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Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast February 2022 recap

PodcastAnalysis updated yesterday2 hr 40 min listenBy Martin Ayub, Jonathan Joosten
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February was another packed month in the world of pinball, so Martin from Pinball News and Jonathan from PinballMagazine are back to bring you everything you need to know in their regular Pinball...

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Highlights

  • Barry Oursler, legendary pinball designer, died at age 70 from complications of bone cancer treatment
  • Barry Oursler had just been appointed as a game designer at American Pinball before his death, and likely never started the position
  • Weird Al's Museum of Natural Hilarity sold out all 227 limited edition kits within hours of launch on first day of sales
  • Weird Al's Museum of Natural Hilarity is Multimorphic's first licensed IP title for the P3 platform
  • Weird Al's Museum of Natural Hilarity features five flippers, three pop-up bumpers, and five receivers
  • Development of Weird Al's Museum took approximately one year from licensing to launch
  • The game features 17 licensed Weird Al tracks across 12 different museum exhibit hall environments
  • Barry Engler returned to American Pinball as senior production manager after one year at Jersey Jack Pinball in the same role

Notable quotes

“Barry's career speaks for itself pretty much. If you just look at the list of games that he designed and was involved in as well... he was so prolific and such a speedy, reliable designer, but also such a modest guy.”
Martin Leib
“It's a real tragedy... I mean, Barry's career speaks for itself... And at many different companies as well. He was so prolific and such a speedy, reliable designer, but also such a modest guy.”
Jonathan Hewson
“This game is screaming fun in capital letters, I suppose. Yes. There's a joke there which I can't repeat on a family podcast like this.”
Jonathan Hewson and Martin Leib
“I've been sitting for a year wanting to scream to the world that I've been working on a Weird Al fan, and it was really, really nice being able to finally get it out there and get seen.”
Stephen Silver
“I just thought about, you know, the license itself and how difficult it would be. And I just thought there's no way we're ever going to get an owl. So I didn't even think about it. But then Jerry surprised us.”
Stephen Silver
“We kept adding more and more songs until Jerry started to cry, and then we stopped. And then we only added two more after that.”
Michael Ocean
“I'm really super happy with the song list that we came out with. I think there's not one of them I would swap out, and I think that they all make for really super fun modes and gameplay.”
Michael Ocean
“I think Al is perfect for pinball, and I think that he allows so much fun, goofy nonsense on the play field that you can have, and so I'm really excited that he's able to get it.”
Stephen Silver

Entities

  • American Pinball· company
  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Multimorphic· company
  • Texas Pinball Festival· event
  • Heist· game
  • Weird Al's Museum of Natural Hilarity· game
  • Barry Engler· person
  • Barry Oursler· person
  • Bowen Kerins· person
  • Colin McAlpine· person
  • Greg Goldie· person
  • Jerry Sellenberg· person
  • Jonathan Hewson· person
  • Martin Leib· person
  • Matt Andrews· person
  • Michael Ocean· person
  • Rory Cernuda· person
  • Scott Danesi· person
  • Stephen Silver· person
  • T.J. Weaver· person
  • Weird Al Yankovic· person
  • P3 Pinball Platform· product

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