Back to the Future

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46 mentions Positive: 32Negative: 2Hot Takes: 12 8% hostile
Ask Kaneda about Back to the Future
"Back to the future doesn't need a launch. Back to the future launched when way back in 19, like what, like 85, 86 back to the future launch when the movie came out. It doesn't matter what they do."

Back to the Future will be a guaranteed success regardless of launch quality

opinion positive YouTube· Dec 21, 2025
"I think you're looking at a game that on the second hand market will push 40 to 50,000 dollars"

Back to the Future SLE could sell for $40-50k on secondary market if only 88 made

hot take positive scorching Ep. 1165 · Nov 29, 2025
"I just went and I asked the actual sources of the people working on this game, and it's not off the table, everything's going just fine"

Back to the Future pinball is not canceled and is still in development

opinion positive Ep. 1142 · Sep 30, 2025
"I think Dutch should reconsider making back to the future, even if there aren't tariffs, they can't make the games fast enough. It's a legit problem. It'd be like starting in McDonald's and only being able to make like two big Macs a day. Your McDonald's wouldn't be successful."

Dutch Pinball can't manufacture Back to the Future fast enough to meet demand

opinion negative YouTube· Jul 27, 2025
"George Gomez could have called me up and said Chris we got a chance to do back to the future with Joe Camman cow should we do it yeah George absolutely absolutely do you want to make 50 million dollars or not 80 million dollars I guarantee it."

Prediction: A Back to the Future pinball machine would make 50-80 million dollars.

hot take mixed YouTube· May 5, 2025
"I hate to say this people, but I don't think Back to the Future is going to come out until summer of 2026. That is my prediction."

Prediction: Back to the Future pinball will not come out until summer of 2026.

hot take mixed Ep. 1084 · Apr 28, 2025
"I'm here to tell you right now you are not going to see back to the future this year. You're not going to see it. It's not coming out this year. It will not be ready and it will not be shipped."

Back to the Future will not release in 2025 and will miss anniversary year

hot take negative scorching Ep. 1083 · Apr 25, 2025
"So why would you, if you're Barry, why would you want to like spend? Five years of your life when you could just let Stern make the game, get a royalty on everyone's sold, make a few million dollars and just chill. I don't understand why he won't do that."

Back to the Future should be made by Stern, not Dutch Pinball

opinion mixed Ep. 1048 · Feb 3, 2025
"If Stern Pinball and Barry can reach a deal, Keith Elwin will make this game. You will get a Keith Elwin Back to the Future and you will get all of Stern's best coding team on it."

Keith Elwin should design Back to the Future if Stern and Dutch Pinball make a deal

opinion positive Ep. 1034 · Dec 13, 2024
"The person who really wants to make Back to the Future over at Stern Pinball is Keith Elwin. Keith Elwin really wants to make this game... The greatest pinball designer of all time wants to make what would be one of the greatest themes of pinball of all time."

Keith Elwin wants to design Back to the Future and would be perfect for it

hot take positive medium Ep. 1021 · Nov 11, 2024
"I think Stern should make the game. I think Barry would be a hero, and I think that's the right thing to do. I don't think Jersey Jack would make a better Back to the Future than Stern."

Stern should make Back to the Future, not Jersey Jack

opinion mixed Oct 27, 2024
"I think Stern should make the game. I think Barry would be a hero and I think that's the right thing to do. I don't think Jersey Jack would make a better back to the future than Stern. And if Stern had one of their amazing designers like Danger or Elwin Do it, I think a modern day classic would be born."

Stern should make Back to the Future instead of Jersey Jack, Keith Elwin should design it

opinion positive YouTube· Oct 27, 2024
"they're going to announce officially, Don, that Back to the Future is coming out at Pinball Expo. So you heard it here first, even though I've been telling you all the Alice information for like two weeks."

Prediction: Back to the Future pinball will be officially announced at Pinball Expo.

hot take mixed Ep. 1005 · Oct 7, 2024
"I can't get anybody to raise their hand. So I don't like, I, you know, could I hold a gun to somebody's head? Maybe, but, but do you really want that?"

Stern passed on Back to the Future because no designers wanted to make it

opinion mixed Ep. 1000 · Sep 16, 2024
"I've seen some of Back to the Future. That's the game all of you should be waiting for. It's coming and it's coming from Dutch Pinball with Bob Gale"

Back to the Future from Dutch Pinball will be superior to Avatar

opinion positive Ep. 991 · Aug 28, 2024
"Back to the future is the greatest sweet spot. It is one of those 80s movies that is held up tremendously well. Everyone who's seen that movie and the second movie, we love it."

Back to the Future will outsell Harry Potter and Pokemon pinball machines

hot take positive medium Ep. 964 · Jun 4, 2024
"Barry sitting on Back to the Future right now demands through the roof and imagine if he makes only 88 special limited edition versions of the game... What do you think he could price that at?"

Dutch Pinball's Back to the Future has massive demand potential

opinion positive Ep. 957 · May 20, 2024
"if I were to be honest, what am I most looking forward to in the Pinball world... I'm so excited for Back to the Future, I can't explain enough how excited we all are"

Back to the Future by Dutch Pinball will be the most exciting release

opinion positive Ep. 913 · Feb 9, 2024
"I'm so certain it's coming out that if Back to the Future does not become a pinball machine, I will cancel my show. That's how confident I am that Back to the Future will be a machine."

Back to the Future pinball is definitely happening and if it doesn't, Kaneda will cancel his show

hot take positive scorching Ep. 856 · Oct 7, 2023
"I am hearing that the company that is making back to the future is Dutch Pinball. Yes. Yes, Barry, please, please say this is true."

Back to the Future pinball is being made by Dutch Pinball with Roger Sharp making the deal

hot take mixed scorching Ep. 854 · Oct 4, 2023
"I've been hearing very strong rumors that a theme that everybody really wants... I'm hearing that back to the future is happening people. And it's not happening by stern pinball."

Back to the Future pinball is coming from a non-Stern manufacturer

hot take mixed scorching Ep. 853 · Oct 2, 2023
"So Back to the Future, that's a Take My Money Now theme for a lot of people. It's a Take My Money Now theme for me personally. I launched Pepsi Perfect when Pepsi was a client at Comic-Con. I love this movie. It's perfect for pinball."

Back to the Future is a 'Take My Money Now' theme

opinion positive Ep. 832 · Aug 10, 2023
"if Stern makes back to the future by Keith Elwin, it's just just charge whatever you want, they could legitimately charge whatever they want, and we would throw money at this thing, like we've never thrown money at a game"

If Stern makes Back to the Future by Keith Elwin, they can charge whatever they want and people will pay

hot take positive medium Ep. 643 · Jan 25, 2022
"But you heard it here on canadus pinball podcast that Steve Ritchie was not the first designer jersey jack tried to poach That stern games are going up in price and you are gonna see back to the future as the next cornerstone after Godzilla"

Prediction: Back to the Future will be the next cornerstone game after Godzilla.

hot take mixed Ep. 607 · Aug 11, 2021
"If Joe Kaminkow was working with Stern on back to the future, do you think Christopher Franchi would make that little remark like that if it was a Stern project knowing that Stern and Franchi have severed the relationship?"

Speculates that Back to the Future could be a Chicago Gaming Company original game, not Stern

opinion positive Ep. 449 · Jan 31, 2020

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