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The Pinball Show Ep 152: The Big John Wick Episode

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 12 min listen
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The Pinball Show Episode 152: The Big John Wick Episode Host: Zach Meny Special Guest Cohost: Greg Bone, Straight Down The Middle (SDTM) & Flip N Out Pinball - Stern Pinball Releases Their Newest...

Highlights

  • John Wick Pro model is already in production and shipping; bulk shipments starting early next week
  • John Wick will have 1,000 limited edition units produced
  • Elliot Eisenman is making his first appearance as lead designer on John Wick
  • Metallica 2 rumored to debut Stern's new Spike 3 board, potentially releasing at Chicago Pinball Expo in fall
  • Jersey Jack Pinball plans a new game release at late November 2024 IAAPA Expo (not Chicago Expo)
  • Dutch Pinball's Back to the Future will be revealed at a launch party during Chicago Expo
  • Chicago Gaming Company Pulp Fiction buyers have waited over 1.5 years; units shipping in 'dribs and drabs'
  • Cactus Canyon expanded code kit expected 'sometime later in 2024'

Notable quotes

John Wick is an engineer's game because you don't have one big, large bash toy that you hit. You have this world under glass with a lot of moving parts and a lot of details on the different mechanisms throughout this game.
Greg Bone
The Pro is pretty packed. I don't know if I put in for the extra Premium LE features.
Greg Bone
The gold leading, they're raised off the back. You can feel with your hand that gold leading. So you have a lot of that reflective gold in there too.
Zach Minney (attributing Seth Davis)
I am so sick and tired of 180 ramps in pinball. I know they're space savers, but there's one 180 ramp that I'm totally fine with because it is so smooth and feels so good...
Zach Minney
It's definitely an engineer's game because you don't have one big, large bash toy that you hit. You have this world under glass with a lot of moving parts and a lot of details.
Zach Minney
The Platinum Edition of Elton John is selling so well that JJP has already had to go back to suppliers to buy more parts to meet their customers' increasing demand.
Craig Bobby (citing Jack Guarneri interview)
I kind of think I might prefer the pro back glass. The baby beagle... premium I'm not terribly mad at... but man I don't know, I kind of think I'm on that pro for us pretty sharp.
Greg Bone
If I'm buying an LE, I'm buying it for beauty. I'm buying it for just that extra ounce of detail, for the extra parts, for the extra bling in it.
Zach Minney
They went all in on it. They did go all in on that neon feel.
Greg Bone
I don't know if many people are talking about this, but some of the complaints that I have heard are, man, the premium LE looks awesome, but I just don't know if there's enough there for the LE to make me jump to the LE over the premium.
Zach Minney

Entities

  • Chicago Gaming Company· company
  • Dutch Pinball· company
  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Chicago Pinball Expo· event
  • IAAPA Expo· event
  • Back to the Future· game
  • John Wick· game
  • Metallica 2· game
  • Charlie Benanti· person
  • Craig Bobby· person
  • Elliot Eisenman· person
  • Greg Bone· person
  • Ian McShane· person
  • Jack Guarneri· person
  • Joshua Henderson· person
  • Randy Martinez· person
  • Robert Blakeman· person
  • Tim Saxon· person
  • Zach Minney· person

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