DPP #154 Expo day one!
ABBA, Alice, Metallica, Avatar, Spooky, Pinsound, The Missing Pin Co, Space Hunt, gah so much!!!
Kineticist’s take
Don's Expo day one: Metallica looks great, ABBA disappoints, Alice impresses visually but has gameplay quirks, homebrews steal the show.
Synopsis
Don covers day one of Pinball Expo 2024, featuring hands-on play of Metallica (LE)/Premium, ABBA, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, X-Men code updates, and extensive homebrew section highlights. He praises Metallica's visual upgrades and expression lighting, criticizes ABBA's weak flipper feel and dated theme, gives mixed reviews on Alice (great aesthetics, questionable upper playfield access), reports X-Men plunger issues with partial fixes in progress, and expresses wonder at the homebrew area's innovation level including Harry Potter (81 coils) and Borderlands machines.
Entities
- Dutch Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Missing Pin Company· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Pinball Expo· event
- Homebrew Village· event_section
- ABBA· game
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland· game
- Avatar· game
- Metallica· game
- X-Men· game
- Davey Stumbler· person
- Ernie Silverberg· person
- Harry Potter Homebrew Designer· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Leor· person
- Rob Burke· person
- Wes· person
- Zach Sharp· person