EP20 TPF Hype Episode!
In this special edition of The Pinball Studio Podcast, Sterling is joined by Don Garrison of Don’s Pinball Podcast for the ultimate Texas Pinball Festival hype episode. With TPF kicking off this...
Highlights
- Multimorphic is not bringing a new game to TPF because Portal is still selling well and they have months of backorders
- Spooky Beetlejuice has received code updates including new song at end of game and improved Spooky Speak voice recognition
- Stern Pokemon topper will feature a Magikarp design that can move, homaging the Fishtails topper with Big Mouth Billy Bass mechanics
- European pinball manufacturers face significant tariff and import cost challenges that make US distribution difficult without domestic manufacturing
- HECRA will release Three Musketeers as their sophomore game, targeting European collectors with 150-unit sales
- Turner is working on his third game which positions him for success after Ninja Eclipse and Merlin's
- Don Garrison is developing a homebrew game co-designed by George Gomez
Notable quotes
“I can't believe TPF is this week. Dude, it snuck up. Like, I was like, holy shit, I'm leaving in like two days.”
“We got to do something at our booth... why don't we put it in kind of a sound condensed tent and be able to play Beetlejuice like inside of a tent, a little more intimate, be able to hear everything.”
“This is their show. Like, this is where they debuted Princess Bride... This is where Portal debuted, right? And so I'm like, okay, this is their hometown show, man. Multimorphic. You get the best themes, bring it.”
“You're like the only home brewer who can legit state that your home brew was co-designed by George Gomez, so that's cool.”
“They were like trying to trick us at first, like they're almost all gone. It's like, nah, we're just like cutting back production.”
“If you evolve it, it turns into something that's really, really, really, really, really interesting... Gyarados, like the strongest frickin' thing in, I think a Gyarados is what it is.”
“I've got a freaking like Beetlejuice Beetlejuice light up sign and all this crap like TSA is going to be like opening my bag like who is this guy?”
“I can bolt a cabinet together. I can wire the hell out of a cabinet. I can build the game, but coding and coming up with rules... I just want to build the game. I don't want to do the rest of it.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Deep Root Pinball· company
- Electric Playground· company
- HECRA· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Old Town Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Beetlejuice· game
- Fishtails· game
- Merlin's· game
- Ninja Eclipse· game
- Pokemon· game
- Portal· game
- Three Musketeers· game
- Don Garrison· person
- George Gomez· person
- Kerry Hardy· person
- Sterling Martin· person
- Turner· person
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