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The Great British Pinball Podcast Episode 33

PodcastAnalysis updated yesterday1 hr 11 min listen
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Send us Fan Mail Neil and Scott return for a post xmas post PATB; Covering BeetleJuice and the wider stuff of pinball - plus a old event comes back to life.

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Highlights

  • Scott is quitting CPR playfield restoration work due to quality issues and loss of enjoyment
  • Spooky had approximately 10 Beetlejuice machines at Pinball at the Beach, plus every Spooky game ever made
  • Stern displayed nearly 200 machines at Pinball at the Beach, representing most games made since Stern Pinball founding
  • The Walking Dead (Pro) remastered has minimal new code but plays significantly better than original
  • Dungeons & Dragons has not yet reached version 1.0 code and has had serious release bugs
  • Mel (Dutch Pinball employee) has left the company to pursue other opportunities
  • Dutch Pinball is still working on Back to the Future but lacks complete licensing (missing 2 of 4-5 required license components)
  • Beetlejuice features a moving ball lock mechanism (sofa) during day-old mode, requiring care during machine setup
  • Beetlejuice topper requires removal to fold the backbox, similar to Evil Dead
  • Neil and Phil (likely Phil Waldron) have reconciled differences and will collaborate on Stall Ball tournament

Notable quotes

“I fucking hate them. I don't care what people say... I cannot work with this... This is why I give my work to other people.”
Scott Rundell
“It's a thankless task... I just can't be bothered anymore. It kills me. I haven't played pinball if I'm honest with you all this year.”
Scott Rundell
“Here I am working on chump change for hundreds of hours on restoring the game and I have people whinging at me about my costs. I mean, this guy's showed up for five minutes and got 300 quid.”
Scott Rundell
“The problem you get is where you try to extract too much of that goodwill without putting in enough of your own goodwill.”
DOMINO Pinball: Neil McRae
“Boy, does it play nice. Fucking hell, it plays really nice... Very impressed with how it plays.”
DOMINO Pinball: Neil McRae
“This will be an unpopular opinion. The Topper is the most hideous thing I think I've ever seen in my entire life... It is absolutely freaking awful looking.”
DOMINO Pinball: Neil McRae
“It feels like you're playing Attack for Mars and they just moved the spaceship to the side... It's a modern day Attack for Mars from a shots point of view.”
DOMINO Pinball: Neil McRae
“I had almost an hour on ball one... I kind of gave up because the people behind me were waiting for so long.”
DOMINO Pinball: Neil McRae
“The Shadow is back for stall ball. To be fair, it is a good game for stall ball. It's the best game.”
DOMINO Pinball: Neil McRae
“I'm not convinced that includes Huey Lewis and the News... There's five things I think they need.”
DOMINO Pinball: Neil McRae

Entities

  • Dutch Pinball· company
  • Spooky Pinball· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Great British Pinball Podcast· content
  • Pinball at the Beach· event
  • Stall Ball· event
  • Texas Pinball Festival· event
  • Attack from Mars· game
  • Back to the Future· game
  • Beetlejuice· game
  • Dungeons & Dragons· game
  • Evil Dead· game
  • The Walking Dead Remastered· game
  • Ben Heck· person
  • DOMINO Pinball: Neil McRae· person
  • Ed Van Der Veen· person
  • Gary Stern· person
  • Jack Guarnieri· person
  • Luke Wells· person
  • Mark Squires· person
  • Mel· person
  • Phil Waldron· person
  • Scott Rundell· person
  • Hangar Pinball· venue

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