Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast December 2024 recap
The start of 2025 sees the Pinball Industry News PINcast embark on its eighth year of bringing you all the exciting news from across the wonderful world of pinball. In this latest episode...
Highlights
- Dungeons & Dragons The Tyrant's Eye is Stern's next cornerstone game
- Brian Eddy designed Dungeons & Dragons with Dwight Sullivan as lead programmer
- D&D Limited Edition production is suspected to be around 700 units
- Jersey Jack Pinball holds the license for Harry Potter
- Stern is not planning price increases in the foreseeable future
- Uncanny X-Men had launch problems with ball shooter and in-lane guides
- The teaser photo of Jack Guarneri is from a licensing trade show in Las Vegas from a few years ago
- Guns N' Roses Limited Edition discounted from $11,000 to $8,975 (down $2,025) until January 7
Notable quotes
“It's so hard to keep secrets in this industry.”
“If you want a decent article... we need info up front, not when everybody else is getting it.”
“It was probably fully cooked... some of the tweaks that might have been applied before it normally got into production didn't quite get done.”
“They do listen to people's comments... you can either have the new or the old spinner sound.”
“A Jersey Jack pinball Harry Potter and think they're probably the only company who would be able to put all the mechanisms and the assets into the game.”
“A big Christmas present, I'd say, because that's the thing that they've been waiting for... for many years.”
“You have to train such a person to become such a good pinball player that they can actually see all the assets in the game... you have to play the game to see how it comes across.”
“If you bought one in the Black Friday deal with $1,000 off, you're probably feeling a bit hacked off.”
Entities
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Avatar: The Battle for Pandora· game
- Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant's Eye· game
- Elton John· game
- Guns N' Roses· game
- Harry Potter· game
- Metallica Remastered· game
- Pirates of the Caribbean· game
- Uncanny X-Men· game
- Wizard of Oz· game
- Brian Eddy· person
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- Eric Meunier· person
- Jack Guarneri· person
- Joe Camico· person
- Jonathan Houston· person
- Kyle· person
- Martin Ebb· person
- Seth Davis· person
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