The Great British Pinball Podcast Episode 22 - TPF25 Special
Send us Fan Mail Neil and Scott cover a wide variety of the rumoured goings on at TPF and Scott shares some fantastic news about a new delivery coming! Apologies about the audio, we are going to move away from our podcast software as we keep having issues that don't show up in testing.
Kineticist’s take
TPF25 preview with new game announcements, pricing concerns, and manufacturing quality discussions.
Synopsis
Neil McRae and Scott Rundell discuss their upcoming trip to Texas Pinball Festival 2025, covering multiple new game announcements including Portal (P3), Merlin's Arcade (Terror Pinball), and rumored releases from Barrels of Fun. They analyze upcoming Stern titles, pricing concerns ($20k Harry Potter rumors), and quality issues with Chicago Gaming Company's Pulp Fiction playfield, while addressing broader market dynamics around licensing, production timing, and the sustainability of premium pricing models.
Highlights
- Portal is the first P3 game with playfield elements in the middle third beyond just the back third
- Chicago Gaming Company Pulp Fiction playfields suffer from inadequate curing time and lack edge cliffies
- Nine players including Neil are sending Pulp Fiction playfields to Ron Cruzman for restoration/upgrade
- Harry Potter LE price rumored at $20k with standard edition coming back
- Lyman F. Sheets Jr. may have new code ideas for Medieval Madness remake
- Play Mechanics/Rob Thrills working on Halo pinball as next major release
- Alien vs. Predator rumored as Pinball Brothers' next title, not Alien Ripley
- Pinball Brothers has 14-month backlog on replacement toppers, Neil still waiting on Alien Queen topper
- Barrels of Fun may announce new game at TPF (rumored to be Goonies, G.I. Joe, or Fifth Element)
- Stern appears to be holding Kong release to avoid cannibalizing other game announcements
Entities
- Barrels of Fun· company
- Chicago Gaming Company· company
- Dutch Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Pinball Brothers· company
- Play Mechanics· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Terror Pinball· company
- Texas Pinball Festival 2025· event
- UKCS· event
- Alice in Wonderland· game
- Alien (Pinball Brothers)· game
- Cactus Canyon· game
- Halo· game
- Harry Potter· game
- Medieval Madness (remake)· game
- Merlin's Arcade· game
- Portal· game
- Pulp Fiction· game
- Ian Harrower· person
- Lyman F. Sheets Jr.· person
- Neil McRae· person
- Ron Cruzman· person
- Scott Rundell· person