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The Spinner Is Lit - Episode 5: Batting the ball around
PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago1 hr 10 min listen
Spencer and Seth Holder talk pinball.
Highlights
- Dialed In is beginning production soon (2017)
- Alien by Heighway will begin shipping within another quarter
- Steve Ritchie is designing Star Wars for Stern with a new LCD screen
- HomePin is based in Australia and operates a factory in China
- HomePin is taking no money upfront and building first 500 units before revealing them
- Spooky Pinball plans to run Total Annihilation (TNA) in batches of 50 units continuously
- Dutch Pinball released a Bride of Pinbot 2.0 remake
- There are approximately 500-600 pinball machines at Arcade Pinball Expo 3.0 in Banning
Notable quotes
“if a game has good geometry, if things flow... If that's set up right and you can just shoot like buttery smooth-feeling shots in gameplay, I mean, it's an amazing thing”
“I'm always going to be really attracted to the secondary market and specifically to the 80s games... risking $8,500 on a new inbox that you may or may not like”
“they have a niche of being a boutique. They know who they are, and they just stick within that niche, and they do things. They focus on quality, and they focus on customer”
“He's taking no money up front. He's working to build the first 500 units before he even reveals them and ships them.”
“the biggest drawback for me is I mean I like the theme well enough, I don't hate it... But you know I got little kids, man... I can't put that in my game room, man”
“Seven of them would be early solid state, and they would all probably be under $1,000 easily in the right conditions”
“working without a net, man. It's just the rush and the fun of doing it”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Dutch Pinball· company
- Heighway Pinball· company
- HomePin· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Arcade Pinball Expo 3.0· event
- Pinagogo· event
- Aerosmith· game
- Alien· game
- Batman 66· game
- Bride of Pinbot 2.0· game
- Dialed In· game
- Game of Thrones· game
- Metallica· game
- Star Wars· game
- Total Nuclear Annihilation· game
- Charlie Emery· person
- Pat Lawlor· person
- Seth Holder· person
- Spencer Klingin· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
- Steve Sharlin· person
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