Episode 168 - Check Back Soon
Pinball: Coverage includes Dutch Pinball's consistent output of The Big Lebowski, Multimorphic's status update on the production of Weird Al, deeproot Pinball's website having a cryptic message...
Highlights
- Dutch Pinball has stabilized production and is shipping Big Lebowski games to early adopters at a steady clip
- Multimorphic has 2,500+ Weird Al callouts in the game with mini wizard mode
- Multimorphic is about two weeks behind on shipping schedule due to employment issues, not capacity
- Turner Logic appears to have acquired Deep Root Pinball assets including potential Raza prototypes and intellectual property
- Turner Logic may possess Deep Root's software because Deep Root didn't pay them, making software Turner's property
- George Gomez is working on James Bond pinball at Stern, discarding Steve Ritchie's previous whitewood design
- Legends of Valhalla (American Pinball) is not selling well, making standard edition run unlikely
- Joe Balser worked on Spinal Tap for Home Pin but left within a year
Notable quotes
“This is pinball. They trust anybody. This is pinball. They don't care. You can punch them in the face and then tell them you're going to make a new pinball game. Steal their wallet and their wife. and they will still love you and buy pinball from you.”
“I think that pinball people have this weird – to me, it's weird. Almost – they put designers on a pedestal in a way that I think is unreal.”
“Deep Root Pinball's website. It's up. There's a message there now. It's like, got a Deep Root logo, and then I saw a screenshot of this on Pinside, and someone on the page just lists a code. It's hex code. And someone on Pennside went in and translated the hex code, and the hex code says, check back soon for something interesting.”
“I still think they have quite a ways to go to catch up all the EAs, but hey, they could always do a game number two and start selling those, and then for every four game number twos, they send a big Lebowski on.”
“Raza is kind of a turd. A lot of people who played the prototypes did not have highly favorable things to say about it.”
“If the line's slow or they've got that spare line, which I think you're right. I think they indicated they had a line to do smaller runs.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Deep Root Pinball· company
- Dutch Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Turner Logic· company
- Big Lebowski· game
- Halloween· game
- James Bond· game
- Raza· game
- Ultraman· game
- Weird Al· game
- Barry Osler· person
- Chris Turner· person
- Dennis· person
- Dennis Nordman· person
- George Gomez· person
- Glenn Weichter· person
- Joe Balser· person
- John Norris· person
- John Papaduke· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
- Tony· person
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