77: Down These Roads
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Highlights
- John Wick by Stern Pinball is not doing well commercially and people don't enjoy it much
- The pinball market experienced a COVID boom followed by a contraction with lingering oversupply
- Stern Pinball pricing is burning out hobbyists and reducing market participation
- Recent game releases (Jaws, John Wick, Godzilla, Quest) lack novelty and engagement value for experienced players
- Spooky Pinball likely to reveal next game in December
- Pinball Brothers is beginning to ship games
Notable quotes
“When I think like quick thoughts of that history, I'm not actually thinking of the machines. I remember the experiences of getting the machines or meeting the people that I got the machines from.”
“John Wick... seems to be by all accounts not doing that great. People don't really enjoy it that much except for Keanu Reeves on that recent video.”
“What was so exciting and what drove me for so long was each game was a new experience because I had not played it before.”
“There's a lot of extra machines out there and now there's a lot less money in it. There's not as many hobbyists doing it. And with Stern burning most people out there with pricing.”
“If there's a game, regardless of price, that I could just play right now, it would be Foo Fighters, followed up with probably Iron Man, Stern Pro Vault.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Pinball Brothers· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Bram Stoker's Dracula· game
- Foo Fighters· game
- Ghostbusters Stern· game
- Godzilla· game
- Jaws· game
- John Wick· game
- Lord of the Rings· game
- Metallica· game
- Quest for a Few Days· game
- Walking Dead· game
- Cale Hernandez· person
- Jason· person
- Keanu Reeves· person
- Zach Sharpe· person
- Electric Bat Arcade· venue
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