Monster League Hockey | Artist Brad Albright | BONUS X
Matt and Don interview Glenn, Joe, Austin, and Lonnie about their roles in creating the amazing Monster League Hockey Head to Head Homebrew. Then they talk to Brad Albright, artist on MLH as well as...
Highlights
- Monster League Hockey uses six LCD screens (one flipper-to-screen ratio with 1:1) plus four additional small screens
- Brad Albright has now created art for three layouts at Pinball Expo: Winchester Winchester Mystery House, Portal, and Monster League Hockey
- The original Alvin G Soccer base had weak original flippers that were replaced with stronger aftermarket flippers
- Graphic Dimensions can produce a complete custom printed playfield with UV coating in 48 hours
- The homebrew team used FAST Pinball boards with Mission Pinball Framework (MPF) to enable non-programmers to contribute to code and light show design
- The project cost was between $0.05 and $0.10 million (estimated $50k-$100k)
- Playfield is a new custom design, not a repurposed Alvin G Soccer layout, with all new inserts and RGB lighting
Notable quotes
“So, uh, Lonnie, uh, with, uh, graphic dimensions, uh, printed it, um, sent it to us, and then we had to cut the bottom in the middle all the way across the middle of the plate field so that it could fold a little bit.”
“you can actually cut, print, and clear a playfield and have it ready to install in like 48 hours”
“The flipper to LCD ratio is one to one. We got six flippers, six LCD screens.”
“we wanted to utilize the mission pinball framework which is based off of Python because then it's also something where Eric that can do light shows can jump in without having software experience”
“We enjoy it. I like hanging out with my friends, you know, making pinball, making friends.”
“Making a pinball machine is a different type of feeling, different energy than just showing up and playing tournaments or just showing up and playing game. It's it's a different type like bonding experience, if you will.”
“there's tons of resources out there with people with no software experience that can get feedback and input from other people to help them”
“So, this is basically Pinball Expo 2025. Brad Albright edition. at home edition as a homebrew machine.”
Entities
- FAST Pinball· company
- Graphic Dimensions· company
- Pinball News (Pinball Expo 2025)· event
- A.G. Soccer-Ball· game
- Monster League Hockey· game
- Portal· game
- SAW· game
- Winchester Mystery House· game
- BASH Pinball Podcast· organization
- Austin· person
- Brad Albright· person
- Ernie Silverberg· person
- Glenn· person
- Jake Danzig· person
- Joe· person
- Lonnie D. Ropp· person
- Mission Pinball Framework (MPF)· product
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