Jersey Jack Pinball

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1650 mentions Positive: 1156Negative: 356Hot Takes: 138Conflicts: 15 53% hostile
Ask Kaneda about Jersey Jack Pinball
"it's finally a Jersey Jack game that's for men that are over the age of 12 so for that reason I think it's gonna be really incredible and I think it's gonna be a home run too"

Guns N' Roses will be a home run and finally a Jersey Jack game for men over 12

hot take positive medium Ep. 501 · Sep 3, 2020
"Jersey Jack Pinball is not going under Jersey Jack Pinball is not in financial trouble and you know the reason why they have a billionaire backer okay they have a billionaire backer"

Jersey Jack Pinball is not in financial trouble due to billionaire backer

opinion positive Ep. 501 · Sep 3, 2020
"Jersey jacks on another level. I absolutely absolutely Jersey jacks on another level. Their games are more premium than both Stern and spooky. Everybody knows that."

Jersey Jack Pinball makes more premium games than Stern and Spooky

opinion positive Ep. 494 · Jun 10, 2020
"everyone knows it's Guns N' Roses so why are we fucking marketing this like uncertain pin like why are we just like having these broad strokes you should be exciting people over guns and fucking roses"

Jersey Jack's marketing approach for Guns N' Roses is backwards and ineffective

opinion negative Ep. 491 · Jun 4, 2020
"the innovation that is going to be celebrated is not Wi-Fi. The innovation you are going to get is going to be in their next game which we know is Guns N' Roses"

JJP's innovation teaser - not WiFi, will be in Guns N' Roses game

opinion mixed Ep. 490 · May 30, 2020
"This wasn't a hard decision to bring butch on board. It just was a stupid decision. I think to let him go"

Jersey Jack Pinball made a terrible decision letting Butch Peel go

opinion negative Ep. 490 · May 30, 2020
"I think what people are really hoping for From Jersey Jack is that they find more of the simple fun in the game... they stop overbaking their products"

Jersey Jack Pinball needs to focus on simpler, more fun gameplay

opinion mixed Ep. 489 · May 28, 2020
"I've always felt like Jersey Jack pinball has always put the most into their games and I've just always been waiting for a Jersey Jack game to click to be that game that just finally gives me what I want"

Jersey Jack Pinball puts the most into their games compared to other manufacturers

opinion positive Ep. 488 · May 28, 2020
"This is not the same company. It will never be the same company. And I don't think what's happened recently is a positive thing. I really don't. I think a lot of the dream, a lot of the passion and a lot of the enthusiasm is now a little bit in limbo."

Jersey Jack Pinball is no longer the same company and has lost its soul

opinion negative Ep. 481 · Apr 23, 2020
"this company is just nowhere near what it used to be and it's not the Company that you fell in love with and it's not the company that's run by Jersey Jack anymore... It is no longer Jersey Jack Pinball. It hasn't really been Jersey Jack Pinball for a very long time the second Jack took that money He lost control of his company"

Jersey Jack Pinball is now completely controlled by Pat Lawlor, not Jack, and has become a company run by money and ego rather than passion

opinion negative Ep. 480 · Apr 21, 2020
"when I posted this information on the Jersey Jack pinball fans page I put up that butch peel was let go and there was one person you could probably think for that we're gonna get to that I was banned that day from the Jersey Jack pinball fan page"

Kaneda was banned from Jersey Jack Pinball fan page for reporting Butch Peel's firing

conflict negative Ep. 480 · Apr 21, 2020
"there's only one reason why Jersey Jack pinball does not remake pirates of the Caribbean there's only one reason because it's the smart move to do that's the only reason why they're not making the game"

Jersey Jack should remake Pirates of the Caribbean but won't because it's the smart move

hot take negative scorching Ep. 476 · Apr 8, 2020
"the art packages on them have all been mediocre. It's never been illustrated in like they don't have beautiful hand drawn art on their games"

Jersey Jack games have mediocre art packages

opinion negative Ep. 476 · Apr 8, 2020
"These themes do expand and have broader audiences. The kids and the wives love these themes. And then the code makes them unapproachable, unrelatable, too complex, too confusing"

Jersey Jack games are coded too complex and confusing, making them unapproachable for casual players

opinion negative Ep. 460 · Mar 5, 2020
"5,000 Willy Wonka limited edition games is the dumbest thing you could do. 5,000 ain't limited, Jack"

Jersey Jack Pinball's numbering and limited edition strategy is consistently problematic

opinion negative Ep. 452 · Feb 8, 2020
"I think Jack needs to wake up a little bit and understand that sometimes you can go overboard sometimes you can try to try to do too much in these games"

Jersey Jack makes games too complex - sometimes you can go overboard and try to do too much

hot take negative medium Ep. 451 · Feb 6, 2020
"the best games out there from it from in terms of creativity and what they're putting into the games absolutely Jersey Jack pinball but Jersey Jack pinball I think aren't fun because Jersey Jack pinball doesn't know how to tell a story in a pinball machine"

Jersey Jack Pinball makes the most creative games but fails at storytelling and making them fun

opinion mixed Ep. 448 · Jan 29, 2020
"JJP is embarrassingly underpriced in this hobby you might hate me for saying that. But you're all getting your Jersey Jack machines at an absolute steal of a price at where Jack has his machines price. It's embarrassingly low"

JJP machines are embarrassingly underpriced

opinion positive Ep. 446 · Jan 24, 2020
"this is the kind of company that Jersey Jack pinball always should have been. Jersey Jack pinball always should have aimed to be a smaller volume high end pinball company in which you can treat your customers like this"

Jersey Jack Pinball should have been a high-end, low-volume company like Spooky instead of stuck in the middle

opinion negative Ep. 443 · Jan 17, 2020
"I just don't think Jack should be making games at scale. I think Jack should be making games to be high end Pinball machines"

Jersey Jack should focus on high-end limited production instead of volume

opinion negative Ep. 442 · Jan 13, 2020
"JJP should only make 500 total of each title and they should sell each one of those 500 games for $20,000 each. He'd sell every single game."

Jersey Jack should make only 500 units per title and sell them for $20,000 each instead of competing on volume

opinion mixed Ep. 441 · Jan 10, 2020
"When it comes to people leaving companies, I think I'm just going to adopt this policy... I'm not reporting on it until I have actual information that validates that these people have switched. Because unlike a game, unlike rumor titles, you know, these are people's careers and this is it's irresponsible to report on this stuff without confirmation."

Retraction on reporting people leaving/joining companies without confirmation

opinion mixed Ep. 440 · Jan 8, 2020
"The game I'd want up there to show people how like how much you can put into modern pinball machine today would be a Jersey Jack machine. I mean, I how awesome would it have been if slash came out and an unveiled Guns N' Roses pinball machine from Jersey Jack pinball to the world at CES."

Jersey Jack would have been better choice for CES showcase than Stern

opinion positive Ep. 440 · Jan 8, 2020
"for some reason, when you jump on one, it's just like they're just confusing. It's like they're only meant for the home environment in which you have to study a manual to know what to do in the game. And I wish they would just stop coding their games that way"

Jersey Jack makes beautiful games but codes them confusingly for home study rather than accessible play

hot take mixed medium Ep. 436 · Dec 27, 2019
"People know that it's really hard for a Jersey Jack game to ever win best game of the year because there's nowhere near the amount of people who buy Jersey Jack games that buy Stern games."

Jersey Jack games rarely win best game awards due to lower sales volume

opinion mixed Ep. 428 · Dec 11, 2019
"he should go back and he should get the Wizard of Oz a right to do it like a sculpted topper and he should do the same things for Wonka and I guarantee he would be selling as fast as he can make them and they're easy to make because once you have a mold you can make as many as you want"

Prediction: If Jersey Jack made sculpted toppers for Wizard of Oz and Wonka instead of cheap plexi ones, he would sell them as fast as he could make them.

hot take mixed Ep. 417 · Nov 14, 2019
"How do you think Jersey Jack feels when he wakes up and he's like, wait a minute. Are you telling me that I'm working so hard to make my games so much better and superior to what Stern's doing? And I'm struggling to sell $12,000, $500 collectors editions"

Jersey Jack Pinball offers superior value compared to Stern's overpriced games

opinion positive Ep. 415 · Nov 8, 2019
"Jack is going to get up there. He's going to say how successful the game has been. He's going to say they sold 2,000 already. I already know the talking points."

Jersey Jack Pinball will reveal Willy Wonka collector's edition and claim to have sold 2000 units

opinion mixed Ep. 410 · Oct 14, 2019
"They make the best Premium Pinball product in the world. There's no doubt about it...there's no way around a simple fact...Is that Stern Pinball machines are much cheaper to make than a Jersey Jack Pinball machine and it shows"

Jersey Jack makes the highest quality pinball machines in the world compared to Stern

opinion positive Ep. 409 · Oct 11, 2019
"You don't announce 500 collectors editions and then make people wait Seven months to get it...You don't say we're going to make 5,000 Limited edition versions"

Jersey Jack's marketing strategy hurts Willy Wonka sales

opinion negative Ep. 409 · Oct 11, 2019
"I'm here to tell you I'm just gonna forgive Jersey Jack and Joe and company for basically lying to me it's it's wood or under the bridge at this point I'm not gonna harp on it anymore they didn't tell me the truth and I it's all I asked for I just asked for them to be straight up and tell me what the deal was with the assets and I got a bunch of spin"

Forgiving Jersey Jack for lying about Willy Wonka assets, moving past it

opinion mixed Ep. 405 · Oct 1, 2019
"we got a company like Jersey Jack trying to do so much more put so much more in the pinball and there it is it is a level above these Stern it is you don't it is we all know that now you you know me I know that Jack always finds amazing new ways to like mess it up all the time"

Jersey Jack Pinball makes games that are a level above Stern but Jack Guarnieri keeps messing up execution

opinion mixed Ep. 403 · Sep 26, 2019
"Jersey Jack, to me, they need to get to a point where they just can't always fall back on Wizard of Oz. It's like the one game whenever they need to raise capital, it's just like, well, just make more wazas."

Jersey Jack shouldn't keep falling back on making more Wizard of Oz games

opinion negative Ep. 402 · Sep 24, 2019
"I think that Jersey Jack pinball needs to get those collectors editions out. I mean this. It's not just Jurassic Park. It's now Elvira. It's now a new cornerstone from them is coming in November."

Jersey Jack Pinball needs to accelerate releases to compete

opinion mixed Ep. 399 · Sep 16, 2019
"Jersey Jack Pinball, look we talked about this issue. And Jack is doing the right thing, he's calling up his customers and he's giving them free playfields. If they've had issues with the game... I give Jack credit for doing the right thing"

Jersey Jack Pinball handling playfield issues correctly by offering free replacement playfields

opinion positive Ep. 398 · Sep 12, 2019
"Jersey Jack himself has been calling people up and offering refunds to anyone who bought a playfield, which I think is the right move. And I think it's really good to see that the manufacturers are now starting to admit that there's a problem and be offering people some restitution."

Jersey Jack's new clear code issue response is positive development with playfield refunds

opinion positive Ep. 397 · Sep 9, 2019
"if you make a game where so much of it is buried and only the greatest of players will get to it, do you think that's working against them?... 99% of the people play pinball, you know, can't get that far. Okay. They want to, if we don't want to see two minutes into the game, a hand going in a box turning, you know, a lock. I mean, we don't want to see that. We want to see the pirate. We want to see the zombie shards."

Jersey Jack games bury content too deep for average players to experience

opinion negative Ep. 397 · Sep 9, 2019
"I think Jersey Jack games are worth $9,000. I don't think any Stern is worth $9,000 when you put it next to it. And I think they would be the first ones to tell you that as well."

Jersey Jack Pinball games are worth $9,000, no Stern game is worth $9,000 when compared

opinion positive Ep. 396 · Sep 6, 2019
"I can't believe I am reading what is almost word for word, the stern verbiage. The language is almost 100% exactly the same."

Jersey Jack Pinball plagiarized Stern's warranty language almost word-for-word to address Willy Wonka playfield issues

opinion negative Ep. 392 · Aug 30, 2019
"they knew this problem was occurring on Pirates of the Caribbean for so long and they did nothing to prevent it from happening on Willy Wonka"

Jersey Jack knew the playfield issues from Pirates and did nothing to prevent them on Willy Wonka

hot take negative scorching Ep. 391 · Aug 28, 2019
"I don't think they have permission to use the clips from the movie with the audio from the actors"

Jersey Jack lacks proper licensing for movie clips with synced audio

opinion negative Ep. 391 · Aug 28, 2019
"I don't understand how you can continue to assemble games before you've hit pause and figured out the solution"

Jersey Jack should stop production until playfield issues are resolved

opinion negative Ep. 390 · Aug 26, 2019
"How could Jersey Jack, after seeing this issue with pirates of the Caribbean, how could they not fix the problem before they started ordering Willy Wonka playfields? I don't understand that. Like they knew firsthand they had a serious issue and they just didn't do anything."

Jersey Jack knowingly shipped Willy Wonka games with the same clear coat defects as Pirates

hot take negative scorching Ep. 389 · Aug 25, 2019
"I think with stern games I think it's a little bit like the odds are better in your favor I think with Jersey Jack it's just you're just rolling the dice"

Jersey Jack Pinball games are more prone to playfield issues than Stern games

opinion mixed Ep. 388 · Aug 22, 2019
"It's like almost like Jersey Jack is sliding back down to be more like a stern and stern and climbing up a little bit to get better"

Jersey Jack is moving backwards while Stern is climbing up slightly

opinion negative Ep. 386 · Aug 20, 2019
"I think jack has really struggled to understand the the themes that people want that are his buyer base I do I I really do I mean I I don't understand the pirates the Caribbean I don't understand the Hobbit selection I don't understand dialed in on any level"

Jersey Jack has struggled to understand what themes his buyer base wants

opinion mixed Ep. 385 · Aug 18, 2019
"Do you think in a million years Stern pinball would ever stop making a game that people want in the middle of when people wanted the most, they take the game off the line."

Jersey Jack stopping Pirates production when people wanted it most shows bad business decision

hot take negative medium Ep. 378 · Aug 3, 2019
"Let me tell you right now. There is no way that they sold all 500 at 500 no not a chance in hell and especially not a chance in hell after Jurassic Park Just came out"

There's no way Jersey Jack sold all 500 Willy Wonka Collector's Editions, especially after Jurassic Park

hot take negative scorching Ep. 376 · Jul 31, 2019
"Stern is gonna get everybody their LEs before Jersey Jack ships a single collector's edition Willy Wonka. Jack how could you do it you left over six million dollars on the table by making people wait to the end of Wonka to get the LEs"

Jersey Jack left $6 million on the table with Willy Wonka LE timing

hot take negative scorching Ep. 374 · Jul 23, 2019
"now Jersey Jack artwork if you ask me is nowhere near as good as Stern artwork right now that's the one you kill these heel of Jersey Jack's overall presentation to me is the artwork I don't know why it's not that great"

Jersey Jack artwork is nowhere near as good as Stern's current artwork

opinion negative Ep. 372 · Jul 19, 2019

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