The Pinball Show Ep 173: Trough Jam 2025 Phase 1: Portal, Potter, Merlins, & Tariffs
The Pinball Show Episode 173: Trough Jam 2025 Phase 1: Portal, Potter, Merlins, & Tariffs Hosts: Dennis Kriesel & Zach Meny - Stern Pinball Production Update - NEW SERIES: Trough Jam 2025 Phase 1...
Highlights
- Portal received the longest lines and biggest crowds at Texas Pinball Festival among announced games
- Metallica Remastered code version 1.00 is complete and triggered a sales bump the week of release
- D&D Pinball saw significant sales bump post-TPF that exceeded expectations
- Tim Sexton departed Stern Pinball to join Play Mechanics
- Jaws Premium models were scheduled to ship the week of the podcast recording
- King Kong (Keith Allen) is rumored as the next Stern cornerstone game in April
- Portal was designed by Steven Silver, Michael Oshin, and Ian Harrower as co-creative directors
- Brad Albright created his first full art package for a pinball machine on Portal
- Ellen McClain provided voice work for GLaDOS in Portal
- Portal's rule set is approachable and comparable to Deadpool in complexity
Notable quotes
“Trough Jam 2025. Or, Trough Jam 2025.”
“Portal by Nancy Mulder... was universally, 100%, all surveys confirmed, game of the show of Texas.”
“What can I do? What can I do?”
“It's not going to win a geometry award or anything... I don't think anything on that system ever will.”
“I would love to see what that team of co-creative directors could do if they put this in a stern cabinet using the same materials and wood.”
“Well, you're not going to see it, so there's no point in hypothesizing.”
“It would get me excited because there's some cool stuff on this game. But because I think the innovations, quote-unquote, are what's limiting this product.”
“Metallica's done. They made it. They did it.”
“It's probably about as perfect as they could get. I still think Portal could work as a traditional design.”
“The issue is, if you're going to make a video game, why not make one for PC and console instead and actually make some money?”
Entities
- Chicago Gaming Company· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Play Mechanics· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Turner Pinball· company
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Harry Potter Pinball· game
- Metallica Remastered· game
- Portal· game
- Brad Albright· person
- Dennis Creasley· person
- Ellen McClain· person
- Ian Harrower· person
- Keith Allen· person
- Michael Oshin· person
- Steven Silver· person
- Tim Sexton· person
- Zach Minney· person
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