Just back from Arcade Expo 4.0 @ Banning, where I had a chance to play this. Only for 1 3-player / 3-ball game though, due to the lines waiting. Not sufficient to form an opinion on it, but at first exposure it does look impressive. (I have not had the opportunity to read this thread yet . . . ) One observation though: where it pauses to give you b.g. info on Houdini's career etc., this would absolutely slow things down to an intolerable crawl in tournament play -- *unless* there happens to be some menu settings that can suppress this feature. I found this an interesting departure from most anything familiar in Pindom . . . but then I'm a deep film buff since forever, so I was well aware of the silent films HH had made, and had seen some of them. For the vast majority of pinball players however, it's probably going to be 'Too Much Information' & a big 'Who Cares ?'
[Historical accuracy is arguably irrelevant here, but did HH ever perform the Bullet Catch ?]
Was any licensing required, or is HH now considered to be in the public domain ? Very likely so, as I think *individual* celebs like Marilyn Monroe (as opposed to film properties, say) were among the first to be commercialized successfully after their lifetimes.
Anyway, I'd like to play this several more times, to better form an opinion. (I could say much the same about Dialed In and JJP's new POTC, which I'd not seen prior to Banning.)
Albuquerque, NM
