Episode 64: Bon Jovi vs Dungeon Crawler Carl vs Ender's Game | Which One?!

Three major new pinball machines. One person who has played them all. In Episode 64 of The Flipside Podcast, Retro Ralph sits down with Jamie Burchell to discuss his exclusive hands-on experiences with Barrels of Fun’s new Bon Jovi pinball machine, plus Dungeon Crawler Carl and Ender’s Game for the Multimorphic P3 platform. Jamie shares his honest first impressions of Bon Jovi pinball, including its fast-flowing layout, lightning flippers, Crowd Surf ball save, Steel Horse Multiball, interactive heart mechanism, upgraded audio system and concert-style atmosphere. Is this really the best-shooting Barrels of Fun game yet, and could it convince Ralph to cancel his Tales of the Arabian Nights remake order? They also break down Multimorphic’s ambitious new releases, Dungeon Crawler Carl pinball and Ender’s Game pinball. We explore the shared P3 playfield, completely different rules and artwork, Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobook callouts from Jeff Hays, Ender’s Game audio from Glenn Wächter, and the massive rotating mechanism that changes ball paths and interacts with each game in unique ways. Plus, Ralph and Jamie discuss music-pin fatigue, whether the Multimorphic P3 deserves another chance, the pressures of creating pinball content, podcast anxiety, Pinball Expo plans and the overwhelming number of new pinball machines arriving in 2026. Which game should Ralph buy: Bon Jovi, Dungeon Crawler Carl, Ender’s Game or the Tales of the Arabian Nights remake? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LOOKING FOR A NEW OR USED PINBALL MACHINE? Check out Flip N’ Out Pinball: https://www.flipnoutpinball.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LEAVE ME A VOICEMAIL Your message might be played on a future episode: https://www.speakpipe.com/RetroRalphVM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WATCH THE FLIP SIDE PINBALL PODCAST https://www.youtube.com/@TheFlipsideRetroRalph LISTEN ON SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/62ZF6rZGos5tFI77MaznZY LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-flipside-pinball-podcast/id1753621594 SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST https://rb.gy/uqi2an ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RETRO RALPH MERCHANDISE https://bit.ly/2YS5ukX FOLLOW RETRO RALPH X/Twitter: https://bit.ly/39mdqzy Instagram: https://bit.ly/3fU1Dew For product reviews and other business inquiries: [email protected] #BonJovi #BonJoviPinball #DungeonCrawlerCarl #EndersGame #Pinball #PinballMachine #MultimorphicP3 #BarrelsOfFun #RetroRalph #theflipsidepodcastshow