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Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 40 – Going deep on VENOM!
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Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 40 – Going deep on VENOM! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, and Travis Murie Tonight we stayed focused. We talked VENOM almost the entire episode. We gave our...
Highlights
- Venom LE sales were unusually slow with distributors still holding stock at normal pricing as of recording date (24th), which is atypical for recent Stern releases
- Stern has alternated between comic book and band themes in recent releases, with even band themes like Foo Fighters taking comic book-esque visual approaches
- Zombie Eddie (Yeti) has done approximately 6 of the last 10 Stern pins, including all recent comic book titles
- Comic book fatigue exists industry-wide in pinball, with general public experiencing superhero burnout in entertainment
- Fast locks in Venom shoot balls instantaneously upon registration, creating faster ball return to flipper than traditional locks
- Venom layout appears empty/barren in promotional images but plays significantly faster than images suggested
- Dwight Sullivan's code design is 'very polarizing' with tournament players frustrated but story-focused players appreciating his approach
- Pinball buyers are price-conscious and have been trained by market dynamics to compare prices across available games
Notable quotes
“We're basically flip-flopping between some sort of comic book-related something, band theme, comic book-related something, band theme.”
“There's comic book fatigue. You see people just dogging on the Disney Plus shows. Even the CEO of Disney came out and said something about that they need to get a little bit more focused.”
“You're going to buy the thing that's unproven that you see that there's plenty of stock out there and you're just going to kind of wait and see, or are you going to buy the game that is basically an S-tier level game?”
“This game is so fast... The moment a ball lands in that saucer, a ball is being spit out of the fast lock in the right.”
“So when you can make a direct comparison to different games and they all carry the same monetary value in terms of how much a dealer is going to sell it for... that's going to make it lopsided.”
“The moment Venom Pro went on sale... there was no frenzy. And you really didn't see anything tick upwards.”
“Dwight Code is kind of a very polarizing, him as a coder, the way that he codes games, normally it can be very hit or miss for people.”
“For me, no [excited about theme]. For me, yes. The mystery, who's who?”
Entities
- Carnage· character
- Eddie Brock· character
- Flippin' Out Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Walt Disney Company· company
- Pinside· company/community
- Avengers· game
- Deadpool· game
- Foo Fighters· game
- Godzilla· game
- Iron Maiden· game
- James Bond· game
- Jurassic Park· game
- Rick and Morty· game
- Stranger Things· game
- Turtles· game
- Venom· game
- Doppelgänger· game_mechanic
- Brian Eddy· person
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- Joel· person
- Tom· person
- Travis· person
- Zombie Eddie/Zombie Yeti· person
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