More Information on Spooky Pinball's Upcoming Beetlejuice Pin; The Making of Kong; Portal Pinball 1.0; A New Pin From AP?
By knapparcade
Late last week, Stern Pinball shared a new episode of its cool "Making Of" videos, this one for Keith Elwin's King Kong: Myth of Terror Island. King Kong hitting the YMCA dance, animated bananas, an Impractical Joker and so much more! Join us for an in-depth look at how Stern Pinball brought King Kong: Myth of Terror Island to life.I've been counting down the days until Spooky Pinball's Friday reveal of its next pinball machine, Beetlejuice. I have a bunch of new information on the game that I've been compiling to share with everyone. - According to Spooky, they have retained 70 games to sell directly to the public on its website starting on Friday November 14th at 10:00 AM Central time. Games from distributors are sold out. There may be some distributors that have remaining spots for "Show Games" though. - The game's powder coating color is called "Prismatic Illusion Purple" - According to a post by Spooky on Pinside, it sounds like the game does contain the iconic 1956 Harry Belafonte song "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)"
- According to Don from Don's Pinball Podcast, the game contains full movie and audio clips from the original movie and the Main Title theme from the movie Beetlejuice by Danny Elfman. I just spoke with Don and he said that it was cool if I share this information. It's nobody's scoop but his lol.
- The game also contains incredible original music from Composer and Sound Designer Brady Hearn.
So there's a little more info on the highly anticipated game to help tide us over.
There's been a lot of talk lately about American Pinball saying that it is indeed working on a 7th pinball machine that is a theme other than Cuphead. The origin of this latest chatter on the subject comes from Pinball Flip Out. I spoke with Tony Becker from the page on Friday and he gave me a copy of the AP quotes to share with everyone. Thanks Tony. Here's my $0.02 on the situation. I've spoken with the current head of American Pinball, Ron Lindeman, a couple of times over the past several months. I like Ron. He's a good guy and he seems to be making every effort possible to keep American Pinball and Orbit Games alive. I think that the contract work that the company is doing building Ice Cold Beers machines for Retro Arcade Remakes and Polycades is a great idea. I wish the Company well. Having said that, I have been lied to directly or have believed lies told to other people by previous American Pinball and Aimtron management numerous times in the past. At one point, I stopped writing about the company completely until they actually produced something tangible that I could see with my own two eyes. I'm not saying that the current administration at AP is misrepresenting anything. What I am saying is that I no longer believe anything I hear about AP until it actually happens. I hope that it does, the more pinball, the merrier. Pinball Flip Out Facebook Page
Speaking of contract manufacturing, Alan-1 recently shared some cool pictures of its mechanical Atari PONG games being built. They are building another run of the game. It is available for pre-Order now in time for Christmas. After a hiatus, we are pleased to announce that the iconic Atari PONG® coffee table, which was originally released in 2018, is back and ready to grace your living room this Christmas. PONG Is Back! Order Page
Last up, Multimorphic's newest employee Kevin Manne (Congrats Kevin!) recently streamed Version 1.0 code of the Company's new game Portal Pinball alongside its programmer Ian Harrower. I have embedded it below for your viewing pleasure. Portal is by far my favorite Multimorphic module yet. Kevin and Ian dig into the complete 1.0 launch code and share gameplay, insights and strategies. No cake. 🚫🎂 Learn more about Portal Pinball at http://www.multimorphic.com/portal