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Episode 19 - Die on this Hill: Bad Cats
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Highlights
- Bad Cats was designed by Barry Oursler with Python Anghelo art package and theme vision
- Dan Forden and Ed Suchocki drew inspiration from Alice Cooper 'Gutter Cat vs. the Jets' for Bad Cats music
- Mark Ritchie provided vocals for the seafood callouts in Bad Cats
- Bad Cats ranks #179 on the Pinside Top 100 list
- System 11 games were the first board set with all features modern pinball still has
- Python later had heated fights at Capcom over wanting custom-shaped inserts but was denied due to tooling costs
- The 20 million point shot on Bad Cats' last ball is accessible to all players and not a scoring exploit
- Taxi contains casually and not-so-casually racist callouts that haven't aged well
- Caucasian Two-Step has rated over 1,000 games on Pinside
Notable quotes
“Bad Cats just sticks in your head and it makes you want to play it again. It's a game that you want to play with friends.”
“I would say that it is felines behaving in a manner unbecoming.”
“I mean it's fun to fucking play. Like, it really is fun to play.”
“I wish we could get a game where the theme is like cats behaving unbecomingly like i want that if someone made bad dogs instead of like avengers”
“There's something missing that used to happen at Williams, especially cocaine. Well, there was also a freedom. I think it was like, it must've been like Larry DeMar or somebody there that was like, it's just Python. Python's like the secret sauce there.”
“Nothing about the sound package is average.”
“Bad Cats is better than a lot of Ritchie games.”
“Barry Oursler is better than Ritchie in a lot of ways, man.”
Entities
- Gottlieb· company
- Williams· company
- Spinal Tap· entity
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Bad Cats· game
- Bram Stoker's Dracula· game
- The Wizard of Oz· game
- Pinside· organization
- Alan· person
- Alex· person
- Barry Oursler· person
- Caucasian Two-Step· person
- Dan Forden· person
- Ed Suchocki· person
- Jess DiNardo· person
- Mark Ritchie· person
- Python Angelo· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
- System 11· product
