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Quoted from mbaumle:Considering the gaming industry is considerably larger and more lucrative than Hollywood, I'm REALLY surprised there haven't been more video game themed pinball machines made.
Bioshock would be an incredible theme to explore in a pinball machine.
A Zelda game in the same "adventure" style as The Hobbit would be the best (and a game I'd easily sell my Kidney to get).
"Portal" could be Tx-Sector 2.0 (Imagine hilarious Wheatly callouts).
It's because the people over 50 (at Stern) who don't play video games don't realize most men over 50 have been playing video games for over 35 years. It's a sign of Stern not knowing their target market.
Steve Ritchie said in a podcast interview after SM was released that Gary Stern resisted SM as a license because it was too juvenile. Gary doesn't realize what his target market likes.
10 year olds who played GTA for the first time are now in their 30s. COD in their 20s.
Quoted from Who-Dey:Gary is a pretty successful businessman, I think he knows his target audience pretty well lol. Look at all the great themes that Stern has made the last few years. They have been killing it IMO.
My point was regarding video game titles specifically, but SM was an example of his resistence to something he didn't think was within his target audience. We would have never seen XM, IM, or Avengers had SM failed. After the success of ACDC, we're now getting a wave of classic rock bands (despite the flop of RS before that). We won't see a wave of video game titles until they take a chance on one, and it's widely accepted by the community.
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