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Kaneda's Pinball Podcast Saturday Morning Spectacular April 11
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Kaneda's Pinball Podcast Saturday Morning Spectacular April 11
The greatest returns!
Highlights
- Pokémon shoots better than Beetlejuice and Winchester
- Pokémon is not ready in its early code state; vision is incomplete and could take 1.5 years to fully develop
- Harry Potter will 'go over a cliff' in resale value like Guns and Roses due to unlimited CE production
- Sonic will have more 'wow' gameplay and be more enjoyable than Harry Potter
- Sonic CE will be unlimited, unlike Pokémon LE which was limited
- A Pokémon LE is available for $3,000 markup (lowest observed)
- Transformers reveal is scheduled for May with June rollout
- Stern is overpriced at $13K-$20K+ for new LE models; local dealers selling Elise at $22K
- Jersey Jack overbakes their games with too much happening at once in code
- Pokémon's replay value through Pokémon collection/evolution is unmatched in Stern catalog
Notable quotes
“Pokemon shoots better than Beetlejuice. I said it. Pokemon shoots better than Winchester. I said it.”
“The reason why Pokemon shoots great is because there's not as many shots. It's because the shots are wider, the ramps are easier to hit, and there's nothing like way too close to the flippers to make it frustrating.”
“it's just not ready. I don't think there's any other way to say it other than it's just not ready...the vision they have for the game is so incomplete. I know they're going to get it there, but man, it could be a year and a half until that happens.”
“Less is more...when you unlock a new Pokemon and you identify it and then, you know, let's see if they have the ability to evolve each Pokemon. There's going to be hundreds of Pokemons to catch. There's no other game like it.”
“I'm glad that Pokemon is pissing off these babies...Because now we can jump on a machine and get to the end without spending our entire lives like trying to figure out the game.”
“Dating someone who's like really easy...doesn't really complain at all, is just cool to like let you do what you want to do...doesn't really make you stressed out. Like this is the best. This is like pinball.”
“I think it's going to be a buyer market. It already is. Like, it's so oversaturated. It's going to be a buyer market.”
“If I'm a distributor, I would want to have an exclusive deal with the boutiques...I want to be the only distributor for like barrels of foam. I'm going to give you a check for half a million dollars right now for that exclusive license.”
“You should not go into pinball unless you're very wealthy...Chris Turner needs to partner up with somebody...American Pinball could probably build all 500 within like four months.”
“I've spent so long building a community, building an expertise in this industry. I have tremendous value to this hobby and can generate income in this hobby...This will be my next job.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Barrels of Foam· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Beetlejuice· game
- Guns and Roses· game
- Harry Potter· game
- Pokémon· game
- Sonic the Hedgehog· game
- Transformers· game
- Brenda· person
- Chris Turner· person
- Christopher Franchie· person
- Eric· person
- George Gomez· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Kaneda· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
- Tanya Kleiss· person
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