Episode 171 - Galactic E3 Force
Note: We had some local gain issues so some portions of audio have an echo to them... our apologies. Pinball: Coverage focuses on an email regarding our Toy Story Four pinball discussion, American...
Highlights
- Jersey Jack locked in Toy Story 4 license before the movie was released, misjudging its cultural impact
- American Pinball has approximately 600 people interested in a classic edition of Legends of Valhalla
- American Pinball trademarked 'Galactic Tank Force' and 'Galactic Star Force' as potential new unlicensed games
- American Pinball allowed Sherlock Holmes trademark to expire
- Multimorphic is hiring multiple pinball machine assemblers urgently at $15/hour in Round Rock, Texas
- Austin, Texas city council voted to raise minimum wage for city employees to $22/hour starting October
- Multimorphic was running approximately two weeks behind on production as of recent weeks
- Total Nuclear Annihilation is the most successful recent unlicensed pinball game with 550 units produced
Notable quotes
“Jersey Jack cannot release a game in a decent amount of time with a gun to their head. they've never shown the ability to do it.”
“I think even a good unlicensed game won't sell as well as a bad licensed game. It's been proven.”
“But when I was going out to Salina for my meeting, I stopped at Burger King to get dinner. They had reduced their hours... I can see from my back door when I'm taking the dogs out to go to the bathroom at Dairy Queen, and sometimes on a Tuesday night, that place is dark.”
“Where I work currently for the government, we're starting at just over $20, almost $21 an hour is where we're starting people now. And we're having problems hunting jobs.”
“There's a reason, I believe, why. I mean, look at the very controversial Halloween and Ultraman from Spooky. Those still sold out right away.”
“I would struggle to think that unless they've already planned like a duology. Why would we do like different names but very similar.”
“I was a little surprised to hear that in the interview. The interview has a lot of other interesting nuggets. So if you like your nuggies, go ahead and listen to Super Awesome Pinball.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Riot· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Galactic Star Force· game
- Galactic Tank Force· game
- Legends of Valhalla· game
- Sherlock Holmes· game
- Total Nuclear Annihilation· game
- Toy Story 4· game
- Weird Al· game
- Super Awesome Pinball Show· media
- Austin, Texas city council· organization
- David Fix· person
- Dennis· person
- Dennis Nordman· person
- Scott Denise· person
- Tim L.· person
- Tony· person
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