I found it to be the worst game I have ever played in my entire life and I have played a lot of games. I wish I was joking but I am not. I’m flabbergasted by those who say it is fun. Not sure what is worse, the layout or the code. I really am curious who the designer is. He should be ashamed of himself.

From what I've seen, Mike's biggest problem is mike. He needs to hire a PR person and stay offline. He's terribly thin-skinned.

Worse than Waterworld? Worse than Austin Powers? Worse than Shaq Attack? Worse than Street Fighter II? Worse than TMNT? Worse than Back to the Future?

If that's the case, now I MUST play this.

Yes to all of the above.

Yes, yes, yes, no, yes, yes.

To be fair to SF2, I've never played one that wasn't completely beat to shit.

yep but maybe so but making a post about your personal opinion of mike in reply to my suggestion a lot the noise was based on personal opinions of mike kind of supports my point .. thanks

I would be impressed if it was worse than the alpha (?) ACNC I played in April... That was the worst game I've ever played not called Barb Wire.

When you put yourself out as a public figure, people will have opinions. Like I said, if you can't handle that, time to get someone who can do the PR for you.

Would you be surprised to learn it's actually a reskin of the unproduced Barb Wire 2?

Your reply is confusing because it's missing one yes/no, so I'm not sure which crappy game you missed.

MIND BLOWN!!!

Cool vid.

Sorry, fixed it. It's worse than all of them except SF2.

But it is better than humpty dumpty

Never played this title and I always try to formulate my own opinion on games. However, this game must be the worlds biggest piece of shit cause only like 5 people have anything decent to say about it. No idea who Mike is but I would strongly suggest that Mike hires a firm to test his products. They can relay feedback before realeasing something that nobody has anything good to say about. Credit goes out to him for at least coming up with a game and seeing it come to fruition. However, if the end result is a smelly turd nobody wants then what was the point? Just my 2 cents.

Those may be the only 5 that actually played the game. I played it at York and liked it, enough that I almost took the demo home. In the end I didn’t as I was worried about resale.

Wow, great for sale topic
PINSIDE AT HIS BEST!

@home pin stop feading the assholes with comment, put your time in your company and games thats far more important!
Get a coder and make it a blast to play.
Haters gonna hate.

@ op good luck with your sale, great marketing right here

I will never buy a Homepin game because of the overall attitude and vibe of the company. You should never attack a potential customer.

It's cometely unprofessional and why so many are bashing this POS game.

I want to buy from people who care about their customers and are proud of their products. That's why Spooky pinball is my favorite pinball company. They just get it and being customer focused seems to be a very good business strategy.

but a customer attacking a vendor is ok yeah? cos you're all awesome and stuff?

Please. Spooky has their own issues... And you can say the same for Stern and others.

Calling this game a POS? Seriously? Try to get a little more class about you.

Ibtl

If Mike were warm and friendly, people would be a lot gentler on his first game.

Usually I find that in a lot of cases, the internet can be a mirror. If you put hate toward it, you get it back. If you put love toward it, you get that back too.

Not all the time....

Yeah, definitely not 100% of the time. If you want to get death threats and be told how many dicks you suck, go check out 4chan, lol.

I’d just like to be clear - anything I say about the game has absolutely nothing to do with Mike and his generally shit attitude. There are lots of questionable people in pinball past and present, lots of “gruff” ones too. I never let that influence my opinion of games.

That said, I am completely gobsmacked at the people who like Thunderbirds. I am completely incapable of understanding how that is possible because everything about how it feels and plays is anti-fun. There are no good shots, no flow at all, two separate SDTM drops (from the left “orbit” and center ramp), and the main effect of the island separating and essentially dribbling out a ball is so anti-climatic to border on offensive.

Then there’s the code - the wood-chopping tedium of spelling “INTERNATIONAL RESCUE”, the non-sensical ball lock, how basically nothing happens but you bat a ball around for a bit until you want to cut your own throat just to bring you sweet release. There’s also a bunch of weird graphic decisions, like the counter that runs down to zero then jumps back up to 10?

Then there’s the build quality - a plastic lock down bar that if you blow too hard will rip off, the belly button flipper buttons, the weird attention paid to engineering (the Rube Goldberg contraption to move the trees a few millimeters) versus the paper thin ramp to nowhere.

Absolutely every detail about playing this game is horrible. Maybe the stuff inside is good, but we know the the electronics are a rip-off of a design by an amateur hobbyist (sorry Ben, but it’s true) so I wonder about the rest of it as well.

So when I hear “it’s fun!” I just wonder what alternative universe I’m living in and if maybe I could play the game these guys are playing.

You’ll note none of what I said above has anything to do with Mike as a person. That said, I do feel a little more freee to be honest publicly given his attitude, so maybe there IS some credibility to the idea he’s his own worst enemy.

Any pinball is good pinball...

It does seem a bit excessive how much shit Homepin is getting, I don't really blame the guy for taking things personally. He's certainly put a lot of time, money and hardwork to get the machine to this point even if it didn't turn out exactly the way he wanted. Should he of handled himself better, of course, but the guys is probably just on tilt at this point from the nonstop thrashing he's taken. Whether or not the game came out great or fell short shouldn't take away from what they accomplished, it was their first attempt at it right? Take the lessons learned and do better next time, I don't understand the apparent need to burn him at the stake.

That ain't it, chief.

so you're personally annoyed by ALL these things? all at once? might be time for some fresh air if you're that disturbed by a pinball.
honestly from here it looks more like you kept a list of absolutely every little point anyone ever mentioned so you could rattle them all off on cue.

Honestly, when I read his post, I thought he actually played the game and made these comments.

Perhaps you're right, but in any case, he provided more than the usual "it sucks" uselessness.

I think you need some fresh air from home pin's trousers.

I played it twice at Expo and I walked away not ever really wanting to play it again. The first thing I noticed was the flipper buttons just felt wrong. How can you get flipper buttons wrong??? Seriously. Did they really need redesigning?

Anyways, my overall impressions were the shots felt clunky, repetitive and uninspiring. Just didn't really feel like I wanted to play it again. I still don't.

Hey, No trolling on Humpty... some of us cut our first pinball teeth on a Dumpty... I have very fragile and fond memories of my first Humpty Dumpty...

Jeez...that way some of you people sound! A bunch of miserable fucks! Go out and have some fun!

Exactly

Thunderbird s doesn't seem to be that fun, maybe you didn't read the thread?

Let me rebut the "Any pinball is good pinball" myth...

This is the exact statement I got from my father after he gave me one of those tabletop marble shooters, you know the one with a plastic everything, no sound but a bell the ball could hit and make go "ding", with mechanical manual scoring and manual flippers? I asked for a pinball machine for Christmas. I got a piece of crap and this statement.

Any other takers?

I played Tbirds at expo... I walked away, didn't send mom a letter on it though...

When are Homepin going to ruin Johnny Quest?

This may be a record for the longest "for sale" thread where the game isn't overpriced. (Or is it? )

Imamaculate BUMP!

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are our conversation skills so poor we have to attack people with smut? ive never even met home pin

Very well said. Every time I hear someone say they like TBAG I think either they”re lying to support the company or else they suck so bad at playing pinball that they wouldn’t know the difference between a good game and bad one if it came up and bit them on the ass.

hey thats me!

And suddenly Deeproot's secret to putting out many games quickly is revealed!

delt31 is right.

dam, $5k pin with almost no plays now $3500? Seller must REALLY not like it.

I'd be wary of any pin that has an acronym "TBAG"

Not THAT quickly if they canned their 2019 TPF coming out party...

Evidently potential buyers don't like it either...