Thoughts on Python Anghelo - Pinball Designer - Completely Unnecessary Podcast
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Ian talks about the passing of Python Anghelo and his pinball accomplishments.
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Thank you Ian for always discussing Pinball!
I've never been especially knowledgeable about pinball history and specific tables, but it's always been a topic that I've been fascinated by. Not to mention how fun pinball has always been.
RIP love the show you guys. Keep giving me the bite sized. Perfect format.
I was able to hear him speak at a Pinball Expo a number of years ago. Very interesting to listen to him! RIP
I always loved the imagery they used in Cyclone pinball. I was born in 82, but even as a young child I loved seeing Ronnie an Nancy Reagan flying down on the rollercoaster. For whatever reasons it left a long lasting impression on me. My dad was a big pinball player in those days, so I'd stand around for hours sometimes, watching him play or observing all the crazy awesome art work featured on those machines. Another favorite being Pin-Bot and Bride of Pin-bot. They seemed to have everything a young 80's child could want in pinball machine art. Bright eye catching colors, a bit of risque sexiness, and of course robots themselves. I can still pull out the details when I close my eyes and think about them. I hope all the pinball master creators know how much of a great impression they left on young artists minds from those era's.
Pinbot was amazing I was so obsessed with that pinball machine when I was a kid. I still have the Pinbot NES game too. I just wish I still had the box and instructions to go with it.
One of the dream tables I'd like to own is Taxi (the Marilyn version). I've never played High Speed in person, but the layout looks almost identical. It's sad that we've lost this great man and I hope the games are on free play in heaven.
i remember pinbot! back in the 80's they had one at the rv park. it was an amazing machine.
I never played Pinball much as a child, but man, was it fun! You are right; pinball machines don't get as much credit as arcade cabinets. Maybe it's because of the lack of graphics on a screen? Difficulty? Almost impossible high scores to break? I don't know, but this was a good podcast. RIP
Not only a great designer but the owner of the best name in human history.
yeah my heart sunk when i heard this he was awesome and i love pinball
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R.I.P Python
I'll have to fire up those pinball machines. I am also convinced I'll give Fish Tales a try too.
I've always been terrible at pinball, but it's pretty addictive. Never really thought about the people behind the tables.
i have a demolition man, it is not working atm :(
I have yet to play a real pinball machine, just virtual pinball games like Devil's Crush on TG-16.
It's sad to see him go before he ever got to see his magnum opus Pinball Circus ever produced for sale (He tried it once with Williams and they wouldn't do it because it was a pretty expensive machine to make). There are only 2 of those machines in the wild (which is even LESS than Gottlieb's Goin' Nuts, which had 10 units produced. Goin' Nuts, since it was in pre production before it was canceled in mysterious reasons though it did make it out of the whiteboard phase [a part of me thinks that the 3 squirrels featured on the game were a bit too close to a certain trio of chipmunks] was a pretty simplistic perma multiball game pretty much), one of those at the Pinball Hall of Fame.
I'm pretty eh with Stern machines myself. Don't get me wrong, I do like some of their machines, like X-Men, Pirates of the Carribean, and Ripley's Believe it or Not, but I don't like how many of their machines seem to take more cues off of Sega's Harley Davidson, which they adopted once they got back into business under the new Stern name. There's not a lot to do in the machine, and it feels like it hands out multiballs like candy. Seriously, outside of the 3 multiball modes, there's only patch hurry up and the video mode, pretty much
Ripley's, TRON, and AC/DC are probably the best Stern machines. I really enjoy X-Men because of the theme and the awesome layout... too bad it took forever for the ruleset to get to a point where it was playable. Metallica bored me pretty quick and while I like the shots on Star Trek I don't feel particularly strong about it as a whole. I'm not big on many 00's era Stern's. Bad licenses and boring design.
I hate PotC! One of my least favorite machines. To each their own =P
Yeah, Stern has a lot of hits and misses in my view, and they did the professional equivilent of retheming a table With Shrek and Family Guy (One popular example is someone modding an Earthshaker into a Metallica theme or someone modding Jackbot into a horror theme). Also, coming from the late 80's to pinball 2k crash, stern's 'bumper caps' just screams of cost reduction (as well as pulling the physical knocker for a speaker based one). Too bad their only competitor is in whiteboard phase with their second table (Jersey Jack Pinball). If I may ask, what is it that you don't like about POTC? I like the meshing of the AFM/MM layout with a ruleset similar to Scared Stiff/Cirqus Voltaire. At least POTC doesn't feel as 'empty' as SHD (Sega Harley Davidson) does. Also, with them mostly doing licensed tables, it will be a PITA for Farlight Studios to license those tables, probably even requiring kickstarters like STTNG, TZ, and T2 did. The one that I can probably see after Season 3 is probably High Roller Casino, with that and Tron being other stern tables I like. Though, maybe they might go for more Stern V1 tables (As I call the classic stern tables)
TheLomdr I'd really like to see more 80's Sterns. I voted for Seawitch when FarSight had open voting for the next Stern but we got F2K instead. Ended up loving that one anyway.
I haven't played any of the classic sterns except for Orbiter 1, which is probably one of the weirdest tables around. Well, that and F2K through TPA and Future Pinball
TheLomdr Sorry, I never addressed PotC. The table feels cramped to me and the visibility of the back left with the ship and whirlpool is pretty poor. You don't really need to see that but It irks me. I guess it's just the overall layout that I never really meshed with compounded by the fact that it seemed it was the only table any place had for years. Every time I'd check out a new bar and see a table? PotC! So over saturation had a hand in my dislike as well.
Truth be told I was at a bar about a month ago with my co-workers and there was a PotC. For the first time ever I found myself enjoying it a bit. Partially because of my company and partially because I let my dislike of the layout fade long enough to grip the rules better. It's still near the bottom of my list, though!
he designed my favorite machines pinbot and bride of pinbot
Bride is such a one trick pony but man... it is an awesome trick.
I've never seen a Pinbot machine, but I remember Bride of Pinbot being very fun.
Well, I'mma have to buy his tables through the Pinball Arcade now, I don't have any of them.
I'm addicted to Creature From The Black Lagoon ATM :-)
Oww black lagoon we used to play that all the time on holiday great machine :D
Mflexx Yeah, I still play it almost daily, what a wonderful machine!!! :-)
Did this man design the "Hurricane" table?
No, I don't believe so, which is probably why it's almost universally considered the worst of the "coaster" trilogy.
lol, I remember it from my childhood at the bowling alley.
pinball is still a thing
It's Jesus
I dont like pinball because I lose too fast lol