Comments on: PPPoo6 Pinheadz Pinball PODcast ep6! Pinball Pimping v Pinball Pizza

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 01:11:35 +0000

Just listened to your podcast. Very enjoyable. Keep up the good work.

By: Rod Cuddihy

Rod Cuddihy — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 04:59:21 +0000

KIWIFRENZY! Great to hear from you mate – and thanks for a great message! I cant imagine a better year to have gone to EXPO in Chicago…the design teams were arguably the best of all time! GREAT PICS! And thanks for the tweets. Cheers – Rod

By: Rod Cuddihy

Rod Cuddihy — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 04:50:24 +0000

ADRIAN! That’s awesome that you picked up that Capt Fantastic! You know it’s a small world when you hear your new game being discussed on a PODcast. I’d love to see the collection – I’ll private message you. Cheers – Rod

By: Adrian Nebel

Adrian Nebel — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:02:11 +0000

Hi Rod awesome job on the shows. I need your email address so I can send photos of my 30 machine collection. By the way I’m the guy who had bought the capt. America ,yeah it was a capt. Fantastic, I’ll send you the photos if you like it was practically given to me considering the price I paid . The purchase is another one of those thrill of the chase purchases. The machine is in really good nick. Look forward to hearing from you Rod

Adrian
Perth W.A

By: Mike Burke

Mike Burke — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 07:42:33 +0000

Another great episode team.

Just some feedback about the Sega games you mentioned in episode 6 and why they weren’t popular, especially back in the day. One word – Williams. Those Sega machines came out when Williams were at the top of their game. (There was also competition from Gottlieb and eventually Capcom.) I played them all back then, the Williams games were always or nearly always much better. So back in the day, they weren’t as good as most of the Williams/Bally’s. However when you look at them on their own look you did – yeah they weren’t so bad after all. I used to play Star Wars Trilogy a lot. And played Frankenstein at the local Chinese takeaways whenever I could. I did find them slow though.

You also talked about the different innovations Sega did on the games like the Showcase backglass and bigger DMD. It was all about competition. Unfortunately for Sega, Williams didn’t follow on those two and they had to scale back. Joe Kaminkow talked about this at Pinball Expo 96 (the only one I’ve been to – photos).

One last thing. There was a Atari Hercules at a local arcade (called Silver Ball Palace!) here in Wellington, New Zealand back in the early eighties. That thing was huge, but sooooo slow to play. Our money was going into Black Knight, Fire power, Eight Ball deluxe instead.

Keep up the great work.

Mike (aka @kiwifrenzy on the Twitter)