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The Great British Pinball Podcast Episode 23
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 41 min listen
Send us Fan Mail It's the TPF wrap episode - And Neil gives Blues Brothers some Boomstick! More swearing warning:D
Highlights
- Godzilla has generated 70,000 plays at Electric Bat Arcade at $1/play, totaling $70,000 in revenue since September 2021
- Dungeons & Dragons code base is extremely large and complex; Stern may have 'bitten off more than they can chew'
- Texas Pinball Festival organizers (Paul and Rob Harris) implement daily feedback forms and move games/logistics based on previous night's feedback
- Portal (Multimorphic) is positioned as potentially being the successor to Godzilla's dominance in arcades
- Addams Family (at Electric Bat) underperformed operator expectations and has declined in earning potential
- John Wick's price has 'trebled' since Neil purchased it a month prior to TPF
- Secondary market for pinball is currently a 'buyer's market' with games significantly underpriced
- Michael Dorn's voice-over work as the dragon in D&D is underwhelming and not well-suited to the character
Notable quotes
“I just can't be asked with it anymore... I said the bubbles burst pinball is like worth nothing you're going to buy a game and you're going to lose your house.”
“I think my wife had a similar thing actually, she put her car up and she didn't even bother to mention it had the front and rear dash cam fitted... people perceive that as any value.”
“I just emailed the CEO... And said, you know, look, Seth, how can it be that I paid for a game in January? And if I paid for it now, I'd probably save a thousand bucks.”
“They got a feedback form all right and and they would basically see what was going on in the feedback form and I saw them moving some stuff and I was like why are you moving it? It came up in the feedback form last night.”
“70,000 plays. Jesus... At a dollar a play. That's good money... that's $70,000 that's paid for the game and paid for four other games as well.”
“if you're gonna buy it the only one that was of value was the one that had the lower third extension on it... it just didn't feel like a pinball machine to them”
“Pulp Fiction guys, I'm sorry I'm not letting you away with that they made Pulp Fiction not just brutal but literally a lethal weapon they took the posts off, the outlines off”
“Merlin's Arcade... What a fun game... the foosball spinner is awesome it's brilliant... they've freaking nailed it, fair play to them”
Entities
- Multimorphic· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Texas Pinball Festival (TPF)· event
- Addams Family· game
- Dungeons & Dragons: Tyrant's Eye· game
- Godzilla· game
- John Wick· game
- Medieval Madness· game
- Merlin's Arcade· game
- Ninja· game
- Portal· game
- Electric Bat Arcade· organization
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- Jerry Liu· person
- Michael Dorn· person
- Neil· person
- Paul Harris· person
- Rachel· person
- Rob Harris· person
- Scott Lundell· person
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