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Bonus Episode - Best Game Ever: JAWS
PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago34 min listen
Highlights
- Jaws is currently ranked #5 on Pinside's greatest of all time list
- Keith Elwin designed the Jaws whitewood around the toys themselves, making geometry bespoke to the showstopper elements
- Nearly every lane in Jaws returns to in-lanes in some form, making higher-scoring shots more dangerous
- The Wave Ramp entrance has spacing issues that make it rattly and difficult to hit smoothly despite being correctly measured at two inches like Whitewater's Spine Chiller
- Keith Elwin explained in a making-of video why the shark cannot eat the ball: the open mouth repositioning would look bizarre and function awkwardly
- Jaws has shark towers (stand-up targets) between every lane that close beaches and create constant progression even on missed shots
- Paul and his wife purchased a Jaws 50th Anniversary machine with a down payment after Expo
- Video clips in Jaws are 'eerily long' and stop gameplay flow, an issue Jersey Jack pinball has solved better by punctuating rather than showing full clips
Notable quotes
“the ball should still do something interesting, even on a miss”
“woohoo moments when he was defending Data East's Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle”
“If you do everything right, no one will know you've done anything at all”
“Elowen is an exceptionally skilled player with decades worth of familiarity with tables from the past. And what he does similar to Tarantino is renovate designs to modern work without losing its feel or appeal.”
“I promise you I have seen Jaws. I am not playing to see Jaws.”
“to have a pin that's just kind of yours your life pin whatever you'd call it like it more than clicks it's the one that you just keep coming back to”
“It ties the room together, man.”
“the team at Stern is weirdly friendly. Pinball Expo, that is. Unbelievably open to questions and gushed a lot about a certain shark game.”
Entities
- Stern Pinball· company
- Expo· event
- Jaws· game
- Logan Arcade· organization
- Pinside.com· organization
- Rok in Odinplan· organization
- Trident Pinball· organization
- Wedgehead Pinball Podcast· organization
- Colosta· person
- Elizabeth Gieske· person
- George Gomez· person
- Harris Drake· person
- John Norris· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Mark Ritchie· person
- Michael Barnard· person
- Paul Michael Melio· person
- Richard Dreyfuss· person
- Rick Naegele· person
- Ty Ueda· person
- Wedgehead Pinball Podcast· person
- Jaws 50th Anniversary· product
