Gary Stern is poppin' bottles 2night

Regardless of how it plays, there's 2 things wrong I'll mention:

1: The name doesn't grab your attention. It speaks nothing of what the game is about except maybe a phone. It is not an exciting name.

2: The artwork is.... not that great. It has no wow factor like GB has for example. BM66 looks a lot cooler.

Rob

3: The sounds are annoying

They should have shown more of an up close gameplay vid like Alien did to show off the shots. Check out this video of gameplay, made me much more interested after the grainy reveal stream:

https://www.facebook.com/thisflippinpodcast/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE

I REALLY wanted to like this game but the theme does nothing for me and with that kind of price the the REALLY needs to do something for me.

Good news is new hobbit code! Friday arvo here so beer and new hobbit code are looking like how I will spend my evening.

Yes to both. I actively don't like the kid holding up the phone.

Agreed. The sound package didn't seem that great.

Rob

I feel so bad saying this. PL's best machines were designed over 20 years ago. I'm thinking it's too late for him to have an impact like he once had. Giving him a blank check was very risky.

Since it's an original theme I was honestly hoping pricing might come down a little since they don't have to pay licensing fees.

I'll definitely check the machine out before i make my final decision.

One thing I can't get over is that I know I won't use my cell phone for multiball. That means time and energy wasted on features I won't use,but I still have to pay for them. Do we have to make sure our cell phones don't auto lock so we are ready for multiball?

It's sorta like a PG rated Grand Theft Auto, moving thru the city surviving on wits type of theme. Maybe a Grand Theft Auto brand theme would have worked better. Interesting tech though esp wifi flipper control.

Car manufactures are allowing you to now start your car from your phone (which is a good thing because over the last 20 years I have always had a hell of time starting my car)

Surely, they could have bounced this off of some folks in advance to get some feedback. This can't be the first time they're hearing real feedback about the game. It's got to be a joke, right? I'm so stunned, I'm bouncing between threads waiting for the real reveal.....

I can't stand the Sim City looking background and the sounds are irritating. I'm done posting about this pin. I'm sounding like a jerk now.

It might be time to find the guy selling the HEP AFM for 9K.

This and Batman are both underwhelming and overpriced.

Nobody in that 20+ person team told Pat maybe he is a bit out of touch and that the theme doesn't work?

I can see pat thinking this might get a younger demo interested in pinball but at these prices i cant imagine seeing this game in some bar somwhere.

Saddest part was hearing the audience laugh when jjack said he planned to limit the base game to 6,999 units.

Theme is *meh*. The prices are RIDICULOUS.

You mean you don't like "Personality Free 90's White Kid from Turbografx Commercial?" Shocked !!

Years to brainstorm ideas and come up with an original theme that's fun and exciting and he delivers this? A cellphone themed game with a Bob The Builder Fisher Price moving target??? C'mon Pat wake up! It's not 1994. Sims games and cellphones are old news. Surprised it's not running on Windows '94.

R.I.P.
J.J.P.

The phone ringing was the actual game???? I thought it was someone else phone ringing ruining the show.....YIKES! Phone ringing is not what I want to hear.....EVER

Two words I really loathe in our current society, "selfie" and "drones". I'll play it with an open mind tomorrow but this doesn't look appealing to me unfortunately.

They obviously need to fix the phone ringing sound which will be easy and one of the first updates. It needs to be less persistent for sure, and they could have options for the default ringer to something less irritating.

playing dialed in, the phone rings and your wife is calling you to come up for dinner. only 9000.00 or 12500 by christmas

You Debbie Downers do realize you can control the flippers WITH YOUR PHONE, don't you? That's Epic! /sarcasm

Yes we do and no thank you. My phone is for work....When I play pinball my phone is forgotten.......

Most "original themes" in pinball are actually "unlicensed themes". MM is Holy Grail, AFM is Mars Attacks, I personally ripped off Ghost Adventures, CC is Blazing Saddles, WOOLY is Clash of the Titans, etc. Everyone knows what rafting is, what pool is, what playing cards do...

You know what to expect. The games have the same tone and humor of the properties that inspired them. Maybe they poke fun at tropes or act as a parody.

Dialed In is truly an "original theme" - it's based off nothing anyone is familiar with. The cell phone seems to be a major feature but I think the game is more about a city and disasters? Not really sure. Nobody is, and that's why it's getting this sort of reaction.

My phone died and I missed the reveal...not enough bars...bad connection...what's the Wi-Fi login code. Hey guys , is there an outlet so I can charge my phone while play?
Boy did I just save a lot of money..

I foolishly thought JJP would deliver an A+ game and shock Stern with very aggressive pricing.

WRONG.

Ugh....

You can probably change the ringtone.

An original theme needs to be exciting. There is nothing exciting about phones.

You'd think he'd have learned from Road Show.

I'd laugh my ass off if they posted a team pic of everyone smiling and eating pizza while playing Batman 66.

Found this at my hotel room door.

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How many fat cats here are buying BM66 SLE and DICE? Can you put Batman, Dialed In, and Wizard of Oz next to each other and ask someone not in the hobby "So, which of these do you think costs $12-15,000?".

So it seems JJP website is down. What are the models and prices for this machine? I see some people tossing around a $12,500. That's gotta be a joke! WTH would pay a crazy price like that for a pinball machine?

I'm so grateful that I chose to buy a Hobbit instead of waiting on JJP #3!

The LE is $9,000 (#1 - 6,999) and Premium is $12,500 (unlimited numbers, but must be ordered by 12/31)

Am I the only one that feels like I've been hit over the head with steel beam in the last month +.

Batman66 for near insulting $$$.... and now a game with a giant glowing cellphone $9 to 12.5K???????

What?

But had you waited, you could've opted for the Hobbit-SLE Black Arrow model that was also announced and sure to be the most limited. . .

I don't think it's "down". I think it's overloaded just like Pinside has been this evening... everyone trying to make sense out of this presentation.

I think if they redid the theme to focus more on city whatever, dropped the selfie mode, dropped the cellphone interaction, dropped the moving worker, and maybe dropped it to $8000, they'd have a decent product.
There is a lot to like. Layout looks good, colours are nice, and a standard-cab JJP game would be exciting.

I know right...In the world of pinball I'm a nobody, and even I would have steered them completely out of this path.

The way Jack was gushing about the honor of working with Pat makes me think he was somewhat oblivious to what was happening...starstruck if you will.

JJP announces next game "Jumped the Shark"

Henry Winkler as the "Fonz" signed on to do the call-outs!

$10k by Christmas! Oh wait, it's already $12.5k pre-order.

I am a fan of Jjp. But, this theme and artwork on cabinet are very poor. Why would you want to flip a pinball machine with your phone? That is a terrible gimmick to use. I was really hoping Jjp could compete with Stern. Stern can put out a bad machine and put out a great one very quickly. This hurts Jjp and for that I am sad.

From the This Flippin' Podcast video, I think it looks like a lot of fun. Which should be all that matters. "Is the game fun". The mobile phone stuff looks totally optional too, which I think would be a good move. I see Buffalo Pinball will be streaming it next Saturday (22nd), so that'll give an even better look at what full games are like.

I'm not going to be owning this one but I'm really looking forward to playing it on location.

I think the bubble that's being spoken of is this more than anything. I haven't been in collecting long enough but I notice the trend where game sales stall before reveals because everyone is holding out for new machines. The majority of the collector's I know have no worries about spending 2.5-5k for a quality machine. These new game prices will not hold and these companies will have to rethink this aggressive wallet attacking. You want to sustain your business with cash flow and while you have to sell less when you're selling for more, you need to be selling.

I posted in the other thread phones are more of a tool. It's like doing a pin based on a screwdriver. There's nothing inherently interesting about a phone. Cell phones were a novelty in the 90s and that seems like where this theme came from.

I think they should have focused on the City and Superhero themes. Those make me want to play it. Along with a better title like Quantum City this could have been a more interesting reveal. I get that Dialed In is kind of a pinball pun but it won't draw people in on location.

I thought the stream was a detriment to the reveal. We couldn't get a good view of the pin and Pat was reluctant to tell us the features because he wanted us to discover it. The idea of revealing the pin through a stream was pretty cool and I was anxious to see it but I think Stern and Heighway's tactic of revealing high res pics before a stream is a better way of doing things.

I like the art despite it being a departure from Lawlor's previous humorous games. I'm sure the layout and code will be good. The animations on the big screen looked neat. I'd like to play it but there's no chance I'll ever buy it.

Well first it has to actually materialize and be fun and AP needs to make good... but yeah.. they do that and they will become serious contenders.

Me too, but is the location looking forward to dropping $9K for an unlicensed (read: poor earning) pin?

Im not a fan of Jersey Jack. I like the idea of them but in my opinion the quality is just not there."feels like a made for home pinball" . Who knows maybe in a few years they will get their shit together but until then im done buying their pins altogether.