New Pinball to be Revealed at Pintastic New England; That Blueprint is NOT Pinball Brothers' Next Game; Info on Multimorphic's Next Game
By knapparcade
Happy April Fools everyone :). No tricks here today. I'm busy and quite frankly kind of over them at this point lol. I do have some interesting pinball items to talk about. First up, the next major pinball show is rapidly approaching - Pintastic New England. The event takes place from April 9th through the 12th at the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel in Marlborough, MA. I personally will be at the show again this year. You know what else will be there? A new game! Cardona Pinball plans to reveal its third 2.0 kit for a Bally Williams game at the show. I'm looking forward to seeing what kit is next, after Cardona's first two kits No Good Gophers: Battle for the Green and Black Rose: Skull and Bones. This third kit has some significant upgrades from the first two in terms of music and art. Hopefully I see you at Pintastic on Friday! Check out this year's cool t-shirt design from artist Joel de Guzman below: https://pintasticnewengland.com/
Yesterday, Pinball Brothers changed the background of its Facebook page to an unlabeled blueprint of a pinball machine. Some people grabbed that and ran with it assuming that it was a look at the playfield for the Company's next game. It's not. I spoke with Pinball Brothers' Daniel Bergkvist earlier today and he told me that it is just a generic pinball background that it put up on the page to replace Predator now that it is no longer for sale. Having said that, both Pinball Brothers and Pedretti Gaming are working on new pinball machines that we will hopefully get to see fairly "soon."
The mysterious blueprint
Earlier today, Barrels of Fun shared an interesting post on its Facebook page. The post claimed that the company's co-founder David Van Es has never seen the 1984 film The NeverEnding Story. If that is true and not some sort of April Fools joke, it leads me to think that movie is not the theme of an upcoming pinball machine from Barrels as had been rumored. Here's the post: "Since David has never seen this film, we figured today was the perfect time to give him the Cliff Notes. #nospoilers" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gUukc2Rkyws
Last up, I have a little bit of information about Multimorphic's next game. The company shared its interesting seminar from the Texas Pinball Festival up on its YouTube channel recently. During the presentation, the company's founder Gerry Stellenberg confirmed that the next Multimorphic game will be licensed. That is noteworthy because most of the Company's early games were not licensed. Multimorphic has been getting more into licensed games lately with its recent modules Weird Al's Museum of Natural Hilarity and Portal. He said he had previously announced a string of licensed games were coming. However, he also emphasized the company's long-term motivation to balance licensed and original IP, since licensed games have limited sales terms (typically 3–5 years) while originals like Lexi Lightseed and Final Resistance can be sold indefinitely. He did not name the license, did not give a timeline, and declined to drop a hint beyond confirming it's licensed. He also teased that his favorite mech of all the ones they've developed is "the next one" — implying something notable is coming mechanically with the next release.