Kill it with Fire. That's my opinion.

I don't really think the demand is there for that title. It is fun for the first few games but got both boring and annoying for me real quick. Not a good thing for the home collector, which is where a huge portion of the market is nowadays.

A completely new updated South Park pinball might be a good idea. But re-releasing the old one would be a waste of time as the game play is not up to the theme. I still think they should make a Futurama pinball.

South park should be used for kindling!

I agree, there is so much they can do with this license. The updated boards would hold a ton more memory for more quotes so they wouldn't get old so fast. Hopefully the playfield would be better too (though you never know until you play it). At least make it more challenging. The original was way to easy, even for a person of mediocre skill like myself.

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Or base it off of the Stick of Truth game they released.

Do not, "Blame Canada!"

Pretty horrible game, IMO.

Anyone been to Jilly's at Ocean City? They have had their South Park in pieces for almost two years. They have a big box of parts under the game, but it's just been sitting there.

We were discussing this in the SM thread. SP is still popular with operators. The game makes coin. Stern could remake the Sega titles, they would just need to renew the license. The game has a low BOP.

The game is not good sadly. It does get annoying. A major software revamp is in order. I'm not sure what has happened with the rights to do chef either since the voice actor died, that is an unknown.

Just as DE Simpsons eventually led to the great TSPP - I think South Park could be revisited as a new modern game. Operators will remember the earnings of the original and be interested. Pin enthusiast/South Park fans who love the show but know the old game blows would be interested. Could be the perfect game for Stern's new platform as they could pull TONS clips for a color display - and the animation is simple enough that they could make custom animation (or have the SP animators do it) relatively easily.

Also like DE Simpsons it was made very early, before the show hit its stride.

All of the best episodes of SP (and Butters Timmy and Jimmy) came since the movie / pin.

However Futurama has had ZERO pins and would be super easy to implement as fat as rules go.

As a very happy owner of a South Park, I love it and think it's hilarious. But rather than see them "Vault" it, I'd rather see them come up with a whole new wild and whacky SP pin and add all the great characters and call outs that have come into the show in the last 15 years.

Just think what type of toy you could make out of Bender. Sick stuff!

My South Park was played constantly at my last party. I love the machine and find it challenging in a frustrating sort of way. If Stern released a new South Park, I would buy it immediately.

I'd just like to tally another vote for a long overdue Futurama pin vs. another South Park pin.

There are tons of episodes/material that would translate better to pinball in Futurama than South Park. Also South Park is mostly lampooning celebrities and current events, so the machine would always become outdated. Futurama lampoons future celebrities and future current events based on projected hyperbole, so it would remain funny until probably the 2100's when Lucy Liu is no longer relevantly irrelevant.

There's little doubt it's a great pin for non-pinball people to play. For pinballers, it's pretty much a bore. My opinion, of course.

While I loved Futurama (mostly...the last few seasons weren't very good aside from a few eps), it's done and gone. It's got a passionate cult fanbase but it never caught on with the masses. South Park on the other hand, is still alive and kicking and is part of pop culture in a way that Futurama never was. It will still be a relevant property as long as it's on the air, and pretty evergreen after the fact. It's a good time to strike on a new SP pin, IMO.

Don't forget that the pc game they made recently, "The Stick Of Truth," was a huge hit. It would make an interesting pinball machine itself!

I doubt the game would be a good earner anymore...when you see it next to a MET,ACDC,ST,TWD etc it looks and plays like ass...

A new SP with modern look and great rules would do well

My sp on route sits next to 7 other pins including addams, spiderman, TSPP and earns the same each week and most weeks out earns them. It has also been there for 1.2 years now and is still going strong. Most games at this location last about 6-8 months before dropping off in plays

I have to disagree about the celebrities comment and how South Park lives off current events. It is true that South Park does a lot of current events, but they normally tie into larger phenomena of some kind.

For example, they turned the Tiger Woods sex scandals into a large play on why wealthy men like younger women...Mr. Woods was just the central character. They've done similar things with TSA, cash to gold, reality television, and basically every retail created holiday in history. South Park is great stuff.

I agree futurama is also awesome by the way.

Worst game I've ever played.

You've clearly never played Shaq Attack...

Or rollercoaster tycoon

it does well on route but it still sucks

Agree. Game play is subpar and game gets annoying but man it makes some coin

Operators would not buy the old South Park again...they bring them to auctions and are lucky if they can get $1500...they'd have no reason to spend NIB money on a re-issue of the old game. If it were a completely new game, that's another story.

I'd be interested in a completely new South Park or Futurama pin based on the new Stern system. I would not be interested in SP VE.

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Agree

This. SouthPark was done a great injustice by Sega's crappy pin. And maybe they can make another Family Guy pin while their at it to make up for the turd that Stern put out some time back

FGY is an awesome game. I think the they could have coded it to some of the newer episodes but that game shot really well and had one of the best toys in all of pinball history (Stewie pinball was so much fun!).

Nah, Donkey Pinball was way better.

It would just be a new game. DE Simpsons vs. Stern Simpsons Pinball Party. Same license, different games. One based on the first season, the other based on the established legacy.

Both. FGY is the more commonly used term...

They should name that game "I'm not gay, butt pirate" because that's all I hear while playing it

Such a pity because I want to spend money on a South Park pin!

Man a new SP would prolly sell like crazy. Die hard fans, casual fans, pinheads & operators would scoop em up.

Southpark was and still is a great pin on location. 2nd best earner for me of all the Data East, Sega ND Stern pins. Only the blue Data East Star Wars earned more. A new version would be great for ops and home buyers.

South Park's sound was pretty exceptional. What was said was sometime a little to crass but it had really good sound and the light show was also above average. I thought long and hard about PROC'ing it but the layout leaves a lot to be desired. It did earn money, which if their were more like that maybe Sega and Williams would still be making pins. I don't think I would want to own one again but I can appreciate it for the fact that non-pinball people like my significant other would play it with me.

Flash Gordon had claim to "FG" so Family Guy became "FGY"