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PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago37 min listenBy WAP

Highlights

  • Zofia Ryan, American Pinball's mechanical engineer, has been fired/departed
  • Ryan McQuaid (designer) and Steve Bowden (rules designer) have left American Pinball
  • Approximately 80+ Galactic Tank Force Signature Edition machines (MSRP $16,000) are sitting in the warehouse unsold
  • Only two people are working in the entire American Pinball factory production line, building Hot Wheels machines
  • American Pinball's storage docks have been cleared of finished inventory and Polycade stock
  • David Fix's office desk was cleared out, suggesting his departure
  • American Pinball's new unreleased game is designed to be produced without the designer present
  • The new American Pinball game features a novel playfield mechanism not done before
  • Barrels of Fun Barbecue Challenge costs under $7,000 but lacks value proposition compared to competitors
  • American Pinball ignored distributor orders for Galactic Tank Force without communication

Notable quotes

There are a grand total of two people working in the entire factory. And they're putting together some Hot Wheels.
Don
I counted 17 rows of galactic tank force signature editions that were four deep... 80 or something... just like 80 galactic tank forces signature edition $16,000 MSRP with the thermos with like nowhere to go.
Don
This is no longer a design company, for sure. They don't have anybody that can design anything anymore.
Don
They may continue on as a production facility... maybe another design house that has a game that can bring it to this facility and have it produced.
Don
If you're not doing any more engineering on the play field, you need to be like building these games... get them built, get them QC'd, and get them ready and get them staged.
Genghis
American Pinball never took people's money and didn't deliver games. They didn't take pre-order money for this game, and then they're not making it. They're not thieves.
Don
We ordered GTF and it was like, yeah, we're going to ship GTF and we want them on your locations... we heard nothing. And then when they came out with barbecue, we were like, do you really think we should order more?
Genghis
Kind of weird to produce a game without the designer there on the line to make sure everything's going right... and what's going to happen after release when there needs to be a code update to fix some bugs that were found later.
Don
I like it less now that I've played it [D&D] because it's not as mysterious anymore, you know, and I'm looking out over the next couple months of some other games being available.
Genghis
They need a businessman as a president, not a pinball guy, but a businessman.
Genghis

Entities

  • American Pinball· company
  • Deep Root Pinball· company
  • Haggis Pinball· company
  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Polycade· company
  • Spooky Pinball· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • American Pinball (unreleased game)· game
  • Barry O's Barbecue Challenge· game
  • Dungeons & Dragons· game
  • Evil Dead· game
  • Galactic Tank Force Signature Edition· game
  • Hot Wheels· game
  • Legends of Valhalla· game
  • Colin Alzheimer· person
  • David Fix· person
  • Don· person
  • Genghis· person
  • Kerry Hardy· person
  • Lloyd· person
  • Ron· person
  • Ryan McQuaid· person
  • Steve Bowden· person
  • Vic VP· person
  • Zofia Ryan· person

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