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Ep 76: Let's talk Rush

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Rush is here! Let's talk about the game and it's reception so far. Also, it's award season so we give our opinions on what games have won which categories.

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Highlights

  • Rush (Premium/LE) were sold out before the game was even officially announced
  • Rush is tracking to multiple production runs (three to four runs already planned)
  • Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson were directly involved in negotiations and had input on bringing in Ed Robertson to direct the game
  • Rush layout is more similar to X-Men than to Iron Maiden
  • Borg has been credited on pinball games since 1992 (30 years of history)
  • Stern conducts market analysis to determine theme viability and production levels
  • The streaming reveal was performed by elite players (Timmy, Ray Day, and Jack) at world-class level
  • Led Zeppelin licensing involved more hoops and restrictions due to band member deaths and estate complexity
  • Great musicians don't always translate to great pinball machines
  • Theme integration is more important than theme alone in modern pinball design

Notable quotes

“Theme is very, very important. It's not the only thing. It's theme integration.”
Josh Roop
“these games are love letters to the things that they are building them for”
Josh Roop
“it feels like it fell short at fall... it doesn't have that soul thing that makes you connect with it on an emotional level”
Scott Larson
“you can't judge it by the first five games would be my suggestion... don't judge it fully until you put your name on the high score”
Scott Larson
“The squeaky wheel seems to always direct the course of the way the cart's going”
Josh Roop
“you have to strap yourself in... you earning every shot”
Scott Larson
“iron maiden sounds like rush got drunk and decided to play metal”
Josh Roop
“the people that own these or that are going for Rush, that are going for Led Zeppelin are usually seasoned professionals... later on in their lives... they have a little more in their bank account”
Scott Larson
“Stern is first and foremost a business... stern has been in this alive for 20 plus years and they've done this market analysis”
Scott Larson
“I would love to see a fallout boy pinball machine... but it's not going to happen right now... we're finally talking about having a nineties band pinball machine. Nineties guys. That was 30 years ago.”
Josh Roop

Entities

  • Flip N Out Pinball· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Deadpool· game
  • Godzilla· game
  • Iron Maiden· game
  • Led Zeppelin· game
  • Rush· game
  • Star Wars· game
  • X-Men· game
  • Pinside· organization
  • Triple Drain· organization
  • Alex Lifeson· person
  • Borg· person
  • Ed Robertson· person
  • Geddy Lee· person
  • Jeff Rivera· person
  • Jody Dankberg· person
  • Josh Roop· person
  • Josh Sharpe· person
  • Keith Elwin· person
  • Neil Peart· person
  • Nicole Meny· person
  • Scott Larson· person
  • Zach Meny· person

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