Episode 201 - Scatman
Pinball: We talk about recent hires by JJP and Stern Pinball, Multimorphic starting to ship Final Resistance, and play another game of Rank Random Pins. Video Games: We get a review from Robert G....
Highlights
- Tom Capera hired by Jersey Jack Pinball as chief operating officer; he was previously director of mechanical engineering at Stern Pinball for a few years
- Stern Pinball hired Kevin Payne as director of mechanical engineering to replace Tom Capera's old position
- Stern Pinball has completed their factory move, with Ray Tanzer (director of operations) overseeing it; Tanzer was previously director of mechanical engineering
- Multimorphic is now shipping Final Resistance
- Chicago Gaming Company may not make their 2023 deadline for Pulp Fiction release
- Josh Sharp indicated Pulp Fiction's license terms forced CGC's hand to reveal the game when they did at Texas Pinball Festival, despite being far from ready to build
- TPF 2024 had unprecedented concentration of new game releases (Galactic Tank Force, Godfather, Foo Fighters, Scooby-Doo, Pulp Fiction, Queen, Final Resistance) released simultaneously
Notable quotes
“The Galactic Empire, for all its flaws, and it had a few, for all its draconian-ness, for all its evil, for all its sithiness, it was preparing for what is then the unknown.”
“You can't do anything without keeping the established bureaucracy in place. That was how powerful, how important, how critical the Galactic Empire is.”
“Metallica is a it's the arts. Cool. The Sparky's cool. It's a fun game to shoot.”
“Cactus Canyon. The original Cactus Canyon with the limited code, not nearly as fun as the Cactus Canyon reloaded code”
“I think Metallica is a it's probably my number two favorite music pen.”
Entities
- Chicago Gaming Company· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Avatar· game
- Cactus Canyon· game
- Final Resistance· game
- Metallica· game
- Pulp Fiction· game
- Pinside Top 100· organization
- Silver Ball Chronicles· organization
- David Dennis· person
- Dennis· person
- Dirty Donnie· person
- Josh Sharp· person
- Kevin Payne· person
- Ray Tanzer· person
- Tom Capera· person
- Tony· person
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