Pinball - I think this is the closest place to relevant to post this.

[sasazuka]

Is it wrong for me to necropost in this thread if I found a neat video of an unboxing in 2019 of a never-before-opened Data East Jurassic Park table manufactured in June 1993? Just over a quarter century, and you'd think the electronics would have issues but everything seems to be in good working order save for a little crumbling rubber which is to be expected on a machine that old that has never had the opportunity to be maintained.

As far as I can tell, this is the only pinball thread here, at least for actual pinball and not just the various vidya versions of it.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

For the past few months, I've been playing a lot of digital pinball. Mostly recreations of existing tables (Medieval Madness, Attack from Mars, Last Action Hero), but also some of the original ones by Zen Studios. It's a great way to unwind at the end of the day.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

5-10 years ago I lived in a city that opened a bar-slash-pinball place, they probably had 25-30 machines and it was pretty great even though it was some kind of hipster venture and expensive as fuck. They had all the good ones so I could prove that I'm the best at Elvira, I don't think I had seen that machine since the 90's. Elvira is a great table and for some ungodly reason I'm superb at it and often rack up enough points to score a free game, it's some bizarre kind of luck, I'm not actually good at pinball. The same stroke of luck happens with Kongo, a shit table and boring as fuck, once I walked away mid game from one even though I had accumulated three credits or something odd like that.

The Pinball Arcade is great and I really like the little fact-sheets they have, how many tables were made, when it was released and so on.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Is it wrong for me to necropost in this thread if I found a neat video of an unboxing in 2019 of a never-before-opened Data East Jurassic Park table manufactured in June 1993? Just over a quarter century, and you'd think the electronics would have issues but everything seems to be in good working order save for a little crumbling rubber which is to be expected on a machine that old that has never had the opportunity to be maintained.

As far as I can tell, this is the only pinball thread here, at least for actual pinball and not just the various vidya versions of it.

They're built to last are pinball machines. Keep in mind they've got to survive being roughly handled and kicked about by drunks all day...

5-10 years ago I lived in a city that opened a bar-slash-pinball place, they probably had 25-30 machines and it was pretty great even though it was some kind of hipster venture and expensive as fuck. They had all the good ones so I could prove that I'm the best at Elvira, I don't think I had seen that machine since the 90's. Elvira is a great table and for some ungodly reason I'm superb at it and often rack up enough points to score a free game, it's some bizarre kind of luck, I'm not actually good at pinball. The same stroke of luck happens with Kongo, a shit table and boring as fuck, once I walked away mid game from one even though I had accumulated three credits or something odd like that.

The Pinball Arcade is great and I really like the little fact-sheets they have, how many tables were made, when it was released and so on.

Scared Stiff is one of my favourites. "This thing is huge. And ribbed."

Last time I played pinball in real life was in a town near me. They had one of those brand new Star Wars Trilogy machines which I managed to high score on. Good game but I didn't like the HD panel in place of a standard orange DMD, especially since they filled it fill of scenes from the film and clips and Yoda giving wisdom whenever you drained. Which was very distracting.

Good flow though. Feels a lot like Star Trek TNG.

 

[Ashenthorn]

I was a teen when Space Invaders and Asteroids were invented and arcades started taking over, so I played a lot of pinball before and during all that. I spent hundreds of dollars worth of quarters (paper route money) in pinball machines and video games in arcades, bowling alleys, and pool halls. Back then, there were still a lot of pre-electronic machines around to play.

Just a couple of months before I finally pulled the trigger on a PS4, I had bought a TON of TPA tables on the PS3. I mainly bought it just for Taxi, the Bally and Williams tables, and some of the older tables-- ended up getting most of the table packs. It pissed me off that I have to re-buy all of them for the PS4, so I haven't done it yet -- and now that the Bally/Williams tables aren't available anymore, I may or may not get around to it. Was never a huge fan of the Gottleib or Stern tables. I guess I shoulda got the PS4 versions before the license expired. =(

Having played most of the actual tables, the TPA tables are very good simulations for the most part, imo.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

Desperately want to purchase the Guns & Roses table with the pistol ball launcher, there's one in my area but it's been broken for a while now. I've gotten to play on a old Hercules machine a few times, and love mostly every table that's been mentioned already. Pinbot & Bride Of were the real shit though, fucking classics. Was always partial to the Terminator 2 table as well.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

I adore pinball, it's such a complete sensory overload. My favorite is probably the Simpsons machine, followed by the Batman Forever table.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

They had all the good ones so I could prove that I'm the best at Elvira, I don't think I had seen that machine since the 90's. Elvira has a great rack

FTFY

 

[Billy_Sama]

I like a fun Pinball game now and then I don't have any machine tables to talk about. The only video game Pinball game I adore is Dragon's Fury on the Sega Genesis and TG16. Video game pinball doesn't match anywhere near to the real thing but Dragon's Fury's presentation, music, and gameplay makes always plug it in my Genesis once in awhile.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

 

[Dr. Dude]

I was wondering if someone made a pinball thread around here. Will I be booed for necro'ing this?

I love Twilight Zone pinball and this one:

I got good at it because I didn't want to help my mom do the laundry at the Laundromat when I was a kid.

Hey, you should have been nicer to your mom. Take it from me - totally lame, dude.

Is it wrong for me to necropost in this thread if I found a neat video of an unboxing in 2019 of a never-before-opened Data East Jurassic Park table manufactured in June 1993? Just over a quarter century, and you'd think the electronics would have issues but everything seems to be in good working order save for a little crumbling rubber which is to be expected on a machine that old that has never had the opportunity to be maintained.

As far as I can tell, this is the only pinball thread here, at least for actual pinball and not just the various vidya versions of it.

Opening a brand new pin is pretty much the ultimate toy unboxing, and a super fun experience. Just helped a friend unbox a brand new Stern (same entity as Data East, btw) the other night and it felt like Christmas had come early - and it wasn't even my game!

 

[Ginger Piglet]

I was wondering if someone made a pinball thread around here. Will I be booed for necro'ing this?


Hey, you should have been nicer to your mom. Take it from me - totally lame, dude.


Opening a brand new pin is pretty much the ultimate toy unboxing, and a super fun experience. Just helped a friend unbox a brand new Stern (same entity as Data East, btw) the other night and it felt like Christmas had come early - and it wasn't even my game!

I would like to get my hands on the new Black Knight: Sword of Rage. Unfortunately I don't have £6,750 knocking about that I could justify splurging on it. And thanks to lockdown there's nowhere open which has one.

Buggeration.

 

[Dr. Dude]

I would like to get my hands on the new Black Knight: Sword of Rage. Unfortunately I don't have £6,750 knocking about that I could justify splurging on it. And thanks to lockdown there's nowhere open which has one.

Buggeration.

I actually very seriously considered buying a SOR from a distributor some months back, but decided against it as it was the pro model, which on SOR means its missing the upper playfield. Didn't feel like paying almost 6 grand for a pin that was missing half the game. And its hard for me to pay NIB prices when the four pins I already own are buckets of fun and all cost about half that.

I'm not familiar with UK prices - is £6,750 for the premium? Here in the states they usually run for about 7 grand.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

I actually very seriously considered buying a SOR from a distributor some months back, but decided against it as it was the pro model, which on SOR means its missing the upper playfield. Didn't feel like paying almost 6 grand for a pin that was missing half the game. And its hard for me to pay NIB prices when the four pins I already own are buckets of fun and all cost about half that.

I'm not familiar with UK prices - is £6,750 for the premium? Here in the states they usually run for about 7 grand.

It's for the pro. And fug, you're right. The pro has no upper playfield. I have no idea where sells a premium.

Prices for a pinball here are around five grand for a reconditioned WMS era machine or £6,750+ for a new Stern pro. LE Sterns are about ten grand plus which is frankly nuts.

Jersey Jack and Spooky doesn't seems to come up round here very often. Pity. I quite liked the look of Total Nuclear Annihilation. Unfortunately those two builders are going down the route of "build too few and make the collectors scalp each other over it." Still, better than the John Popadiuk vaporware angle.

 

[Rebel Wilson]

Chicago gaming is the only maker i trust right now with quality. I had a Ghostbusters machine and it was cheaplymade crap.

I added a Monster Bash remake from Chicago gaming during the summer and the thing is as sturdy and well put together as either of my classic machines. I have a couple WMS classics (my centerpiece being my grandfathers pinbot I had refurbished for way, way too much money)

Still trying to find a decent priced bad cats...

 

[Road Work Ahead]

Didn't know we had a pinball thread, so this is cool.

Only own one game myself, Gottlieb's Knockout. Got a weird issue with a stuck coil I have to diagnose and fix, but otherwise is in very good condition.

As an aside, does anyone here think Deeproot will ever actually ship any games?

 

[Rebel Wilson]

It all depends on manufacturing capacity.it is all well and good to ship a few dozen of a single unit but if they want to even be a blip in a market already on life support they better be able to make 1000 units without bankrupting themselves.

My gut says they ship 1 machine or two, under 250 units produced total.

 

[Dr. Dude]

It's for the pro. And fug, you're right. The pro has no upper playfield. I have no idea where sells a premium.

Prices for a pinball here are around five grand for a reconditioned WMS era machine or £6,750+ for a new Stern pro. LE Sterns are about ten grand plus which is frankly nuts.

Jersey Jack and Spooky doesn't seems to come up round here very often. Pity. I quite liked the look of Total Nuclear Annihilation. Unfortunately those two builders are going down the route of "build too few and make the collectors scalp each other over it." Still, better than the John Popadiuk vaporware angle.

TNA is a great game; I've had the pleasure of playing a couple of examples on location. Scott Danesi knows his stuff. Oh, and obligatory fuck JPop.

Chicago gaming is the only maker i trust right now with quality. I had a Ghostbusters machine and it was cheaplymade crap.

I added a Monster Bash remake from Chicago gaming during the summer and the thing is as sturdy and well put together as either of my classic machines. I have a couple WMS classics (my centerpiece being my grandfathers pinbot I had refurbished for way, way too much money)

Know someone who got a Monster Bash a couple months ago and he's having a blast with it. Yea, most of my games right now are 90's WMS. Almost bought a PinBot for 1200 two years ago, but passed because it needed more work than the seller claimed. Kind of kicking myself since they easily grab over 2k now.

Still trying to find a decent priced bad cats...

Good luck with that. Your wallets going to feel

-ooooouch. Seriously, I dont think I've seen a Bad Cats go for under 3k in quite a while.

 

[Next Task]

Don't think I could ever buy a machine, but I love pinball and hate how it's dying. So many favourites - I'll play any game once - but I was always very partial to Attack From Mars, Whodunnit, The Addams Family, Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park machines. There's so many more, but those are a few that stood out.

I still remember stumbling onto the 13-ball mode on the Apollo 13 game once. Those tricky collections that rolled over between credits led to a frenzied panic.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

I still remember stumbling onto the 13-ball mode on the Apollo 13 game once. Those tricky collections that rolled over between credits led to a frenzied panic.

I have never played an Apollo 13 but given that I thought I was going to have a heart attack with Star Trek's 6 ball wizard mode I'm not sure I want to.

Then again, 13 balls is kind of a bit daft because they all just bounce off each other and impede each other. Might as well just mash the flippers and hope for the best, surely.

I quite like the Baywatch pinball myself. A lot of people are put off by the uncanny valley David Hasselhoff on the backglass but it's quite fun as long as you don't look up.

If I was going to get one for myself I'd probably get an alphanumeric era WMS. Maybe Swords of Fury or something like that. They're not too expensive nowadays and comparatively easy to fix compared to the mess of scalping and custom parts that a 1990s WMS is. Then again, I barely have room for it.

Oh, did someone mention Swords of Fury?

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