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The Pinball Show Ep 106: Queen Pinball Reveal & Common Sense Business Practices
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The Pinball Show Episode 106: Queen Pinball Reveal & Common Sense Business Practices Host: Zach Meny Special Guest Cohost: Joel Engelberth - Jolie: The Everyman's Pinball Player - Queen Pinball...
Highlights
- Queen Pinball by Pinball Brothers will cost approximately $10,000-$12,000 in the US due to overseas manufacturing (Milan, Italy) plus import taxes and $1,000 shipping
- Rhapsody Limited Edition will be 1,000 units with $10,995 price; Champion's Edition standard model at $9,295
- Pinball Brothers is hoping to start shipping the Rhapsody Limited Edition in early September
- Joel runs multiple content platforms including Triple Drain Pinball podcast, Just Another Pinball Podcast (interview-focused), and streaming on Pinball Network and Flippin' Out
- Joel's current collection consists of TNA (Total Nuclear Annihilation), Deadpool Premium, and Turtles Pro: his top 3 games he can fit in his space
- Queen Pinball upper playfield features three stand-up targets, a captive ball, and two exits: described as relatively simple and potentially lacking engagement
- Music-themed pinball machines often lack strong storytelling compared to movie or comic IP-based games, making design more challenging
- Pinball Brothers used translucent thick plastic with RGB illumination on their Alien machine to dress up the playfield: an approach expected to continue on Queen
Notable quotes
“You're kind of like the Marvel Studios, Joel, of pinball creators. You're everywhere.”
“The ever man streamer... you are 90% of pinball enthusiasts and hobbyists that watch streams or listen to podcasts or watch YouTube videos. You are that person.”
“You're the hockey fights of minor league hockey.”
“I started all this at the beginning of COVID and what credentials do I have? None. Like I'm not a designer. I'm not, I don't do it. It's just, I'm a person who's passionate about pinball and started recording myself talking and turned on some cameras while I played.”
“music games are rough... you don't have defined story or something defined, like clearly some path to follow. Like you do a movie or even, I don't know, a comic book.”
“The moment you take a stance on something is the moment you get an email or a Facebook message or a pin side post and they're like how do you do that or how can you say these things... if you don't have an opinion, you're a shill. And if you do have an opinion, then apparently you hate pinball.”
“Give me the hand-illustrated artwork of the members of the band Queen on the back glass over any of the renditions of the Rush band members on that game. Period.”
“good code is not. You don't just fall into that. I mean, it's a lot of work, and you have to be. I give a lot of props to Stern, their coders, and even JJP because a lot of these guys, they've played so much pinball.”
“it dresses up the game so so much and I can't wait till people see that because it is one of the most impressive and probably simple kind of things to do... they wrap alien with this translucent thick plastic but then they illuminate it with the RGB”
Entities
- Flippin' Out· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball (JJP)· company
- Pedretti Gaming· company
- Pinball Brothers· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Guns N' Roses Pinball· game
- Iron Maiden Pinball· game
- Led Zeppelin Pinball· game
- Metallica Pinball· game
- Queen Pinball· game
- Rush Pinball· game
- Just Another Pinball Podcast· media
- The Pinball Network· media
- Triple Drain Pinball Podcast· media
- Dave Brennan· person
- Dennis (Dennis Nordman)· person
- Freddie Mercury· person
- Joel Engelberth· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Lane Bryant· person
- Michael Barnard· person
- Ray Day· person
- Travis Murray· person
- Zach Minney· person
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