Kansas City, MO
Quoted from CactusJack:Simple: Herb has been refurbishing and selling games for years. His #1 most requested and sold EM was (at the time) KOD. He had done so many, the donor games were drying up. At least at a reasonable return for what he has to put into each one in labor and new parts. With Backglass, Plastic Sets, and Playfield art already done (and at his disposal), he wanted to make new games from scratch. With "demand" higher than "supply", and some of the major development items already done, that is why KOD was used as the first game.
At the time, I would have personally chosen El Dorado or even Fast Draw. But both would have required creating Drop Target parts/tooling that no longer existed. Of course, from Concept to completion, KOD took 10 years so the market had changed a bit and my personal choices probably would have been a bit more desirable over KOD (my personal opinion). Everyone has their favorites and thinks others may share the same choices. But you never actually know the market until you have an actual game to sell. If any "old" remake has a chance, it will be Eight Ball Deluxe. But only time will tell if that one every becomes a reality
It was Herb's desire to make the second game Bank-A-Ball. Some of you may have seen his "Prototype" wood rail BAB. But instead, I wanted to do Queen of Hearts. The game would have actually been built like a Wood Rail and had a greatly reduced BOM compared to KOD. And priced accordingly. Additionally, due to its size and weight, would have been "ship-able" via UPS in 3 standard shipping boxes. Essentially being very much like "The Pin".
I saw it. The rotating target in the center I thought was a cool feature.
I thought I wanted the remade KoD until I played it. I think it was a combination of the fact that it just didn't have an EM feel, and I didn't care for the mylar playfield at all. You guys gave it your best effort and the technological part of it was really well done, but the game just didn't do it for me. Maybe also because I never really thought KoD was all that in the first place. I owned one and I didn't keep it all that long. I've never been much of a fan of those carousel roto targets anyway, or roto target games in general.
Maybe BAB would have been better, but still, to me an EM is the clunks and clicks and racket and without it, even though it LOOKED like an EM, it didn't have the feel.
