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The Pinball Show Ep 121 Part 2: From BUY Now! To CRY Now! #crycrycry
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 23 min listen
The Pinball Show Episode 121 Part 2: From BUY Now! To CRY Now! #crycrycry Hosts: Dennis Kriesel & Zach Meny - Bond 60th Anniversary First Impressions - Craig Bobbie's Big Bold Stern Pinball...
Highlights
- Keith Elwin designed Bond 60th Anniversary because of an unusually large gap between his cornerstone assignments, stepping up by choice.
- Bond 60th has identical playfield-to-glass clearance as Beatles, and shares the same cabinet stature (shorter than regular Cornerstone games, sits like a Beatles or TNA).
- The spinning disc in Bond 60th has a designated home position at 3-4 o'clock, purposefully blocking some drop targets rather than stopping at random positions.
- Keith Elwin's personal high score on Bond 60th is 18,000 points; the game will have a rolling mechanism but nobody will be able to completely roll it.
- Bond 60th is a low-scoring, drainy-but-fair game with no lane change mechanic and a smaller ball save than typical modern games.
- Bond 60th features multiple multiball modes (described as 'one to two wizard mode mints') and includes a multiball restart mechanic like 1990s games (e.g., Whirlwind).
- Bond 60th will include three selectable sound package options: modern, 80s synth electronic, and 60s/70s ding-ding classic styles.
- Bond 60th was originally targeted for December production but pushed to late January/early February.
- The backglass art uses multiple different fonts (one for each Bond movie) as a licensor requirement, creating visual inconsistency.
- Stern's 'exclusive 007 topper' promotional language caused collector confusion; the exclusivity refers to the licensed 007 topper design, not exclusivity to the 60th Anniversary tier, and Stern is selling toppers separately to all tiers.
Notable quotes
“Bonus is huge. That is where the jackpots are going to lie. That's where the big points are going to lie.”
“Drainy but fair.”
“This game is ugly. This game is ugly. This really isn't.”
“I almost feel like Stern, this is Stern's wink to us as saying, guys, we hate these restrictions so much that we're going to make it hideous just as a middle finger to the IP holder.”
“If I had to say my favorite part of this layout and my least favorite... That figure eight combo shot that utilizes four spinners. Great spinners, there's nothing like them. If you're into pinball playing, there's nothing like a rippable spinner... That's orgasmic.”
“If it's not exclusive to that model, the confusion should have been, they should have caught it as a potential point of confusion.”
“They're tracing them in yellow doing that whole YouTube thumbnail thing where I'm going to grow the image by 20 pixels, then you put in the new layer opacity glow.”
“Nobody's going to do it, which makes people want to do it.”
“I don't want to take the time to put it in a different cabinet. Stay down.”
“Whatever dealer is leaking and sharing information from Stern to the public, like, good on you, buddy.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- CES (Consumer Electronics Show)· event
- Indiana Jones (Pinball)· game
- James Bond 007 60th Anniversary· game
- Scooby-Doo· game
- Silver Slugger· game
- The Beatles· game
- TNA (Total Nuclear Annihilation)· game
- Whirlwind· game
- Stern Insider Pinball Podcast· organization
- Straight Down the Middle· organization
- The Pinball Show· organization
- Dennis· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Mark Panaccio· person
- Seth Davis· person
- Zach· person
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