Quoted from NPO:I think it'll be another ACDC/Metallica. I am not seeing this be TAF for Stern. TAF was just the perfect storm of nostalgia, reaching across multiple generations. The new movie had just re-invigorated everyone's interest, and it was peak pinball for B/W.
Stern's GB has to ride on the coat-tails of this atrocity:
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When it SHOULD.....be riding the wave of this awesomeness:
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TAF had Raul Julia, Anjelica Houston, and Christopher Lloyd as its support - you know - veteran talent and potential. GBs 2016 has the same ol' banal "har har, dat's funny right dar" humor that was as original as the gum underneath the table at your local university auditorium classroom.
Yeah but the GB pin has nothing to do with the new movie (thank goodness, lol), there's not even a reference to the new movie in the game. Everything about the game involves only the original films.
If TAF was the perfect storm of nostalgia, reaching across multiple generations like you said then I'll say Ghostbusters, the original, does the same thing. It's a perfect pinball theme and as John T. himself said one that every designer dreams to have.
Combine what we have saw so far. A great and unique layout offering a lot of shots, multiple interactive toys, proper license use, incredible hand drawn artwork, custom audio tracks, custom callouts by an actor from the films, and what appears to be a deep progression based ruleset. Yup, I can easily see GB pinball being Stern's Addams Family in terms of overall fun and how well its received.
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