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The Pinball Show: Scooby Doo Pinball w/Bug & Spooky Luke
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 37 min listen
The Pinball Show: Scooby Doo Pinball w/Bug & Spooky Luke Host: Zach Meny Special Guests: Corwin "Bug" Emery and Spooky Luke, Spooky Pinball Game Designers/Company Management The Spooky Pinball...
Highlights
- Scooby-Doo pinball license was previously held by another party but lapsed; Spooky discovered it available after initial failed efforts
- Voice actors were re-recorded to dub over original series footage, creating matching speech for iconic clips
- The game contains over 4,000 recorded callouts across five voice actors
- Game development began approximately three months before Halloween Ultraman launch on a cold winter night
- Scooby-Doo is a five-player game with each gang member playable as a character with unique perks/mechanics
- Wide-body design uses a standard-width fast-shooting core with wide-body features on sides (bravery meter, mechs)
- All 16 custom sculpts are injection-molded after $600k+ tooling investment
- Frank Welker was intimidating but turned out to be 'goofy' and improvisational during recording sessions
Notable quotes
“we're going to pack this thing, and we're going to find ways to get the costs where they need to be...I can see where the bill of materials goes wrong...we tried to focus on the things that are best bang for your buck.”
“This game is what we wanted it to look like. The characters are what we wanted them to be. Every single actor in the game is exactly who we specifically wanted for the game...It is one of the most true-to-designer-image games probably out there.”
“You don't want to mess with nostalgia. That's a strong emotion. And it's hard to create that coherent nostalgia in a product such as pinball...there's so many check boxes that you can swing and miss on.”
“there's no one masking. There's no guy under the Charlie mask or anything like that. He's a robot. That's incredible. And that's pretty unique to me.”
“the stupidest long script that we'll probably ever write for a pinball machine it was crazy the length of the script.”
“I grew up in a generation of memes, and it just feels appropriate to kind of tease like that...It's really cool when people go back and post like, oh, they were wearing a Scooby-Doo shirt like a year ago.”
“1969 really just was the sweet spot. Halloween Ultraman was 1750. We didn't want to vastly overreach that, but we also knew we could definitely do more.”
“every single person here has heard frank welker in something whether they know it or not”
Entities
- Hanna-Barbera· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Warner Bros.· company
- Halloween Ultraman· game
- Rick and Morty· game
- Scooby-Doo Where Are You· game
- Pinside· media
- The Pinball Show· media
- Bug· person
- Carrie Hardy· person
- Casey Kasem· person
- David Venice· person
- Dennis Creasel· person
- Frank Welker· person
- Greg Griffin· person
- Kate Micucci· person
- Matt from Back Alley· person
- Matthew Lillard· person
- Spooky Luke· person
- Zach Minney· person
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