I'm 46 so I don't know if that qualifies me as a horny old man, but I film girls for a living so I suppose half of that is true. It does seem like Elvira 3 will cause a meltdown on Pinside though when it comes out because half the members here will go into meltdown trying to figure out why anyone would buy such a theme, whereas the other half will go ballistic as to why anyone would buy a new in box Stern. In any case I'm buying it the day it comes out to go with my Scared Stiff and Party Monsters, people are welcome to hate or "not get it" all they want.

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Thanks! I'm one of the few that prefers it to Pole Position, although Out Run beats them both.

Most all EATPM that I've seen were beat to hell or in bad/tired shape, probably because they got so much play or were on route for ages. So it's not surprising that the ones you played didn't feel right. My SS is mint and my EATPM is in excellent condition, condition does make a huge difference on how you will feel about a game. I felt the same about T3, played it a bunch here and there and never cared for it but the ones I had played were always old and tired machines. When I finally played a mint condition one I really liked it, was surprised how different an experience it was. I also think playing these machines at home really adds to it because you can actually hear the game audio.

Nah I watched soft core porn and fetish stuff on tv when I was a kid, but then again that's growing up in Montreal, Canada for you. I never did see any of Elvira's movies until a few weeks ago when I saw one on Youtube and let it play in the background. It really is more about the mix of horror and 80s nostalgia, art package, sound package and so on, to me the Elvira pins do that best.

Well hey at least you gave it a try, that's fair enough. Better than some that crap on a game without ever even having played it.

I'll say this much about the Elvira brand, and it's something I've mentioned before. At my model house where models in their 20s fly in and stay for work, the one name every single girl knows about and recognizes when I had them there are the Elvira machines. Not one girl every wondered who she was, they all knew and walked right to it. Now sure EAPTM would kick their ass and they would move to the much easier Attack From Mars but still, the point being that her brand is still after all this time very strong and recognizable. In fact some ladies live streamed themselves on Twitter playing my Scared Stiff game because they like the theme, art and brand that much.

Having said that I think you are right, they can price this one high with ease because people (like me) will open their wallets for it. Unless it sucks of course. I also like the idea of having a version of Elvira from every gen, EATPM from the old text days, SS from the DMD days and the new one from the full lcd display days. It'll look neat having them side by side.

It's a cartoon drawing. I'd see far far more growing up at the local mall, in the metro, at the grocery store, or anywhere really let alone on free tv channels which were playing all sorts of crazy stuff late night. A pinball machine with a cartoon drawing can't hope to compete against any of that, it's not even remotely a big deal and honestly is downright tame especially given that she is almost completely covered. There's nothing edgy here at all. At this point what's really telling to me is people seeing so much sexuality in such an utterly tame piece. That's more reflective of them or their environment growing up really than anything else.

I like the spooky horror theme and the mistress of the dark idea, just like the crypt keeper is also cool. But ultimately if the games sucked I wouldn't buy them. Turns out Scared Stiff is my favorite pinball machine of all time, hence I own it. I love Party Monsters and actually play it more than Scared Stiff because the games are shorter, so I own that as well. But if Elvira 3 is a rebranded Orbitor called "Elvira's Wild Ride" then I won't buy it no matter how many "sexual" cartoon boobs they put on it.

It's not about being overly sensitive, it's about basic manners. If you introduce me to a friend of yours that I never met and I then proceed to say "Wow your car is a piece of crap, why would you drive something like that?", would that make them overly sensitive for being annoyed? Sure it's just pinball and this is just a forum, but personally I wouldn't type something here that I wouldn't say to someone in person.