In the end they are just kind of dumb. On Centaur they are just too easy, or, if you take the rubbers off, they don't work at all so what's the point? They are also prone to stupid issues like the gate not falling down fast enough, so you can lose the ball on an honest inlane.

There's a reason people like the standard inlane arrangement - because it works. Whenever they try to monkey with it it just doesn't work our right.

Pretty sure Gary Stern learned his lesson with Wheel of Fortune.

It sold like 300 units.

Refreshing or not nobody wanted the damn thing and you won't see them do that again.

The most successful of the recent games I can think of is WOZ.

I personal loathe the bottom on that game and which it were a standard body without the dumb outlane save games, but I'm obviously in the minority. A lot of people love that game and it's JJPs best seller.

Yes exactly.

Well, I think it's more of a "don't f with the formula" kind of thing. Steve Ritchie has NEVER done a weird bottom game why is he gonna start now?

This is literally Steve's worst game, and it's also literally the game where he learned how NOT to design a game.

He also literally figured out that the only way to make Atari's terrible widebodies somewhat palatable was to literally do a normal bottom!

Thanks for the history lesson though.