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The Goonies Pinball Is ALMOST HERE! What We Know, Back to the Future & MORE! | Flipside Ep. 70
The Flipside Pinball Podcast
1 hr 15 min
Summary
Retro Ralph breaks down Spooky's upcoming The Goonies: production numbers, SLE details, and gameplay features from Carry's interview.
Retro Ralph hosts Flipside Ep. 70 focused on Spooky Pinball upcoming The Goonies, drawing mainly on Carry's interview with the company. He covers production numbers (1,299 CEs at $10,999, 85 SLEs at $15,000, 1,384 total), SLE differences, the wide-body design with four flippers and a subway, and Spooky's claim of its best shooter yet. He also notes tangential items like a missed Don's Pinball Podcast party and Stern speculation.
Highlights
- Spooky's The Goonies official reveal is Friday, November 13th.
- The Goonies will have 2,099 CEs... (per the transcript; the same passage later says 1,299 CEs), priced at $10,999, with a total of 1,384 games including show games counted within the 1,299 CE figure.
- The SLE run is 85 units, with a planned price of about $15,000, and 55 SLEs are allocated to distributors to sell at negotiated prices.
- Spooky will hold a live drawing of 1,299 numbered gold coins a few weeks after launch, with 30 winners getting the option to upgrade a CE to an SLE.
- The Goonies is a wide-body game with four flippers, multiple ramps, at least two repeatable looping shots, a physical ball lock, at least four drop targets, a captive ball, and an under-playfield subway accessible from three locations.
- Spooky describes The Goonies as its best shooting game ever.
- The Goonies was licensed at about the same time as Beetlejuice, and was originally scheduled before Beetlejuice; the order was flipped to align the Beetlejuice release with a new movie.
- The Goonies has the most code-complete launch of any recent Spooky game due to longer development soak time, with programmer Matt Kemp having worked on it for over two and a half years.
- Spooky says the game is 'accessible but deep' and that scoring balance was adjusted based on tournament player feedback.
- Stern has become more siloed in its game development teams than in the past, with less cross-team collaboration.
The Goonies Pinball is almost here, and we’ve got a LOT to talk about! In Episode 70 of The Flipside Podcast, we’re breaking down everything we know so far about Spooky Pinball’s upcoming Goonies release! What did the trailer reveal? What if you’re NOT on a preorder list? And what can we expect from this week’s big reveal? Plus, we’re talking Back to the Future Pinball and how I’m feeling after putting down my deposit, my recent visit to Nickel Mania in Utah, and some honest thoughts on a few games I’ve owned for a while. We’ve also got some pinball mods to discuss, an upcoming Tales of the Arabian Nights Remake livestream, and apparently a Three Musketeers pinball machine is coming to my garage? WTF! 😂 All that and more in Episode 70 of The Flipside Podcast!
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