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Pokemon by Stern Pinball | Reveal Podcast

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Pokemon by Stern Pinball is Here! Jack Danger, George Gomez, Tanio Klyce, Andrew Wilkening, and Josh Henderson are here to talk about everything that went into this game!

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Highlights

  • Pokemon is the highest-grossing media franchise at $288 billion, larger than the combined value of Star Wars, Marvel, and other major franchises
  • The game features 182+ collectible Pokemon with more coming in future code updates
  • Pokemon Company has extremely strict IP oversight including magnifying glass-level review of artwork details like line weights, color palettes, and Pokemon positioning
  • Jack Danger has been vocal about wanting Pokemon as a pinball game for years before this was greenlit
  • George Gomez substantially refined Jack Danger's initial layout, particularly the right side ramps and architecture, after Jack's attention was needed for community/marketing role
  • The original rollover buttons concept was killed because they interfered with shot quality and caused ball lofting issues when powered
  • Pokemon Company required all Pokemon artwork to be sourced directly from them with zero artist interpretation or alteration
  • The game uses Spike 3 technology platform

Notable quotes

“This came about by complaining and asking over and over and over and over and over and over again.”
Jack Danger
“Pokemon didn't say no to anything up front. They just said like, we don't want to stifle any of your creativity. Just throw everything at us.”
Jack Danger
“It's interesting is that um you know and I'm Jack I'll tell you the layout is It was a fan-style layout with – the battle arena was always in the center. I mean the stuff I did to it did not change the conceptual direction of the game at all.”
Jack Danger
“The line weights, the scale of one Pokemon relative to another, when you overlap them, the body positions in the composition...the amount of detail that went into this, they were looking at our stuff with a magnifying glass.”
Tanya Kleiss
“If you're spending $13,000 on something, you better frickin' know what you're getting.”
Jack Danger
“Nothing they've ever worked on is as complex as the pinball machine.”
George Gomez
“So we may have also helped Pokemon, in a way, expand what they're capable of doing in some of these avenues because they had to branch out so much to ask permissions for things.”
George Gomez
“I generally start with Monster Bash rules, and everything goes from there. So I'm more of a, I like simple stuff...the golden era of Medieval Madness, Monster Bash, and Attack from Mars is definitely what we all agreed was the way to go.”
Tanya Kleiss

Entities

  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Attack from Mars· game
  • Deadpool· game
  • Foo Fighters· game
  • King Kong· game
  • Medieval Madness· game
  • Monster Bash· game
  • Pokemon by Stern Pinball· game
  • The Pokemon Company· organization
  • Andrew Wilkening· person
  • George Gomez· person
  • Jack Danger· person
  • Jeremy Packer· person
  • Jody· person
  • Josh· person
  • Josh Henderson· person
  • Mason Dooley· person
  • Nicole Minney· person
  • Scott· person
  • Tanya Kleiss· person
  • Tom Malcolm· person
  • Zach Minney· person

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