Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 58: We've Been Honeydicked
Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf & Travis Murie Thanksgiving has come and gone, Christmas is just around the corner, and with that comes Travis and a stupid hat. Tonight we had a fun conversation...
Highlights
- Stern is launching the Pinball Cup as a tiered competition event with challenges, points, and leaderboards, scheduled for December
- X-Men code is at version 0.88 and was rushed in production, with most planned features already visible on the playfield
- X-Men has mechanical issues including auto-plunge problems and lower left flipper hop, with Stern sending out correction kits
- Metallica LE successfully improved upon the original game in art, sound (remastered in stereo), expression lighting, and code with new modes
- Tom sold Game of Thrones LE and Elvira Premium this week for room in his collection
- Save the City mode in X-Men requires hitting all city shots equally leveled (3-6 times each) but gives no on-screen feedback about progress
- X-Men's code lacks side objectives or diversions compared to games like Deadpool which benefited from mech suit multiball addition
Notable quotes
“I even went to pin side holy shit...I was legit ready like I was because it's exciting”
“You would know this if you read the read me...To be honest with you. It's kind of convoluted if you don't realize it's there.”
“Give me something to focus on. But yet I love the distractions...That's poetic.”
“What I'm saying is like we talked about earlier. We're going to have to wait until summertime, really, to even revisit this pin. Give it a fair chance.”
“Every single time I did it, it just happened to be lit after I got out of the future either the first or second time. Right. So I feel like there has to be some other limitation.”
“I cannot think of a reason why you would want to manually plunge X-Men...why did Stern not eliminate the plunger and put a button just like Monster Bash or Looney Tunes?”
“Metallica LE...Stern managed to do is they genuinely improved it in every single way.”
“With Metallica, the game, to get to crank it up, you have to get 12 of all four...there's a nuance to the game where you can go one step further”
Entities
- Stern Pinball· company
- Pinball Cup· event
- Pinball Expo· event
- Deadpool (Stern)· game
- Elvira Premium (Stern)· game
- Game of Thrones LE (Stern)· game
- Godzilla (Stern)· game
- James Bond (Stern)· game
- Jaws (Stern)· game
- Looney Tunes (Stern)· game
- Metallica LE (Stern)· game
- Monster Bash (Williams)· game
- Rick and Morty (Stern)· game
- X-Men (Stern)· game
- Pinside· organization
- Ben Bennett· person
- Carlos· person
- Conrad· person
- George Gomez· person
- Joel· person
- Monica· person
- Ray (Metallica designer)· person
- Tom· person
- Travis· person
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