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We Are Pinball #14 "All the Stern Themes!"

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 16 min listenBy WAP
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Welcome back to We Are Pinball! Special episode all about the themes from the recent Stern survey that was sent out haha. There are literally 100 themes! Probably. Do they all work in...

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Highlights

  • American Pinball stated that nobody was buying games because it's an election year
  • Fast & Furious arcade machines on location make 30 times more money than Guardians of the Galaxy or Iron Maiden pinball
  • Stern is actively listening to fan feedback and incorporating their ideas into the survey
  • King Kong pinball is rumored to be in development by Stern with Keith Elwin as designer
  • Sports themes don't work in modern pinball due to narrow appeal beyond older demographics
  • Younger generations (teens/20s) are unfamiliar with classic IP like E.T. and Terminator
  • Niche themes (Miyazaki, Happy Gilmore, indie games) won't succeed unless they have mainstream appeal
  • Friday the 13th pinball licensing is too complex (multiple rights holders) to make commercially viable
  • Pokemon would be the ultimate Spike 3 game with features like trading and competitive play
  • Deadpool 3 with Wolverine made $1 billion as an R-rated film, indicating strong franchise appeal

Notable quotes

“I think what they did is they probably had about 10 themes they're really working on, and they're like, we can't just put this out because people are going to know our next 10 games. So I need people to give me some ideas of just some crap we can throw in here.”
Don
“Pokemon is the ultimate Spike 3 system game with YouTube. What is this? Insider connected everything so we could connect. We could trade Pokemons. We could battle against your friends.”
Genghis
“Fast and Furious is making 30 times more money than those two pinball machines [Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Maiden]”
Genghis
“Rumors are saying that they're making this game and it's Keith Elwin.”
Don
“You don't make 15 films if you're not making money every time. It's probably the same people going out to see it every time, but so what? It's the same people going to be going to the arcade, putting money in it.”
Genghis
“I love the idea of taking the Foo Fighters and turning it into an adventure game like Scooby get in the van let go fight the aliens and stuff and make it silly. That absolutely worked, and absolutely would be the wrong way to go with Nirvana.”
Don
“All right. Nirvana should be just a concert in the box, take me back to 1994, and that's what it should be.”
Genghis
“If Joe Pesci is in it, it would make a good pinball machine. Prove me wrong. Prove me wrong.”
Don
“Irrelevant. Is Cheers irrelevant? No. G.I. Joe? Barely.”
Don
“People seem to want it. I don't know. I'm okay on it. I would want it about as much as a Daft Punk machine.”
Genghis

Entities

  • American Pinball· company
  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Spooky Pinball· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Attack from Mars· game
  • Castlevania· game
  • Die Hard· game
  • Fast & Furious· game
  • Grand Theft Auto 6· game
  • Guardians of the Galaxy· game
  • Indiana Jones· game
  • Iron Maiden· game
  • King Kong· game
  • Minions· game
  • Nirvana· game
  • Pokemon· game
  • RoboCop· game
  • We Are Pinball· organization
  • Don· person
  • Genghis· person
  • George Gomez· person
  • Jack Danger· person
  • John Borg· person
  • Keith Elwin· person
  • Steve Richie· person

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