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Episode 7 - Die on this Hill: Gilligan's Island
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Highlights
- Gilligan's Island sold 4,001 units, a large production run for its 1991 release timing
- Gilligan's Island was the first Bally Williams game to feature a dot matrix display (DMD)
- Terminator 2 was supposed to be the first DMD game but was delayed due to design complexity with Steve Ritchie and Dwight Sullivan's collaboration
- The game's wizard mode (50 million point Kona jackpot) can be achieved multiple times in a single playthrough if completed quickly enough
- Alan wrote the negative Pinside review of Gilligan's Island under the username GuyMontag451 twelve years ago
- Gilligan's Island features an extra ball that appears at the end of the game rather than immediately after earning it
- The Lagoon shot in Gilligan's Island is difficult to hit intentionally
Notable quotes
“I unironically think that Gilligan's Island is a gem, a diamond in the rough as it were.”
“It forces you to play the entire game. You have to shoot every shot. You have to shoot most of the shots more than one time.”
“I was a Gilligan's Island hater, and but I trust Zoe's opinion. And so I wanted to be like, let's go play this game because I wanted to see what she liked about it.”
“It is not a guarantee that you're going to get jungle run millions at that upper, at that backhanded ramp shot. You have to do the work.”
“I do think that having a deep enough understanding of what everything does and how it all works together is how you start thinking about pinball strategically and not just about keeping the ball alive.”
“It will update it because it is not the worst game I've ever played. It is a weird layout, but I think it's weird in a fun way.”
“Justice for Gilligan.”
Entities
- Bally Williams· company
- Addams Family· game
- Apollo 13· game
- Bram Stoker's Dracula· game
- Creature· game
- Gilligan's Island· game
- Indiana Jones (New)· game
- Iron Man· game
- T2 (Terminator 2 Judgment Day)· game
- Terminator 2· game
- Howdy Partner Pinball· organization
- Pinside· organization
- The Last Arcade· organization
- Wedgehead Pinball Podcast· organization
- Alan· person
- Dan Langlois· person
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
- Ward Pemberton· person
- Zoe Vrabel· person
