
Stranger Things vs Venom vs Jaws | Stern Pinball Battle in Gonzo’s Top 50 Pinball Machines
Stranger Things vs Venom vs Jaws | Stern Pinball Battle in Gonzo’s Top 50 Pinball Machines
In this episode of Gonzo’s Pinball Flipperama Top 50, Gonzo once again revisits his favourite pinball machines of all time and updates the leaderboard. This week the spotlight falls on three modern...
Highlights
- The UK has historically been the most expensive place in the world to buy Stern pinball machines, but pricing is now leveling out to recommended retail prices.
- Jaws is Keith Elwin's best game, ranking higher in Gonzo's personal list than Jurassic Park.
- Stranger Things features a completely innovative projector and UV kit that requires turning lights off to play properly.
- Venom is a Brian Eddie design with Marvel character licensing.
- Gonzo has had Venom twice: once from Pinball Heaven and once borrowed from Neil McCraver after PinFest.
- The final season of Stranger Things was disappointing and too bloated with characters and storylines.
- Gonzo's top 50 criteria require him to have physically had the game in his house to review it fairly.
- Jaws currently does not have Brody on the playfield due to licensing/image rights issues, but this isn't a major flaw because Brody appears in film clips throughout the game.
Notable quotes
“the UK was the most expensive place in the world to buy Stern pinball machines. Um now there seems to be a leveling out.”
“I think this is Keith Elwin's best game.”
“the projector is completely innovative. Completely innovative. Absolutely love the projector on this game.”
“that fin coming out the playfield, that's a pinball moment. I don't care what anyone says, that is a pinball moment.”
“It has atmosphere. Um, has pinball moments... It has everything.”
“So yeah, some some really really great games. Um we'll I'll have a chat. We'll have a sit down with Enzo and we'll have a chat about the rumors that are going on because there's one particular rumor of a pinball machine I definitely want to discuss.”
“Maybe within the next um month or so we might even have a Beetlejuice here. You you never know.”
“There's nothing between them really... Maybe I'll swap them around. But you you're into the the realms here of of just pinball machines which which I've got nothing bad to say about them at all.”
Entities
- Hot Mods· company
- Pinball Heaven· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- PinFest· event
- Attack from Mars· game
- Jaws· game
- Jurassic Park Home Edition· game
- Stranger Things· game
- Venom· game
- Collie Wobbles· organization
- Dave Stumbl's boy mods· organization
- Gonzo's Pinball Flipperama· organization
- Pinside Top 100· organization
- Brian Eddie· person
- Enzo· person
- Gonzo· person
- John· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Neil McCraver· person
- Phil· person
- Jaws (film)· product
- Stranger Things (TV series)· product
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