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Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast October 2024 recap
PodcastAnalysis updated 6d ago1 hr 54 min listenBy Martin Ayub, Jonathan Joosten
This month’s PINcast comes from the Dutch Pinball Open Expo and marks a unique moment as, for the first time ever, Jonathan from Pinball Magazine and Martin from Pinball News present their monthly...
Highlights
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a limited edition of 500 units and has sold out at distributors
- Metallica Remastered limited edition is capped at 500 units only
- Barrels of Fun Labyrinth has sold approximately 900 of 1,100 units with roughly 200 games remaining
- Barrels of Fun will wrap up Labyrinth production around January-February 2025
- European-certified (CE) Labyrinth machines started production and will ship in containers within 2-3 weeks
- Butch Peel has joined Barrels of Fun to write manuals and provide technical support
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was designed as a 1990s Bally Williams-style gameplay experience
- The original Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was a foam core mockup by Tom Puppeteer for Zidware before Melvin Williams acquired and fully redesigned it
- Metallica Remastered includes over 1,000 new speech calls and 23 songs total
- Stern did not provide advanced information about Metallica Remastered launch to media, hampering coverage
Notable quotes
“Let the product speak for itself... We are not just a one-game company. We are a 10-year planned company.”
“What made me excited about pinball was announcement day... I feel like nowadays we've lost that... I like the days where you had no idea what was coming.”
“We don't sell directly anymore... We are going to be wrapping up this production probably January, February next year.”
“It's gorgeous. This is not a trade show. This is where you can tell people are going to drink, they're going to eat, they're going to have a good time and play pinball... That's why I got into pinball.”
“He came out, saw what we're doing... he's like, I'm in... he seems very happy... he's a collector and he can't keep us away from it.”
“They're very precious about maintaining both that and his legacy... they've been very careful to add two new game modes based on Metallica's two most recent albums.”
“If all the Pinball Minions are focusing on something else launching a game they will not give you the best attention.”
“We have the opportunity. We have a great relationship with a licensor. We can actually have up to three lines to run... quality is number one.”
Entities
- Barrels of Fun· company
- Dutch Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Dutch Pinball Open Expo· event
- Pinball Expo· event
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland· game
- Labyrinth· game
- Metallica Remastered· game
- Pinball Magazine· organization
- Pinball News· organization
- Butch Peel· person
- Charlie Bonanza· person
- David Van Es· person
- James Hetfield· person
- John Borg· person
- Jonathan Houston· person
- Lyman Sheets· person
- Martin O'Neill· person
- Melvin Williams· person
- Tom Puppeteer· person
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