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Ep 142: Shane Told of Silverstein

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 36 min listen
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Shane joins us to talk about how grew up on arcades and how that love for the arcade brought him back to pinball years later.

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Highlights

  • Music-themed pinball machines don't stay on location as long because they thrive more in home environments due to difficulty hearing them in loud venues
  • There's a stack of Aerosmith side cabinet decals visible at Stern's facility assembly area, suggesting a potential Aerosmith remake
  • Batman 66 (2016) was the first Spike game, followed by Aerosmith (2017), then Star Wars
  • George Gomez games aside from Lord of the Rings tend to start slow then pick up steam as code updates improve
  • Foo Fighters LE is currently worth around $11,500-$12,000 on the secondary market
  • The only Stern games Shane regularly sees on location now are Metallica and AC/DC; music pin circulation has declined
  • Jack Danger is next in Stern's design pipeline after current projects
  • Pokemon, X-Men, and Dungeons and Dragons have all been rumored as Jack Danger's next game

Notable quotes

“I mean, I got into it a lot just through being a kid. And I think for a while there you pinball just kind of like it got dark you know there wasn't a lot happening you know stern was the only game for a long time”
Shane Told
“the machine that put me over the top was uh was the Foo Fighters. And I uh I had to get I had to get a Foo Fighters”
Shane Told
“I think it was because of the punk rock roots. Like you, Josh, I was a punk guy right? And there weren't, there's never really been any punk rock machines.”
Shane Told
“I don't know how much more Deadpool I need to play. No offense. Deadpool's great. I don't, you know what I mean? It's like when you get to a place and they've got six machines and it's six modern modern Sterns.”
Shane Told
“code doesn't fix layout. Well, it doesn't fix layout. However, how you play the layout, it definitely affects. And so you can even see that with Walking Dead.”
Scott Larson
“i love the pinball festival vibe because everyone's just like, we're with our people. Everyone just smiles on their face. It's just a good vibe.”
Shane Told
“being a singer and a lot of times kind of wanting to rest your voice, going and playing pinball. It's like a very, you know, you don't have to talk to anybody”
Shane Told

Entities

  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Spooky Pinball· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Southern Fried Gaming Expo· event
  • Texas Pinball Festival· event
  • Foo Fighters· game
  • Godzilla· game
  • Lord of the Rings· game
  • Texas Chainsaw Massacre· game
  • Total Nuclear Annihilation· game
  • Flipping Up Pinball· organization
  • Lead Singer Syndrome· organization
  • LoserKid Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Silverstein· organization
  • Ben Heck· person
  • George Fisher· person
  • George Gomez· person
  • Jack Danger· person
  • Josh Roop· person
  • Keith Elwin· person
  • Nicole· person
  • Scott Larson· person
  • Shane Told· person
  • Zach· person

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