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Post by brain galacki on Sept 10, 2021 20:36:30 GMT -6
wtf... ?? big announcement today. I guess code name "Godzilla" meant that the next Stern pin is going to be... GODZILLA.
maybe @seeizurebot101 is excited? heck, I'm excited to play it. hopefully godzilla pops out and eats the ball
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Post by brain galacki on Sept 17, 2021 13:38:36 GMT -6
Well heck so much for This Week In Pinball being done!!! Gonna watch this after I get off work at my job!!!
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Post by jeffradon2000 on Oct 12, 2021 15:06:38 GMT -6
Stern just released a home pin version of Jurassic park. Usually these things are not note-worthy as they are versions of previous pins with a lot of features removed and only intended for home use. What's interesting about this one is it has a completely original design by Jack Danger, and there is even a T-Rex that eats the ball! In the pro version, the TRex didn't even do anything!
Probably not something I would want to buy, but might be actually worth a play if I ever ran across one.
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Post by vanslater on Oct 12, 2021 15:37:03 GMT -6
Stern just released a home pin version of Jurassic park. Usually these things are not note-worthy as they are versions of previous pins with a lot of features removed and only intended for home use. What's interesting about this one is it has a completely original design by Jack Danger, and there is even a T-Rex that eats the ball! In the pro version, the TRex didn't even do anything! Probably not something I would want to buy, but might be actually worth a play if I ever ran across one. and we wonder why Sue's went extinct. |
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Post by brain galacki on Oct 21, 2021 14:53:41 GMT -6
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Post by brain galacki on Oct 23, 2021 12:50:02 GMT -6
TIL...
about all this pinball vinyL??? guess we better get all this stuff in the store!!
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Post by brain galacki on Oct 24, 2021 9:34:48 GMT -6
I don't think I care about this one.
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Post by jeffradon2000 on Oct 25, 2021 10:38:46 GMT -6
I don't think I care about this one. I'm not too jazzed about it either. there's been some prototypes in locations for a while, so I guess American Pinball decided to mass produce it, but it doesn't really grab me. |
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Post by brain galacki on Oct 29, 2021 23:17:27 GMT -6
Has everyone been having a fun time at PINBALL EXPO this week??? I kno I have!! 
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Post by brain galacki on Dec 14, 2021 7:12:05 GMT -6
Last night I was hanging outside of the NEGATIVE APPROACH show that was SOLD OUT in North Carolina along with JEREMY who works at NOBLE RECORDS who is a pinball NERD. He had a serious IN with someone who has been hired to work on artwork for 10 upcoming Stern games, and he actually told me a deep dark secret that is the next TWO STERN pinballs that are getting released. This is some serious secrets and I could probably go to jail for telling anybody. But I'll go ahead and say that both of them make total sense and I 100% believe what he told me, but also I know we won't have any interest in getting either of them for our arcade. Then we talked about how GODZILLA is the best game.
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Post by jeffradon2000 on Dec 14, 2021 11:22:13 GMT -6
Was this insider Zombie Yeti? Did he totally flip when you told him about the Shrek?
Now I'm really curious about the next 2 games and why they wouldn't be a fit for our arcade. I'm guessing there are nipples.
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Post by brain galacki on Dec 15, 2021 12:53:26 GMT -6
Was this insider Zombie Yeti? Did he totally flip when you told him about the Shrek? Now I'm really curious about the next 2 games and why they wouldn't be a fit for our arcade. I'm guessing there are nipples.
I'm also wondering when the next announcement is going to drop, could be very soon. |
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Post by jeffradon2000 on Dec 17, 2021 10:59:41 GMT -6
I just saw a TWIPY article about all the moves people are making in the pinball industry and thought that was interesting. I guess it's old news that Lyman Sheats and Josh Sharpe moved to Chicago Gaming Company, the company that produces the remakes like our very own Medieval Madness, and just recently released the Bellybutton Canyon remake. Josh Sharpe is the son of famous Roger Sharpe who was in that snazzy pinball photo from that court case that saved pinball in NYC. Lyman Sheats is a big deal in modern pinball as he was the main coder at Stern. In these modern times after a new pinball is released, it doesn't actually have all of its features and rules baked in right away, and new features can be implemented over the years after initial release through code updates. Lyman did a lot of that work so that would of course mean a lot of stern machines won't be getting those bonus features going forward. The last game he worked on was Elvira HoH evidently. More notably is the announcement today that Bowen Kerins is moving from Spooky to Multimorphic. Bowen was one of the first pinball guys that drew my attention when I first landed in the hobby. In the early 2010s he posted tons of instructional videos using the machines at PAPA headquarters, and was really the only guy doing this before streaming really hit pinball and Jack Danger took over the spotlight. In my mind Bowen was the one to bring pinball back out of obscurity for a new generation to latch on and run with it. Bowen always has such a comfy Dad vibe around him and just really gets you excited about pinball and is very thorough with his demonstrations. Anyway, he was working at Spooky helping to design Alice Cooper and Rick and Morty. Reading the TWIPY announcement it turns out Bowen is a huge math guy, which explains why he's always so interested in the geometry of pins. He writes math textbooks, tutors math for grades 5 and up, and has been a mathematical advisor for game shows??? On top of all that he holds a full time job as a director at a chemical plant?  So I guess his pinball and math gigs aren't even enough income to support him. Man even as a leader in the industry, it's still a passion project or side hustle, jeeze. Also the move to multimorphic is interesting. Rick and Morty seemed to be pretty polarizing as people loved the theme but others thought it was too difficult with the shots being too tight. Multimorphic is an entirely different kind of pinball company as it focuses on the P3, which is a hybrid pinball and video pinball machine. It has real flippers and a real ball, but a lot of interaction happens on a screen that acts as the playfield. Instead of releasing whole new machines, they just release update kits and software updates for the existing machine. It hasn't really been treated very seriously by pinball nerds so far, maybe that will change. So all of that in addition to the prior announcement of Steve Ritchie going to JJP is going to make things pretty interesting for the next year or 2. I also believe with all these competing pinball companies continuing to grow, it's forced Stern to do some of their best work, which has brought us now to Godzilla which may actually be the new best pinball machine of all time, finally surpassing machines from the late 90s. And of course Keith Elwin is now the top dawg of all pinball designers. |
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Post by brain galacki on Dec 17, 2021 11:44:25 GMT -6
Was this insider Zombie Yeti? Did he totally flip when you told him about the Shrek? Now I'm really curious about the next 2 games and why they wouldn't be a fit for our arcade. I'm guessing there are nipples.
I think I can say that there will NOT be nipples, none of these characters have nipples. I'll start off by giving your first magic little clue: 1 is a music or band related pinball and the other 1 is not. |
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Post by jeffradon2000 on Dec 22, 2021 9:15:31 GMT -6
The pinball feeds have been plastering the obit of Marc of Marcos pinball, which reminds me of a thought I had that a lot of the small companies I rely on to get parts are really just created by old pinball nerd guys and once they pass away, then who will keep it going? Marcos is the chief supplier of every random pinball part out there, but it seems they are resolved to keep going without him. There are other suppliers out there like Steve Young who are also super old. Without these companies, it will be very hard to keep the old pinballs going for sure.
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So I guess his pinball and math gigs aren't even enough income to support him. Man even as a leader in the industry, it's still a passion project or side hustle, jeeze.