Low-res capture from promo.
Maybe you can decipher at least some of it. Maybe not.

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ETA?

If CGC has struggled to ship CCr LE's, when would Pulp Fiction actually land on the line? Like, can they put Pulp on the line *before* they finish all the CCr LE's? That would be shabby. So, where are they with the task of completing the CCr LE run?

In short, if one orders a Pulp today, when would could one realistically expect the game to ship?

Ha! Tell it like it is, Ganda!

Cabinet Dimensions:

Does this game use a standard Bally/Williams-spec cabinet, or is it slightly shallower, front to back?

Also, how easy is it to remove the head for transport purposes?

Thanks. I ask because TNA has a shallower cabinet, top to bottom. I thought a single-level game like Pulp might be the same.

Sort of.
Forest Gump won the Best Picture Oscar that year, not Pulp Fiction. Pulp won for Best Original Screenplay.

Has there been ANY news at all about a gameplay stream?

I don't know that I've ever seen an official stream from CGC. Like, has Jack ever done a gameplay reveal stream for a CGC pin?
CGC is notorious for taking its sweet time - and for doing so with no communication to their customers. Perhaps they see no reason to stream. They can sell units with just the Flip-N-Out featurette and wait until late in the year when the game is close to production before making any real effort to stream it. The game looks great, but I would really love to *hear* it. David Thiel is a great talent for sure. His sound package on IM is one of my favorites. He says in the featurette that he composed original music for the game. I would like to hear it. I would also like to hear his sound effects and his use of the 250+ bits of movie dialogue, etc. It's great that CGC posted quite a nice/thorough ruleset PDF. That's something I've never seen from Stern or JJP. Good job!

Thanks. That's helpful. Something to look forward to!

Oh. Right. Sorry. Game Mechanix and Raw Thrills are in charge. Mustn't forget!

I'd say you're overselling Travolta. I think his Welcome Back Kotter character Babarino is telling - a handsome, wanna-be lothario who was also a moron. Travolta had hits in SNF, Grease, and Urban Cowboy, but was he as cool as, say, Connery? I don't think so. If you pay attention to how Tony behaves in SNF, he's talented, sure, but lacks confidence, and he's self-absorbed. (He has a tantrum after his dad musses his hair at the dinner table!) The fact that he danced well enough to sell his portrayal of Tony Monero didn't make him particularly cool. And Danny Zuko? Cool? Not really. More of a knucklehead. Tarantino single-handedly resurrected Travolta's career. I assume he cast him in PF because Travolta was cheap then, and because Tarantino remembered Travolta as a dancing icon from the movies of the 70's and thought it would be a casting coup to bring in Travolta as Vega and make him dance! I would say stars like Burt Reynolds, Steve McQueen, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Brando, and of course Connery were all "cooler" than Travolta back then.

I don't mean to be less than supportive, but festival goers I spoke to said the lines were long because they weren't moving. They weren't moving because ball times are very long on PF.

Contrarian Impressions:

I was just wondering if there are any other visitors to this thread whose enthusiasm for PF was actually diminished in response to the gameplay clips from TPF.

Yeah, it looked cool, but...

1. LONG ball times
2. Limited shots
3. No magnet action
4. Uncharacteristically bad (for David Thiel) sound effects
5. Repetitive gameplay (every festival goer who played the game seemed to start Briefcase Boogie MB)
6. Ugly/unimaginative use of RGB insert and GI lighting (All green? Yuck!)
7. Too many callouts from too many sources
8. Repetitive/limited music tracks
9. A good looking topper that is still, well, dull
10. A peculiar absence of Butch (did Willis and QT have a falling out?)
11. No real skill shots
12. Art that is "hand drawn" but still not exceptional

Is it fair to nitpick? Perhaps not, but we don't all have to be on the hype train.

I like the movie a lot, and I like CGC's commitment to quality a lot, and I was super jazzed to learn more about this game, but I'm much less excited about it now, after TPF, than I was before it. Of course playing it is the only way to make a fair judgement, but these are my *impressions*. Nothing more and nothing less. Am I the only one?

So you're telling me the ETA has been pushed from Q3 to Q4? I was expecting the operator versions to begin shipping in August.

Freight Cost Question:

MSRP for PF does NOT include shipping, regardless of distro? Is that the CGC policy, or does it vary from distro to distro?
Is there anyone here who bought PF for MSRP with freight included? Is the free freight a Stern thing and really NOT a JJP thing or a CGC thing?
Just curious.
Thanks.

That’s very helpful. Thanks.
May I ask from what distro?

There was a Pulp SE on free play at Little of Shop of Games' special event this past Thursday in Florida.

Does that signal a production development? I mean, how do they have a Pulp SE unless CGC shipped them one of the first games off the line? Or did they borrow one of the few "show circuit" games? Could SE's finally be shipping?

Drat.
It seemed like a long-overdue, positive swing.
I'm bummed.

Oh, no! Late Q1?! Horrible!

Can we get a round of cheers/support for Lloyd? I'm talking about his work as a CGC tech and how he is expecting a Pulp Fiction SE to prepare for that work. If you know Lloyd, you know he does a lot for this hobby and that his business depends on earnings from his pool tables and his pinballs. The sooner he has a SE, the sooner he can (a) begin learning the machine for tech support purposes, and (b) the sooner his business can benefit from a long-awaited, hot pin to bring in customers. If there's any justice, he will be the first in the region to have this game. The man has earned it. So, how about a cheer loud enough to be heard in Chicago? Everybody!

Jeff Tiolis (sp?), on his podcast with Martin Robbins, talked about how competitors at INDISC approached Pulp Fiction in the Finals of the Open portion of the tournament. Since Karl and his team streamed the Open, I assumed I could see what Jeff was talking about, but I can't find the coverage. I thought I found the 2024 Open Finals on YouTube, but PF wasn't in the bank. Who in this thread has seen competitive gameplay of Pulp Fiction? Jeff said players were timing out modes, one after another.

Gosh. Somehow I missed it. I'll have to try again. Thanks!