Pinball Magazine & Pinball News Bonus PINcast: Interview with Pinball Brothers
Jonathan Joosten from Pinball Magazine and Martin Ayub from Pinball News are joined in this special Bonus PINcast by Pinball Brothers’ CEO, Daniel Janson, and Head of Marketing & Communications...
Highlights
- The Alien Ripley version will be limited by production capacity and available for a limited time only
- Alien SV is discontinued; the Alien Limited version is almost sold out
- New software version is backwards compatible with SV and LV models
- Production mid-November start date; some components may ship later due to individual production capacities
- Pinball Brothers extended their production capacity at Europimble Corp in Italy
- Partnership with Art of Pinball is long-term and will extend to future games
- Pinball Brothers aims to announce a new game before next Texas Pinball Festival
- Pinball Brothers USA operations launched with support infrastructure and online parts shop at pbusales.com since August
Notable quotes
“We are actually announcing the new version of Alien called the Ellen Ripley version.”
“The game was planned as Ellen Ripley being the first person, the player, so to speak. And that's why she didn't really appear in the first version of the game.”
“Disney actually acquired Fox back in 2019 so we have actually been working with Disney for quite some time but there's been a transition since then.”
“There are upgrade paths, for sure. So you can add most of the things, actually, if you like. It's not an exclusive game in that regard.”
“We have extended our production capacity at Europimble Corp in Italy all the time and we are very pleased with where we are right now.”
“It's going to be pending approval, you can say... people will be seeing at Pinball Expo could be deemed almost like a prototype or sample game rather than definitely the actual final production version.”
“We are certainly working on multiple projects... we aim for an announcement of the new game before next TPF. So that is still in the plans.”
“Everything's easier and everything's quicker and everyone's delighted about it... we have the uh since august we opened uh the online web shop for spare parts and add-ons.”
Entities
- Art of Pinball· company
- Disney· company
- Europimble Corp· company
- Pinball Brothers· company
- Pinball Expo· event
- Texas Pinball Festival (TPF)· event
- Alien (SV/LV versions)· game
- Alien Ripley Edition· game
- Queen (pinball game)· game
- Daniel Jensen· person
- Jonathan Houston· person
- Kelly· person
- Lior· person
- Martin AB· person
- Oric Lawson· person
- Rudiger (Rudy) Beckman· person
- Sean· person
- pbusales.com· product
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