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The Pinball Show Ep 19: Dennis Is Fired Up & Zach Is Trending Down
PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago1 hr 26 min listen
The Pinball Show Ep 19: Dennis Is Fired Up & Zach Is Trending Down Hosts: Dennis Kriesel & Zach Meny - Father's Day Love - Final Round Interview w/ Keith Elwin Discussion - Industry News Updates
Highlights
- Jersey Jack Pinball will not announce any pins until they are ready to ship, in contrast to previous announcements with long delays
- American Pinball's Dave Brennan has been working for his first two months assisting customers, working on Hot Wheels manual, and creating instructional videos
- Spooky Pinball's Rick and Morty received a new code drop with two new dimensions and multiple fixes
- Jurassic Park was originally supposed to have an upper left flipper instead of upper right, but space constraints prevented it
- Keith Elwin indicated that theme comes very early in game design, before layout conceptualization
- Guardians of the Galaxy was originally going to be Keith Elwin's Archer layout, but John Borg and Elwin swapped: Borg got Guardians, Elwin got Iron Maiden
- An upcoming Iron Maiden update is planned despite previous assumption the game was complete
- Opto spinner placement is designer's choice but sometimes infeasible due to space constraints, as with Jurassic Park
Notable quotes
“Jersey Jack Pinball will not be announcing any pins until they are ready to ship. This is in contrast to some previous pins from Jersey Jack, which were announced, and then many months passed until they were available.”
“Jurassic Park was supposed to have an upper left flipper instead of an upper right flipper... space did not allow for that upper left flipper.”
“Keith Elwin indicated that the theme comes really, really early. So most of the time, it goes well before that design stage.”
“Guardians of the Galaxy was actually going to be Keith Elwin's Archer layout... John Borg was actually going to do Iron Maiden, but Elwin said he thinks Borg was kind of getting tired of music pins.”
“The opto spinners... it's always the designer's choice but there are times that it's not feasible due to space issues... Jurassic Park as a case in point, he would have liked to have put an opto spinner on that but with the ramp the way the ramp sets and everything it couldn't be done.”
“I don't understand off-topicness... there are a lot of media members that just don't simply go on Pinsider. They don't follow up with their listeners or their viewers. But that's not us.”
“A spinner has to be located in a way that it is complete satisfaction, but that alone will not make it one of the best spinner shots in pinball. It has to be married with an accompanying sound, a really good sound.”
“I love a game where the spinner is enabled into a mode... you've got to have so many spins to complete that mode. Beatles does that really well.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Brian Kossner· person
- Chris Chandler· person
- Dave Brennan· person
- Dennis Creasel· person
- Dr. John· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Jerry Thompson· person
- John Borg· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Ken Cromwell· person
- Ken Rudberg· person
- Martin Robbins· person
- Zach Minney· person
- Final Round Pinball Podcast· product
- Guns N' Roses· product
- Hot Wheels· product
- Iron Maiden· product
- Jurassic Park· product
- Rick and Morty· product
- The Pinball Show· product
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