse out there. I mean, it's not like Roadshow... And that was one of the upsides of the UKCS. Roadshow broke early in the day. Yeah. I had a small celebration whilst we turned it off.”
Neil McRae
“If Stern can't sell its home pin in Costco, which I heard the last rumor, some of the games were selling for $1,500, which is well below their sticker price, then how the hell is this company going to make any?”
Neil McRae
“I think, personally, it's going to be one of those come-and-go businesses. You're going to see them for about a year, and then they're going to disappear”
Neil McRae
“He's built himself a brand because it just looks like a turner game and I thought oh he's done well at that right”
Neil McRae
“The gameplay is ok but it's clunky... please put some pitch on the game. Jack it up to the back. They had it almost lat level.”
Neil McRae

Entities

  • Barrels of Fun· company
  • Chicago Gaming Company· company
  • Dutch Pinball· company
  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Multimorphic· company
  • Pinball Brothers· company
  • Play Mechanics· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Terror Pinball· company
  • Texas Pinball Festival 2025· event
  • UKCS· event
  • Alice in Wonderland· game
  • Alien (Pinball Brothers)· game
  • Cactus Canyon· game
  • Halo· game
  • Harry Potter· game
  • Medieval Madness (remake)· game
  • Merlin's Arcade· game
  • Portal· game
  • Pulp Fiction· game
  • Ian Harrower· person
  • Lyman F. Sheets Jr.· person
  • Neil McRae· person
  • Ron Cruzman· person
  • Scott Rundell· person

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