Episode 164 - 2022 TPF Debrief
Pinball discussion focuses on covering what we experienced at the Texas Pinball Festival (TPF) for 2022. In video games we talk about Summer Games Done Quick returning to in-person, E3 not happening...
Highlights
- Weird Al's Museum of Natural Hilarity is a P3 platform exclusive new game reveal at TPF 2022
- Weird Al already has over a year of pre-orders backlog
- Halloween and Ultraman (Deep Root) sold out their play spots in a single day at TPF
- Ultraman is more fun than Halloween despite both being poorly designed
- Halloween and Ultraman have excessive plastic obstructing ball visibility and poor playfield routing
- Deep Root advertised Halloween/Ultraman as 'high-flow' games despite being extremely stop-and-go
Notable quotes
“I still, even after playing it multiple times, I might like Heist better.”
“Weird Al is oriented around the songs, much like a music pin would be... they have the museum as the linking matter, but the songs are so disparate from one another that when you're playing it, you're in a mode and you're experiencing that.”
“I've never been happy with their little triple button flipper layout... I still think their flippers feel mushy”
“Games like sold out in a day. Let me tell you. All of you who successfully sold your spot in line on that game, oh, man, you're so lucky. That game is such a pile.”
“This is the most stop-and-go game I think I have ever played. Because you are waiting.”
“I'm assuming that's where this elevator system is... you're just waiting just waiting and it's like I missed my shot but I got into a scoop because there are scoops everywhere so I'm waiting then I pass it over to the right flipper and I do the shot again”
Entities
- Deep Root· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Halloween· game
- Heist· game
- Ultraman· game
- Weird Al's Museum of Natural Hilarity· game
- Dennis· person
- Tony· person
- Heist crane toy· product
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