TILT Blog http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog The latest news surrounding the documentary "TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball" Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:09:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en TILT at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=21 http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=21#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:52:43 +0000 gmaletic http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=21 Good news for those in the UK: if you happen to be attending the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, there will be a screening of TILT taking place on August 9 at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse Cinema.

Very excited about this opportunity! Brian Baglow, the show’s film programmer, got in touch with me out of the blue, and I was more than happy to send him screener DVDs, posters, etc. If you know of a show, event, or gathering where it would be fun to show TILT, please let me know and I’ll be happy to help out!

]]> http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=21 See TILT in San Jose on July 19 http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=20 http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=20#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:37:24 +0000 gmaletic http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=20 TILT will be showing at the wonderful California Extreme video game and pinball expo this Saturday, July 19. Showtime is tentatively set for 7pm at 9pm. Please come by, check out what will certainly be an amazing show, watch the film, and come say hello! (I’ll hang around for Q&A both before and after the show). You’ll also want to check out the amazing line-up of speakers (scroll to the bottom for times)…I know I’m looking forward to seeing Aaron Giles talk about MAME!

If you’re at all inclined to attend the show, staying until midnight on Saturday at lodging at the beautiful and very reasonably priced Hotel Sainte Claire is an amazing way to go.

]]> http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=20 TILT finally up on Boing Boing http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=19 http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=19#comments Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:08:52 +0000 gmaletic http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=19 It’s been a long time coming, but finally TILT got a mention on Boing Boing. Very appreciative of Scott Underwood over at IDEO, who sent in the posting after I presented there last week. Also very appreciative of the nice comments people posted concerning the DVD: it seems there is no shortage of folks who are willing to go out of their way to say how much they liked it, which is incredibly gratifying. (For those into the film, commenter #4 is Louis Koziarz, one of the Williams software designers featured in TILT.)

]]> http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=19 GeeksOfDoom Review of TILT http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=18 http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=18#comments Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:00:36 +0000 gmaletic http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=18 “…about as good as documentary filmmaking gets,” is what GeeksOfDoom has to say about TILT, and hey, if they’re willing to say it, I’m willing to repeat it.

]]> http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=18 In the Bay Area? Come see TILT at IDEO this Thursday http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=17 http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=17#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:12:12 +0000 gmaletic http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=17 If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area and would like to catch a free public showing of TILT, please stop by the Palo Alto office of design firm IDEO at 5pm this Thursday, June 12. Given IDEO’s illustrious history, I’m hoping for lots of great product design-related discussion during the Q&A with me before and after the screening. Please stop by to catch the film, talk about pinball, or whatever else you’re interested in. (Also, if you have any friends that haven’t yet seen the film, please spread the word!)

For more info, visit http://tinyurl.com/5cc4e5

Hope to see you there!

]]> http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=17 Pinball 2000 emulation in-depth http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=16 http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=16#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:39:48 +0000 gmaletic http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=16 Nice overview of the NuCore engineering effort from Pinball News.

]]> http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=16 Interview/Review at PopMatters.com http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=15 http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=15#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:38:29 +0000 gmaletic http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=15 Nice review (and interview) over at PopMatters.com. Check it out!

]]> http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=15 NuCore - Pinball 2000 emulation http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=14 http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=14#comments Mon, 19 May 2008 15:40:22 +0000 gmaletic http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=14 Just discovered Big Guys Pinball this morning, and their exciting product, NuCore. NuCore is evidently a clean-room implementation of the Pinball 2000 operating system that runs on modern PC hardware, and gives hope to us Pinball 2000 owners that we might actually be able to keep our games up-and-running indefinitely. Really looking forward to whatever these guys produce…

]]> http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=14 iF Magazine Interview: Slight Correction http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=13 http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=13#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:58:19 +0000 gmaletic http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=13 Nice interview on the iF Magazine site today with the site’s news editor, Jay Frasco. I made one comment in the interview that I thought should be clarified, regarding the (under)performance of the Star Wars: Episode I machine:

The result was a perception of underperformance that ended up killing both Pinball 2000 and Williams’ legendary pinball division.

It sounds like I’m suggesting that the Star Wars: Episode I “killed” Pinball 2000 and Williams Pinball, and in fact I don’t believe that to be the case. By conventional metrics, the Star Wars game sold well, earned well, and, as the film makes clear, there were numerous reasons why the Pinball 2000 line could have (and perhaps should have) survived even after Star Wars underperformed against what were outsized expectations. (A mediocre film, late delivery, and substantial price increase can’t be discounted.) The fact is that any machine in the Pinball 2000 line that underperformed was probably doomed to be Williams’ last; that Star Wars happened to be that machine is a quirk of fate more than evidence of a defect so substantial as to kill a sixty year old pinball legend.

]]> http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=13 Price Drop! http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=12 http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=12#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:50:29 +0000 gmaletic http://www.tilt-movie.com/blog/?p=12 The price for the DVD is now $20 (down from $29.95); same for the poster. I didn’t want price to be a reason for anyone not to purchase the DVD; this lower price should make it more accessible to a broader audience.

If you purchased your DVD in April 2008 at the higher price, I’d be happy to offer a partial refund; just contact me using the e-mail address on the FAQ page.

Thanks!

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