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Pinball Magazine & Pinball News Bonus PINcast Predator Reveal
PodcastAnalysis updated 5d ago59 min listenBy Martin Ayub, Jonathan Joosten
It’s Predator launch time, so for this special bonus PINcastJonathan from Pinball Magazine and Martin from Pinball News are joined by Pinball Brothers’ CEO, Daniel Janson, to describe the...
Highlights
- Predator playfield design collaboration began with Daniel Janson, Peter Dahlman, and Andrea Pedrezzi from European Ball Corp as core team
- Pinball Brothers transitioned from custom in-house hardware to FAST Pinball system for both remakes and original games
- Licensing restriction prevents showing Arnold Schwarzenegger close-ups in Predator pinball, though all actors and quotes from original 1987 film are included
- Player assumes role of Dutch (main character) in Predator game, with other crew member faces displayed as interactive elements on playfield
- Predator game includes original Alan Silvestri score from 1987 film plus additional original music by Olof Gustafsson
- Predator pinball first games scheduled to ship mid-August, with final coding expected to complete within a few weeks of interview
- Predator game features minigun toy with extended multiball sequence starting from magnet drop through book lock and into jungle blast multiball
- Disney licensing discussions for extended Arnold Schwarzenegger footage are ongoing with possibility of future updates to game
Notable quotes
“Because if you look at it, it's really hard to see any downsides with it, to be honest... It was kind of a very easy decision in the end. It was a no-brainer, I would say.”
“The only restriction we have is that we can't show Arnold close-ups, basically.”
“The game is about fighting the predator. Even if we won't, of course, you should be part of the movie... But the game is about fighting the predator.”
“I think that one really big advantage of the times we are living in now with updates, the possibility of updating the games is that you can actually get feedback from people playing and you can actually make adjustments if things are too hard or too easy or whatever.”
“He is actually one of the founders, I think they were four, of that company [DICE/Digital Illusions]. And he designed the pinball layouts for the pinball dreams and pinball fantasies and pinball illusion, the series that got them famous, I would say.”
“So it's kind of cohesive game actually with the minigun, the predator, the camp, the chopper. And yeah.”
“It's really hard to describe what flipper feeling feels like, but all I can say is it feels good.”
“First of all as you bring it up it really really really difficult to plan anything... So what we have to do is to actually stay flexible and see what happens”
Entities
- Disney· company
- European Ball Corp (EPC)· company
- FAST Pinball· company
- Pinball Brothers· company
- Predator· game
- Aaron Davis· person
- Alan Silvestri· person
- Albrecht Oblan· person
- Andrea Pedrezzi· person
- Andreas· person
- Arnold Schwarzenegger· person
- Brian Domini· person
- Daniel Janssen· person
- James Burnett· person
- Jonathan Euston· person
- Kelly Masarovsky· person
- Malin Ivarsson· person
- Martin· person
- Olof Gustafsson· person
- Orik Lawson· person
- Peter Dahlman· person
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