This almost went to Michael Jackson levels of fantasyland... Pat Lawlor is the MAN but good god what a horrible idea. Like someone else mentioned above, it somehow seems old and dated, even though it has tons more tech in it than anything Stern's doing... and the Stern stuff still seems fairly fresh.

I mean it with no disrespect to Pat who's arguably the greatest ever, but this kind of stuff makes you appreciate Steve Ritchie even more.

This is going to destroy any chance of anybody ever doing an unlicensed theme, ever again. Gary will use this as an example until the day he's dead, impossible for anybody to successfully pitch an unlicensed them if this bombs.

I wish the best for JJP their first two games were great, but I think Jack's about to learn what Gary already has: Sometimes games bomb and you lose a ton of money.

Can't tell if Sarcasm...

I guess I love it as much as I love my car keys, and my wallet. Good point.

I hope all the optimism is right and it's as fun as his other games... the shots and everything look fine, but there's actually an annoying cell phone ringing during gameplay... cheesy voices that rank right up there with the hick from Stern's 'blue' period... I just don't see it happening with this one.

I think my first clue that something was awry was when he seemed elated, in a strangely condescending way that you could adjust the volume without opening the front door... That was about the time he stopped getting charitable applause...

Didn't Stern always say that licensing costs about $50 a pin? I think part of the sticker shock is people expected since it was non licensed it would be cheaper. Most businesses aren't in the business of making things cheaper, they're in the business of figuring out how to make things more expensive so I don't fault them for their price scheme (comparative to their other games, and Stern's games)... what blows my mind about the whole thing is how out of all the 100's of non licensed themes that are just no-brianers, they go with something like a cell phone game... and after he had done so many great unlicensed ideas in the past. And apparently he's been batting this idea around for 15 years?

There's an interview somewhere where Ritchie is talking about this, basically Williams relied on their strong sales of 1 title to convince the distributors to buy the next one, and it backfired several times...

Think of the time they must have put into the software alone on this game so far.

I honestly think it's going to bomb, but damn you've got to give them credit for at least getting it so fleshed out before the reveal. It shows they're going in an exciting direction, bad sales might derail it though especially with new 'owners' thirsty for profit.