Episode 218 - Open Source Blues
Note: Light spoilers regarding vaults in the Fallout TV series (won't be spoilers to those familiar with the games). Pinball: We discuss Homepin's open-source Blues Brothers pinball reveal, that...
Highlights
- Home Pin's Blues Brothers has a recommended retail price of $4,950 USD, the cheapest game on the market
- Blues Brothers uses open-source software where community members can develop custom rule sets via a forum
- The prototype has no LCD or DMD display, only a numeric display similar to Gottlieb System ADA
- Dutch Pinball is planning to reveal Back to the Future at Pinball Expo
- Home Pin designed Blues Brothers for non-pinball people rather than the pinball enthusiast community
- Home Pin is also planning to have Blues Brothers on display at Pinball Expo
- The playfield art appears to be placeholder artwork from a poster
- Dutch Pinball took 10 years to release only one game (The Big Lebowski)
Notable quotes
“Open source. The Linux. Why do you hate Linux?”
“Rules and the balancing of rules in the game... good rules can make even a bad game fun. That doesn't come from having a million cooks in the kitchen.”
“Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill.”
“When I first heard about the game coming out, my thought was, oh, open source. So people are going to be able to go in and stick in the assets that they want. Well, but there's no screen.”
“It is just flat depressing.”
“Anytime I see somebody saying, I'm not making this game for pinball people... What I hear is, all of you guys have told me that you don't like my game and that I've done something wrong.”
“If you want a single level game with numeric displays, you can find games like that under $2,000 pretty easily... especially if you're going to the early 80s.”
“Blues Brothers as a theme in my mind should be treated almost as a music pen... there's so many good dancing and singing scenes that not having an LCD... is a travesty.”
Entities
- Data East· company
- Dutch Pinball· company
- Home Pin· company
- Pinball Expo· event
- Juliet Prison Museum· event_location
- Back to the Future· game
- Blues Brothers· game
- Godzilla· game
- Iron Man· game
- Meteor· game
- Spinal Tap· game
- The Big Lebowski· game
- Walking Dead· game
- Loser Kids Pinball Podcast· organization
- NAP Arcade· organization
- Pinball Magazine· organization
- The Pinball Show· organization
- Dennis· person
- Joe Kamikawa· person
- Mike (Home Pin founder)· person
- Scott Denise· person
- Tony· person
- Gottlieb System ADA· product
- Sam system· product
- Spike system· product
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