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How far back will they go?

By o-din

7 years ago

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1957 Baseball Deluxe Williams, 1957
1962 World Series Williams, 1962
Circa 1933 Fascination Game, 1979
Class of 1812 Gottlieb, 1991
Gay 90's Williams, 1970
Spirit of 76 Gottlieb, 1975
Time Machine Data East, 1988
Twilight Zone Bally, 1993

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“How far back will they go with licensed themes and still be able to keep on selling them?”

1966- Batman TV Series proved this year is still viable for licensed pinball themes 0 votes
1964- Munsters and Beatles, although not being sold yet, with all the hype, shows still not too far back 0 votes
1959- Twilight Zone pinball sold over 15,000 units and is still very popular today 1 vote

4%
1958- Sea Hunt debuts with that ever popular pinball personality Jeff Bridges 1 vote

4%
1954- Father Knows Best and Lassie debut. Family friendly at it's finest. 1 vote

4%
I'd like to see more 1970s themes. How are they missing the opportunity to cash in on such a great decade? 5 votes

20%
1930s- How is there not a big band, swing era music pin yet? 4 votes

16%
1913- We've got Mustang and Corvette, but now lets give the Model T it's due. 5 votes

20%
Anything before the 20th century, please. 1 vote

4%
1949- We need a Lone Ranger pinball machine! 7 votes

28%

(Multiple choice - 25 votes by 18 Pinsiders)

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BIBLE ADVENTURES!

And if we want to go even further back, the Big Bang Theory!

Quoted from MikeS:
I'm still hoping for an Old Testament Bible Adventures inspired game.

I'm making it someday - bank on it.

John Trudeau told me Williams had a shot at the Beatles license back in the 90's but management didn't think it was relevant enough.

I'd bet the difficulty of dealing with that license would be pretty high. Maybe "don't even bother" high (unlike Harry Potter which would probably be worth it)

The big bang.

Not the Big Bang Theory, the actual Big Bang (a prequel to deeproot's woefully misnamed Fire & Brimstone)

Themes like Batman 66 and Munsters are basically "nostalgic nostalgia" selling to 80s kids who remember watching reruns of those shows. Anyone old enough to remember watching them when new is well past the pin (or anything but dentures) buying age.

Even Elvira 3. As a brand it's laughably out of date (sorry hot grandma lovers) Really it's about the nostalgia for the first two games. Also the dialog will be God awful unless Cassandra writes it herself.

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