Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast January 2022 recap
Can you believe the first month of the new year is already over? Jonathan Joosten from Pinball Magazine and Martin Ayub from Pinball News certainly can as they revisit all the key events in the...
Highlights
- Lyman Sheets died on January 19, 2022 at age 55 by suicide
- Lyman Sheets was working on Cactus Canyon remake with Josh Sharp at time of death
- Lyman had been signed to work with another manufacturer that hadn't been announced yet
- Super Hoop (formerly Super Canasta) was revealed at Pinball Expo 2019 as a Quetzal Pinball design, then acquired by Bitronic
- First 100 Super Hoop games manufactured; 400 total production planned
- Super Hoop priced at €4,650 plus VAT
- Flip a Foxtrot Rhythm Explosion (FFRE) is a new P3 game developed by Nicholas Baldridge combining rhythm mechanics with pinball
- Rush is currently in early pre-production software stage with many unfinished elements
- Stern monitors gameplay on pre-release machines via Insider Connected system
- Pirates of the Caribbean Scorebit update still in beta testing and awaiting Disney license approval
Notable quotes
“the legacy that he leaves within the world of pinball is tremendous... whenever I get the chance of playing Monster Bash, I'll be definitely playing it in his honor”
“He had a great sense of humor and was able to capture that in that game as well”
“rumor has it that the the coding that he was working on with Josh Sharp on Cactus Canyon rumor has it that that might actually be finished”
“Big Brother Gary is watching you”
“it wasn't connected but uh the owner of the arcade said and actually it is and um when it when we first installed it it wasn't to be played yet and it was being played and Stern knew it was being played from the inside of Connected”
“I don't know whether it's awaiting license or approval from Disney for that. but it's been a long time now and people are getting a bit antsy”
“For the European market, this is probably the best price for a new pinball that's currently on the market”
Entities
- Bitronic· company
- Deep Root Pinball· company
- Haggis Pinball· company
- Homepin· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Quetzal Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Fathom Revisited· game
- Flip a Foxtrot Rhythm Explosion (FFRE)· game
- Guns N' Roses· game
- Pirates of the Caribbean· game
- Rush· game
- Super Hoop· game
- This Is Spinal Tap· game
- Pinball Magazine· organization
- Pinball News· organization
- Antonio Arturo· person
- John Borg· person
- Jonathan Houston· person
- Josh Sharp· person
- Lyman Sheets· person
- Martin Eyre· person
- Nicholas Baldridge· person
- Tim Saxton· person
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