Pinball Omnibus: Episode 7

Cary Hardy·video·14m 2s·analyzed·Aug 17, 2021

Analysis

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TL;DR

Pinball Omnibus Ep7: Ferris Bueller reveal, Ritchie at JJP, Chicago Gaming rumors, Deep Root furloughs

Summary

Cary Hardy reviews recent pinball industry news including Haggis Pinball's factory tour and transparency on supply chain issues, announces the surprise reveal of Ferris Bueller's Day Off pinball machine with notable creative team (Brian Soares, Revy Hardy), discusses Steve Ritchie's recent hire at Jersey Jack Pinball, reports rumors of Chicago Gaming Company manufacturing both a Cactus Canyon remake and Mark Ritchie's Pulp Fiction game, and mentions Deep Root Pinball employee furloughs in July with leaked information emerging.

Key Claims

Haggis Pinball released a full factory tour explaining delays and supply chain issues due to COVID
high confidence · Damien from Haggis Pinball posted factory tour on YouTube channel with explanations for delays
Ferris Bueller's Day Off pinball machine has been built and officially revealed
high confidence · This Week in Pinball posted announcement with pictures and interviews; engineered by Brian Soares, digital art by Revy Hardy (wife of WWE star Matt Hardy)
Steve Ritchie started at Jersey Jack Pinball two weeks prior to this episode's recording
high confidence · Hardy confirmed Ritchie started on the 2nd; referenced Jersey Jack Pinball welcome video
Mark Ritchie is designing Pulp Fiction pinball but not for Chicago Gaming Company; Chicago Gaming is rumored to be manufacturing it
medium confidence · Hardy states this is a rumor; expects announcement from Ritchie's actual employer before Chicago Expo
Chicago Gaming Company is rumored to manufacture both Cactus Canyon remake and Pulp Fiction
medium confidence · Hardy presents both as rumors with expectation of seeing them at upcoming Expo
Texas Pinball Festival hotel rooms (Embassy) sold out within minutes
high confidence · Hardy reports this occurred and notes disappointment from attendees unable to secure rooms
Two Deep Root Pinball employees contacted Hardy claiming they were put on furlough in mid-July
medium confidence · Hardy reports being contacted by two separate individuals claiming same furlough date
Guns N' Roses pinball includes an added washer to address the most common playfield defect
high confidence · Hardy observed this on the machine he played

Notable Quotes

“this is one good thing, is that you have a small pinball company that has put out machines that's giving you visual and verbal updates opposed to the other guys known as Deep Root, giving us nothing but excuses and that's it”
Cary Hardy@ 1:12 — Direct criticism of Deep Root's communication vs. Haggis Pinball's transparency; foreshadows later revelation of furloughs
“Pinball is in our blood, right? Pinball is the basis of life. Pinball is my life.”
Unnamed Jersey Jack representative in welcome video@ 5:21 — Hardy describes this segment as 'cringeworthy'; part of repeated affirmations in the video he criticizes
“with Quentin Tarantino, there's definitely going to be something different about this machine. He has a way of having the way he wants things to be. So that could be good. That could be bad. That is yet to be seen. But if I was a betting man, I would tell you that to lower your expectations”
Cary Hardy@ 7:49 — Predicts challenging creative control dynamics on Tarantino-licensed game; warns against high expectations
“I will tell you that Guns N' Roses is probably, without a doubt, the most beautiful machine I have ever seen”
Cary Hardy@ 11:25 — High praise for aesthetic design of Guns N' Roses pinball
“The leaks are coming and I can only tell you that more than likely they will continue to come especially if they are still on furlough”
Cary Hardy@ 12:21 — Predicts continued insider leaks from Deep Root due to employee furloughs; suggests loss of company loyalty

Entities

Cary Hardyperson Haggis PinballcompanyDamienpersonFerris Bueller's Day OffgameBrian SoarespersonRevy HardypersonMatt Hardyperson This Week in Pinballorganization Steve Ritchie

Signals

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business_signal: Deep Root Pinball experiencing employee furloughs; at least two employees claimed mid-July furlough dates to Cary Hardy
medium · Hardy reports being contacted by two separate individuals claiming Deep Root furlough; predicts continued leaks due to lack of employee loyalty during financial hardship
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sentiment_shift: Audience preference poll between Spooky Pinball Halloween and Ultraman games (n=325): Ultraman 55% vs. Halloween 45%; Hardy notes audio issues with Ultraman being addressed in future updates
high · Hardy presents poll results with 325 votes; confirms developers aware of audio annoyances and planning fixes
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community_signal: Haggis Pinball demonstrating strong community communication with factory tour and transparent explanations of supply chain/COVID delays
high · Hardy praises Haggis for 'visual and verbal updates' and contrasts favorably with Deep Root's lack of communication; calls Haggis approach 'one good thing'
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design_philosophy: Ferris Bueller's Day Off praised as exemplary 'world under glass' implementation with numerous Easter eggs and thematic details for 1980s nostalgia audience
high · Hardy describes machine as 'prime example' of manufacturer bringing 'full world and little everything' to movie adaptation; notes appeal to 1980s nostalgia demographic
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event_signal: Texas Pinball Festival hotel reservations (Embassy location) sold out within minutes; attendees unable to secure on-site accommodations
high · Hardy reports rooms 'sold out within mere minutes'; confirms he secured room in time but many disappointed; notes other nearby hotels may have availability

Topics

Haggis Pinball factory transparency and COVID supply chain issuesprimaryFerris Bueller's Day Off pinball announcement and creative teamprimarySteve Ritchie hire at Jersey Jack PinballprimaryMark Ritchie Pulp Fiction game and Chicago Gaming manufacturing rumorsprimaryDeep Root Pinball employee furloughs and insider leaksprimarySpooky Pinball Halloween vs. Ultraman audience preference pollsecondaryTexas Pinball Festival hotel room selloutsecondaryGuns N' Roses aesthetic design and playfield defect mitigationsecondary

Sentiment

mixed(0.55)— Hardy is enthusiastic about new game reveals (Ferris Bueller, Guns N' Roses) and appreciates transparency (Haggis), but critical of Deep Root's communication failures, Jersey Jack's cringeworthy welcome video, and cautious/skeptical about Pulp Fiction's Tarantino involvement. Overall tone is constructively critical with appreciation for quality machines and honest communication.

Transcript

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That's not good. Something tells me that's the beginning of something bad. What's up guys and welcome back to my channel where I talk and do everything pinball. So if If that sounds interesting to you, then hit that subscribe button down below. Welcome to Pinball Omnibus Episode 7, where I talk about a lot of things going on in this hobby in just a short amount of time. So let's get started. I've got news and I've got some rumors, guys. Some of these may be true, but I have to say that they are rumors for a reason. So let's just start out with some Haggis news. So Damien from Haggis Pinball has given us a full-blown factory tour. The video is available on their YouTube channel. I'll put a link in the description down below. He gives you an entire tour of all the machinery that they use whenever it comes to crafting their machines, as well as giving you reasons behind all the delays and the supply chain issues that they're having due to the COVID situation. So this is one good thing, is that you have a small pinball company that has put out machines that's giving you visual and verbal updates opposed to the other guys known as Deep Root, giving us nothing but excuses and that's it. So we have a new machine that has been built and that is Ferris Bueller's Day Off. So this was unexpected. This is something that I honestly had no information about. This caught me by surprise. So obviously when seeing Twip or This Week in Pinball post this today I was like whoa that was not expecting this. So I will put a link down in description below this goes for a complete interview and pictures and stuff like that i will show the pictures throughout this section but i just wanted to let you guys know that this looks pretty cool and when it comes to crafting a world under glass this is that prime example this is what i feel like when it comes to a manufacturer taking a particular license and bringing that full world and little everything that John Youssi. There's so many little things for those of us out there that have watched this movie quite often. It's an 80s theme, so I think my audience, I think primarily a chunk of you, are within the age group where I'm at. So this is right up our alley when it comes to 80s nostalgia, and there's a lot of little things here where I'm just like that is cool I would not have thought of something like that to even implement if I had the money so I'm glad that obviously other people are doing this besides me so some things to note when it comes to this the engineer on this was Brian Soares the digital artist was Revy Hardy now Revy Hardy is the wife of Matt Hardy the WWE star and I keep forgetting but she was also a WWE star as well it's been a few years for her I want to say but for those of you that are curious there is no relation between Matt or his wife Rebecca so you telling me there a chance my only gripe when it comes to the aesthetics with this machine is right here get you a black marker and you can fill that in and it will look a lot better It a curse guys I don look for these things But when I'm just scrolling through pictures my eyes immediately fixate on little things like that. I hate it. Like I said there's plenty more information about this game as well as interviews with the creators for it. It is on This Week in Pinball's website. Link will be down below. I know I'm late to the punch on letting you guys know this, but I did at least inform you of the rumor that was Steve Ritchie going to Jersey Jack Pinball. It has since then been a week or two, actually. Actually, no, yeah, since he started on the 2nd. It has now been two weeks, actually, since he started working there. And I wanted to talk about this, but there's just been a lot of things going on. I've been busy with a bunch of other stuff. So I'm getting to it now. Now, obviously, I can't go into a lot of things about what I do know and everything like that. We'll go into a little bit more on that when it comes to the rumor section. I feel like I could easily turn this particular topic into a whole video in itself, and I think I will do that, actually, because I have many thoughts and opinions as well as things that I do know when it comes to this topic. So, maybe I'll do that, so stay tuned for that. But what I can say right now is that the video that they showed of him walking into Jersey Jack Pinball for the first time, was that cringeworthy or what? Hey, Steve, I want to introduce you to Jersey Jack Pinball. Welcome. Awesome. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm very happy to be here. You know this guy? Thank you. Welcome to Jersey Jack. Thanks a lot. So we'll have to put masks on in a minute or two, but I guess before that, maybe you want to play something before? Pinball is in our blood, right? Pinball is the basis of life. Pinball is my life. My life, too. Yes, your life, too. And his life. And his life. And his life. And his life. All of us. All of us. That's great. Look at all the trophies. Hopefully we win some more with you. Yeah. Bigger ones. Bigger ones. Okay. There you go. All right. Let's get our masks and let's go to work. All right. Everybody, our team has strengthened even more now with Steve. We're going to do a lot of great things. We are. I got a red mask. Awkward. also since we last met we had the full spooky stream with jack danger on halloween and ultraman i put up a poll on after that on which machine would people prefer whether they wanted to have halloween or ultraman and we're talking like just given to you like here's the the catch is that it's given to you so no money out of your pocket nothing like that and you can't sell it which one would you prefer to have and with 325 votes we see Ultraman at 55% whereas Halloween is at 45% that's just you know that's just people voting so there you go on that I have a video a little more in depth on how I felt about Ultraman as well as Halloween and the link will be in the description down below if you have not already seen that in a nutshell if they can tweak some of the audio issues that I had a problem with then I think they be good to go And luckily they are not done with the game They are well aware of these audio annoyances and they will be fixing them in the upcoming future. All right, so let's talk a little bit about some rumors right here. Let's go on straight to Chicago Gaming Company and their upcoming title, which is rumored to be Cactus Canyon remake. Now, rumor is we should be seeing this game pretty darn soon. And the other rumor is that we're going to see a new game by Mark Ritchie that is rumored to be Pulp Fiction. Now, when it comes to Pulp Fiction, you are well aware that the person that directed that movie is none other than Quentin Tarantino. And I can tell you this, with Quentin Tarantino, there's definitely going to be something different about this machine. He has a way of having the way he wants things to be. So that could be good. That could be bad. That is yet to be seen. But if I was a betting man, I would tell you that to lower your expectations on what you think you might see. So when it comes to the rumor titled by Mark Ritchie for Pulp Fiction, I will tell you that the rumor is you're going to be seeing this game at Chicago Expo. Yes, the designer is Mark Ritchie, but it doesn't mean Mark Ritchie is working for Chicago Gaming Company. He is not. He is working for a different company, and that company should go public with this information before Expo. Now, I know that Chicago Gaming Company has been basically in the back burner for a good while now when it comes to getting games out, but due to the fact that we've got the possibility of an upcoming Pulp Fiction, and that is not being created by Chicago Gaming Company. It's being created by somebody else, but Chicago Gaming Company is rumored to be actually manufacturing it for this particular company. So with that being said, you've got the rumored Cactus Canyon as well as the rumored Pulp Fiction that will be manufactured by Chicago Gaming Company. That means that that's going to be a busy manufacturer in the upcoming months. Quentin Tarantino is very particular and demanding when it comes to the way things are with his assets. So it wouldn't surprise me if there's going to be a lot of limitations when it comes to this particular title. So that even comes to like movie clips and stuff like that. That would be nice, but a part of me tells me that that is probably not going to happen. We will be finding out in the upcoming months. If not, we should be seeing this at Expo. expo next up is tpf or texas pinball festival open up the hotel rooms for all the reservations out there and they sold out within mere minutes i am lucky enough to have gotten my room in time but a lot of people were disappointed because they were unable to get the actual embassy where the actual convention center texas pinball festival takes place i will tell you since my first stay there for overnight and visiting for the weekend and having my machines there it is much preferable to be there so at any point if you feel like you need a nap or whatever you can easily just go on upstairs to your room and then come back downstairs and continue playing your pinball so I will say that the TPF hotel reservations have opened up and I want to say they got rooms on other hotels that are around the embassy you can always check to see if those rooms are still available Also a week or so ago I got to play a couple of games that I have not been able to yet And that is Alien and that is Guns N' Roses. Same owner, I might add. I have an Alien video in the works. I'll give you a teaser right here. so that is to come i may actually get the owner of that machine up on here i may give him an interview give him his thoughts and opinions on the game because obviously he's had more time on it than myself when it comes to guns and roses i didn't get enough time on there to give you a full-fledged video on how I feel, I will tell you that Guns N' Roses is probably, without a doubt, the most beautiful machine I have ever seen. To stand in front of it and watch the light show go is definitely something to be seen when it comes to the cosmetic beauty of it. I will also add that this particular machine had the added washer for the most common defect on the playfield, so there is that but other than that the uh visual on the on the game the just aesthetically wise the game is a marvel now i've also done a deep root video and uh there's not much more i'm going to talk about it here but i will tell you that since that video was released i have been contacted not by one but by two different individuals that allegedly work for deep root and they have given me the same exact date to tell me that they have been put on furlough or were put on furlough rather in the middle of July. The leaks are coming and I can only tell you that more than likely they will continue to come especially if they are still on furlough. I mean how much longer do you think the employees of Deep Root can really defend this company that is not paying them? And I think that's all I have for this episode of Omnibus. Another one bites the dust I guess. 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