Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast July 2024 recap
The summer months are traditionally a quiet time for news in the pinball industry. Not so this year, so join Jonathan Joosten from Pinball Magazine and Martin Ayub from Pinball News as they bring...
Highlights
- Haggis Pinball liquidated on July 18, 2024, with all social media taken down and liquidators appointed
- Damien Hartin retained 100% ownership of Haggis shares and made no equity offers to employees
- Haggis Pinball took deposits for games without working prototypes and misrepresented production timelines
- Haggis sold 'season pass' deals with deposits held in escrow that were never actually escrowed
- Greg Ferris retired from Stern after nearly 12 years as art director, starting at Bally in late 1970s
- Sebastian Napoli, new Stern art director, previously worked as creative director at Pop-Up and Havoc advertising agencies
- Keanu Reeves visited Stern booth at San Diego Comic-Con and played John Wick pinball
- John Wick pinball game 'not very popular' and 'not a hot seller' due to negative reception from gun artwork removal
Notable quotes
“Damien was sort of repeatedly misled customers about the status of their games, requesting full payment for games that were nowhere near ready to be produced.”
“All their website, YouTube channel, Facebook and Instagram, social media feeds, all were taken down almost instantaneously.”
“The Fathom games that were built actually looked top quality...Built like a tank, and beautiful games to see.”
“Don't underestimate the influence of Greg Ferrer in the pinball industry. Oh, I think you can, really. He's an overused phrase, but I think he's iconic in the industry.”
“Getting your art director from an advertising agency is quite a long tradition in pinball, going back to the valley days.”
“It's all organized by managers and what have you. But still, very nice of him to pop by.”
“It doesn't mean it's not a good game, but apparently the game got off the wrong start, so to speak, when it turned out there's no guns on the artwork.”
Entities
- Deeproot Pinball· company
- Haggis Pinball· company
- Pedretti Gaming / Pedretti Pinball· company
- Planetary Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Zidware· company
- San Diego Comic-Con 2024· event
- Fathom Revisited· game
- Godzilla 70th Anniversary Edition· game
- John Wick· game
- Pinball Magazine· organization
- Pinball News· organization
- Charlie Bedanti· person
- Damien Hartin· person
- Greg Ferris· person
- Jean-Paul DeWin· person
- Jodie Denberg· person
- Keanu Reeves· person
- Marty Robbins· person
- Sebastian Napoli· person
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