Elton John

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122 mentions Positive: 91Negative: 25Hot Takes: 6 37% hostile
Ask Kaneda about Elton John
"if what I wanted was a game that was just the most fun to shoot... there is no better game than Elton John. Elton John is so much more fun to shoot than King Kong."

Elton John is the most fun game to shoot, better than King Kong

hot take mixed medium Ep. 1086 · May 3, 2025
"Jersey Jack puts out a phenomenal game in Elton John. Yeah, I still think it's overpriced, but it's a phenomenal game. When I see people slamming that game for being empty, you need to have your head examined because the game isn't really as empty as people think."

Elton John is a phenomenal game despite being overpriced

opinion positive Ep. 1071 · Mar 31, 2025
"Still a mistake by Jersey Jack not to have the Franci artwork be the collector's edition of that game. I think if Franci's art was on the CE, they would have sold way more CEs of that game."

Jersey Jack should have made Franci's artwork the collector's edition of Elton John instead of the standard version

opinion negative Ep. 1057 · Feb 27, 2025
"I think a lot of the Elton John CE fanboys are eating some humble pie because the game's still sitting in boxes at distros. And now they're starting to sell for a thousand off."
opinion negative YouTube· Jan 4, 2025
"They're going to be so easy to get like there's not even going to be any difficulty getting one the same way there's not even a difficulty getting an Elton John CE. I think a lot of the Elton John CE fanboys are eating some humble pie because the game's still sitting in boxes at distros."
opinion negative YouTube· Jan 4, 2025
"I'll just say this Elton John is a stern machine Released by Jersey Jack pinball. It is it's a stern machine. They finally made a game that shoots like a stern"

Elton John is just a Stern machine released by Jersey Jack

hot take negative medium YouTube· Dec 15, 2024
"Elton John is the best Jersey Jack shooter to date. If I had money burning a hole in my pocket, I would try to find an Elton CE for $12,000."

Elton John is Jersey Jack's best shooter game

opinion positive Ep. 1021 · Nov 11, 2024
"It is the best $12,000 CE Jersey Jack ever made. And it's the greatest like $9,500 platinum game they ever made. The problem is the platinum is $12,500 and the CE is $15,000."

Elton John CE is the best shooting Jersey Jack game but overpriced at $15,000

opinion mixed Ep. 973 · Jul 8, 2024
"it is a great game, I've said it since I've played it, I love the game, I still worry about owning one and how deep the code is if you're not the biggest Elton John fan"

Elton John is a great game that shoots well, but code may not be deep enough for non-fans

opinion mixed Ep. 971 · Jul 1, 2024
"they will never sell out of 1000 Elton John's at $15,000 a pop"

Elton John won't sell out 1000 units at $15,000

opinion negative Ep. 971 · Jul 1, 2024
"There will never be a world in which a thousand Elton John CEs at 15 K of pop, there will never be a world in which some of those won't still be available for sale at dealers and distros in a box forever"

Elton John Collector's Editions will never sell out

opinion negative Jun 23, 2024
"I think it's a phenomenal game. I still don't think it's worth the money."

Elton John CE is phenomenal game but overpriced at $15,000

opinion mixed Ep. 967 · Jun 18, 2024
"It's still the best shooting Jersey Jack game of all time. It is the best game of the year easily. And it's a lot of fun... The game's great. It is a great game. It's just overpriced."

Elton John is the best Jersey Jack game ever and best game of the year but overpriced

opinion mixed Ep. 960 · May 27, 2024
"elton john is the game of the year there's no there's no other game that has made a mark after playing it better than elton john... elton john is one of the best shooting pinball machines of all time elton john is easily i think the most impressive modern pinball experience you can have"

Elton John is game of the year and one of the best shooting pinball machines of all time

opinion positive May 26, 2024
"I think Elton John is the best modern pinball machine I've ever jumped on. It's just not worth the money and I hate saying that."

Elton John is the best pinball machine of 2024 but overpriced

opinion mixed Ep. 958 · May 22, 2024
"Elton John is a great game. It's not selling. There's only one reason it's not selling. It's not because it's Elton John... it wasn't priced that astronomical."

Jersey Jack's Elton John is great but overpriced and not selling

opinion mixed Ep. 954 · May 14, 2024
"Elton John is a great shooting game. But between you and me, everybody's really waiting for the next two games from Jersey Jack Pinball... Even though people are loving the game, I still don't think they're going to get a lot more orders for the game."

Elton John is great shooter but not dream theme, demand will be satisfied quickly

opinion mixed Ep. 952 · May 9, 2024

Elton John owners acting like a cult over a game that's not even a dream themeextracted summary

opinion mixed Ep. 948 · May 6, 2024
"I still think it's significantly overpriced, and I don't think it's a theme you totally want, but when you play it you're going to have a great time"

Elton John is significantly overpriced despite being fun

opinion mixed Ep. 943 · Apr 29, 2024
"I would rather have back to the future than Guns N' Roses and Batman 66. I also would rather play Elton John every single day over Guns N' Roses and Batman 66. Again, because I also really like Elton John music, and I really love the way the game shoots."

Elton John shoots much better than Batman 66 and GNR

opinion positive Ep. 939 · Apr 19, 2024
"It is never going to be hard in the history of pinball to get a $15,000 Elton John. You will always be able to get this game if you have $15,000 in your pocket. And history has shown us that you will most likely easily be able to get this game for less than $15,000 when the time comes."

Elton John CEs will never be hard to get and will likely sell for less than $15,000

opinion negative Ep. 938 · Apr 17, 2024
"Because when I harp on this stuff, I guarantee you the later builds of Elton John will have that damn thing turned upside down so it looks correctly when you're playing the game. And you can thank Kaneda for that because I'm going to keep harping on this until they fix"

Prediction: Later builds of Elton John will have a component fixed to look correct during gameplay due to Kaneda's complaints.

hot take mixed Ep. 938 · Apr 17, 2024
"You make a game first. It's on the line. Before you do anything else, get the game on the line. The second thing you do is you reveal it. Now you reveal it to the world after it's already being made."

Jersey Jack's marketing strategy for Elton John was fundamentally flawed - they revealed before manufacturing

opinion negative Ep. 938 · Apr 17, 2024
"I know Elton John is not selling very well I went on Pinside and you can still go order a collector's edition easily not only that this is the real problem for Jersey Jack... there are a bunch of distributors that have Elton John Platinum's sitting in a box at their factory"

Elton John is not selling well and distributors have unsold inventory

opinion negative Ep. 937 · Apr 15, 2024
"Elton John's not the talk of the town. Yeah, it's a great game. It's severely overpriced. That's it. End of story."

Elton John is a great game but severely overpriced

opinion mixed Ep. 935 · Apr 10, 2024
"if I had like $11,000, I would turn my couch upside down and shake out the loose change and find enough money to buy an Elton John Platinum because that's a far superior game on every single level. Like Elton John does so much so well and it makes Abba look really, really pedestrian."

Elton John Platinum is vastly superior to ABBA Pinball

opinion positive Ep. 934 · Apr 8, 2024
"I'm just wondering if Elton will have a second life. I don't think it's going to... if I was at Jack Bar and I was drunk, that's when I would order one... But the more I go home, I sleep on it at a site out of mine. I just don't want to own Elton John."

Elton John pinball will not have commercial success despite beautiful CE unboxings

opinion negative Ep. 931 · Mar 29, 2024
"I really want an Elton John but I'm not going to get one... Steve Ritchie is still over there. He's going to make another game at Jersey Jack that is probably going to shoot just as good if not better than Elton John and I think it's going to be based on a theme that I want much more than Elton John."

Won't buy Elton John now because waiting for next Steve Ritchie game

opinion mixed Ep. 929 · Mar 26, 2024
"As much as I love Elton John and I do love Elton John game, I still think it's a total ripoff for $12,000 to $15,000. I mean it is basically Star Trek wearing Jersey Jack clothing."

Mixed feelings on Elton John - loves the game but thinks it's overpriced

opinion mixed Ep. 927 · Mar 19, 2024
"Elton John is the best game in the last like few years, easily, hands down the best game in the last few years, there's only one con, it's that it's too expensive for a lot of people"

Elton John is the best game in recent years despite high price

opinion positive Ep. 926 · Mar 15, 2024
"I think Elton John is going to be the walk away winner from the show. I think Elton John is going to be the game that when people actually play it, when you jump on it and you experience like this game and this Jersey Jack package with Steve Ritchie Flow and the music cranking at T.P.F."

Elton John will be the standout game at Texas Pinball Festival despite initial negative reactions

hot take positive medium Ep. 922 · Mar 8, 2024
"it is easily the best shooting game in Jersey Jack's lineup... but it can get a little bit repetitive. Crocodile Rock, multiball over and over again."

Elton John is Jersey Jack's best shooting game but gets repetitive

opinion mixed Ep. 920 · Feb 29, 2024
"Elton John is the beginning of the future of Jersey Jack. Elton John is. Pat Lawlor still had his hand in on Godfather, and obviously Toy Story 4 because he made it. And I think we're seeing a new Jersey Jack."

Elton John represents the beginning of Jersey Jack's positive future post-Pat Lawlor

opinion positive Feb 26, 2024
"Jersey Jack Pinball has its best shooting game to date. It's just struggling with how to market this Elton John game to the pinball world. It's a phenomenal game. The more time you spend on an Elton John, the more you're going to want one and you know it. And I don't care what anybody says. I will die on that hill. It is the most enjoyable Jersey Jack game to play to date easily and simply because of the way it shoots and the music fits pinball perfectly."

Elton John is Jersey Jack's best shooting game and most enjoyable to date

opinion positive Ep. 917 · Feb 21, 2024
"I think this game is suffering from a revolt of everything we've seen in the pinball world over the last couple of years. And you sort of drew a line in the sand and you said, hey, the game we're really going to take it out on is Elton John. And it's really strange to me because Elton John is a much better game than Toy Story 4. It's a much better game than the Godfather."

Jersey Jack Pinball Elton John is suffering from pinball market revolt despite being better than other games

opinion positive Ep. 915 · Feb 16, 2024
"Elton John is out there. It's not selling very well"

Elton John pinball is selling poorly

opinion negative Feb 11, 2024
"even though the game is amazing, even though I love it, even though it plays so damn well, I still just think people are not gonna get over the theme and they're not gonna get over the sticker shock"

Elton John pinball is an amazing game held back by theme and pricing

opinion mixed Ep. 912 · Feb 7, 2024
"I still think right now it's the game of the year. I still think that game embarrasses Jaws Pinball. I think as a total pinball package that game feels twice as expensive as Jaws Pinball."

Elton John is Jersey Jack Pinball's best playing game and currently game of the year

opinion positive Ep. 911 · Feb 5, 2024
"I kind of think this game is worth $12,000, especially with what's in the pinball market."

Elton John is worth $12,000 compared to other options

opinion positive Ep. 910 · Feb 4, 2024
"I think this is the nicest modern pinball machine I've ever played. I think it is the greatest modern example of what pinball can be."

Elton John is the greatest modern pinball machine ever made

opinion positive Ep. 910 · Feb 4, 2024
"It is probably Jersey Jack's best game to date simply because it's the best shooting game. It's the most fun to flip and it has like high energy rock and roll Elton John music and the light shows are amazing"

Elton John is Jersey Jack's best game to date and more appealing than Jaws

opinion positive Ep. 909 · Feb 2, 2024
"I just don't know how you spend $12,000 on one. I really don't... I still think these games are going to be like $9,000 in just a few months"

Elton John pinball overpriced and will drop to $9000

opinion negative Ep. 894 · Jan 1, 2024
"Christopher Franchi, Elton John, Platinum Edition, easily the most stunning game of 2023 and the game that nobody's buying. I mean just think about that for a minute. It's one of the most beautiful pinball machines of all time and nobody's buying it."

Elton John Platinum Edition is beautiful but not selling

opinion mixed Ep. 891 · Dec 23, 2023
"Here's where they could have taken this mech to a supernal level. Imagine if there was a mode in this game that was just called make a request. This little animatronic Elton John sitting in front of the piano, his head turns to you, and they get the real Elton John to do a call out that says, hey, what song would you like to hear?"

Jersey Jack missed a golden opportunity with Elton John piano mechanism by not making it interactive

opinion mixed Ep. 888 · Dec 13, 2023
"I mean I've been having dealers tell me Elton John is just dead on arrival like nobody's ordering Elton John more people have ordered Looney Tunes and Texas chainsaw massacre than Elton John pinball right now"

Elton John is dead on arrival with fewer orders than niche horror games

opinion negative Ep. 887 · Dec 11, 2023
"my fear is this game won't make it into people's homes, it won't make it onto location, not because the game is not beautiful, not because the game is not fun, it's just a lot of money"

Elton John pinball won't make it into homes or locations due to high pricing

opinion negative Ep. 884 · Dec 4, 2023
"I would say we're only going to make 2,000 Elton John machines... There will be 1000 collectors editions made and 1000 platinum editions of the game made"

Jersey Jack should cap Elton John at 2000 units for exclusivity

opinion mixed Ep. 884 · Dec 4, 2023
"Does it feel exactly like a stern and as snappy as a stern machine? The answer is still no, but I didn't feel any issues with these flippers at all."

Elton John is Jersey Jack's best shooting game but still doesn't feel exactly like Stern

opinion positive Ep. 883 · Dec 3, 2023
"I'm worried that this is a great game that is going to be doomed by the realities of the market right now."

Elton John is a great game doomed by market realities and pricing

opinion mixed Ep. 883 · Dec 3, 2023
"When you walk into a room and you see this game for the first time, I will say this is arguably. Maybe the most beautiful pinball machine that's ever been made."

Elton John Platinum Edition is arguably the most beautiful pinball machine ever made

opinion positive Ep. 883 · Dec 3, 2023

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