"Everybody's favorite disaster, Houdini. A game with a bunch of cool toys. The shots are terribly tight"
Houdini is a terrible game not worth collecting
"Houdini is a tough game, it's not a player friendly game, it's the hardest game that you could possibly have out there. It needs to have a little help to it to get it to be more friendly for the player"
Houdini is too difficult and not player-friendly, needs help to be more accessible
"I think Houdini is finding itself there pretty fast. You either get it right or I think you're going to be in the bargain bin pretty quickly."
Houdini is losing value quickly and finding itself in the bargain bin
"I do think Josh Kugler's animations look like they come from the early 20th century, but I don't think that's by choice."
Houdini animations look like they come from early 20th century but not by choice
"I will say that after an entire year, I think it's fair to say that Houdini, the response to it and the success of Houdini, and the success of the game has not been that strong. That it was pretty much a lukewarm reception to Houdini within the pinball community."
Houdini lukewarm reception and weak sales
"I make fun of Houdini because I think it shoots poorly and I think a lot of you agree. I think the shots are really tight... I think Houdini is a terrible brickfest and I've said it from the first moment I plunged it to having put about 50 games on Houdini. I still think the layout was rushed."
Houdini shoots poorly and is a terrible brickfest with tight, frustrating shots
"I think the American Pinball Houdini gives you so much bang for the buck. I'm not a fan of the tight shots in the game. I'm also not the biggest fan of the dark artwork in the game. I just don't like dark artwork on pinball machines."
American Pinball's Houdini is great value but has tight shots and dark artwork that doesn't fit pinball
"I still think it's quite a challenging game to get into I would not have designed the game to be as difficult as it is"
Houdini by American Pinball is too difficult and challenging for new players
"I think Houdini at $7,000 is a lot of value. It is. There's a lot going on there... I think my big issue with Houdini is I just don't feel like I can progress through the game. I feel like the difficulty of the game itself makes it really hard for me to feel like I'm making any progress."
Houdini at $7,000 is good value but brutally difficult, preventing progression through the game
"I still think that this game has some shots that are almost ridiculously tight. And by that I mean it's like you don't feel confident in some of the really important shots in the game."
Houdini has ridiculously tight shots that are frustrating
"I thought the build quality of Houdini was very good I thought it felt more solid than the Stern machines I jumped on I had no issues whatsoever with the feel of the game I mean it feels like a rock solid machine."
Houdini build quality is very good, feels more solid than Stern
"I don't think it needs to be negative. I think if I were Russell, I would not have used the word laughable. Because I think that's insulting and I think that's derogatory and I don't think anything about Houdini is laughable."
Houdini shots are tight but criticism was unfairly harsh
"Here's here's my prediction because I appreciate I appreciate that prediction. I don't need I don't think they can even make a thousand if they wanted to in a year."
Prediction: The company cannot produce even 1,000 Houdini pinball machines in a year due to production limitations.
"So my prediction is this. I think Houdini is going to be a pinball machine that people want to buy. I think people are not going to want to wait a year to get it. I think they have like a four to five month window to get the machines out the door before peo"
Prediction: People will want to buy Houdini but won't want to wait a year for it, giving the company only a 4-5 month window before people lose interest.
"American pinball hasn't taken anyone's money they haven't broken anyone's promise with them but as Josh said in the interview they need to sell a lot of games to keep that company in business with the amount of stuff they're putting in Houdini for $7000 so if you really want to show your support for start a pinball companies that are giving you the most bang for your buck then don't just type it on pinside go buy a Houdini"
American Pinball's Houdini offers the most bang for your buck at $7000
"The game is going to come fully featured for $7,000. It's very competitively priced... People are going to want this machine because I think it gives you a lot for the money and value is starting to become the major topic in Pinball these days."
Houdini offers exceptional value at $7000 with only one model instead of multiple tiers
"$69.95. Holy shit. If they can hit that, I think these guys have a legitimate chance."
American Pinball Houdini pricing could be game-changing at $6995
"Their game is $69.95. Magical was $16,000. Razza was $10,000. All the J-Pop games were much higher priced. I'm also just really interested in, or find it interesting, the price of this thing. $7,000. All of a sudden, now, that's like the cost of what is Stern Premium, but now the premiums with Batman are $8,000. It's very, very, very, very, very competitively priced."
American Pinball's Houdini pricing strategy is very competitive and smart
"I'm going to back it up, Greg, with why I enjoy prudini. Out of the box, it has flipper toppers."
Enjoys Houdini game, specifically mentions flipper toppers as a positive feature