
Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 20: Elgato No Signal
Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 20: Elgato No Signal Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie Twenty episodes in and Travis still can't figure out how to do this correctly. We answer...
Highlights
- Stern receives more critique than smaller manufacturers for the same issues, but both should be held to identical quality standards
- Toy Story 4 (by Jersey Jack Pinball) is designed to be easier and more forgiving for new/home players, not competitive depth
- Jersey Jack Pinball forgot to include power cables with Toy Story 4 units at launch; Guns N' Roses was missing protectors
- Software/asset quality expectations differ: Stern and JJP get held to full movie/music asset standards; smaller manufacturers get more leniency on animations
- Godzilla is cited as a game that successfully balances both moments and competitive scoring
- P3 (Multimorphic) includes one-handed play accessibility built into the operating system with three buttons per side
- Spooky has sold out their past three games; this sales success means they should be held to manufacturing standards equivalent to Stern
Notable quotes
“We have to edit out about 90% of the stuff Tom says. It would be so controversial... edit a lot of Tom out, edit a little of me, and then we got to do our best to leave as much Travis in there as possible, just to give you a chance, Travis.”
“I'd like to take this question, Joel... Absolutely. I mean, Stern's the number one dog. So anything they do is going to be absolutely critiqued to the T. Whereas a smaller company, that's okay.”
“I think if you are taking money from customers and you're taking a lot of money and you're producing machines that you need to be held to the same standard across the board... if I see somebody buying a $9,000 or $10,000 game from... anybody... it needs to still be a solid product because people are paying for that.”
“There was no power cord with my Toy Story the day after it came out. And the Guns N' Roses that Travis had bought before that actually was missing the protector.”
“The only thing that I see slightly different is there are some manufacturers that some of the like sculpts that they have in their game are 3d printed... Stern if there was ever a 3d printed part in their game they would get they would get destroyed.”
“Godzilla... does an extremely good job at that because I want to have a moment... And that building falling down is a moment that I think most people could achieve. But then Godzilla also has these mini wizard modes that actually take skill to get to.”
“There's people that love Dwight Code and there's people that don't like Dwight Code because he does such an amazing job with the way that he codes his moments... but from a competitive standpoint there's certain games that dwight's coded that you've had issues with because the code balancing is not where you want it.”
Entities
- Haggis Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Godzilla· game
- Guns N' Roses· game
- Halloween· game
- Oktoberfest· game
- Stranger Things· game
- Toy Story 4· game
- Weird Al· game
- Triple Drain Pinball Podcast· organization
- Chris Caloris· person
- Dennis Creasel· person
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- George Fisher· person
- George Gomez· person
- Joel· person
- Tom· person
- Travis· person
- Zach Minney· person
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