Last name ever, first name greatest, like a sprained ankle boy, ain't nothing to play with. Sit up, sit up, sit up, sit up, sit up, sit up, sit up. Alright, can I do a podcast that's just going to drop 20 minutes of truth? That's all I'm going to do. I see all these other shows going an hour, 90 minutes. There's nothing to talk about in the pinball world right now. Well, maybe there is. Maybe someone out there is unboxing a fathom, not happening. So Kaneda's gonna give you 20 minutes of how I really feel about this pinball hobby right now. And I wanna talk about last year and going into 2022, what I'm excited about and what I'm disappointed in, and I'm not gonna hold back. Let's do a little bit of the old school Kaneda, right? Let me tell you what I really feel. I feel that if you remove Godzilla from 2021, it was probably one of the worst years in pinball for all of us when it comes to these games and these manufacturers. and putting magic under the glass. Right, remove that one game. If any of you saw the Pinball Industryindustry Awards last weekend, Zach and Greg, they did a great award show. Godzilla won everything. Godzilla's gonna win everything at the Twippies this year. But why is it when there are so many companies and so many games and so much effort and so much creativity and so many games from yesteryears Here's some of the things you're going to learn to make pinball machines come to life. We only get one game in an entire year that is noteworthy, that is winning everything? Can only Keith Elwin do this? Can nobody else make a pinball machine as magical as Keith Elwin? Ok, so let's remove Godzilla from the table. Then what else happened in 2021 that we are like wow, that was incredible. Was it Led Zeppelin? No. Was it Mandalorian? Nope. Was it all the Guns N' Roses playfield issues? Nope. Was it Spooky Pinball's two titles which you can't find anyone to buy your spot now for 50% off? Nope. And I want to address this real quick. There are people on Pin's side that are blaming me for the reason why people are not excited about these two games. When are we going to start pointing the fingers at the companies making these games, making millions of dollars, letting all of the great talent walk out of the The institution are you wondering why these games are not special because all of the people who made the other games really special are gone And this is what you get you get the b-team. Is this even the B team? Maybe it's the C team They need to learn how to make these games great and it's not Kaneda's fault I'm not the one who took your money. I'm not the one you put millions of dollars in the bank I can't even get most people to give me five dollars a month Let alone millions of dollars to make a pinball machine. So what we also had Haggis come out in 2021 I'm here to report on February 1, which they said would be on the line in July, and then they said it would be summer, and then they said it would be the winter, and now they said games would be on the line in January, and I'm here to report on February 1, not one single fathom has been built, so once again a pinball manufacturer has misled people. Oh my god, Kaneda's toxic, how can we have this podcaster? Well at least I'm behind the paywall now, so not everybody is hearing this. So it was like a dead year, but it wasn't really a dead year, right? Because we also got Cactus Canyon Remake is coming out sometime in the near future. We waited 3 years for Cactus Canyon Remake. They bring it into Pinball Expo, arguably the worst launch of a game ever, and then the games aren't even on the line. And then we get Legends of Valhalla for $8,700 and there's nobody out crying about that. You can just charge whatever you want. Stern can march in at $9,000 premium and nobody said anything. It was an amazing year to witness. Everyone started to go bonkers with used game prices. I mean, you know right now, do you know right now how much money you have to make before taxes to buy a Pirates of the Caribbean collector's edition? You have to make $70,000 to be able to afford a Pirates of the Caribbean collector's edition. Is that not the moment where this hobby has jumped the shark? I was there, people. I'm Taylor Swift. I remember it all too well. I was there when Pirates of the Caribbean Collector's Edition could not sell for $12,500. You couldn't give them away. They were sitting in boxes for a year. I was there when nobody wanted Stranger Things Ellie for an entire year. I was there, I remember it all too well, when Willy Wonka Collector'sEditions were sitting at distributors for a year. And that is where we're at. You don't even need great games. You don't need anything other than a bunch of FOMO, and a bunch of people who are bored at home. COVID has mentally hit all of us and maybe it's hit Kaneda the hardest with this show right now, but I'm not going to go crazy. I'm not going to go John McClain on everybody like I'm crawling through an air conditioning vent being like, they said buy a Stern, John. It would be fun, John. There's no way premiums will ever be $9,000, John. Yes, Stern Insider connected, John. We're using QR codes in 2022 acting like this is new technology. It's not. It's not. This is not new technology. It's amazing. QR codes in 2022. We are celebrating as So in 2021 it was a total bust for pinball, it really was. I mean, Godzilla is a greatgame but again, shouldn't we have more than just one great ngày in pinball through an entire year? Can you imagine if there was only one good movie, one good TVshow, one protected bottle of wine or one good car that came out, why is it that this hobby that has so many people Just waiting to throw money at these companies We can get more great games out in one fiscal year Is that a lot to ask for Like this same pattern over and over and over again where every three to four months Stern launches a game everyone considers it to be the greatest game ever then we look at it and realize there really not that much in it but if you a fan of this theme it gonna be fun Then we have nothing from CGC and we almost have nothing from Jersey Jack Pinball Here's why 2021 was such a bust. It wasn't because of Stern's lack of effort. It wasn't. Stern does what Stern does and Stern did it successfully. This company is now almost a year backlogged on both pro and premium orders of their machines. Stern Pinball could not release a new game for an entire year and still not fulfill all of their orders they have. That is crazy. So Stern Pinball had another Stern Pinball year. They are making so much money. They are doing what they do best. Everybody else, and I mean this, everybody else in the pinball world in 2021 was an utter and complete disaster. If you really look at how their year transpired, who had a good year in 2021? Who? Spooky Pinball because they sold those games in one day. They didn't have a good year. They had a good financial year, but the The impact of these games being where they're at, it is really going to severely hurt this company. There is nobody excited. You cannot find anybody but Roder Dave excited about what is happening over at Spooky Pinball. So Spooky Pinball, I think had a bad year in 2021. Haggis Pinball, don't even get me started on Haggis Pinball, another dead year for them. Pinball Brothers, Dutch Pinball, Dutch Pinball is still making a game that they revealed seven years ago. Years ago seven years ago Dutch pinball has to get up every day and work on games that people ordered from them Seven years ago and we're still cheerleading this company. No, come on. I mean this is ridiculous The Big Lebowski is so ridiculous It is one of the biggest calamities in the history of pinball and there is no way and we all know this They're never gonna make everybody whole they're not there is no way I'm going to get hit. I mean, it's just, it's absolutely crazy. And then we got P3 Multimorphic. Jerry's still trying to sell like 500 games after like 500 years. I mean, how many years is this platform going to be marched around to every show? And are you seeing any unboxings of P3 Multimorphic at all this year? Like I'm not seeing any of it. Am I being I'm going to be too cruel. Is this the old Kaneda, have I had no sleep? I haven't. Have I had a cup of coffee? I have. Have I had breakfast? No. Do you want to hear more like diehard impersonations right now? Should I do a little Hans Gruber when talking about P3? Just another ridiculous platform that nobody really wants. Just another unlicensed theme from a platform nobody wants. That's P3 Multimorphic. Okay, people, like, like, come on. We've got misses from everybody else. And we've got Chicago Gaming Gaming Company, the worst kept secret in all of pinball. They revealed the game at Expo and the games were not on the line. And now nobody knows when they're getting their LE. Nobody knows what the status of the code is now. And it's a remake. It's a remake. How many times can we remake the old stuff? Why can't Chicago Gaming Company actually show us a new game? Like where's the Mark Ritchie game? Where's Mark Ritchie's Pulp Fiction which is happening? Where is it? Ben Hexgame, where's Christopher Franchi stuff that he's been working on with Chicago Gaminging Company? Where is this stuff? This industry just doesn't move anything forward unless the company is called Stern Pinball. Why can't people move stuff forward? Why are we buying games in 2021 that are not even close? They're not even close to being as magical as stuff we got in the mid 90s. What is wrong with people? How can you actually Caneda's Pinball persistence Haul, Caneda foldability, Oak River draught, trio, St玩 in baishwake 30005 & fashion, serviice, having uh-huh and some chrysanthropist whileж with the fine calculate and the Shari is just in the weirdest space ever right now because you shouldn't be able to sell stuff unless it's great. You shouldn't be able to command this kind of money unless there's a magical world under glass. And yet all I see is anything sells. And in a world in which anything will sell, then nothing needs to be innovated. In a world in which anything will sell, you don't need magic if anything sells. And that is where we're at. And I think this climate of anything will sell as long dazu latinha auto merca pretà un acc. A arrived a cathead in santa Maria st mannerflows slack sheet sing a pinball a…? He is living I guess I don't want to talk about what is � nac level over In terms of like anything will sell anything will sell You could put out Led Zeppelin LE Baron Led Zeppelin and it sold out Everything will find a customer and that is not good That is not good The reason why the pinball machines were so amazing in the mid do you know why they were so amazing Do you know why the Bally Williams games were filled with magic It because they were not competing with like Gottlieb and Stern and Data East for a spot in the Not in your living room rich man listening to this right now The reason why and they put so much under the glass is for one simple reason They needed to make games magical enough to compete with the arcade games. They needed stuff under that glass that would pull you away from Donkey Kong, from Street Fighter, from Mortal Kombat, from Pac-Man. That was their competition. They were using pinball to create something magical enough that it would pull people away from those arcade and video games. And they were magical. Now think about nowadays. Who is Stern competing with? Nobody. They have no competition. There is not a single pinball company out there that even makes Stern think twice about the games it's making. Their only competition is themselves. Like the only thing they're competing against is how much can I get into this game to keep it within the bomb. Like that is it. That is it. The creativity is limited to the bomb. But how much better would Stern Games be if Jersey Jack had their act together? How much better would Stern Games be if Dutch Pinball was successful? How much better would all of these games be if each of these companies were successful canada's Pinballzeigters Kanada Pinballwydd, Michael Schulze tank GangShuttle,suay boarding, directly atячinins, The only reason these games are priced at these prices are not because of what they're putting into the games. The only reason they're being priced at this price point is because they know we're all a bunch of suckers who will spend this much money. That is it. The moment we all stop spending this much money on these games, the prices would either go down or they'd have to pack these games with more fun stuff to make them enticing. But Stern's got everybody beat up. They're The Second of the r in stand created of the stand boys they've got these beautiful colorful games and then when you lift up the hood on the game look how little is underneath those games there's so little to see there's so little to break because all the stuff now is mostly on the artwork in on the l c d screen and they know that They know that. Elvira House of Horrors, do you think Stern would have made that game? Dennis Nordman made that game. I mean look at the mechs in most of these Stern games. Look at the mechs in them. Putting the building in Godzilla does not erase the fact that when you look at most of these Stern games and you look at what's in them, it's a joke people. I mean look at Led Zeppelin. Look at Mandalorian. Let's just stay on Mandalorian for a minute. Look at the mechanisms in Mandalorian and you tell me that this is worse. I'm going to be a little more specific here about how I feel about this game. I think last year was a miss in the pinball hobby. I think you're going to see it during the awards show in March. I think you're going to realize that one game winning everything is pretty boring. It is boring and we want more competition and I want more companies out there to give us games that are worthwhile. Why would you make a pinball machine if you don't feel like this machine is great? Why would you bring something into the pinball marketplace if you don't think this thing is improving upon what's already in the marketplace? But you and I all know the answer to this question why? Because some companies just fundamentally lack the talent. Some companies fundamentally lack the resources and finances needed to secure great themes. So you take a company like American Pinball, I know I rag on them all the time, but they don't have the money to go get a great license theme. They don't. So they'll try to convince us that we want original IP games. We don't. The market doesn't want it. And the only reason The reason they're in this situation is because they had three swings at the plate and they messed up. And they should have just invested that money in one great theme from the very get-go. And themes like Masters of the Universe were available to them and they didn't get any of those themes. And now they've spent, what, three titles in a row, now four titles in a row, and they can't make a single game that can sell a thousand units. And why go into pinball if you can't figure that out? 1. inferior on table Hue scheming, so if you order such a game toíamos ne cóápiț00 involvementê que Anda , ót t 라�ativa triedêá questão positivesê So who is the competition to Stern Pinball? Is it Chicago Gaminging Company? I mean, they're not showing anything revolutionary or new. That's boring. So the only real competition, and I mean it when I say this, the only real competition to Stern Pinball in terms of making a magical game, a magical world under glass is Jersey Jack Pinball. And that is why this hobby sucked so much in 2021. The one reason it sucks so much, there was no new Jersey Jack Pinball. I here to talk about the Jersey Jack Game Without a new Jersey Jack game per year this hobby is not that exciting to follow It just not They spend a lot of time and a lot of effort on each game They put so much into each game Now it unfair right Imagine if Stern Pinball only made one new game every 18 months the way Jersey Jack does Imagine if their coding team had like a year and a half to work on just one game Jersey Jack spends three times the amount of effort and focus on each title than Stern Pinball does. And here's the part that kind of sucks. Because of that, a Jersey Jack game should be three times better than every single Stern machine. And you and I both know that that's not the case. That's not what's happening in pinball. But in 2022, we are finally going to get Pat Lawler's next game. And all of a sudden, we're going to have something else to at least be some competition for Stern, something else that will at least want to make you call up your distributor and think about getting something else. We need more variety in this hobby. We need more competition in this hobby. If we don't get it, we are going I'm going to see Stern continue to raise their prices. They're not putting more in these games. It just pains me to see people look at a game like Rush and just hand over $11,000 for an LE. $11,000 and then $9,000 for premiums and $6,700 for pros. Stern is just going to keep charging more and more and more and we're not getting more. It doesn't seem like anyone else is upset about anything. I guess it just doesn't matter to most people. I guess if the game is fun, you'll pay whatever and anything will sell. And I mean that. And I really hope Jersey Jack Pinball can come out with a game that is problem free. I know this has been a little bit of a ranty show. It's not going to be like this every time. I'm pretty exhausted. I'm pretty tired. I'm seeing these prices continue to go through the roof and I don't see an end in sight. In fact, I think it's only going to get worse in 2020. I was bored by most of the pinball machines that came out in 2021. I don't want to be bored. I want to be excited. I want to get excited about Mandalorian and then have the pinball machine actually exceed my expectations. I want Jersey Jack Pinball to come out with a machine in 2022 that just excites everybody. I don't want the playfields to fall apart and I hope they can do it right. Jersey Jack with all the effort and all the focus. They haven't really been that successful. The game brought something new to pinball. I would say that only Wizard of Oz and onlyGuns and Roses have done that for Jersey Jack Pinball. The other games haven't done that. They really have not brought anything truly unique or given us a totally unique experience in the world of pinball. And I think that's what we expect from a company that spends an inordinate amount of time focusing on just one game. Will 2022 be better than 2021? I hope so. I really do. Unfortunately, we're all going to get hit hard in our wallets and it's not just pinball, it's everywhere. But here's the thing, and I understand why dealers are gouging, I understand why people are spending ridiculous amounts of money on secondhand prices. I wish I still had my Batman SLE to sell today because I could sell it for $40,000. I understand why the market is so hot and why the prices are so high. But there's one thing I think people in pinball don't seem to understand about me and maybe you feel this way. Our brains allow us to hold two competing thoughts in our head at one time. We're allowed to have an opinion in which the two things we agree with might be conflicting. Where even though I don't like the way prices are going, I absolutely agree with the sellers charging what they're charging because it's a free market. They'd be stupid not to ask these inflated prices because people are buying at these prices. I don't like it, but I understand and agree with that behavior. and that's where we're at. I wish, I wish, if I could put my little Kaneda head on my pillow tonight. I just want to see more magic in these games. I mean this. So many of us just accept what we get and that was cool when games were like $5,000 or $6,000. Is that still cool when games are $9,000, $12,000, $15,000, $36,000? I need to make $70,000 before taxes to get a Pirates CE. Ridiculous. I was there. I remember it all too well. This hobby is crazy right now. It is absolutely crazy right now. It's fun to see it go. I'm priced out now. Like I can't buy two or three pinball machines a year anymore. It's hard to even speculate on these games anymore because I don't think there's going to be money to be made on all these games anymore. And I think in a few years when the supply chain opens up, a lot of people are going to be caught holding the bag and needing to liquidate these pinball collections. Canada Pinball learning by outpost is an awesome magazine, not just competitive. Check the skill list at trauma.flb.com or those dapat�i domine conclusionetheavs Episode driver Video. There's Fermano, organis, Batal County and at the BBC with Aan Kling and relationship, a show from Canada Our quando se actua Rhodes yeah, we are a fall of the 18 airplay. Speaking about the airplay tea and the press Jac Nintendo s in one of the best classes ea har 97 musical tickets of all time for version Boul D' killed it probably Mora. I think 2021 was a wash in the pinball world and most of the games that came out were mediocre at best except for Godzilla. That's not what I want to say. I want to say everything next year is awesome. For these prices, they should be awesome. Have a good day everybody. Kaneda out. Still doing the sert Principal