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Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast April 2022 recap
PodcastAnalysis updated today1 hr 3 min listenBy Martin Ayub, Jonathan Joosten
New month, new PINcast, as Martin Ayub from Pinball News and Jonathan Joosten from Pinball Magazine review all the exciting events from the pinball world throughout April. There’s news of...
Highlights
- Ryan McQuaid was appointed as game designer at American Pinball, having previously designed the Sonic the Hedgehog homebrew pinball game.
- American Pinball production schedule includes Oktoberfest in early summer (April-May), Houdini in late summer, and Hot Wheels in late fall 2022.
- Jersey Jack Pinball cancelled factory tours, possibly indicating production ramp-up for an unannounced next title.
- Elite Pinball Toppers released a Pirates of the Caribbean topper limited to 100 units at $2,500, the most expensive topper produced to date.
- Stern Pinball announced a production schedule distributing games across the year at approximately two titles per month, pending supply chain availability.
- Rush received code update v0.93 with new Voyage Wizard Mode, clock bonus feature, mini challenge game, and Insider Connected achievements.
- Haggis Pinball showed eight Fathom Revisited cabinets in production with dual subwoofers and electronics mounted in cabinet base protected by heavy plastic panels.
- Deep Root Pinball life insurance policies (~$10 million value) were purchased by Ryan Policky and subsequently sold to Tuyo (Turner Logic) at a reduced price during liquidation.
Notable quotes
“Well, this month it wasn't. Yeah, let's be honest. It wasn't the most exciting of months.”
“So while Ryan designed this Sonic the Hedgehog pinball machine, we don't know whether that is actually going to be a future title for Spooky Pinball or whether they are going to re-theme. Sorry, American Pinball, my bad.”
“it could be that he's we don't know why he's in the US we know that he's visiting JJP but he could also just be working there fine tuning the last bits and pieces of LCD code for the game that we're about to discover”
“this one costs basically 2,500 US dollars. What?”
“Well, if you can afford the powers of the Caribbean pinball machine, then you might as well be able to afford such a topper.”
“there seem to be a lot of locations saying we want this we want to be able to run our own leaderboards at our own location”
“Got a text message coming through from Gary. He says Been at the show Lost my voice, can't talk. See you next month”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Bitronic· company
- Deep Root Pinball· company
- Elite Pinball Toppers· company
- Haggis Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Pedretti Gaming· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Fathom Revisited· game
- Pirates of the Caribbean· game
- Rush· game
- Sonic the Hedgehog pinball· game
- Super Hoop· game
- David Fix· person
- Dennis Nordman· person
- Gary Flower· person
- Jean-Paul de Win· person
- Jonathan Houston· person
- Martin Ayer· person
- RB Flip France· person
- Robert Mueller· person
- Ryan McQuaid· person
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