Episode 235 - 2024 Year-End Review
Pinball: We talk about the LoserKid Pinball Podcast interview with American Pinball's David Fix, recap the year of 2024 for pinball, and play a game! Video Games: We answer listener questions, Tony gives his 2024 Steam statistics, we cover the 2024 Game Awards, and we talk about Secret Levels, the Amazon Prime series of short videos about various video game worlds. LoserKid Pinball Podcast interview with David Fix of American Pinball: Tony's Steam replay Website: EGP T-shirts: iTunes: SoundCloud: Facebook: YouTube: Email: eclecticgamerspodcast@gmail.com
Kineticist’s take
American Pinball faces likely 2025 collapse after staff layoffs, litigation, and Barry O's commercial failure.
Synopsis
Eclectic Gamers' 2024 year-end pinball review identifies American Pinball in severe financial and operational distress following layoffs of key staff (Jack Hager, Steven Bowden, David Fix), litigation from co-designer Paul Reno over payment, and a failed Barry O's Barbecue Challenge release. The hosts predict American Pinball collapse in 2025, citing dysfunctional corporate structure (employment contracts with parent company Ametron, disconnected leadership), poor game reception, and insufficient IP strength (Cuphead deemed too niche to rescue the company). Spooky Pinball showed resilience by scaling back production, consolidating model tiers, and releasing Evil Dead to positive reception.
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Ametron· company
- Deep Root Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Barry O's Barbecue Challenge· game
- Cuphead· game
- Evil Dead· game
- Galactic Tank Force· game
- Looney Tunes· game
- Texas Chainsaw· game
- Loser Kid Pinball Podcast· organization
- David Fix· person
- Dennis· person
- Dennis Nordman· person
- Doug M.· person
- Jack Hager· person
- Paul Reno· person
- Steven Bowden· person
- Tony· person