Congratulations for shipping the first games! Though it's taken a while (like with most pinball-startups), it's a great accomplishment. I hope production will 'accelerate' and customers will soon get their games and Heighway can start making some money (and develop more games ).

A lot of (educated) guesses here. I think the question 'will there be a second-hand market for games' is a good one. I myself could see me buying one game and buying second hand playfields later, but indeed it will take some time for people to have games in their homes, so it'll take some time for the second hand kit market to come into existence and grow 'big enough'. On the other hand, you probably don't want your first playfield to sell in the first few months, and indeed I think more will buy Alien than Full Throttle.

I think one of the major advantages of the Heighway system is not that kits are cheaper, but that 'maintenance-costs' can become less: easy to change parts that you can repair at home (ie flippers, bumpers), changing games between locations without having to move whole cabinets, maybe less trouble because there're no old-school-switches (easier cleaning, no ball hangups if a switch gets 'stuck'). And maybe it'll get the time the game is operating up (les 'down-time').
We'll see if it really works that way (I do hope so for Heighway and operators as well, and for the hobby), but at least I think the effort is worth a 'thumbs up'!

Well, exciting times anyway with Big Lebowski/DP coming, as well as P3 and Time Shock, and Spooky delivering games and Heighway starting to deliver games as well and JJP having produced one game and soon the next one. Stern moving bigger. And I'm sure I'm forgetting some right now . (i.e. Thunderbirds/Homepin. Other startups? And a lot of small projects!)

Slightly off-topic: I really don't understand why a lot of parents and some 'rating-agencies' mind nudity or sex more than violence. I've seen movies rated 18+ because there's some nudity or sex in them (no porn, just love-making), and movies 12+ where people get shot, heads get blown off, etc... Maybe it's just me, but I'd want my children rather to get the idea that a nude body or love-making is normal than that violence and killing is normal.

Did I mention yet that I think it's great that Heighway has started shipping games?! Guess I already did .

Good to see the games are shipping! Congratulations to Heighway (and the Full Throttle buyers).

So a few here would like to be able to buy an LE kit, right? Well, maybe if there's enough demand they'll sell them (though it'll have to be within the numbers of LE's mentioned so far... in the future they could say 'we're doing 300 LE games and 50 LE kits' or something like that. I doubt it'll happen though, and I don't see why there's so much discussion about it.

Back on topic: hoping to see some first customers games on pictures/video's soon and of course their reviews of Full Throttle.