Hard to believe it came out in 1975. Cult classic now. It must have been a one shot for the actor. Did he ever go on to do anything else?

What is it?

A Boy and His Dog. Starring a young Don Johnson.

If you've never seen it, you probably should. One of the best Sci Fi cult classics there is.

Haha

LOL that article is near a yr old

So any day now?

Almost as old as the JJP teaser ... they need a real Marketing department that would drop teasers/trailers/social media posts (hints) to get people buzzing. 2 weeks then nothing, people forgot. People will speculate it was just a drop to keep consumers mildly interested while internally they are unorganized and trying to figure out how to fix a significant problem with the latest release. I bet some sales were lost to TMNT, people jumped on the hot new toy ...

I liked the leaked story about Dialed In that was quickly deleted on Pinside. Then the presentation of it at the show was even better.

600+ posts later, I beg to differ.

I do agree - they better bring it!

Their marketing dept. have shit the bed on this one. A rookie could do better.

Very Strange.
Never heard of this before.

So, on brand for a sex, drugs and rock & roll to excess pin?

It was totally under the radar when first released, but as video stores started opening up in the early 80s, it became common on display as a rental. That is where I first saw it and watched it. Lots of political uncorrectness in that one.

That's what is strange, I was part of the opening and rented many great under the radar classics but never ever saw this title. Ah well, I'm going to have to look into it.

A Boy And His Dog is a great early Don Johnson movie. With a life lesson for every young man that watches through to the end.

It was available on both VHS and Beta.

Shit the bed!How old are you dude,I’m 59 and the only person I ever heard use that phrase was my German father in law and he would be 92

Ah sweet Beta,
I'm very old.
With the balls to prove it.

Not as old as this fossil.

You're too old to know it came back into use.

Don Johnson’s best is Hot Spot featuring Jennifer Connelly before she had her breast reduction.
Jennifer was a goddess!

So, it's not going to be The Brady Bunch, but will be A Boy and His Dog instead?

Boy and his dog is still a little too low key. Damnation Alley it is!

Well this marketing attempt by JJP is a bit of a swing and a miss. We are in here talking about a movie from back in the 70 called a boy and his dog - and not your pinball machines...

I mean really, WTF!?!?

You must have missed the 9 pages of Brady Bunch.

Too funny. Since there is no topic to discuss it does make me curious. Some Pinsiders love making graphs/etc, would be interesting to see a thread like this showing how many branches of topic spun off from these 600 posts vs how many were actually about the original topic. Pinside threads tend to go Odd directions.

Going back over this thread I guess it was determined wifi is not the innovation. And playing others on different machines in different locations is lame and having a leaderboard for that is about as exciting as reading people's high scores on pinside.

What must be the innovation is what you will be able to connect to to this game thru the wifi.

Hey, if Stern can get $600 for a topper...

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Historically, I only make graphs for Stern, and usually only Gomez atrocities. That said, if JJP someday stoops to Stern level antics with unfinished code, etc, I reserve the right to change my stance. Stern's been behaving overall (JP topper DLC excepted), so there hasn't been too much to get up in arms about with Stern lately.

I have sent Jack some pictures to prompt him to spill the beans publicly on pinball's worst-kept, most anticipated secret, though. Today it was a bullet with a rose end...
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For some reason I've read through most of this thread, and found this to be the only thing worth commenting on...I run software development teams, ages range from 25-50, we all use and love the phrase "shit the bed". When dealing with customers though I use the more family friendly "pooped it's pants", "crapped it's pants", "pooped itself", etc. We also giggle like idiots when talking about "shards" as it relates to storage. (Shards...Sharts) Making myself laugh just typing it. Please carry-on with the JJP will never release anything, anytime soon thread.

To shit the bed is to die,or fail really badly!

Where I come if someone gets up way early in the morning or comes into work earlier than usual you would then say "What happened!? Did you shit the bed!??"

Glad this can be my first pinside post lol.

The idiom "shit the bed" means to fuck up. Think about it... if you shit the bed.... you fucked up pretty bad. Lol

I think it originally was referring to people dying would shit on the way out stage left

One of the best STB scenes in recent memory.
Don't watch during breakfast.

While we're talking about shit... Might as well talk about farts. Got a good laugh out of this today:

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I know this is just a joke, but MY GOD respiratory droplets are 1,000x larger than the nasty gas we emit!

I wonder how much money JJP lost having Stern release TMNT and they produced nothing? All these people jonesing for pinball loaded with stimulus checks. They could've sold a bunch of games I bet had they shown the game already.

You obviously aren't familiar with...splatter.

Yep
She was so much better, a little thick, large breasted and young. Actually I'd love her older, a little thick, large.....u know.

Well, there goes breakfast...

Just a heads up, the first episode of the JJP podcast is out. Looks like part of the link turned into an emoji lol but it still works.

https://jjppodcast.libsyn.com/ep-1-jjp-owner-brett-abess?fbclid=IwAR3YlLVeAZvqgVM3VJSkmQgY_VlfnqdTXSMNX8GEGc887J3Ur5jkT5mR8

The first thing that surprised me is that Leonard Abess is not (or no longer) the owner of JJP but his son Brett Abess, didn't know that. I'm glad the Abess family owns JJP as you can tell how passionate they are about pinball and wanting to make the best pinball machines on the planet. Any of your typical investment firms would have ruined what everyone loves about JJP. Brett seems very passionate about pinball and trusting the industry legends and newer employees at the company. Really looking forward to all future games by JJP.

Glad you posted this. I listened earlier this morning and had quite a few gripes. This is a much more positive take on it. I do with they had announced you know.. anything. I know they actually will soon, but it sort of came off more of a Deeproot style puffery piece at first.

Interesting that given 2 or 3 natural places to mention it (“we have a game at the top of the pinside 100”, “Eric’s first game knocked it out it the park”) Brett never calls Pirates by name. He mentions every single other game specifically.

I don't see where you are going with not naming Pirates specifically. What's your theory there?

I thought it was a very positive message. You have a young owner who has studied the game/been a fan for years, who cares about moving the game forward, wants to emulate companies like Tesla and is an early investor in Epic Games. Sounds to me like a guy who will push for new advances in pinball. At least that's what my hope is. Agreed that there was no formal announcement and that will remain a bummer until they announce.

It was a nice introduction. Glad to hear Ken back! I'm not sure I would have called Stern buyers fanboys (publicly) if I was trying to convert them to JJP buyers. Bring on GNR!

No theory, it was just awkward. So much of the info he was giving was clearly written up beforehand, it seemed to me that he was dancing around saying the name of the game. No idea why, just seemed bizarre.

I'm in my 50's. "Shit the bed" and "Screwed the pooch" will never go out of style.

Listened earlier too. Was definitely hoping for an announcement, I’m a huge Guns N’ Roses fan and just wanna see something but what was nice was learning the current state of the company and knowing who’s behind it. He seems very optimistic and passionate about Pinball and JJP and pushing the envelope of the industry. It’s not just about money here. You can see the amount of love put into all of JJPs games and it’s nice knowing that there is more to come. For pinball enthusiasts this is a great thing. The owner felt that the one company left(Stern) was complacent with their products and they aim to change that. Just give us a sneak peak already, we’ve been patient =)

I listened to the podcast on the way to work...it seemed like a lot of time and effort was put into getting the factory moved. To me they seemed excited about that, are just getting their footing in Chicago, and that a lot of “hype videos” were probably just focused around that feeling of accomplishment of getting there and settled. Now with the factory so close to the design team, they can focus on their making their innovation a reality. My guess is once they get their lines rolling, we’ll be able to see their next release (likely gnr) in a few weeks, where they can ship some standards as soon as released.

I understand the need for a tease the same day turtles is announced... I get it... no brainer... get everyone to hit the “pause” button before they spend the ever so valuable dollar (especially these days). But seriously, what’s next? Heck I would take another teaser at this point just so we know JJP wasn’t hacked and it was all a hoax!