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Episode 304: Fathom Revisited by Haggis Pinball

PodcastAnalysis updated yesterday39 min listen
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Damian Hartin has been busy with shipping Celts, expanding his staff & warehouse, and now this! Hear the details on their remake of the classic Bally pinball machine Fathom! There are 2 versions...

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Highlights

  • Haggis is remaking Fathom, a classic 1981 Williams game, in two editions: Classic and limited Mermaid Edition (250 units)
  • Fathom Mermaid Edition features full RGB seven-segment displays, two LCD screens in apron, mirrored stainless steel components, and reflective side art that glows under light
  • Haggis had to manually measure original Fathom playfields and recreate them in CAD because no original digital files existed from 1981
  • Martin Robbins (Final Round Pinball co-host) designed the new 2.0 ruleset for Fathom Mermaid Edition with new music and custom callouts
  • Haggis is expanding its factory space from 150 square meters to 700 square meters (400% increase) and expanding workforce
  • Haggis uses FAST Pinball control boards for Fathom and sources modern flipper mechs and pop bumpers as off-the-shelf components
  • Rick from Planetary Pinball holds the license for Bally/Williams games and will be the exclusive parts distributor for Haggis games in the US
  • A friend's restored original Fathom with CPR playfield cost $10,000 to restore; Haggis Fathom remake offers new game with warranty support at lower cost

Notable quotes

“pretty much everything else you have to redo, especially for this era...we literally had to sort of sit down basically with an existing original play field, measure out where all the bits were, translate that over into Fusion 360, remodel it, redesign it”
Damien Harton
“Full RGB seven-segment score displays...The point of the classic is it's trying to recreate the classic game much more closer with respect to the finish of the game and the play of the game...The point of needing these screens in the apron is to try and convey and help the player understand what it is they're doing”
Damien Harton
“250 of the Mermaid Edition made, and we only got them available for sale for a period of three weeks. So if we sell out all 250 before then, we will stop and not make any more of those”
Damien Harton
“I have made manufactured and made the first of every component in a pinball machine and then discovered that somebody had already done it 30 years ago”
Damien Harton
“I need to grow. It's not even a case of me going, well, I'd like to do that. I mean, I need to grow. I need to be able to expand”
Damien Harton
“Pinball customers are patient if they are brought along the way...if you told you know here what we working on Here where we at right now They patient”
Jeff Teols

Entities

  • Chicago Gaming Company (CGC)· company
  • FAST Pinball· company
  • Haggis Pinball· company
  • Planetary Pinball· company
  • Spooky Pinball· company
  • Celts· game
  • Fathom· game
  • Clan Haggis· organization
  • Damien Harton· person
  • Greg Silby· person
  • Jeff Teols· person
  • Lucky Delves· person
  • Martin Robbins· person
  • Rick· person
  • Fathom Classic Edition· product
  • Fathom Mermaid Edition· product

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