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Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast March 2024 recap
PodcastAnalysis updated 5d ago1 hr 59 min listenBy Martin Ayub, Jonathan Joosten
The start of another new month means it’s time to join Jonathan Joosten from Pinball Magazine and Martin Ayub from Pinball News for their look back at all the exciting news from the pinball world...
Highlights
- Barry O's Barbecue Challenge was based on Barry Oursler's final design, either a napkin drawing or more developed base design, completed by American Pinball team over 18 months
- Barry O's Barbecue Challenge Classic Edition priced at just below $7,000 and Limited Edition at $8,500
- Pinball Brothers lost approximately £500,000 (roughly $600k USD or €500k) annually in 2022 and 2023 according to summary accounts
- Roger and Kato officially left Pinball Brothers in December 2023 (though their involvement ended January 2022) and withdrew all investments and support
- ABBA game will include 20 full ABBA tracks, more than any other pinball game featuring a single artist
- Dutch Pinball shipped the final early achiever Big Lebowski machine in early March 2024, ending a multi-year fulfillment commitment
- Dutch Pinball Exclusive (DPX) first title will likely be Alice in Wonderland based on John Popadiuk' Zidware prototype design
- Melvin Williams purchased Zidware storage unit assets (including Alice in Wonderland design files) in auction settlement with John Popadiuk
Notable quotes
“I'm not sure whether the game needed that. I'm also not sure whether the game needed Barry O to be attached to it so heavily.”
“You don't want to get charged or sued by the BBC, of course.”
“Since January 22 we have not been involved in any decision making processes at the company, a factor that significantly contributed to our decisions to withdraw our support.”
“It's a very impressive show and definitely worth going to see but I haven't been yet.”
“Big celebrations at the factory and I think we all have to celebrate that and Barry in particular is fortitude in overcoming what seem to be impossible odds.”
“Just because John came up with a playfield design, doesn't necessarily mean that it works, or is it even feasible.”
“It will probably be another year, let's say Texas 2025”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Dutch Pinball· company
- Dutch Pinball Exclusive (DPX)· company
- Pedretti· company
- Pinball Brothers· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- ABBA Voyage· event
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- ABBA (game)· game
- Alice in Wonderland· game
- Barry O's Barbecue Challenge· game
- Pinball Magazine· organization
- Pinball News· organization
- Barry Driessen· person
- Barry Oursler· person
- Daniel Jensen· person
- David Fix· person
- Dennis Nordman· person
- Jeremy Packer (Zombie Yeti)· person
- John Popadulis· person
- Melvin Williams· person
- Roger and Kato· person
- Ryan McQuaid· person
- Steve Bowden· person
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