Awesome to have a side to side comparison! What are your initial thoughts? I'll check out the video later.

I don't think any of us with games that are fine invalidate your experience with ones that were not. The reason I said anything is that you are making huge blanket statements about all of these games that do not appear to be accurate. Mine is engineered fine, as are many others. I'm still excited to see the remake regardless, and back to that.

Awesome - great video! best view of the guts so far!!

Thanks for posting.
Game looks good but I'm kinda hoping the next unboxing and review is done by someone who has never owned or better yet played the OG. Hopefully spots can be added to slings via GI like I do with Sterns to light things up a bit. I think the Heighway version was dark as well? At least it has begun.

Oh yeah. Cab and back glass looking just fine to me. In fact better than fine. Simple, iconic, classic.

Thanks for sharing, here are some of the guts from the video.

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Looks really nice! Decals and translite even look good...Wonder how they hold up in person.

One thing: Noticed that the pc is in the bottom of the head.

22:05 if you want to see the Xenomorph eat the ball!

So...

Ramps look super polished...
The new light channel guides in many places to boost lighting. But interestingly they also seem to be in direct contact with the ball in some places. That's a new concept to see how it plays out. plus the target bodies.. clearly they really put lighting near the top of the list to tweak and invest in.
The board redesign.. looks like we have a chained data bus with rj45 (but some strain relief now) with separate molex power to the boards like before. But of course the interface boards are completely redone.
Interesting to see that, what looks like some sort of power distribution box attached to the bottom of the PF.
CPU is behind the monitor now
the lack of a lockdown reciever is an interesting choice... just small tabs where the lockdown bar slides through and double as the PF mounts.

No EOS on the flippers at all? Guess all software controlled... we've seen others continue to struggle with that idea.

I know the poster was disappointed with the Audio, but I think the HWP was a bit of an extreme with audio itself. Good news is audio is alot easier to fix than things like I/O boards! Hopefully running the audio to your own amp + speakers gets it back to where some want it.

I wonder where all the driver board stuff is... in the box on the PF or the box in the lower cab? Seems like the box hanging on the PF

I would think there has got to be audio adjustment somewhere in the menu other than just volume control no?

Actually..that was a club thread and it did get shut down. Mods said it could be changed to a pre-order and said they'd open it back up when a game shipped.

Thank you very much for the video. I do not think the cabinet looks bad at all. I am still not a fan of the chrome, but it isn't horrible.

Thanks for the video!

Can anyone make an educated guess as to why the sound seems so bad?

I know it's probably easy to fix , but is it speakers or something that cannot be upgraded ; like they reduced the quality somewhere .

Everything else seems pretty good , but sound is very important to me as well.

Those are probably super cheap speakers made to fit in that limited space. I am sure it won't be an issue to make the audio shine. Just a little $$

well alien used a full dedicated amp.. and different speakers. We don't know what they are driving these speakers with yet.

I think it's the least of concerns - except for the continued speaker placement behind the plexi. The rest is easily improved upon as long as there is a line level somewhere.

Thanks for posting this. The game looks better than I was expecting for the price. I hope they can maintain that price point and build hundreds, if not thousands of these. I'm sure there will be a way to enhance the audio quality.

Speakers arent a big deal, just get an exterior audio system and hook it up, I think new Alien looks great. Good work.

Well done and Thank you for sharing your experience!!!! Game looks awesome and at half price from current market on OG this is a home run. Oddly for some reason I kept expecting your to yell "Run for the Choppper" during your review but no... lol Thanks again.

I was thinking the same thing....lol

This is simple, but sometimes it is something simple so it can't hurt to ask. Is the cabinet speaker working and putting out full volume? You mentioned that you were getting almost no bass. If there were an issue with that speaker, that would explain it.

My guess is it is something rather simple. When he showed that massive base speaker in the bottom cabinet then noted there was no base my guess would be there is some type of bass knob in the bottom cabinet somewhere to pump that up. Highly doubt they would put a speaker that big in with nothing to fire it.

He doesn't even show, maybe it doesn't even have a cab speaker?

EDIT: oh, I guess I missed that he showed a speaker.

He does show it in the video.

I like the minor artistic changes they made to the front.

I find it interesting he keeps bringing up the lock down bar locks. Is anyone even using the old style williams locks? I haven't seen one in years.

Exactly - I have a feeling this is a configuration or connection issue. Looks like the hardware is there.

Thought the machine looked very good - clean designs, artwork appeared better than expected, neat assembly under the playfield, lighting good. Fingers crossed.

Guess its a personal preference for him totally fine. Think JJP is the last to still use that lock method. Doesn't matter much to me personally. Loved the changes and improvements they made. Looked really well built top to bottom with the primary theme and shot map still as original yet slightly better with added features. They picked the right time to roll this game out. For anyone that has never had the chance to enjoy playing Alien This is a huge opportunity. Such a full wonderful pinball experience. Well done PB!

Look at it though - it's not just the locking reciever vs clips... there is no reciever at all!

So no adjustments for the lockbar, no steel bar supporting front of cabinet face, lesser brackets supporting the playfield itself.

What I thought was interesting as well was it looked like the right clip didn't have clearance to flip up when the PF was down.. looks like it may have to be fiddled with to get in the lock position.

They seem to be exactly the same as R&M.

Unfortunately - not the greatest standard to be chasing...

Guess it depends on if you consider it an issue. For home use, it certainly isn't.

Its different, no big whoop. IF we have to lift the playfield every day then Maybe a concern otherwise a non concern. Way better to me then the original design lifting that 50 pound glass rail assembly off. That design I did not care for personally.

Game looks great.

My guess is a cable or something to the bass speaker have come loose while transporting, really doubt it should sound that tame.

Concur - the glass cartridge model is a neat idea - just horrible in most practical senses.

Spooky Pinball does.

I love the lit molded plastic pieces placed around the playfield. Looks to be around eight of them. They really help with the mood of the lighting.

Cabinet art package looks fine. I really liked the original lit side panels but I didn't like the original cabinet style with the modular pieces on the front and the lift up glass with that huge frame.

Would like to see the exact way the playfield rotates into the vertical position too...

Looks great! Better than I expected. The underside of the playfield looks so clean and probably easier to assemble and disassemble than most modern pins.

Spooky did through ACNC, but R&M (at least later in the run) came with the Stern type of double latch.

Looks really good overall, shouldn't be hard to upgrade the sound.

Pinball bros commented on his video with this.

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We think that the bass cable and the right loudspeaker cable might be switched. The sound should be pretty good - especially with the fat bass speaker you have in the cabinet’s bottom
And as an advanced tip: remove the backglass and find the bass boost knob below the screen, left of the speaker cables...

Yes, love that as well. Overall this is a hit for me. Very pleased with what I see so far.

Great video! Thanks for the details we have yet to see. I think the sound would be improved with a simple external sub. Looks like a winner to me.

I don't think they are all that bad. Pretty much it depends on how picky u are with sound on a pin. I've never upgraded and never will. Stock speakers are just fine for me and without hearing the OG I might think they are more than adequate. Where are the cointaker Aliens?

Way better than the Heighway ramps. They are really nice.

Flipper are crazy weak stock. Hopefully they have strength settings and hold up against long play periods.

Those light blocks as all the ball guides are very very cool too. Seems like they are pretty robust when I saw them at Pinbrew.

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Betcha cointaker is busy now!

Club sniped.

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What is ‘XV’ version? Look on box.

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Boxes printed before they settled on what kind of models they were going to make

I really feel this game needs a jumping facehugger as a topper - pointed right at the player.

Well that's ridiculous... cancelling my order !