And right you are..no soul.
I got my wozecle and i was convinced it was the holy grail,but it felt wrong.
All Stern stuff...it is shallow,not the rulesheet,but the connection between you and the machine.
I like to believe they had actual wizards working at bally williams.
Name me 1 pin that equals medieval madness...the humor,soul,feel,excitement..
What was the magic ingredient at B/W??

Hear hear! I still listen to music, watch movies, and (shocker!!) still play pinball from the 90s!

Nobody would care
The casual player only wants to have fun, easy to understand rules, good sounds, easy to reach muktiball

I would suggest that's bullshit. It's pretty easy for people to tell which games are newer. I mean...just the LEDs alone make the difference, plus the fact that most of the games are licensed on current movies and TV shows. I have a room with 15 pinball machines, and NOBODY would have any trouble quickly picking out Iron Man as the newest one (there are 7 B/W 90s games there).

As far as the "secret ingredient" that made W/B games so good, it was the designers and software guys - almost all of whom currently work at Stern. That's why Stern is putting out so many good games and the boutiques are struggling to put out anything close.

It's all in your head. Although it seems you are having trouble dealing with pinball life after Barry Ouersler.

Ahhh, I have solved this thread

o-din is predicting the next Stern band game will be New Kids On The Block

I like Barry's games. Generally underrated.

Obviously, Stern mechanics still have the DE in their DNA. The Sega games are cheap and horrible though and the Nothing Stern has put out since after Austin Powers has reminded me of that garbage.

South Park is a fantastic game from Sega. I've put plenty of coin through SP and still find it fun to play.

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Came back to this thread after reading o-din's newest thread and saw your response. Maybe it's just you? You would not believe how many 30-60 year olds I have talk to me about Ghostbusters! Especially with the new movie that came out, it really riled up the fanbase and showed a bit more predominantly. There are tons of models, full-blown real cars of the ambulance, memoribilia, shirts, you name it, out there. From others I have talked to it seemed like a really strong point of the 80's among other things. Like I said before, maybe it was just you and your friends? Or rather, yeah, of course it's not something you would talk about anymore too often, but I'm talking about back then. It seems like a lot of people have a very strong connection to the franchise. Considering (as with another handful of different 80's things) there were cereals, drinks (Ecto-Cooler), a bunch of video games released, trading cards, etc., I'm not surprised it had such an impact!