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The Great British Pinball Podcast Episode 5
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 43 min listen
Send us Fan Mail Scott and Neil talk all things Chicago Expo 2023!
Highlights
- Jersey Jack released two games in one year for the first time, showing production acceleration
- Elton John has approximately 1500+ LEDs underneath the playfield
- Elton John features three multiballs that must be earned through gameplay rather than awarded automatically
- JGP increased flipper power above 40 volts, requiring additional electromagnetic interference certification
- Pulp Fiction production is behind schedule; Cactus Canyon had supply chain issues with the topper and apron
- Venom was consensus least desirable of new game releases at Expo
- Elton John is a three-flipper game with significant layout differences from Spider-Man and Star Trek despite surface similarities
- Elton John wizard mode exists but was not fully coded and caused the game to crash during testing
- Mirco playfield quality issues are partly due to improper post installation techniques rather than playfield design alone
- Queues for Elton John at Expo were comparable to Pulp Fiction queues at TPF, significantly longer than other new releases
Notable quotes
“I know so much about what's coming out in the future. It's crazy, crazy, crazy.”
“Elton John was the best game there... some people are saying it's like a stern right it's funny how that's always the mark of quality for people isn't it”
“I would have been on the phone with Phil saying put me down for a platinum no question about it”
“the old jelly flippers of old from JGP are no more... Steve Ritchie i remember him saying one of his mandates when he joined was i have to change those flippers”
“in Elton John you have to work for there's no gimmies right and personally i love that”
“This Godfather you know you kill someone and it goes rainbow i'm like what... this is just bizarre”
“the action is that you know the action is a very ball and flippers game you've got to earn things there's a lot of modes”
“my kind of right brain is a company that treats customers like shit i just can't deal with them”
“if you've got a jgp game i mean if they did a dial-in kit, I would definitely buy it”
“you can't really like you know you've got to get in play enjoy the game capture what you can sort of thing”
Entities
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Expo· event
- UK Open· event
- Cactus Canyon· game
- Elton John· game
- Fear of Magic· game
- Godfather· game
- Guns N' Roses· game
- Pulp Fiction· game
- Spider-Man· game
- Star Trek· game
- Venom· game
- Pinball Info· organization
- Ant· person
- Josh· person
- Neil McRae· person
- Rob Byers· person
- Scott Rundle· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
- Zeonic· person
- Mirco Playfields· product
- Interium· venue
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