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Ep 154: Evil Dead Pinball with Bug

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 17 min listen
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Corwin "Bug" Emery is talking all things Evil Dead. Including writing a Bruce Campbell approved script, looking out for their customers, and the future of Spooky

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Highlights

  • Evil Dead pinball was signed late into Halloween production, approximately summer timeframe, with formal announcement at Expo in fall
  • Halloween pinball sold over 1,200 units in less than a day
  • Christopher Franchi was signed to an exclusive artist contract with Spooky Pinball
  • The sling flipper was an accidental/spontaneous invention that occurred when Luke drilled a hole and installed a flipper at the sling position
  • Spooky Pinball is moving away from dual-theme games going forward
  • Christopher Franchi maintains a day job outside of pinball in addition to his exclusive pinball work with Spooky
  • Evil Dead pinball is a wide-body design but plays mechanically like a standard-body game due to design philosophy
  • Evil Dead was the culmination of Spooky's design experience across Halloween, Ultraman, Scooby-Doo, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Looney Tunes

Notable quotes

“Evil Dead pinball specifically spoke to us and our company even more. Because, I mean, especially if you're familiar with the second film, that encompasses a lot of what our brand is about, where there's creepy things in there, there's horror, but there's so much comedy and slapstick humor and interesting camera work and memorable sound design and one-liners.”
Bug
“If you don't hire me, I'll leak it to everybody.”
Christopher Franchi
“Sling flipper, baby.”
Bug
“This game is Spooky Pinball. This is us in this game. This is what we have. And it was making the whole process of building it and releasing it really intense for us. We were very nervous going into this one because we really did pour our all into this and knew that this is us.”
Bug
“If people don't like this one, they don't like us. They don't like our best, and we don't know what to do.”
Bug
“And what he sent was so good. I remember, like, opening... I was on my way out to work, and I was in my laundry room, like, putting my boots on, and I was like, 'Oh, man, that looks really good. Yeah, we're gonna have to hire him.'”
Bug
“Dual themes are hard, and I didn't want to do them anymore.”
Bug
“We have a saying: 'F the BOM,' where we just couldn't stomach taking anything out. Every idea we had, we felt like the game needed it.”
Bug

Entities

  • Flippin' Out Pinball· company
  • Spooky Pinball· company
  • Pinball Expo· event
  • Benton, Wisconsin· location
  • Ben Heck· person
  • Bug· person
  • Charlie Emery· person
  • Christopher Franchi· person
  • Josh Roop· person
  • Luke· person
  • Paul Ferris· person
  • Scott Larson· person
  • Todd Tucky· person
  • Zach Minney· person
  • Evil Dead Pinball· product
  • Halloween Pinball· product

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