Ep - 115 Digital Pinball, Save your Quarters!

Retrologic

Introduction

Welcome to RetroLogic! I’m Sam Wagers here with John Cummins and Shannon Eno joined by to talk about video pinball!

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Housekeeping

Sam: John and I were on Here comes a new challenger! Mega Monday Returns! Garfield Flees in Terror! on youtube (ThirdstrongestMole, 730 EST)

John: Substack

OTR - Pokemon X and Y and Zelda Minish Cap

FilmLogic: Brendan Fraser’s Mixed Career (The Mummy 25th anniversary)

RetroGroove: Build a band: 3 MCs + 1 DJ

Star Wars Dads made the jump to light speed May 4!

What We’ve Been Playing

Sam - Ufouria 2, Blazing Lasers, Pokemon Pinball Ruby Sapphire (Pokedex complete!), Ys book II

John - Dragon Quest 2 and Assassins Creed Black Flag

Shannon - Unicorn Overlord, 4 Swords Adventure, LttP, KotOR, SML

The Price Is Retro 3255

If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here’s how we play. I’m going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for for our trio of automated competitors: The Ghost (Polterguest), the Robot (Deus Guess Machina), and the Dinosaur (???Retrosaurus???) They each make their own guess as well!

Sam’s list

John’s list

Shannon’s list

Trivia Card

Show Topics 48:00

Discuss: Notable games:

• Pinball (NES)

• Alien Crush and Devil Crush (TG16) also ported to Genesis as “Dragon’s Fury”/ Devil Crash MD (Japan)

• As well as inspired recent Demon’s Tilt (multiplat)

• Revenge of the Gator (GB)

• Kirby’s Pinball Land

• Pokemon Pinball (GB and GBA (Ruby Sapphire)

• Metroid Prime Pinball (DS)

• Pinball FX Series (XBLA, later windows, modern platforms)

• Dino Land (Genesis)

• (?) Missed opportunities: pac man pinball advance, mario pinball land

• Stranger fare: Odama (GC) and Yoku’s Island Expresss (modern systems)

• VR-Star Wars Pinball

• Sonic Spinball (SG)

• Galactic Pinball (VB)

• It’s not the same as an analog machine…and that’s okay.

• "(Devil’s Crush is) the best video pinball game of all time—mainly because it didn't try to be anything like real pinball." Electronic Gaming Monthly, 1997, ranking it as #50 on a list of top 100 games of all time

• How important are the physics really?

• Why don’t games today have pinball spinoffs?

• Relegated to handhelds in the past

• Games we want a pinball of

Community Couch

Great responses on Tony Hawk!

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