Just a tease of the cringe boomer dad joke onslaught this game is about to unleash upon us.

Now I want this machine to shoot water up my ass. Expectations have been set!!!!

This tank exterior reveal is just batshit crazy - but I still wanna see what this thing is. I love Dennis’ designs. WH2O is an all time favorite. POTC’s sinking ship was the closest Stern ever got to a MM toy before GZ. I think WOF with a different theme would be celebrated today. I respect him for “nope-ing out” of Heighway & Derp Root when he knew they were scams. He’s got a good bullshit-o-meter. Glad to see him cross the finish line with GTF.

First thing I noticed was the weird mismatched leg sizes.

If we knew LCD would lead to porn acting in pinball, we would have stuck with DMD.

This is worse than Sega CD FMV...those at least had some real actors sometimes. RIP Dana Plato.

Looking forward to reading "How I TANKED A Pinball Company" - The David Fix Memoir

There's an art to camp 50's acting. There's a fine line between funny/camp & Tommy Wisseau's The Room.

That being said, it's going to be on a small LCD, not projected on a movie screen...it might work. This trailer leaned WAAAAAAY too hard on the footage...it should have shown more gameplay with a small window showing choreographed LCD footage.

Liz Maleki is the OG Sonya! I played MK with her once & knocked her into the pit. She could kick my ass IRL, tho.

AP can GTFO with that one!

I'm glad my wife loves Foo Fighters.

BTW, if anyone wants to enjoy some intentionally funny bad sci-fi acting, check out Decker: SPACE WALL!
https://www.adultswim.com/videos/decker/space-wall

Whoever made the decision to feature the FOOTAGE over the GAME just cost them tons of sales. Horrible Marketing Decisions 101.

Not only is AP at the END of Reveal-a-Palooza, they're still in competition with OLDER games that are still in production. I'm calling it quits after buying Foo Fighters & Pulp Fiction...but lets say I decided to go in on another game, would I buy this? Or would I consider a Deadpool, Elvira, Maiden, etc? I'm absolutely going with an in production Stern game. Crazy to think this is going up against another Nordman sci-fi cheese game with live-action footage! Elvira wins that fight, hands down.

That guy rules! Based on that video, I'd rather buy Hardbody than GTF lol

I’ll be shocked if they sell more than 20 SLE. $17.5k?! GTFO…you gotta reeeeally want this thing for keeps. Like Bond60, the “10k by Xmas” joke applies here.

This is a “wait & play, then buy the normal cabinet if you like it” kind of game.

At least Sewer Shark had that Danny Devito clone. He was a pretty good actor.

False equivalency.
Bond literally will only have 500 max. No other variations. GTFO potentially can have unlimited units produced. SLE/LE is just useless bling. Dlx is the same game, all features under the glass are the same….and then there will be the Standard version as well.

I think if it ends up being fun & the assets in the game aren’t as cringe as the raw assets shown today - they could prob sell an OK amount of the standard or deluxe editions. How long can AP survive “OK”, though? If I was forced to buy a AP game, I’d rather have a Nordman than any of their other titles. There’s no way they’ll have 1000+ insta-sales like Pulp Fiction, though.

I don’t like the cash grab games, but Beatles is THE BEATLES. Elvira has a professional & pinball history, and you got some fabric that her butthole potentially grazed. Batman is BATMAN & had Adam West doing custom callouts for you.

WTF is GTF?! This title doesn’t have the prestige and cache of those licenses. It’s Boomer kitch with porn actors. It’s NOTHING made by NOBODIES. $17k?!? GTFO.

The logical move would have been one LE/Sig Edition at $11k with the stupid tank and lunchbox crap. Deluxe as is, it’s priced right IMO. The “Pro”/route version should have been a LAUNCH PRIORITY at $7-8k. No license = NO FOMO. Instant “wait & see” for potential buyers. You need games on location if you want the “wait & see” crowd to fall in love with your game.

No one said that. People yearn for humor in their games. Rick & Morty is a FUNNY game. GTFo is a failed ATTEMPT at humor. This is the equivalent of a stand-up bombing. We wince and feel uncomfortable & embarrassed for those on stage. If you want your pin to be funny, hire actual comedians & comedic actors. There’s a reason Bally Williams went to Chicago Second City or people like Elvira. Just because a pin TRIES to be funny doesn’t make it the Seinfeld of pins.

False equivalency. Those are Bally Williams games - designed, built & created by the best factory ever during a different era where the arcade was still relevant. They cost about $2k & had 20+ years to gain their reputation & collectibility status.

Because marketing genius David Fix thought footage of Gramma Sonya on a green screen was enough to make people drop $17k on this game.

You’re comparing two different eras and contexts. Unlicensed was fine in the 90s, because ops were just buying anything to put on location. If it was B/W, SOLD. Today it’s mostly home collectors buying games, and they generally only bite at launch if the license/theme means something to them. An unlicensed theme has to do EVERYTHING right to have a chance in this market. Design, art, theme, mechs, A/V have to be mindblowing to have a shot at front loaded sales. No one has done this yet.

When prices are $11k-17k, thinking this game
is a wise investment is foolish.

It’s a comic book game. Having “motion comic”art is fitting, and a good example of “less is more”. Good art assets with less motion is better than lots of crappy animation (see TMNT). AIQ’s comic art is clean & easy to catch in your peripheral vision. It was the right decision for such a complex game. Last thing you need is “WTF is going on on the LCD” when you’re trying to play & figure out those rules.

A bunch of us already bought 1 or 2 of the other 10 games announced recently…even a bunch of the addicts will pass on this. Not pearl clutching, just observing what a botched launch this is.

If you’re asking $17k for your product, I reserve the right to defecate directly down your throat after eating lots of corn. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

The only one responsible for their sales success is them, their product, and their marketing. As customers, it’s our right to critique & NOT buy something.

That’s not sauce. It’s diarrhea. From the shit.

LOL, who’s the entitled one? I’m not scolding people for not treating the mortals of AP as GODS. Why are the people of AP entitled to only praise & zero critique?

...and the TWIPY for "Most Highly Praised For His Work YET Has The Thinnest Skin In Pinball" goes to:

Franchi seems to have a bit of “Main Character Syndrome” …he has a hard time understanding he’s just a part of a collaborative effort & it’s not his burden to protect everyone when a bunch of hobbyists/fans/customers critique a product. Our discourse about games is NOT personal…if he needs to blow off steam about it, call up a buddy & vent. Doing it here has no logical positive endgame for him or his clients. We’re the potential $17k customers. Don’t piss us off. Your client is trying to sell $17k toys. Don’t make them look bad.

Hopefully. But it does exist, and they’re trying to sell it.

I don’t think it’s possible to offend Levi….he’s pointing out cringe dated dad jokes. If anything he’s offended by AP’s inability to hire good comedy writers.