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Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast November 2024 recap
PodcastAnalysis updated 6d ago1 hr 57 min listenBy Martin Ayub, Jonathan Joosten
It’s the final show of 2024 and Jonathan from Pinball Magazine and Martin from Pinball News have a lot of exciting news to bring you from the right across the pinball world throughout November in...
Highlights
- Evil Dead is a wide-body game with the most mechanisms Spooky has ever put in a game
- Evil Dead collected deposits for over 500 units within 36 hours of announcement
- Evil Dead topper sales exceeded game sales, with over 600 toppers sold vs 500 games
- Pinball XP works with all Jersey Jack games from Wizard of Oz through Avatar with software mod
- Pinball XP launches in early 2025 (Q1: January/February)
- Melbourne Pinball Expo inaugural show drew 1,200-1,400 attendees across multiple sessions
- Jersey Jack Avatar CE sold 13-14 units at Melbourne Expo
- Evil Dead features custom voice work by Bruce Campbell and is based on the first two Evil Dead movies
Notable quotes
“They have decided to limit it to a maximum of 888 machines. I don't know what that 888 limit relates to.”
“Apparently they sold more toppers than games. At least once the toppers went on sale, they sold over 600 while they had only 500 games sold.”
“It's an online redemption system. It's a progression system with leaderboards. It seamlessly integrates with major cashless systems.”
“The better you play, the more you win. So a lot of redemption games are set up that way because they need to be skill based.”
“An inaugural show, it was one of the best pinball shows I've ever been to.”
“Our games here are not really well seen. There's not a lot of them on location. There's a lot of them that people own and they're loyal buyers... a typical brand new CE game sells for $22,000, $23,000, $24,000.”
“So there was no way I could get here without missing Thanksgiving at home. So I traveled on Tuesday because I can't travel Wednesday the day before Thanksgiving.”
“The system knows whether the game is in play or whether it's in attract mode and adapts, and completely it's responsive as well... If the game on the far left-hand side starts to get played, then the attract graphics compress to the other four monitors.”
Entities
- Creative Works· company
- Diverted River· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- IAPA· event
- Melbourne Pinball Expo· event
- Avatar· game
- Evil Dead· game
- Looney Tunes· game
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre· game
- The Hobbit· game
- Wizard of Oz· game
- World's Greatest TV· media
- Ben Heck· person
- Bruce Campbell· person
- Christopher Franchi· person
- Eric Munier· person
- Jack Guarnieri· person
- Jonathan Justin· person
- Martin Eyre· person
- Matt Montgomery· person
- Matt Reisterer· person
- Pinball XP· product
- Pindemption· product
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