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Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast July 2025 recap
PodcastAnalysis updated 6d ago1 hr 4 min listenBy Martin Ayub, Jonathan Joosten
After the recent flurry of new game announcements, Jonathan from Pinball Magazine and Martin from Pinball News begin this month’s Pinball Industry News PINcast with two re-releases of existing...
Highlights
- Star Wars Home Edition Plus is priced at $4,799 at Costco, $200 cheaper than the previous Jurassic Park Home Edition Plus
- Jack Danger is transitioning from Stern game designer to head of community, leaving his current fourth game project to be finished by other team members
- Jaws 50th Anniversary Premium Edition includes red armor, brass powder-coated wire forms, glitter on playfield, and a hologram sticker
- Jurassic Park Home Edition Plus eventually sold at Costco for approximately $3,000 during clearance
- Spooky Pinball Evil Dead production is currently at ~400+ units of a planned 888 total, expected to finish by December or January
- Jaws update on July 22 added new Final Wizard mode 'Smile, You Son of a...' that ends the entire game upon completion, not just the ball
- Wonderland Amusements built a complete game using production tooled parts and reports it plays stronger and more reliably than prototypes
- Multimorphic is now offering wide-body anti-reflective Pin Glass, which previously was not widely available at current price points
- A distributor told the hosts that Spooky could have easily sold 2,000 Evil Dead machines
- Romania is a P3 mini-game created by Neil Wilson with 100% proceeds donated to Austin Pinball Collective and charity organizations, available for download at $125
Notable quotes
“Well, try selling yours.”
“It didn't put a lot of effort into that but I guess if you really like that image then that's the game for you”
“So you have to add a whole new level of strategy to what you play and when you play it and how well you play it.”
“I think Spooky could have sold easily 2,000 Evil Dead Pinball machines because it's that good”
“The result was a machine that plays stronger and more reliably than any prototype we've had before”
“Software lagging on a new game. We're not likely to see any gameplay in August either, apparently.”
Entities
- Dutch Pinball Exclusive· company
- Electric Playground· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Wonderland Amusements· company
- San Diego Comic-Con· event
- Blade Runner· game
- Evil Dead· game
- Jaws 50th Anniversary Premium Edition· game
- Jurassic Park Home Edition Plus· game
- Portal· game
- Romania· game
- Star Wars Home Edition Plus· game
- Jack Danger· person
- Jonathan Houston· person
- Martin Neb· person
- Melvin Brower Williams· person
- Neil Wilson· person
- Ozzy Osbourne· person
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