Pinball: Dennis and Tony discuss the plan by Spooky Pinball to eventually run TNA version 2.0 and Jersey Jack Pinball’s major coup with getting a game featured by the Slo Mo Guys on YouTube.
Video Games: Primary discussion revolves around yet another delay on Cyberpunk 2077. They also discuss the slew of Ubisoft video games that work on PS4 but will not work on PS5.
This episode has a wide-ranging discussion about Stern releasing another cornerstone in 2020, the cost of toppers, DMCA and Twitch, the new consoles from Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo’s sales figures, and capping donations on Twitch. At the end Tony and Dennis also choose if they could have only one, pinball or video games, which answer is correct (and there is a correct answer!).
Pinball: Discussion revolves around Søren ROMs with Planetary Pinball, the production model stream for deeproot’s RAZA, and the end of the Replay Foundation as we know it.
Video Games: Discussion involves Cyberpunk, Stadia, the failure that is Marvel’s Avengers by SE, and Comcast data caps.
Pinball: Discussion covers the new P3 mini-game Shoot n’ Scoot, the announcement of a Led Zeppelin pinball machine by Stern Pinball, the return of Alien Pinball (now by Pinball Brothers), and deeproot Pinball going live on its website for RAZA purchases.
Video Games: Discussion here covers the latest on Twitch and DMCA challenges and ends with a lengthy discussion on Cyberpunk 2077.
Pinball: News discussion touches on the upcoming Pinball Industry Awards ceremony and The Pinball Hall of Fame’s active GoFundMe, but the bulk of the pinball segment is discussing which John Hughes’s directed movie would make the for best pinball machine.
Video Games: Discussion focuses on Lucas Film Games, Microsoft’s price increase (and then cancellation of said increase) for Xbox Live Gold, and the game development at Valve.
Pinball: News discussion covers the thousand-dollar increase Jersey Jack Pinball has deployed for Guns N’ Roses Pinball. The guys also discuss the results of the Pinball Industry Awards.
Video Games: Discussion focuses on Blizzard not planning to release Diablo 4 or Overwatch 2 in 2021, Google Stadia closing its gaming studios, Gearbox Studios being acquired by Embracer, and information about the Mass Effect Legendary Edition.
Pinball: Discussion covers a bit more about Jersey Jack Pinball’s GnR price increase followed by American Pinball’s hiring of Jack Haeger as Art Director.
Video Games: Discussion focuses on some creative police force usage of DMCA, Blizzard’s virtual convention, and CD Projekt Red being hacked.
Pinball: The guys discuss Project Pinball’s translites’ auction, JJP’s new approach on chipped playfields, and whether pinball is in a darkest days period despite all the purported demand.
Video Games: Discussion focuses on Activision-Blizzard’s layoffs, Tony’s experience with Valheim, and the latest from Square Enix.
Pinball: The guys briefly talk TWIPYs before moving into the latest information coming out about deeproot Pinball. From there they play a new game submitted by Matt Roberts: So Which Came First?
Video Games: Discussion focuses LEGO Star Wars, Outriders, and No Man’s Sky.
Pinball: The guys discuss Spooky’s expansion plus other planned updates and Heist getting 15-ball multiball.
Video Games: Discussion focus on Square Enix rumors, Amazon dropping a Lord of the Rings MMO, Twitch getting rid of viewbots, Outriders losing inventory, and the success of Cyberpunk 2077.
Pinball: The guys discuss Haggis Pinball’s announcement of Fathom Revisited.
Video Games: Discussion focus on Activision-Blizzard’s CEO pay, the loss of Jeff Kaplan from Blizzard, Microsoft revising their cut of PC game sales, Valorant’s steps to deal with voice-chat toxicity, and Konami not being at E3.
Pinball: The guys discuss Stern Pinball’s announcement of The Mandalorian Pinball.
Video Games: Discussion focus on Dungeons and Dragons Dark Alliance, E3 being virtual, Ubisoft testing out more free-to-play, and Stadia super-duper-not-at-all-in-trouble.
Pinball: The guys discuss a bit about the prior episode’s distributor talk, Haggis selling out of their Fathom Revisited Mermaid Edition, Spooky appearing to be close to revealing their next pinball machine, the continued explosion of complaints regarding Jersey Jack Pinball and subpar playfields with GnR, Pinball Adventures revealing an upcoming game called Elements, and the latest deeproot update on RAZA.
Video Games: Discussion focuses on Nintendo Switch rumors, the cancellation of Blizzcon and Overwatch 2 news, Twitch and its actions regarding the hot tub meta, and Ubisoft’s actions regarding sexual harassment.
Pinball: The guys cover a couple emails and then discuss Multimorphic’s plan for a licensed theme on their next P3 title and American Pinball now being owned by Aimtron.
Video Games: Discussion focuses on some early E3 2021 coverage.
Pinball: The guys discuss Silver Falls, an upcoming new title for the P3 platform, and discuss the P3 and Multimorphic’s attempts to grow the system in general.
Video Games: Discussion focuses on some the rest of the E3 2021 coverage not handled in the prior episode.