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Episode 26 - Die on this Hill: Space Jam
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago41 min listen
Highlights
- Space Jam sold approximately 800 units; NBA Fast Break (spiritual successor) sold 250 units
- Space Jam has a Pinside average rating of 6.624, ranking 280 out of 290 ranked machines
- The center saucer kicker is poorly designed and should have been a scoop; ramps on machines get torn up
- Sega games from this era had less development time/resources than Williams/Bally due to lower market share
- Space Jam's skill shot (launch into basketball hoop) is extremely easy and doesn't require much skill
- John Dozier created/colored the DMD (dot matrix display) for Space Jam
- NBA Fast Break uses a similar layout to Space Jam with modifications (removed skill shot basket but kept ramp-into-hoop mechanic)
- Lonnie Rapp and Oren Day (Space Jam programmers) continue coding games at Stern and are skilled developers
Notable quotes
“Space Jam as a kid was my life. I remember getting a cassette tape, I was probably in first grade, I don't know, and just blaring the music through the house. Love the movie.”
“If you're not selling as many units guess what your next game has to come out now because you didn't sell enough units so you get less time on your next year and your next game and your next game”
“Facts are facts. It was programmed by lazy coders that continue to this day to code lazy”
“sometimes you need a good gimmick on a pinball machine i think this game has some cool gimmicks”
“keep got leaves name out your fucking mouth”
“they're the ones like screaming for goonies and labyrinth like stuff from their childhood they don't they would desperately want to buy which is kind of interesting”
“i mean you are a hardcore fan of the theme so maybe you're not the right person to even ask this because yeah probably not”
Entities
- Sega Pinball· company
- Bugs Bunny's Birthday Ball· game
- Gottlieb System 3 games· game
- Guardians of the Galaxy· game
- Iron Man· game
- NBA Fast Break· game
- Sega Star Wars (Trilogy)· game
- Space Jam· game
- Spooky Pinball Looney Tunes game· game
- Tron· game
- Inner Orbit Pinball· organization
- Next Level· organization
- Pinside· organization
- Wedgehead Pinball Podcast· organization
- Alan· person
- Gary Stern· person
- Joe Kamenkow· person
- John Dozier· person
- Lonnie Rapp· person
- Michael Jordan· person
- Oren Day· person
