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63: Lookin good!

Pinball Party Podcast·podcast_episode·43m 12s·analyzed·Feb 20, 2024
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TL;DR

Jersey Jack flipper retrofit, Princess Bride announcement, and Stern rumor roundup.

Summary

Jason from Pinball Party Podcast discusses Jersey Jack Pinball's new flipper board retrofit ($399) that significantly improves the feel of older JJP games, announces Multimorphic's Princess Bride machine with three trim levels ($11,500–$13,750), and speculates on four rumored upcoming Stern titles: Metallica, John Wick, Pokémon, and X-Men 97. He emphasizes control responsiveness as critical to game enjoyment and expresses frustration with video-heavy backbox implementations versus gameplay-focused design.

Key Claims

  • Jersey Jack Pinball has released a new flipper board that solves the mushy/sluggish control issues in older JJP games, priced at $399 USD

    high confidence · Jason (host), direct observation and product availability discussion

  • The new flipper board is available for Dialed In, The Hobbit, and The Pirates

    high confidence · Jason, direct product confirmation with pricing

  • Multimorphic has announced Princess Bride with three trim levels: Standard ($11,500), Limited ($12,750), Collector's ($13,750); Limited edition limited to 750 units, Collector's to 500

    high confidence · Jason, official pricing and production numbers confirmed

  • Multimorphic trim level differences between Standard, Limited, and Collector's editions are cosmetic only (art, toppers, translites, custom buttons, plaques)—no gameplay or playfield differences

    high confidence · Jason, detailed analysis of official difference matrix

  • Four Stern games are rumored: Metallica, John Wick, Pokémon, and X-Men 97

    medium confidence · Jason, speculation labeled as rumor; treats as unconfirmed but discussed as industry expectation

  • The rumored Metallica game is on Spike 3 platform and is not a one-to-one remake but a reworked/reimagined version

    medium confidence · Jason, hearsay ('I have heard consistently')

  • Chicago Gaming Company's initial remakes (Attack from Mars, Medieval Madness) had noticeable flipper lag compared to originals

    medium confidence · Jason, personal observation and analogy to emulation lag

  • Andrew (Patreon responder) reports that Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory was greatly improved with the new flipper board and has been running beta code since 2022

    high confidence · Direct Patreon community feedback quote

  • William (Patreon responder) reports that Dialed In gained 'real snap' after installing the new flipper board in an arcade

Notable Quotes

  • “If the control of the game you're playing is of non-issue then you can play the game and you're not thinking about it. That's what makes it great.”

    Jason @ early segment — Core thesis on why flipper responsiveness is critical to game enjoyment, applicable to all pinball and video games

  • “$400 to fix the main problem for me in... most, if not all Jersey Jack Pinball games, aside from maybe too much multiball sometimes, count me in.”

    Jason @ flipper board discussion — Direct endorsement of the $399 retrofit as solving JJP's primary design flaw

  • “The game has greatly improved just with that change. Very approachable game but has reasonably deep rules. I keep finding new minor modes.”

    Andrew (Patreon) @ Willy Wonka feedback — Credible player feedback on tangible flipper board impact on playability and enjoyment

  • “I just want to buy it from the company, and just plug it in the way it's intended... I'm an overthinker, but certain things I just don't foray into tinkering.”

    Jason @ flipper board discussion — Reflects philosophy of non-modding-focused consumers and desire for plug-and-play aftermarket solutions

  • “I'm here to play a game. As long as it doesn't look like Poxies or adhesive, I'm in. $11,500 for the standard or jump up to $13,750 for the collector's edition, not even a second hesitation I would get the standard edition.”

    Jason @ Princess Bride trim analysis — Clear prioritization of gameplay over cosmetics; dismissal of collector tier premiums in Multimorphic's strategy

  • “The standard edition is nice and simple. It's like the Jaws like, eh, okay. Yeah, looks great... you're not getting gameplay or playfield differences full stop.”

    Jason @ Princess Bride value analysis — Explicitly contrasts Multimorphic's cosmetic-only tiers with Stern/JJP's gameplay differences across editions

  • “I'm close to thinking that it's my... it's easily my favorite... four pieces of a pepperoni pizza. Not quite stuffed but close.”

Entities

Jersey Jack PinballcompanyMultimorphic PinballcompanyStern PinballcompanyChicago Gaming CompanycompanyPrincess BridegameMetallicagameJohn WickgamePokémongame

Signals

  • ?

    product_concern: Jersey Jack Pinball's older games (The Hobbit, Dialed In, The Pirates, Willy Wonka) suffered from mushy/sluggish flipper feel that negatively impacted gameplay experience; new $399 aftermarket flipper board retrofit has resolved the issue

    high · Multiple community confirmations (Andrew, William) plus Jason's direct observation; issue widely acknowledged as 'problem that has been resolved'

  • ?

    product_launch: Jersey Jack Pinball has released and is selling a new flipper board retrofit for $399 USD, compatible with Dialed In, The Hobbit, and The Pirates

    high · Jason cites specific pricing and available titles; product availability confirmed

  • ?

    announcement: Multimorphic Pinball has officially announced Princess Bride pinball machine with three trim levels and full backbox video implementation

    high · Jason reviews official marketing video and pricing; describes detailed spec differences between Standard/Limited/Collector's editions

  • $

    market_signal: Multimorphic Princess Bride pricing strategy relies heavily on cosmetic differentiation between trim levels (art, toppers, translites) rather than gameplay/playfield differences, contrasting with Stern/JJP model

    high · Jason explicitly notes 'any more money you're spending on a trim level, you're not getting gameplay or playfield differences full stop' after detailed comparison

  • ?

    code_update: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory has been running the same beta code since 2022 without final production version release

    high · Direct Patreon feedback from Andrew: 'What I don't like been using the same beta code since 2022. Jersey Jack Pinball needs to release final production version.'

Topics

Jersey Jack Pinball flipper board retrofitprimaryControl responsiveness and game enjoymentprimaryMultimorphic Princess Bride announcement and pricing strategyprimaryCosmetic vs gameplay trim level differentiation (Multimorphic vs Stern/JJP)primaryRumored Stern games pipeline (Metallica, John Wick, Pokémon, X-Men 97)primaryVideo/backbox implementation in modern pinballsecondaryChicago Gaming Company remake quality concernssecondarySpike 3 platform adoptionmentioned

Sentiment

positive(0.72)— Jason is enthusiastic about JJP's flipper board solution and Multimorphic's Princess Bride announcement (despite criticisms of cosmetic-only tier differences). He expresses frustration with control issues in Chicago Gaming remakes and uncertainty about rumored Stern titles. Overall tone is constructive and engaged with the community, though with critical edge on pricing/marketing strategies. Pessimism about actually playing certain machines (access/distance barriers) temperers enthusiasm.

Transcript

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This week on Pinball Party, let's talk about the Jersey Jack new flipper feel, the Princess Bride announcement from Multimorphic Pinball, a little bit about Jaws, and the four upcoming rumored games from Stern Pinball Metallica, John Wick, Pokemon, X-men 97. Let's go. Figure it out. What's the deal with airplane peanuts? Welcome to the Pinball Party Podcast. This is Jason. Let's talk about pinball. I mentioned a couple weeks ago or questioned what is the deal with airplane peanuts. No, the flipper boards in JJP games. How do they feel? What do they like? Feedback me. For those unaware, classic Jersey Jack Pinball games, according to a lot of people and myself, have the flipper power is leaves some to be desired. A little mushy, not super powerful, not snappy as some might say. And then with Godfather and in turn, Elton I'm John. That problem has been resolved, apparently. I've played Godfather. I have yet to play Elton John, but I very much want to. I can say from experience with the new flipper board design, whatever it may be, that they feel much better where you're not thinking about it as an issue. So, that I think is the most important point of all of these things. Controls in games. Video games very much as well. Pinball of course what we're talking about here but if the control to the game you're playing is of non-issue then you can play the game and you're not thinking about it. That's what makes it great. You know, fantastic basketball player or football player or basketball player when you're to the point where you just don't have to really Justin I had that as a barrier to myself, especially Hobbit where I love the theme. The cinematics are fantastic. All of it. Jersey Jack. Great. But when it starts to just feel like this, this doesn't even control right. I can't even do the things I want to do or it just feels sluggish. Similar to the first couple Chicago remakes, Chicago Gaming Company remakes. I felt there was a little bit of a lag in the flipper and not even like there is. Attack from Mars, Medieval Madness specifically. You can really notice a difference in the flipper feel where they don't even feel like the original game. It feels like, you know, an emulated, because they are, game. For those playing Super Mario Brothers 3 on original hardware on a CRT tube television, it feels snappy as intended. You're not thinking about it. It just feels great. You go back and play that same game on like the NES classic which is an emulated box with HDMI with a really tiny controller cord length for like squirrels or something. It's like a foot long. Whatever. You can feel it. Mario doesn't feel that great. Ninja Gaiden does not feel that great. That game needs precise controls. One of the reasons why sterns are lauded as some of the best out there, aside from that they are, one of the Okay, so here we are. Godfather feels great. Elton John from everyone who says everything about it feels great. So they say Jersey jack say let's give let's fix this fix this for everyone let's make it available and I owe board for everyone to fix for lack of a better phrase their old games or bring them up to snuff control wise. You can buy this on the Jersey I'm looking at the, I think this is specifically for the Dialed In, The Hobbit and The Pirates, $399 US dollars, $400 for this board. For me, if it's, if it really solves that, the price is, who cares? I mean, I care to a certain extent, but $400 to, $400 to fix the main problem for me in most, if not all Jersey Jack games, aside from maybe too much multiball sometimes, count me in. So I asked for some feedback because I have now This Week in Pinball, Game of Thrones통령. Terms of discussion are as follows. 1. I do not own any Jersey Jack games. 2. The local ones are not going to be like, yeah, sure, gut our machine and put in this aftermarket board, dude, just some random guy. So, you know, I posted a question on Patreon, patreon.com slash pinball party. If you want to hear some deep dives, we did a, as a side note, you know, we did Jurassic Park and Deadpool and we got turtles coming up. People are loving it. I'm loving it. Hey, guys. It's great time. We go deep dive into games specifically and we talk about the history, our reviews of it, ratings, the reception. It's awesome. It's awesome stuff. But sign up to Pinball Party Patreon for access to that. But I posted a question in there asking about what games people have been playing recently, what they like about it, what they wish is better, really just for the sake of conversation. But that IO board conversation came up. Andrew mentioned that what he recently had been playing was and I'll quote here, Wonka with the new IO board. The game has greatly improved just with that change. Very approachable game but has reasonably deep rules. I keep finding new minor modes. Backbox on a backbox animations are fantastic. What I don't like been using the same beta code since 2022. JJP needs to release final production version. Some modes can get repetitive. So that was in context of aside from asking for the Board feedback on the flipper. The IO board is for the flippers. What did you like and not like about the recently game you played? So there's a little more information in there. But he has said it has greatly improved with just that change. So there's a noticeable difference. I would take that as. Someone else mentioned, William, Dialed in, I just put the new IO board in and the flippers have real snap now. So that's what I like about it. Wish it was better. Wish I could find a better topper for it. Although the one I got from Mezzle Mod is perfectly fine. So another, well, I got two for two for people feedback, at least for my little sample size, which is, I wasn't trying to search out there. There's plenty on pin side, but the feedback on this, I haven't read a lot on it. I shouldn't say that I have, but when I looked on pin side for the feedback on the IO board, there's a mix of a couple of people saying it's great. And then a bunch of people like, oh, I can do it better. I can do it like this and the resistors and I'll change this board. And it just gets into this modding community. More power to you. I'm just, for this type of thing, I just want to buy it from the company, and just plug it in the way it's intended. You probably could mod it to be identical. And that's, that's fine. That's just not my cup of tea. I'm a tinker, but certain things I just don't, um, foray into tinkering and this is one of them. So, two for two. The IO slash flipper board to improve Jersey Jack Pinball feel on the flippers to make Senn movie I'm leveling the playfield pun whenever awesome can't wait to try it can't wait to try fucking Elton John god damn it I just want to play the game without driving three hours to do it so if any of you fantastic listeners want to just toss a Elton John in the mail I will not pay for it or shipping that is about the only choice I have right now until I make it to Minneapolis and I've been I've been busy I'll get there While JerseyJack may be the king of new and improved flipperFeel and second-to-none game quality from a spectacle standpoint and theme standpoint. Wink wink coming up. Save your money for a JerseyJack pinball game. Save your money. There's another theme that just got announced by Multimorphic Pinball, The Princess Bride, about a farm boy and a guy with many fingers. From what I'm told. Many fingers and a farm boy. So, uh, okay that could uh, that could be a very different game. If it was the pinball party version of farm boy and a multi-fingered man, it'd be a very different setting. Um, it'd be gross. It'd be frankly just fucking disgusting. But I'd play it. Princess Bride by Multimorphic Pinball. I am a fan of the movie. I remember watching it as a child and when did it come out? Princess Bride release date. You like this? You like staying here for typing on a computer? October 7th. Nope, October 9th, 1987. So I was five years old. I remember seeing it. It's an earlier memory. I would, I would say seven. I remember seeing it at a friend's house and that age you, you're not picking up on all. I'm not sure if it holds up if you've never seen it. There a lot of people who are more into it but it akin to like the labyrinth Less less uh I think device is not the word Like labyrinth isn like a divisive like it woke divisive It just like you know it a little Princess Bride it being old and corny and cheesy fits it very well So the theme is great For a pinball machine is the theme great I don know We see what happens with sales It kind of came out of left field to me of someone wanting to make a game on Princess Bride but I guess it fits If I am if our age is the Target market, uh, forty-one. We have the nostalgia for the stuff, pinball, and the money to buy it. I guess it fits. I have wanted a multi-morphic machine for a long time because it fits my habits of pinball very well where I like to dig into a game, play the snot out of it, and trade it, sell it, move it on quickly. And this I don't have one. I haven't played one. They're tough to deal with on the secondary market because of all those reasons, because they're interchangeable, because sometimes you want to sell it or buy it as a package and you just want, you know, it's strange. I have not had the chance to play it. I've heard going back to the flipper field that sometimes people do not like the flipper field. I can't comment on that. I want a reason to play this. Weird Al Yankovic was There's a lot of stuff that I'm not really interested in. I mean, I'm not the theme to really get me to pay attention. Final Resistance probably more so, but really some of the smaller games actually are what do it on that system, Multimorphic P3. Princess Bride though, it is a feel good like a pepperoni pizza, like four slices of a pepperoni pizza where you're like all right, I shouldn't eat more. I will. Thanx for watching. Oh, that is atrocious. Princess Bride announced by Multimorphic looks great from a visual standpoint. The backbox the backbox I think on the standard edition they all look great, you know. The standard edition is nice and simple. It's like the jaws like, eh, okay. Yeah, looks great. Three editions. Standard, limited and collectors. The standard edition is well, there's two prices cause it's either just the module If it's the whole kit and caboodle, it's $11,500 for the standard, $12,750 for the limited edition, and add another $1000 so that it's $13,750 for the collector's edition. $13,750. Hmm. I don't know historically for standard versus limited or difference in multi morphic machines what you really get like in the stern you will get actual gameplay differences which you really have to pay attention to. JJP, same. So, Multimorphic, from everything I'm seeing, any more money you're spending on a trim level, you're not getting gameplay or playfield differences full stop. There's not new ramps. There's not new modes. There's not new anything. So it's all art. So to name a few. They have an awesome matrix of the differences. You can go look online of what they are and just starting at, you know, the limited and collective editions. What are the differences that the standard does not have, let's say. Limited edition artwork. Okay. Fire swamp topper. Okay. Cosmetic. Cosmetic. Translite Yep, cosmetic Powder-coated, cosmetic decorative cabinets, mounted swords, cosmetic I'm going to collector's edition at this point LCD framing black ass Black ass Custom LCD framing black ass Okay, cosmetic, custom launch button, cosmetic, numbered plaque, numbered plaque, cosmetic, signed certificate of authenticity, cosmetic, printed limited edition translite, cosmetic, Okay, if I was to buy this game, which I would like to buy every game, so that aside, $11,500 for the standard or jump up to $13,750 for the collector's edition, not even a second hesitation I would get the standard edition. There's nothing, cosmetic, I'm here to play a game. As long as it doesn't look like poop, I'm in. Doesn't look like poop, looks great, let's play it. I'll never be able to play it. Will I be able to play this game? Place your bets. Email in at pinballpartypodcast.com. Will I ever actually play this game? I hope. That's the price for the full game. The limited edition is limited to 750 games and the collectors to 500. In my head what I wanted to say there is good luck selling those. I don't know the business but doing the deep dives, again on patreon.com, Thanks so much for watching. Hope you guys enjoyed, see ya next week! I don't have any limitation but so if the price for the full game is eleven and a half twelve point seven thirteen point seven in ascending order the actual module the game kit only for the standard edition is three thousand seven hundred fifty dollars and the game only of the limited is five thousand it's a big jump I guess it's literally the same jump okay I what I guess the why is the module more expensive if there's no game This Week in Pinball, Game of Thronesviously, Black Water, Kaneda's Pinball Podcast, Twippies Awards, translite thumbnaartwork panel in backbox that is backlit during play noss I'm a fan of the game and strip down as much as possible because I just want to uncertain things so for this I mean standard and good job I like the marketing it's simple it's straightforward it's very clear to what you're getting the video was very well done and that's not even talking about the actual game so let's take a look at it well I'll take a look at it and you can listen to me taking a look at it Princess Buttercup! The ramps really look awesome. I love ramps that have art on them. Like Star Wars Pro? That's something I like a lot more about the Pro than the Premium is that there's actual art on the ramps. The waterfall with the magnet ball going up it. Fantastic. In the right hand side. Go take a look at this on YouTube if you want to see it. It'll show the standard, the limited, This Week in Pinball Podcast, Termsdisciplinary In some awesome gameplay with a woman who is severely happy to be playing the princess bride, the pinball machine. The video on the screen never ceases to impress me. It just seems like the way pinball should be moving. I'm so surprised that not more people have done this aside from little screens here or there. And here she steps up. Huge smile on her face. I'll punish my horse's saddle. Farm boy. As you wish. As you wish. The cliffs of insanity! The cliffs of insanity, yeah, the sound of waterfall, sorry excuse me. It's when they're climbing up the ropes slowly and slowly. Yeah, uh, he's skating on us. God, this movie is ridiculous. And the way that the chapter pages open up on the screen. It's awesome. And when they're dueling, she's putting a hand behind her back to simulate the part in the movie where farm boy dressed in Zorro gear, she's so happy, is fighting with one arm. Maybe one of the flippers disables itself for once. Three mini wizard modes, one final wizard mode. Got a couple ramps, spinner on the right. Unbelieveable! Man, just the production value of this commercial It is really well done Makes me feel good to watch it again like four pieces of a pepperoni pizza Not quite stuffed but close and that's how I feel about this game I'm close to thinking that it's my it's easily my favorite Here at fingersromagnetthen you thought there was a shot in ville but well that was just WPPRarnt Card chuck out theianeo western tutorial.wim impaired е!, NeededC 확인 chase certified via Vape, n Hejæv神 cigunpun sek Chili 63j cumin , Mustafa ALWYSI, k沒 Об 있�ningar , Ch grade nei, hen markersă matteri, S peanutsE', stont Cre e 43 Turu controvers And they just start all right here the the bomb crew we gonna fucking complain about Jaws how it doesn have a swallowing all that stuff Every game I don know whoever raised these kids shame on you What did you do Did you not ever like look at a book or think or see like idiots walking about and say I try to not raise that type of person Well you fucked up and you did Cause now, they're on Pinside complaining about bill of materials and what games should call it. Ah, yeah, hey, hmm. I'm gonna have an aneurysm thinking about these people. Ehh. And I'd like to just get back to thinking about Princess Bride and how satisfied I feel thinking about that game. I wanna play that game. Again, more than any multi-morphic to this day. Ah, except for that dungeon, that dungeon roguelike, uh, ah, I forget what it's called. Ah, dammit. Someone always reminds Me. Anyway, Multimorphic. Find it at a Toys R Us near you. I still haven't played Jaws. Yeah. I've been meaning to. I haven't played it. I think a lot of you out there have played it. I'm still just, uh, eh. I'm not really, uh, eh. You know, I'm not really feeling it. I don't feel the strong drive to go find it. I'm not reading about from afar on my internet stoop, my throne of intelligence over here with my keyboard of yes, I shall hack into the web, Google something and come away with knowledge and I shall judge upon the that from which I have read. I'm not feeling anything from it still. Not to say it's bad, but it could show up and be like, well, I am, you know, now I'm sold. I am a Jaws lover. I'm not there yet. I haven't even played it. I don't know. Whatever. Yeah, that's what I'm hearing as well, is kind of what I'm saying. I mean, yeah, if I got the game for free and it's in the house, I'd go, oh yeah, it's fucking great. I don't have to pay shit for it. It's fun as hell. I can't wait to play it. But I do have one on order. Yeah. I do have a Jaws on order. And do you know where I'm getting it from? Flamin' Out Pinball! I don't even have to re-record it. I'll just take a long. Flip N Out Pinball. Flip. You know sometimes the audio gate catches the F. That's what that's from. I do know how to use the F in the English. language. Flip pin out pinball where you can buy Stern, JJP, Spooky, American Pinball, American Pinball? Maybe, maybe not. Yeah. Multimorphic though. I don't think a dealer, but hey, you should be. Man, I want to buy it. If I was to buy it, that's where I'd buy it. Otherwise, you know, if you don't sell it, I'm not going to buy it. And that is a pinball party guarantee. It's not, it's not a guarantee. Flip it out pinball though. If you want good customer service, humans that aren't dog shit to work with, great and if you'd like to trade in games, I don't know many other dealers who are really doing this. Yeah, man. Trade in your games to Zach at Flippin Out Pinball. Get some money for your games without having to deal with a secondary market psychopath such as myself and get yourself a brand new game or heck some accessories. I have a Jurassic Park Amber Shooter Rod accessory unopened that is not for sale. What's up, everybody? I'm here with my first ever Pinball that I bought from Flipping Out Pinball when I buy, buy, buy, buy from Flipping Out Pinball. Toppers are our place, premiums, I got it figured out. Because I had a Jurassic Park and I had to sell it because it got laid off, and it's just sitting there. So the only pinball stuff I have right now are some armor, some Stern armor teardrop that I was going to get powder coated. It's just sitting there. And Amber Shooter Rod for Jurassic Park that I do not own. Eh? What a fucking life. I'm living the high life over here with an accessory I bought from Flip N Out Pinball and no pinball machine, but do yourself a favor and shop at Flappin' Bird Pinball. Hopefully Flappin' Bird Pinball will carry the finest rumored games from Stern. I would like to discuss those rumored games in no particular order. Metallica, John Wick, Pokemon, X-Men 97. Alright, do I know if one of these is for sure legit? Ah, maybe a couple. Ah? Ah, shit. Maybe not. I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. Hmm. Hmm. What not to say. Hmm. Is one of these Nintendo related? Okay, sure. Did Stern reply to something on Instagram about using Wii background music in some of their marketing materials, which is Nintendo? With a thumbs up. Ah, maybe. Yeah, they did. I don't know. Was there rumors that someone's working on a Nintendo game? I'm a fan of the Nintendo game. Yeah, strong fucking rumors, alright? So, Nintendo game, yes, coming. Is it Pokemon? Is it Mario? I don't know. I don't know. Pokemon. I wish... Man, I... It's gonna sound like hotcakes. I wish I liked Pokemon. I don't dislike Pokemon. I was... I missed the Pokemon boat by like... a very slim sliver of years. I think only by like six months or some shit. Because I have a lot of friends that like Pokemon. 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So I have an affinity to martial arts. I took it very seriously for a decade. I taught it for a while. I have a strong affinity for martial arts. I guess I'll just keep saying that. So John Wick, that part of it is cool. But I'm not a huge action movie fan for the sake of action movies. My mind needs to be stimulated a little more. So John Wick, I can definitely tell objectively that the popularity exists. Will it work in a pinball machine? I don't know. This one has a potential because the theme doesn't really matter to me much. It could be like a Black Knight Sword of Rage where it comes in and just like smokes everything. Like this game is fucking shit because I don't really have a, you know, the theme isn't really weighing heavily on me. It's probably like, yeah, kill people. Kill a lot of people. Okay. If it's a rethemed Walking Dead with John Wick, buying it, day one. I mean, kill people instead of zombies for, you know, counting the number of zombies or people you want to, you know, I trying to relay that if you know the code of Walking Dead this kind of plugs right in And yeah ooh ooh goddamn more I thinking about it Hmm and then the hotel for the prison Hmm yeah and there was a rumor that that game was gonna be redone Um, okay. Alright, maybe John Wick and Pokemon are tied for number three if it's like, A, if that's the, uh, if they're re-theming, fuck me, if they're re-theming Walking Dead with John Wick, it's one or two. Let's assume it's not that it'd be number four based on theme and like I really don't have much more on John wick I tried to watch even John wick for the other day. I've watched the first three over time and I'm just like I get even more martial arts and in that which is cool But I don't I haven't finished it cuz like yeah so that leaves metallica and x-men 97 if If Metallica was just a remake of the original on Spike3, it would be number one. The same layout, same everything, but just maybe, you don't have to tweak much code, maybe just add a little more to it. I'm not even sure adding is the right word. Tweak it a little bit, but not the main collectathon because I actually like that. Yes, it's chopping wood, but not every game should be everything to everyone. It should be what it is. In fact, it is. Add stereo. Obviously, if it's Spike 3 there's gonna be stereo music which the original did not have. Add clips of concert footage. Sure. Again, backbox screen, don't care. I'm never looking at it. I look at it once or twice, don't care. Give me the information I need. Otherwise, I don't care. It could be a black screen with just white text. Great. If you give me all the information, don't care about movie clips, don't care about animation, it's cool. Don't get me wrong but eh. Going back to Pokemon or if they do Nintendo stuff, why don't you just put a D-pad on the pinball machine so when you have a video mode, it's fucking Mario 1. Eh. Or Pokemon. Just make, put the video game in the pinball machine. Thank you and you're welcome or all that. So if Metallica is that, which it's rumored to not be, if it is just a remake that is spiced up, it's probably my most exciting list on this list of four. I've heard consistently, consistently that it is not a one-to-one remake, but Spike 3. I have heard Spike 3, yes. Have I heard Summer this year? Eh, sure. Maybe. But redone or remade or like kind of just a new Metallica. What is it? Metallica Reload, right? Maybe. Doesn't excite me as much. I like Metallica. They're, yeah, they're great. I like Metallica. I'm a fan of pinball. I've played it a lot, especially at the gym. I've talked about that before. But some of the things that make Metallica such a great game for me, the theme was not it. It was the game, the art and the game. The game was awesome. Yeah, it can get old chopping wood, collect 50 of these things. Sure, sure, sure. I get all the negatives. But the positives far outweigh the negatives. So if we're taking one of the most popular pinball machines and assuming it was just To paralysis is now sealed, but will Subtitles by the Amara.org community So, that's the list of the most popular cartoons in the world. Number one would be X-men 97. X-men 97 was a cartoon that a lot of us liked. I liked it quite a bit. It was not up there with like Turtles and He-man for me, which were my main two and a lot of us main two. Speaking of TMNT, we're going to be talking about TMNT on Deep Dive Pinball Party slash Patreon if you want to check that out. Go sign up! X-men 97, though. Dinalinalinana, dinalinalinana. I mean, come on. It was great. Every time it was on, I watched it. It's how I learned about the X-men, aside from just seeing pictures of it. It's crazy how much they focused on Gambit, though, on that show, or comparatively to what going forward Gambit was just, got the shaft, the ass shaft. Lot of Rogue and Gambit on there. X-men, great. It lends itself severely well to a pinball machine, 97 I should say. The previous X-Men game was great. I like the pro and the, what's it called? Yeah, Ellie, the Wolverine and the Magneto. Great game. The left, it's like a reverse Tron or a reverse Walking Dead in a way. You've played it, you know what it is. If not, check it out. It's a good game. It's a really good game. It holds up pretty well. That's cool, villain modes cool. Hero modes, the scoop falling into the scoop a little easy. I'm not a huge fan of that. And Wolverine, the sculpt a lot of people can't believe who cares. It's fun. It's fun game. xmen97 I hope is not just a rethemed of that because there's a couple things in that game specifically what I just mentioned the ball auto falling into that scoop a lot. Or actually it's the onlylave at pinealอก.com It'd be cool to play a little clips of the show on that screen. Yeah, now I can't walk back my fullstatement, that's why I was kinda slow there, in my head. Most games I really don't care about the back of the screen. Cartoons, hmm, and video games, ha, leave that screen. It'd be cool to see some clips in between modes, skippable please, all of them, please, everything be skippable. THE END OF THE NINTH NINEER THAT FOR MEN GETTING A CHANCE TO TEACH YOU TO BELIEVE THERE GONNA BE NO OLDigung MINUM FOR DECLINE NICE AND ALWAYS IING BECAUSE THERE IS SOMETHING THAT Tea, back części packs video, Walking Peldes Autob, Lond痛 Thanks for listening. Thanks for hangingout. Here's a song I wrote called Another Day. I'll see you guys another day. This Week in Pinball, Game of Thrones ͡itlam案강의 아� tiếizard다 돈 � carrot, 충봉하다 개까지 보송. It's just another day. It's just another day. Stole all your thunder, stole all your joy N Out Pinball assist anniversary deviations in MarchOFFcado, helt i It's just another day. It's just another day. The end. Thank you for watching. I hope you enjoyed this video. I'll see you in the next one. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.

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Jason @ Princess Bride video review — Expresses genuine enthusiasm for the Princess Bride announcement despite aesthetic reservations

  • “If Metallica is that, which it's rumored not to be, if it is just a remake that is spiced up, it's probably my most exciting list on this list of four.”

    Jason @ Metallica rumor discussion — Establishes that gameplay-focused remakes are more appealing than new original IP in his hierarchy

  • “The video on the screen never ceases to impress me. It just seems like the way pinball should be moving. I'm so surprised that not more people have done this aside from little screens here or there.”

    Jason @ Princess Bride video review — Praises Multimorphic's full-backbox video implementation as industry standard others should adopt

  • “X-Men 97 I hope is not just a rethemed of that because there's a couple things in that game specifically... the ball auto falling into that scoop a lot.”

    Jason @ X-Men 97 speculation — Warns against lazy reskins; criticizes auto-ball-save mechanics in existing X-Men game

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    product_concern: Chicago Gaming Company's early remakes (Attack from Mars, Medieval Madness) exhibited noticeable flipper lag and control responsiveness issues compared to original games, likened to emulation lag on NES Classic vs original hardware

    medium · Jason: 'You can really notice a difference in the flipper feel where they don't even feel like the original game. It feels like an emulated game.'

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    rumor_hype: Four Stern games rumored in pipeline: Metallica (on Spike 3, reportedly not one-to-one remake), John Wick, Pokémon, X-Men 97

    medium · Jason treats as industry speculation ('rumored games') without official confirmation; frames Metallica specifically as 'I have heard consistently, consistently that it is not a one-to-one remake'

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    design_philosophy: Jason prioritizes gameplay mechanics and control feel over cosmetic differentiation; explicitly states preference for standard trim editions when higher tiers offer only art/toppers rather than gameplay changes

    high · Repeated across JJP flipper board discussion and Princess Bride analysis: '$11,500 for the standard... not even a second hesitation I would get the standard edition'

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    design_innovation: Multimorphic's full backbox video integration in Princess Bride is praised as exemplary of modern pinball design; Jason notes surprise at lack of adoption industry-wide

    high · Jason: 'The video on the screen never ceases to impress me. It just seems like the way pinball should be moving. I'm so surprised that not more people have done this.'

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    collector_signal: Jason expresses doubt about commercial viability of Multimorphic's limited (750 units) and collector's (500 units) editions at high price points ($12,750–$13,750)

    medium · Jason: 'In my head what I wanted to say there is good luck selling those. I don't know the business...'

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    sentiment_shift: Jason expresses frustration with geographic barriers to playing announced games; desire for local/route availability reflects collector community tension with limited access

    medium · Jason: 'I just want to play the game without driving three hours to do it' and 'Will I ever actually play this game? Place your bets.'

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    gameplay_signal: Jason criticizes excessive video/animation in modern pinball backboxes, advocating for skippable clips and gameplay-focused design over cinematic presentation

    medium · Jason: 'Most the games I really don't care about the back of the screen... It'd be cool to see some clips in between modes, skippable please, all of them, please.'