The Great British Pinball Podcast Episode 23
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Kineticist’s take
Great British Pinball hosts review TPF 2024, discuss homebrew progress, pricing market dysfunction, and game impressions.
Synopsis
Neil and Scott discuss their homebrew pinball project progress, the Texas Pinball Festival (TPF), and their impressions of games on display there. They cover D&D Tyrant's Eye, Merlin's Arcade, Portal (Multimorphic), and Ninja, with emphasis on venue management, pricing concerns, and operator performance data (notably Godzilla's 70k plays at Electric Bat Arcade). Key themes include secondary market pricing dysfunction, the barrier of affordability for new machines, and mixed community reception of recent releases.
Highlights
- Godzilla has generated 70,000 plays at Electric Bat Arcade at $1/play, totaling $70,000 in revenue since September 2021
- Dungeons & Dragons code base is extremely large and complex; Stern may have 'bitten off more than they can chew'
- Texas Pinball Festival organizers (Paul and Rob Harris) implement daily feedback forms and move games/logistics based on previous night's feedback
- Portal (Multimorphic) is positioned as potentially being the successor to Godzilla's dominance in arcades
- Addams Family (at Electric Bat) underperformed operator expectations and has declined in earning potential
- John Wick's price has 'trebled' since Neil purchased it a month prior to TPF
- Secondary market for pinball is currently a 'buyer's market' with games significantly underpriced
- Michael Dorn's voice-over work as the dragon in D&D is underwhelming and not well-suited to the character
Entities
- Multimorphic· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Texas Pinball Festival (TPF)· event
- Addams Family· game
- Dungeons & Dragons: Tyrant's Eye· game
- Godzilla· game
- John Wick· game
- Medieval Madness· game
- Merlin's Arcade· game
- Ninja· game
- Portal· game
- Electric Bat Arcade· organization
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- Jerry Liu· person
- Michael Dorn· person
- Neil· person
- Paul Harris· person
- Rachel· person
- Rob Harris· person
- Scott Lundell· person