The Pinball Show Ep 127: The Death Of 1 & The Birth Of 2.0
The Pinball Show Episode 127: The Death Of 1 & The Birth Of 2.0 Hosts: Dennis Kriesel & Zach Meny - Is The Truth Really Out There? - Stern Pinball Production Updates - A Title Discontinuation?!
Highlights
- Stern Pinball has no plans to produce Rush in 2024 and the license will expire; they communicated this to their sales team
- Rush won Game of the Year at the Twippies and has seen sales increase over the last six months significantly
- Stern has great relationships with Lucasfilm/Disney and Marvel/Disney, guaranteeing Star Wars and Marvel titles approximately every year or every other year
- Foo Fighters Pinball has a simpler, more approachable ruleset compared to games like Rush
- Haggis Pinball expects to complete all Fathom Revisited (Epsilon Edition/mermaid) production by end of 2024 with small Kelps run to follow
- Haggis Pinball's next revisited game announcement coming mid-2024 with production starting early 2024
- Stern has been mixing up production runs (Pro/Premium/LE tiers) based on parts availability rather than strict schedule
Notable quotes
“They're discontinuing Rush.”
“They have no plans to produce Rush in 2024. They would have to squeeze in Rush into 2024. They have zero plans to do that. Therefore, their license will have expired.”
“I think this is the sales executives at Stern Pinball doing what they do best... if we are going to run it a year from now, do we predict sales to be high enough that it even makes sense to renew a license?”
“If there was still high demand... they do more than one run... when you get an old title, you might get one run a year.”
“They have really good relationships with two or three individual entities. They have a great relationship with Lucasfilms and Disney... Marvel and Disney. Think about, once every year, every other year, what title would make sense.”
“That code depth is like the perfect amount of depth that I want in a game. That's about as far as I want it to go. I don't need it to go any deeper.”
“Buckle up, dick bags.”
“If you want one, get on with the fascination and try and find one now.”
Entities
- Flippin' Out Pinball· company
- Haggis Pinball· company
- Lucasfilm/Disney· company
- Marvel/Disney· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Twippies Awards· event
- Deadpool Pinball· game
- Fathom Revisited· game
- Foo Fighters Pinball· game
- James Bond Pinball· game
- Rush Pinball· game
- Star Wars Pinball· game
- The Pinball Show· organization
- Craig Bobby· person
- Damien· person
- Dennis Creasel· person
- Jody Dankberg· person
- Joel Engelberth· person
- Raymond Davidson· person
- Zach Minney· person
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