BlahCade Pinball Podcast

https://www.blahcadepinball.com/blahcade-212/ It’s getting towards the end of what has been a pretty rough year in retrospect. As a glimmer of hope for the year ahead, we explore what the year 2021 might bring in the way of digital pinball enjoyment. There are three parts to this episode. Part one of the episode deals with near-reality in what we think will happen in 2021. Part two goes hard into...

https://www.blahcadepinball.com/blahcade-211/ There's more good news for AtGames fans in the form of Zaccaria pinball games being available natively on the cabinet from mid-2021. We explore this news and ask which cabinet would you buy if you had to choose? Based on some discussion in community forums, we decide to peek into the world of software licensing again and see if it is actually legal to...

https://www.blahcadepinball.com/blahcade-210/ The big news this episode is that Zen Studios was acquired by Embracer Group.  We go into detail about the situation and give our take on what this means for the studio. The other news is that AtGames has done some redesigns to their cabinet that make the product more attractive and better overall.

https://www.blahcadepinball.com/blahcade-209/ With news about Disney+ “The Mandalorian” being graced with a Zen Pinball release, Chris Friebus and I get stuck into what this might look like on the show. It’s another week and that means that there is more news to tease apart about the pinball cabinet products vying for your dollar this holiday season. We also take some time to look into Zaccaria Pi...

https://www.blahcadepinball.com/blahcade-208/ Right on the heels of #207, we set up an interview with Mel Kirk, COO of Zen Studios, to take us through how 2020 shook down from a studio perspective.  Of course, we couldn't resist asking him all the burning questions you have about the Arcade 1UP Marvel Pinball cabinet. Luckily for us, Mel practically answered every single question for you. Strap in...

https://www.blahcadepinball.com/blahcade-207/ Zen Studios and AtGames got into a bit of argy-bargy when AtGames allegedly breached the Zen Studios EULA conditions. Chris Friebus and I dive into the EULA and try to shed light on what might be causing the stoush. Now that AtGames has actually released details of their product, Chris and I can have a (somewhat) intelligent conversation about it for y...

https://www.blahcadepinball.com/blahcade-206/ The long-awaited Volume 6 for Williams Pinball is finally out, but we have other stuff to talk about this episode. Is Farsight producing new tables again? Does Zaccaria now have a pinball cabinet on the market? It turns out the answer is "yes" to both questions. Also, Chris has done something different with YouTube and sliced things up a bit for you. W...

https://www.blahcadepinball.com/blahcade-205/ It certainly must feel frustrating when you are starving for content and no one is dishing it out to you. This is how many Zen Pinball fans are feeling about 2020 because Zen has not released any tables since early this year.  Fear not! This does not mean that Zen Studios are in trouble. Nor does it mean that they are losing the Williams license. Liste...

https://www.blahcadepinball.com/blahcade-204/ Everyone is excited about what Zen Studios and Arcade 1UP are doing with Marvel Pinball, Star Wars Pinball, and Williams Pinball. But what about Toyshock and AtGames? Both of these companies announced they are releasing products this year, so let us take a closer look at what’s going on in the other product camps. This episode also has some community t...

https://www.blahcadepinball.com/blahcade-203/ We can now officially talk about this pack that has been months in the making. Well, it felt ready to release months ago but Zen being who they are held back until they were very confident it was ready. This episode centers around all the news announced at the California Extreme (CAX) 2020 show. There is news from Zen about the tables you can expect in...

https://www.blahcadepinball.com/blahcade-202/ Before the anticipated awesomeness of California Extreme 2020 happening on August 1st, 2020, Chris and I go off on tangents (hence the title) about all the stuff floating around since we last recorded. This show format has a surprising ability to turn out great and you’ll get a lot for your money in this episode. Consider it a warm-up act for August 1s...

https://www.blahcadepinball.com/blahcade-201/ Its time to unpack all that juicy Arcade 1UP news we heard about in our 200th episode. This entire show is about the information that was (and wasn’t ) said in the interview, and what that might mean for the upcoming releases we see from Arcade 1UP and AtGames.

https://www.blahcadepinball.com/blahcade-200/ This entire show is back to back interviews with David and John from Arcade 1UP and live tidbits from Mel about what we should expect from Zen Studios for the next decade . It's Pinball Everywhere 2.0™? ! Chris and I just wanted to say a huge thanks to everyone who listens and supports the show each time we record. We do it for you and the digital pinb...

https://blahcadepinball.com/199-put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is If you could purchase officially licensed music for some of the movie franchise tables in Zen Pinball FX3, what would you pay? Yes, the cost of music licensing is a well-known factor in how much table packs cost. So if you could separate the licensed music and offer it on-demand for a reasonable price, would you go and shell out yo...

https://blahcadepinball.com/198-may-the-flip-be-with-you This episode is your fast track to getting the most value and satisfaction out of the Star Wars and Williams Pinball Nintendo Switch tables. Based on our extended plays of all the tables since launching on Steam, we tell you where you should start your Jedi training and where you should move up to when you move past Padawan status. We also g...

https://blahcadepinball.com/197-blahcade-speculation-zen-style This episode is completely dedicated to a long-overdue BlahCade Speculation session on the back of Mel's fantastic interview with us last episode. There is a whole host of juicy clues about what might be coming up towards the end of the year for sure! Enjoy the speculation and let us know what you think.

https://www.blahcadepinball.com/blahcade-196/ This episode is completely dedicated to a long-overdue chat with Mel Kirk from Zen Studios.  Mel was incredibly generous with his time and the information he was able to provide us about what the studio has been doing leading up to this point.  It’s a fantastic hour filled with juicy tidbits of information that will surely server as BlahCade Speculatio...

https://blahcadepinball.com/194-spinnin-copper Chris has been having fun playing folks on Zaccaria Pinball around the world while being able to actually watch their gameplay. We also go deep into what we know about Arcooda and their newly announced cabinet product range. Hopefully, there will be some more news next time we record about Zen Studio tables and other pinball-related goodness. But for...

https://blahcadepinball.com/193-interviews-and-lists We’ve got a little something for you first-up in this episode. :) You’ll get our predictions for what will be in Zen Studios Williams Pinball for 2020 (BlahCade Speculation™? at its finest). Also saddle-up for an interview with Bobby King from CES, but we’re not responsible for this one.  Arcooda has also dropped on us (just two days after recor...

https://blahcadepinball.com/192-sign-me-1up It’s proven to be a massive start to 2020 at CES this year with both Arcade1UP and Toyshock publicly demonstrating their home-use pinball products coming out later this year. We go deep into what news is available about these products and give you our opinions about the pros and cons of each product offering. May the pinball wars yield amazing results fo...

https://blahcadepinball.com/191-2019-in-review-and-more Some news dropped in the Toyshock fan page that there would be more entrants into the home digital pinball cabinet market in 2019. But with little more than a few details from a six-minute YouTube video, Chris Friebus and I have no choice but to put on our speculation hats and go deep into what this might look like when the official announcem...

https://blahcadepinball.com/190-williams-pinball-volume-5 Surprise: you're getting another bit of digital pinball before the decade is done! Woohoo! ???? Williams Pinball Volume 5 is coming December 10 2019. We tease you with a quick update about the Volume 5 pack first up.  Then we go into great detail about what I learned about being involved in the Official Toyshock Pinball Facebook Group. We h...

https://blahcadepinball.com/189-three-quarter-scale-shock We start the show with a round-up of the feedback from the digital pinball community about the Williams Pinball app. Then we spend the remainder of the show going over some interesting news about a three-quarter size consumer pinball machine being sold in Walmart. Cabinet pinball for the masses is here, folks.

https://blahcadepinball.com/188-creatures-monsters-and-zen-oh-my People have been able to play the game and form their own opinions about it now. Most of the negative feedback seems to be about how the upgrade was sold. We talk more about this aspect of selling the game, and what we think Zen could’ve done a bit better. There’s a host of other topics as well which cover off our show’s motto of  Pi...

https://blahcadepinball.com/187-its-alive Finally! We can talk about what we've been sitting on since about July. Universal Monsters Pack has been announced for Williams Pinball! We answer a pile of Twitch stream questions and have the best time interacting with everyone on the show live. There is coverage about what we've seen in the Beta, what we know and can actually confirm or talk about, and...