Episode 160 - Bungie Jumping the PIAs
Audio troubles mandated Dennis record the intro solo. In pinball discussion we cover an email about the Pinball Industry Awards, then we talked about the Pinball Industry Award results, and finally...
Highlights
- Godzilla won all but two PIA categories; Led Zeppelin won Best Lighting Effects and Best Music
- Playfield Layout category had 92% vote margin for Godzilla (Mandalorian 2 votes, Zeppelin 1)
- Jersey Jack Pinball's Toy Story game reveal expected in March 2022 with 100+ units planned for pre-build
- PIA governance committee is experiencing burnout and potential significant volunteer turnover
- 2000-2009 PIA era has only ~25 eligible Stern games when excluding LEs and reskins
- Insider Connected Kit by Stern won Best Accessory with 75% of judges' votes
- About 150 people watched the PIA ceremony live on YouTube premiere (Jan 28, 2022)
- Judge participation increased ~25% this year with expanded categories
Notable quotes
“Godzilla won all but two of the categories, and most of the time it wasn't even close. Yeah, it's almost embarrassing.”
“I do not think that in my lifetime I will ever see in this or any other award ever on pinball such a shellacking again. I just can't fathom it.”
“I want to know who hurt you. Here I have a pinhead doll. Where did they touch you on this pinhead doll that made you vote for them?”
“Grand Prix is the pick that non-EM people pick to act like they like EMs... It's like spinner all day, so people get it. People like spinners.”
“There's one very good, very valid use for NFTs in gaming... use them on the individual games so that you can now create a used game market.”
“I capping the amount of games that can be voted in by a percentage of the eligible games from that era, say 10%, you will truly be looking at the cream of the crop from each era”
“It's like Godzilla's gonna win and no it didn't quite win everything but if it didn't so it made for a boring award show”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Pinball Industry Awards· event
- Godzilla· game
- Guns N' Roses· game
- Halloween· game
- Led Zeppelin· game
- Legends of Valhalla· game
- Sorcerer's Apprentice· game
- The Mandalorian· game
- Toy Story· game
- Ultraman· game
- Carl D'Angelo· person
- Chris Chandler· person
- Chris Doyle· person
- David Dennis· person
- Dennis· person
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- Greg Bone· person
- Jason Knapp· person
- Steve Bowden· person
- Tony· person
- Zach Minney· person
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