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Episode 17 - Extra Button Gimmicks
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago41 min listen
Highlights
- Every modern Stern game now comes standard with an action button on the lockdown bar
- Jess DiNardo moved to Houston to work in quality control and assembly at Barrels of Fun after meeting them at Expo
- The original Black Knight magna save button placement (side of cabinet) makes more intuitive sense than the lockdown bar placement on Black Knight Rage
- Getaway High Speed's shifter knob is arguably the best interactive alternate launch mechanism
- Action buttons on Star Wars interrupt game flow by forcing players to pause play and navigate menus to move multipliers
Notable quotes
“I play pinball to have a nice time and to have fun. And if I'm sitting there like, hold on, guys, I need to stop hitting these shots until I move the arrows over here... I put instead of numbers, but like smiley faces because I've had a nice time.”
“They can't [find the start button]. Like I'm saying, we run an arcade and they can't. So he's not wrong.”
“It makes it dangerous. Like, I do like it because it makes you... pull your hand off and try to slap the cabinet. Like, yeah. You're choosing whether or not you're trying to nudge it out of there or whether you're going to slap the cat.”
“I tied someone in one of my groups at enberg one year on nip it like exact same score... and we tied again”
“The first time I played it and managed to hit like a combo of where you're changing the diverters and feeding the other ramps and just keep going it's like the best feeling in pinball”
“I love when a game makes draining your ball into something that's not frustrating... somehow it takes the sting away”
“Not everyone likes joy, Alan.”
“I'm kind of a Steve Ritchie guy. So it's like, I kind of like that. That's why doggy soccer is not my thing. I like, I like Rudy. I like the Black Knight. Like, tell me I suck. It's going to motivate me to play better.”
Entities
- Barrels of Fun· company
- Soft Blunch· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Black Knight 2000· game
- Black Knight Rage· game
- Dungeons and Dragons Pinball· game
- Fireball 2· game
- Getaway High Speed II· game
- Gottley Volcano· game
- Hardbody· game
- Indiana Jones· game
- Jungle Lord· game
- Medusa· game
- Nip It· game
- Rick and Morty Pinball· game
- Star Wars Pinball· game
- Tales from the Crypt· game
- The Shadow· game
- World Cup Soccer / Doggy Soccer· game
- Portland Bells and Chimes· organization
- The Pinball Podcast· organization
- Wedgehead· organization
- Alan· person
- Alex the Waterboy· person
- Jess DiNardo· person


