Not to mention a huge film career in:

Sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band
Prince of Darkness
Monster dog (talk about a dog of a movie!)
Nightmare on elm street part 6, Freddy's dead

Wayne's world...

Teenage Lament '74 too slow for a pin, but one of my favorites.

111 here today..you're not missing much

If Spooky can do that, it will be a pinball miracle

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New Coke LE FTW!

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I wouldn't turn down an Alice Cooper pin.

They could make a Justin Bieber pin in parallel for the younger dweebs. lol

We're All Clones

Really ? Some of the best and most sought after pins are original themes ....like afm, mm, funhouse, tom, totan, cv, wh20, hs2, cc , whirlwind, ft are just a few examples. Actually when it comes to the best 90s pins most are original themes and most licenced ones are fairly cheap when compared.

So true! And most of the 90s licensed themes are more current and relevant than today's.

That is pretty freaking awesome. Never heard... thanks man.

Wow, love the Smashing Pumpkins version of this song. Never would have guessed it was an Alice Cooper cover.

Where were you in 1980? They played that thing like 10 to 20 times a day on the radio.

I was 6, and trying to find that tune on the radio. Mom slapped my hands a lot.

You sure you weren't trying to tune in Slap Your Mammy by Devo?

I am now 1000% sure that's the greatest video ever made. Genius.

Guys don't get off topic - let's talk more about how Alice sucks!

I bought this cd when I was 15. Album art is impeccable.

Just played that in vinyl earlier today working on one of my guitars. "Telephone is ringin'... you got me on the RUN... I'm driving in my car now... anticipatin' fun..."

LOL, all these people arguing about how relevant Alice Cooper is these days and whether they should base a pin on him. I personally love Alice Cooper but I know there are a lot of younger people who can't appreciate anything that came before them. What makes Alice Cooper relevant in 2017 is the same thing that makes the 60's TV show Batman, the 70's band Aerosmith, and the 80's movie Ghostbusters relevant, THEIR FANS HAVE THE MONEY TO BUY THE DAMN PINS.

Makes me miss even more the days when it was ops that bought the machines and put them on location. And then we the players became fans of the games and learned about movies we may haven't had seen yet.

I'm sure I'm beating a dead horse at this point, but I like the idea of Alice Cooper more then most music themes. I'm not really into Alice Cooper, but to me, his character transcends music. He's also a horror icon. Personally, I'm hoping for as much of an original soundtrack as possible. I'd prefer Alice to simply be the host of this Nightmare Castle.

Another reason an Alice Cooper pin is relevant is because he's still alive and touring too. I saw a video of a concert of his on Palladia a couple years ago and was actually pretty-good considering. Another band that has been reinvented and still sounds awesome is ELO. I can't believe how good Jeff Lynne still is and their big DVD from last year is great.

But Alice Cooper is pretty-awesome really. There is no shortage of great Alice Cooper songs they could use for the pin. A lot of good music and just as worthy to have a pin made as a band like Aerosmith or Kiss were.

Don't get me wrong though, I like both of those pins too. The song selection for Aerosmith is excellent. All stuff from their first five albums except for like two songs and gameplay is good too. I say go for it. Welcome to my nightmare!

The Spooky peeps are awesome. They are pinball people. They built a thriving business on their own dime. They are consistently announcing and delivering games. They are the ONLY company other than Stern to do this.

Alice Cooper was a dream theme for Chuck. By all accounts Cooper has been a total blast to work with, and is excited about the game. I'm not a big Alice Cooper fan... but who gives a shit??!! I own a Metallica, had an AC/DC, just bought a Dolly Parton pin!! Believe it or not, Dolly might be my fav music of the 3!?? Jolene is a pretty killer song!

I will always give anything Spooky does the time of day, cause they are great people doing things their own way.

I'm not certain I'll buy an Alice Cooper pin, but I KNOW I will but a Total Nuclear Annihilation, so Spooky is getting more of my money this year one way or another.

How can you fault a guy for building a pinball company, and then making a game with his favourite artist of all time??!! I'm excited to try it out. Long live Spooky Pinball!!

I vote for a Steel Panther pin

I'll say this, the dude is 69 and still rocking on. And he's a F ing character. Others have pointed out, older guys with $$ will buy this pin

I just hope its really fun to play. I got surprised on AS and hope to do the same with AC.

Cooper is the one of the most normal good dudes out there. Dad played golf with him in Maui and loved him. My dad is 78. He's just a great show and better guy.

Spooky deserves a big hit

Good thing there's no election right now.

June 19, 1977. The Tubes, Nazarath and Sha Na Na opened for Alice in a packed Anaheim Stadium. Would I go back if I could? Probably not. But I've always had respect for Cooper.

I've a cat that gets up every morning and hollers about the back door to get attention to let him in or out. I think you started this post for the exact same reason. There is nothing of PB value here.

I wouldn't buy it i just want to see it happen.personally the only music pin I would buy just because it was a band I like would be Gwar and it would be the LE with the meat grinder topper that sprays you with fake blood during multiball.I'm not saying I wouldn't buy another music pin.I would own MET or ACDC despite not liking them,a good pin is a good pin.I'd also be all over a Butthole Surfers pin despite the fact it wouldn't translate well and I'd probably be the only one that buys it.

Schools Out! So Cal 70s style.

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Crazy how skinny all the kids were back then (before monsanto)

Truth!

He said Anaheim was his worst performance ever because he was staggering drunk . Yeah right. I just watched it six times. He held back on the videos.The audience is mostly gone now. We were 15, fresh out of school and those details didn't matter much.

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Back in the day monsanto was a ride. And yes we were skinny.

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"Everyone" ?

I grew up with Davy Jones and Paul Revere. However, when I chose to sit on my sub behind my killer dipoles, I will take Cobain and the boys any day.....

ive been saying this over and over and i operate and i see who plays what. the reason ghostbusters is earning well on location is THEME: i see kids 8 years old walk in singing the theme and immediately go up to the game and want to play thx to the tv repeats and movie re release.
. the old rock groups don't appeal to the general people who drop coins in games on location. players who drop coins in machines on location are younger period ages 6 through 28 spend the most, regardless of type of machine (pinball, redemption, video, etc).
i did not buy aerosmith because of theme.
i know it wont earn in a FFC or bowling centers, etc.
same with kiss (that flopped on location) , elvis, stones. the artists are too old, not current, not relevant to MOST (not all) people under age 45.
if anyone took a chance and made a MUSIC machine based on CURRENT times for LOCATION they would earn big big big. drake, rihanna, idiot kanye. someone who actually sells lots of music now and is in the current spotlight all the time , not 30 years ago..
they missed the boat on kid rock and eminem when they were at their peak. ive tested so many of the older theme sterns at same locations as themes like potc, walking dead, GOT, etc and these themes win every time in coin drop.
younger people walk right past the old irrelevant based theme esp when it comes to music. the majority of older people are to cheap to drop coins on locations, even at locations where i have em's. cheap cheap cheap cheap

You missed my point. My point was that there are a lot of older games with original themes that people ignore because they're not Bally/Williams. Gottleib Premiere had a lot of weird original games with oddball designs - but no one cares about them. As for new games, no one wanted Americas Most Haunted. No one wanted Wrath of Olympus. I don't think Whoa Nellie sold that well...that was an original theme with a different type of design. Even when Stern tries something different design-wise like WOF or WWE, no one wants it. Is Dialed In gonna sell tons and tons of units? Time will tell. What usually sells well? Hot licenses with fast flowy fan layouts. The loudest people scream "we want original! We want different!" But when it comes down to it, people prefer the familiar & licenses they love.

And you left out many great bands of that era-- most notably Jane's Addiction, RHCP, etc... they absolutely blow away that prog shit from the 70s and the hair-and-leather garbage from the 80s.

I can't believe how many people are trying to reason with someone wanting to fight (irl) because someone disagrees with his intentionally inflammatory post.
To start a thread taking a shot at one of the good guys in the hobby, throw a shot in about age demographic, and talk about how bad a game would do on route that arguably isn't even marketed to operators - but home collectors..... Is all obvious trolling. I haven't bought a spooky game yet, but see his work at the shows and always admired the guy for putting out manageable runs of unique games instead of taking on more than he can chew and either ripping people off or pissing them off with year long waits. Why post negativity about a guy fighting the good fight because you personally don't like a theme?

I wanted an LE

The answer is yes. Some people really do want an Alice Cooper pin. </end thread>

This 1000%.

Their business model is not built on needing games that sell a thousand or few thousand a year, but rather a few hundred a year. They are a "boutique" company and have figured out how to make that model work consistently for them.

The Spooky Team has also been an incredible help as we work on Python's Pinball Circus and the support they give to those of us building games is amazing. (i.e.: TNA, Wooly, etc). Without their assistance many of these games would have never seen more than a one off.

I think people will be surprised when they finally see the finished Alice Cooper, but that is just my humble opinion.

Paul

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I certainly will not buy a Alice Cooper machine.

... but I also did buy Metallica, Aerosmith, Kiss or AC-DC

This list is head and shoulders above the 90's list though.

I think the real point is that using the pop charts and only looking at the top sellers isn't a very accurate way of describing a decade. Even if Billy Ray Cyrus sold more copies in 1992, "Nevermind" and "Ten" came out that year, and both are far more culturally relevant than "Some Gave All".