Well, I saw one screen in color. That must had been the new code that you can choose to play.

Me too. I also have nothing else with a grey cab in my line-up, so it would be different and stand out in a good way.

Would you change the gangsters' suit colors then? There's a whole lot of grey going on there! But asking Stan Fukuoka what the story was is probably the best place to start.

1. Colors can be closer to each other without having to be changed
2. Just got my GOT ready to sell and noticed the Hound is on the side art...never even seen the side of the game.

The machine that was built to use at TPF looks to be using the Capcom flipper assemblies/coils. 05-MoreWires (resized).jpg04-StartOfWiring (resized).jpg

Damn that looks nice!!

My understanding is that the prototype is using mostly original parts and mechs, just for the proof of concept, while production games will use modern parts like Williams style opto trough and Williams flippers.

On the cabinet, I like the grey. I just wish the artwork filled it all in better. I suppose it's like Taxi that way.

Any chance this will be less than 8k?

UGH, I really hope they're not going to roll with the lazy Laptop-style LCD and just and an ultra-letterboxed DMD image in it with tons of black dead space top and bottom like in this picture. That looks TERRIBLE. This is another step towards half-assing the remake, and the reason I'd be happier if CGC did it like AfMr LE instead.

video of kingpin at tpf was posted on Facebook.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2088173937889558&id=1034214746618821
https://www.facebook.com/evanbingham/posts/10155358298995963:90

Posted on Facebook.

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Looks cool, played well. I'm excited and intrigued.

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Yes, it does look terrible, but it's also a prototype. I have to think that will change.

From conversations I've had, it sounds like this is the plan for the screen as of now. Hopefully enough people say it sucks that they reconsider half-assing it.

Project needs an art director.

I hope they keep the cabinet and PF exactly as original. It's cool as it is. I was excited to see it here in TX, I have #41 translite. Now just need the pin to go with it.

Maybe that screen will only be in the LE.

how do you know your #41

I got it at tpf and he showed me the list where I was #41.

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In line now to play Kingpin. 5 peoyin front of me. If this game was that great there would be 20 people in front of me. Don’t get too excited yet folks.....

You really are a ray of sunshine, always quick to a negative, overly dramatic opinion with little or no facts.

This is a prototype and it was done in a rush to be finished for TPF. They barely got the emulation working a week ago. Christ, if you spent half as much time asking questions as you do pontificating you could avoid constantly putting your foot in your mouth.

This is not the final game, they have a plan, but gee, screw them for wanting to bring something to show! Proof that no good deed goes unpunished. And you wonder why none of the manufacturers show games early? You're the reason why.

They've supposedly been working on it for 4-5 months with a small crew ... give them a break.

Christ, if you'd spend half as much time asking where I was told that as you do flying off the handle, you'd have this little nugget I was told straight from the horse's mouth:

"Hopefully that keeps the purists happy that want to play the original version along with people who like the newer sterns and spooky games with LCDs on them."

Stern and Spooky LCD format is not compatible with DMD aspect ratios. No mention of ColorDMDs or CGC's colorized LCDs as a reference point (which would be more valid), just Spooky and Stern square LCDs, which is not the road this should travel if it's a faithful recreation using emulation. If they're going the "inspired by" route, say that instead and be done with it. Manage expectations.

I want to be wrong, so please if you know that a screen with the correct DMD aspect ratio and size will be used, feel free to correct me.

While it was cool to finally get to play one it did not blow my mind or anything. Played like my pinball magic I used to have so still had that Capcom feel. It was fun. Not sure they can charge anymore than a stern pro and sell many.

cooling looking game, hoping someone is bringing them to Australia

This is exciting. My thoughts on using Williams flippers though would be like re-recording Appetite for Destruction and giving Slash a Fender Telecaster. The snappy and power adjustable flippers are a big part of the Capcom feel. This is definitely a boutique only type release. As with all these games one has to consider the hype and excitement is peaking now and at release time it will be competing the the hype and excitement of what’s coming out at that time and in future. Best wishes to the team.

It is the software more than the hardware that creates the Capcom feel, and of course allows the adjustment. I suspect it is the way the coils are pulsed. I am using the worst (Stern early 2000 mechs!!) in my Kingpin and the game feels all but identical to my other Capcoms, certainly near enough that I can't really tell the difference.

Being one of the original owners of a kingpin how do you like the game and how does it hold up long term?

I hope the display is better then my Jetsons because it Sucks !

If it looks like JJP screen then add chrome trim and I,m in !

Agreed, the LCD with letterboxed DMD image looks bad. I had a thought... I'm wondering if the intent is to include an "enhanced game" feature that utilizes the whole LCD, Vs. the "standard game" feature that emulates the original DMD. If that's the intent, they really should include two different speaker panel plastics. Thus the LCD could be partially masked in "standard game" mode and fully revealed in "enhanced game" mode.

I'm *GUESSING* that's the idea, but it's a bad one. The giant widescreen AfMr LE screen proved that they can do everything they need to do with a standard DMD aspect ratio with a larger screen. Plenty of real-estate to make new animations in a giant DMD form factor. Using a square LCD screen for a DMD game is lazy engineering, the DMD part will be very small with huge black areas top and bottom. I hope they abandon that idea if that is their intent.

For me, artwork is way way better specially cabinet ( with black light), theme (just personal taste), audio ( love this atmosphere) and also toy ( what a ramp with alien/bar and so many diverters, tube dancer, ramp tube).
I could not fairly say If layout/shoot map and gameplay are better on KP or BBB as I have never played KP
So when people say KP is better to play, i’m very excited about this remake ( all the more as it comes with LCD screen)

They could put this car with gangster shooting in its context, I mean in town, shooting again the police..whatever they want, even to reduce a bit the car scale. Just my 2 cents

Thanks everyone who stopped by to give it a play today. The game handled 7 hours of straight gameplay admirably.

I've already lost my voice talking to everyone about the project.

Paul

Just do it right and it would be a best seller for sure.
Don’t forget EU customers...

It has been quite a blast and tiring all at the same time to go from nothing to a playable game in essentially 2 1/2 months. The first screw was turned on Dec 29th, 2017.

"The game we built in 2 1/2 months is exactly what we will ship" said no one ever.

I trust your expertise in this field. I’m just going off my experience with WPC flippers. I hope I get to play one of these one day. Nick are you on AA?

That's good, you usually are. What happens is you get some half-truth or small nugget of info, then blow that up into a frothy rant how something is the worst thing ever. You've done this in threads for Hobbit, for DI and now you're doing it in a Kingpin thread.

How about instead of going on frothy rants, you wait for them to deliver an engineering sample instead of the prototype, which is never how the final game is.

I think it’s really cool that SNL’s Norm McDonald reprised his Jeopardy skit Burt Reynolds character for the LE backglass!

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Having had one of the original 8 for a while, I’m excited this is getting done. Original artwork for me!

Looks awesome

I agree I want original artwork, and they need to figure out how to format for color DMD. I would prefer to have the DMD original size as well. I actually like the original DMD pixels

DMD orignial size or real DMD Since it's a remake, it would be great to keep the old feeling as it was same as the remake of BBB.

I'm not a big fan of the trend of large display screens, to me they detract focus from the play field but since this is where modern designs are heading it's probably something they need to have to be competitive in the market.