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EP22 PinTalk with Sterling and Eric

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Episode 22 of The Pinball Studio Podcast is a special PinTalk episode featuring Sterling Martin and Eric Edwards from Radioactive Pinball Arcade. In this episode, the two dive into all the latest...

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Highlights

  • Spooky's next game after Beetlejuice is 'already pretty well sold out' and is Goonies (code/logo leaks confirmed)
  • Beetlejuice had 1,000 units in initial production run, but show games (dozen at Pinball at the Beach, 19-20 at Texas Pinball Festival) added ~40+ units, bringing true production to ~1,040-1,100
  • Beetlejuice secondary market has softened as production ramps; Eric sold his unit at $14k when asking price was $16k+ due to slow market
  • Beetlejuice experienced severe technical issues on initial delivery: code update crash, servo/imaging corruption requiring manual recalibration of all settings, and repeated boot lock-ups on different developer screens
  • Jumping the Line song license for Beetlejuice was 'not cheap' and required substantial additional payment after initial game design
  • Halloween (Spooky) has powder coat finish issues where surfaces tarnish black when touched; solution is clear coating after removal
  • John Wick's underperformance was due to code quality, not theme or mechanics; lead coder Tim Sexton left for Chicago Gaming early in development

Notable quotes

“Yeah, if you're not already on the list for, I'm just going to go ahead and call it Goonies, even though it's not confirmed... somebody found the Goonies logo. I saw that earlier. All of the code dropped.”
Eric Edwards
“I mean, when there's nowhere you can get them less than 16 and you're out in 14... the market's a little slow right now. I had to keep dropping it down until I got it sold.”
Eric Edwards
“So really, there's probably 1,100 or 1,150? Yeah, sure. Yeah, I think there was a dozen of them at Pinball at the Beach... 20 at Texas Pinball Festival. They wanted 20, but they couldn't fit them all on the truck, so it ended up being 19 games.”
Eric Edwards
“When I turned it back on, the system crashed... we ended up re-imaging the game, which caused its own issues... every servo is just all their default settings go to mid. Oh, it screwed up everything.”
Eric Edwards
“Spooky was incredible. I talked with, I believe her name was Mike Tori... switching over to AJ, and AJ overnighted me a PC for it. That's awesome.”
Eric Edwards
“I love the game, but I love the theme. It's one that personally I can just sit there. They did such a great job with theme integration.”
Eric Edwards
“That game doesn't seem to take the constant abuse that our games take as well as, say, a new Stern. So I think I'm just going to bring it back seasonally.”
Eric Edwards
“I think that really describes what we're going for in this podcast: to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, hear the lamentation of the women.”
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Entities

  • Chicago Gaming· company
  • Spooky Pinball· company
  • Pinball at the Beach· event
  • Texas Pinball Festival· event
  • Beetlejuice· game
  • Evil Dead· game
  • Goonies· game
  • Halloween· game
  • John Wick· game
  • Star Wars Trilogy· game
  • Pinball Studio· organization
  • AJ· person
  • David· person
  • Elliot Eisenman· person
  • Eric Edwards· person
  • Erin· person
  • Mike Tori· person
  • Tim Sexton· person
  • Pinball Palace· venue
  • Radioactive Arcade· venue

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