EP05 I Played Beetlejuice!
In today’s episode I’m taking you behind the scenes of Spooky Pinball’s newest game, Beetlejuice. I was lucky enough to be at the midnight release party, and I’m going to talk about what really...
Highlights
- Beetlejuice will probably go down in history as one of the best games ever made
- Spooky manufactures all metal brackets and circuit boards in-house, unlike Stern and competitors who order from overseas
- The Beetlejuice sandworm mechanism can be removed without lifting the playfield, with pluggable connections for easy maintenance
- Beetlejuice sold out in approximately 15 minutes during phone order period following website crash
- The exclusive topper bundled with Beetlejuice provides Spooky Speak feature and unlocks an additional game mode
- Event organizers did not enforce photo/leak restrictions but relied on attendee self-regulation based on understanding that rule-breaking would result in losing game allocation
Notable quotes
“The game is freaking phenomenal... I think this game will probably go down in history as one of the best games ever made.”
“Spooky's got to be the only one in the business literally making like all their metal brackets... They make their boards. They don't order them from overseas like Stern and everyone else.”
“There's no Jersey Jack or Barrels of Fun that has anything on this game at the moment. It's just insane how they were able to keep all of this in the game and keep the game at 10k.”
“You can remove that mechanism without even lifting the play field. You can literally remove the hardware that you need to, a few screws or whatever, unplug it, and pull it off the top of the play field.”
“I had a better time at this than any pinball show I've ever been to. It was just like this exclusive behind the scenes look of how these games are made.”
“There's only five or six people taking orders so it does you know they were taking down name email and... I think it probably took about 15 minutes to take all those names down and then they were sold out.”
Entities
- Barrels of Fun· company
- Jersey Jack· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Beetlejuice· game
- Bug· person
- Don· person
- John· person
- Kerry Hardy· person
- Luke· person
- Morgan· person
- Sterling Martin· person
- Zach· person
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