52: 7th Day of Balls: Kevin Manne
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Kineticist’s take
Kevin Manne discusses pinball awards, market trends, and 2024 hopes for his podcast and industry.
Synopsis
Kevin Manne from Buffalo Pinball joins the Pinball Party Podcast for a casual holiday episode featuring personal questions, pinball discussion, and commentary on 2023 industry trends. Topics include the GTF Signature Edition's questionable value, Spooky's dual development approach with code quality concerns, market stabilization post-COVID, the P3's module-swapping process, and his favorite 2023 release (Final Resistance). Kevin expresses frustration with pinball awards as a popularity contest dominated by Stern's market reach and discusses upcoming expectations for Mark Seiden's JJP title.
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Brody Even Talk Pinball· content
- Broken Token Podcast· content
- fun with bonus· content
- Addams Family· game
- Cuphead· game
- Dialed In· game
- Final Resistance· game
- Ghostbusters· game
- Guns N' Roses· game
- Pirates of the Caribbean· game
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre· game
- Total Nuclear Annihilation· game
- Tron· game
- Buffalo Pinball· organization
- Ken Cromwell· person
- Kevin Manne· person
- Mark Seiden· person
- Scott Danesi· person
- GTF Signature Edition· product