Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 26: We Upgraded!
Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 26: We Upgraded! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie? Special Guest: Karl DeAngelo In this episode we discuss once again our thoughts of mechs in...
Highlights
- Recovery skills are more important than rule knowledge in competitive pinball play
- Godzilla Premium has three significant mechs that justify the upgrade over Pro: the bridge, building, and rotating Mechagodzilla
- Theme sells initial game sales; mechs drive long-term sales success
- Single-level games can be as engaging as multi-level if they have strong shot layout and rule design
- Toy Story wizard mode is extremely difficult to achieve; most players struggle with the super loops requirement
Notable quotes
“Recovery skills are almost more important than rule knowledge. Rule knowledge will get you the points faster. But if you don't have the flipper skills or the recovery skills, you could know the rules but you don't last as long.”
“For initial sales theme is more important yes by far. But for the long-term sales it needs the mechs and those unique moments.”
“The way it's integrated and the way you destroy the bridge and it does a whole multi-second animation where it slowly collapses just makes that mech so worth it.”
“I don't know how Keith found a way with the bill of materials that he had to build in all these mechs and still produce an incredible game that doesn't seem over cluttered.”
“It really comes down to layout shots and rules for single level games. You can still have toys in them.”
“The code is so early that you really have to judge that game right now on the shots alone. Nothing else. Stranger Things when it came out the code was just so bare bones it just wasn't fun to play.”
Entities
- Stern Pinball· company
- Chicago Expo· event
- Freeplay Florida· event
- Super Series· event
- Big Lebowski (pinball machine)· game
- Deadpool (pinball machine)· game
- Elwyn's Bond· game
- Godzilla (pinball machine)· game
- Iron Man Premium· game
- Rush (pinball machine)· game
- Toy Story (pinball machine)· game
- Pinside· organization
- Rec Bar· organization
- Abe Flips· person
- Carl D'Angelo· person
- Joel· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Ray Day· person
- Tom· person
- Travis· person
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