I'm sure a Sherlock Holmes or some pulp stories like Tarzan would make for a decent theme.

How many games were not started as a book? LOTR, Hobbit, SW, Shadow, and hundreds more if you include Comic book.

Verne's World is an amazing book-themed pin. I'm sure there are plenty of others that could be great.

My favorite book of all time.

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Speaking of Raymond Feist, does anyone remember the PC game Betrayal at Krondor? He wrote the story and dialog for the game at a time when most games were “written” by game designers who, while talented in their own right, weren’t exactly world class authors. That game was fantastic.

Great minds think alike. I started a similiar thread last year.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/books-as-a-theme

It’s kind of hard read but worth it.

I don't have time to read. Too busy play/fixing pinballs.

I like the idea of 'World War'. I think it's a book, I heard about it once, about aliens attacking the Earth during World War II. The Germans and the Allies stop fighting and killing each other and join forces to attack the aliens instead. Would be an epic pin, methinks.

The various stories and poems of Edgar Allen Poe would make for awesome themes for a pin!

I think that was the consensus of the other thread. The works of EAP would make for a great theme. Personally, I think Spooky could do a great job with it.

I bought my bsd because I like the book so much. I just forget that the pin is based on a movie.

It's actually a tough criteria, with so many properties being adapted for movies or TV nowadays. I can think of a couple that could benefit from the Deadpool treatment (that is, base it on the source rather than the adaptation).

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Dark Tower. Maybe for this one they could develop an original storyline where you're a time traveler whose mission is to erase that godawful movie from existence.

How about Terry Pratchett's Discworld series? No shortage of source material there.

I always like to think that Firepower could be Ender’s Game. But technically they made a movie out of it and the movie kinda sucked :/

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I would like something like this

It will be very hard to read the book on the LCD while playing. I guess you could use the action button to flip pages.

I don’t really like the thought of returning to page 1 every time I drain ball three. I guess the pinbook will be just one more book that I never finish.

I’ve been thinking this as well. The problem (and I can attest to this personally because I’ve authored two novels) is that fewer and fewer people are reading nowadays. With the amount of time and money that has to go into mass producing a pinball machine the manufacturers need to pick themes that will have broad appeal and stories with which people are familiar. That’s why so many superhero and music themes are done by the manufacturers. That being said, I think Sherlock Holmes and Moby Dick would be great themes for a machine…particularly Sherlock. Also I think something by Stephen King could be a successful pin. But that’s also because so many of his novels have been successful movies.

Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt series would make a awesome pin. Have it mode based on the different novels like finding the Titanic ect ect.