Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 57: We Have Killed ALL Pinball Sales & Expo Recap
Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf & Travis Murie We are back from Chicago Pinball Expo and we had a BLAST. In this episode we recapped all the stuff we played at Expo as well as some of the people we...
Highlights
- Metallica LE production limited to 500 units to drive FOMO and prevent overselling
- Some Metallica LEs sold for $15,000-$18,000 on secondary market while others remained available at MSRP
- Metallica LE includes post on left side to prevent left-side drains (absent or modified from original)
- Metallica LE features virtual ball saves on both sides (new to remaster, not in original code)
- Metallica LE porting to Spike 2 required complete rework of light choreography despite base rules reusability
- New players to pinball within past year comprise significant portion of Expo booth visitors
- Funhouse remake uses new artwork that disrupts muscle memory for experienced players
- Stern Metallica LE media event drew significantly larger crowd than May event, including Arcade1Up crossover audience
Notable quotes
“One of the things is you can drive a lot of desire for a certain product based off the number of units available. And when people feel like, wait, you know, there may not be enough for me, and you get multiple people filling like that, that's naturally what creates the FOMO.”
“I would have rather played Jetsons. That's all I'm going to say.”
“I'm done. It's just don't do it. No more LEs.”
“The way the direction they have is zombie Eddie is essentially established the characters or the character drawings. And then as animators, they are trying to match what zombie Eddie has done.”
“It's the same layout. It's the same basic... I mean, it's... But it's not. They took everything the original had. It's not the same exact layout, though.”
“porting this game over to Spike 2, he said, from a rules standpoint, you know, a lot of the base rules, that is something you can essentially copy paste, but it's a whole new system.”
“the new artwork just, like, totally, like, messed with my brain, and it just threw me way off. So I didn't like it. I refused to go back to it to play another entry.”
“There was a Stern media invite. This was Thursday morning. Just media people were invited to it.”
Entities
- Stern Pinball· company
- Chicago Pinball Expo· event
- Stern Pro Circuit Championship Finals· event
- Texas Pinball Festival (TPF)· event
- Topgolf (dealer event)· event
- UK Open· event
- Funhouse (Remake)· game
- Metallica (LE)· game
- Triple Drain Pinball Podcast· organization
- Carrie Wing· person
- Elizabeth Gieske· person
- George Gomez· person
- Jack· person
- Jared· person
- Joel· person
- Josh Sharp· person
- Mark· person
- Monica· person
- Ray Day· person
- Seth Davis· person
- Tom Graff· person
- Travis· person
- Zombie Yeti (Eddie)· person
- Spike 2· product
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