Well, after being pinless for years I finally decided to drain the savings and get a CCR SE+ topper. I'm not a good player so I don't worry about having endless numbers of modes to play since my games don't last long at all. I fell in love with the game playing the Pinball Arcade version and loved it even more the few times I was able to play one of the originals that had been updated with the additional homemade code. I honestly don't care whether totally redone code will be ready when I get mine. I honestly don't know if I'll use the topper initially because where I'm putting my in the ceiling will be too low for it (hope the cord is long enough to let me set it on a table next to the pin). And given the pinflation everwhere, I do have a reasonable expectation that when I sell it I won't lose money on it.

Frankly, I think that busbodies who are constantly dissing a game they haven't played should go elsewhere. I've disliked nearly every Stern game since Star Trek, but I don't go into different game forums ragging about how I don't like them. That's what the ratings thing is for.

Personally, I don't mind if my SE+ doesn't get shipped until spring or later. Gives me more time to put away money for it and will avoid having to endure the cold in my garage waiting for me to get people to help me unbox it and bring into the house.

I, for one, am one of those am buying CCR because I loved playing the original game both virtually and a few times with the real thing. Since I'm not a "rules geek" and am too poor a player to actually finish every stage of a game, I'd be quite happy with the game coming with the orignal code, or maybe the "original code plus" someone later developed for the original release. I'm just looking forward to having a totally souped up version of this classic. If more code gets added later, that's just icing on the cake.