American Pinball

"American pinball to me has put magic on the past. You will never hear about John and Zidware and any of that ever again."

American Pinball has successfully moved past the Magic Girl/John Popadiuk disaster

"I still am in love with the previous version of Houdini that I saw. That being said, I can't help but feel like what good is it if you visually fall in love with the game if it doesn't work. I would rather have a Houdini that doesn't look like a J-Pop game if it works versus a J-Pop looking Houdini that doesn't shoot properly."

American Pinball Houdini artwork lacks the visual impact and warmth of John Popadiuk's version but prefers functionality over looks

"I told this to the American pinball guys. I said you guys should retain Matt Andrews the artist and they went in a different direction I think that was a mistake the bar is really high on the aesthetics of Houdini"

American Pinball should have retained Matt Andrews as artist for Houdini

"Well, I have to give props to American pinball. They stuck to their word and actually fulfilled that part of the bargain."

American Pinball deserves credit for completing Magic Girl despite difficult circumstances

"But as I've said before, that will never fully succeed. And it doesn't really make sense trying to distance themselves. Because even in the same paragraph, as they say, these are 100% Zidware machines. So any question should go directly to John and myself. Now, Scott is a, he's a member of the American pinball team. So why would questions about the machine go to Scott?"

American Pinball can't successfully distance themselves from Zidware despite trying multiple times

"I don't think American Pinball can do what they're doing and try and sidestep it now at the 11th hour and say like, hey, we're just we're just the manufacturers like he contracted us. Bullshit. He's got no money. You put your money into it."

American Pinball needs to take full responsibility for Magic Girl and stop pretending they're separate from the project

"American pinball is gonna lose money... this is just another kind of like big bang bar over again... It's failed for six years in a row"

American Pinball will lose money on Houdini - it's another Big Bang Bar situation

"I think they need to finish that before they start getting us excited about Houdini and start mentioning all these updates around Houdini."

American Pinball needs to resolve Magic Girl situation before promoting Houdini

"As nearly done almost ready to ship this whole thing feels like a con from the way they launched their company into their ex-bo Presentation to their association with jpop this company is a joke"

American Pinball is running a con - association with JPop makes them a joke

"it just it just it reeks of like the amateur hour the same way John... just do it right the right thing to do here is shut up until magic girl is done"

American Pinball launched amateurishly and needs to prove themselves

"Do you not want them to try and make the Zidware people right? I just don't get it... Why don't we want to give these guys a chance to write the wrongs of Zidware?"

American Pinball deserves a chance to make things right with Zidware victims instead of being witch hunted

"I get John burned through $1.2 million. But when John was burning through money, he didn't really have a team surrounding him getting things moving... I have to believe that these people that he's with now have that."

American Pinball has backing and project management that J-Pop lacked before

"if Houdini shows up at Expo and looks amazing and is 6,995 MSRP... And Stern's charging so much more for Batman... I think Stern's fucking in trouble"

American Pinball's competitive pricing could disrupt the boutique pinball market

"The fact that they might make magic girl owners right and they might fix that wrong is incredible"

American Pinball is making a smart move by producing Magic Girl to fix past wrongs

"I will always be on the side of people who are living by their word and that is what American pinball is doing."

American Pinball is being unfairly attacked for following their stated 90-day warranty policy

"I do think this is very unfortunate for my friends over to American pinball because for them to be writing letters and boasting about how they did it and they finished Magic Girl and it's done... Why would you say you did it? You built it. If you screw a car together that doesn't even work that doesn't even go mile. Why are you really going to take credit for being a manufacturer of that car?"

American Pinball shares blame for claiming they finished Magic Girl when it doesn't work

"so I hear that American pinball is gonna be the company that produces kingpin but we'll see on that one but you heard it here on canadus pinball podcasts"

Prediction: American Pinball might be the company that will produce a remake of Kingpin.

"I can't get over how ugly the damn American pinball backbox is. What is this stupid? We're back to the ugly Houdini backbox shape."

American Pinball's backbox design is ugly and poorly executed

"And the sentences are intent was never to limit the number of games. Yes it was. That's exactly what you did when you said only 300 or only 500. And American pinball, it's okay to have an intent to limit a number of games to make people feel like they're getting something special."

American Pinball contradicted themselves by saying their intent was never to limit games after announcing limited quantities

"I don't understand the timing why come out now if you're not done with magic girl it just doesn't make sense to me"

American Pinball's timing is wrong - should have finished Magic Girl before announcing plans

"American pinball isn't Stern. Stern pinball is making money hand over fist. Stern pinball has thousands of games out there and has tons of parts in house. I don't even know if American pinball has tons of extra parts lying around that they can just send out."

American Pinball operates on thinner margins than Stern/JJP and can't afford to give away free parts

"ain't nothing more American Chico than fucking Houdini. And what else could be more fucking American? Than fucking Oktoberfest A fucking German holiday. Who wants Oktoberfest? the same guys that want Pirates of the Caribbean in 2018 man Fucking Zero"

American Pinball's theme choices like Oktoberfest are terrible and un-American

"the first piece of advice I would give is to make these deposits non-refundable because as we know and spooky learn this the hard way, you can get orders and you can get deposits, but you don't want people to be able to back out of their deposit once they see gameplay"

American Pinball should make deposits non-refundable to prevent buyers from backing out after initial FOMO

"I think American Pinball is run by a fucking bunch of fools"

American Pinball is run by fools

"American Pinball has been a place of promise of optimism and of sales flops. And there's no way to spin it."

American Pinball has had multiple sales failures