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Ep 132: TPF 2024 News and Rumors

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Texas Pinball Festival 2024 is happening as we speak and we want to talk about all the happenings

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Highlights

  • Barry Oursler's Barbecue Challenge is his final design before he passed away
  • Pinball Brothers is releasing a new game April 6th with a helicopter mechanic, widely speculated to be ABBA-themed
  • John Borg is designing a John Wick pinball machine for Stern
  • Ninja Eclipse was initially priced at $9,777 but was reduced to $6,994 with design/presentation overhaul after TPF feedback
  • David Peck's Motorhead homebrew is a ground-up design (not a remake) with Gottlieb/Stern Centaur aesthetic, and Steve Ritchie called it 'the best homebrew he's ever played'
  • Saw Pinball homebrew repurposes an old World Pinball playfield with custom mechs like spinning saw blades and hacksaw plunger
  • P3 modular games (Princess Bride, Final Resistance, Weird Al) can be purchased for approximately four games under $20,000 total
  • Playfield patent protection is 'near impossible' and designs need roughly 10-20% modification to avoid trademark issues

Notable quotes

“Barry's final design before he passed away. And the team at American Pinball made a group effort to bring it into production.”
Josh Roop
“The theme is a throwaway theme. It's the equivalent of Hot Rod.”
Josh Roop
“I think Borg and John Wick is a very brilliant match. I think he's brutal at his games, and so it's going to be: if you want a brutal game with a brutal theme, you got it.”
Scott Larson
“It looks like they took all the feedback from Expo and said, this is what we're doing... I'm impressed because it looks like they've added more to the game and dropped the price a lot less.”
Josh Roop
“It'd hate to say this, but it was laughable at ten K.”
Scott Larson
“Steve Ritchie approves, man. I guess they got a picture and he said, 'That is amazing. That is the best homebrew he's ever played.'”
Josh Roop
“I would not have taken a flyer on it at the other price and the other presentation. I agree. But I would consider it on this.”
Scott Larson
“The whole secret to a successful company is taking feedback and implementing that feedback.”
Scott Larson

Entities

  • American Pinball / Barrels of Fun· company
  • Flippin' Out Pinball· company
  • NAP Arcade· company
  • P3 (Multimorphic)· company
  • Pinball Brothers· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Texas Pinball Festival (TPF) 2024· event
  • Gottlieb / Stern Centaur· game
  • John Wick· game
  • Motorhead· game
  • Ninja Eclipse· game
  • Princess Bride· game
  • Saw Pinball· game
  • Barry Oursler· person
  • Brad Albright· person
  • David Peck· person
  • Don· person
  • Elwin (Keith Elwin)· person
  • John Borg· person
  • Josh Roop· person
  • Larry DeMar· person
  • Scott Larson· person
  • Steve Ritchie· person

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