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My review: Dialed In

By Russell

6 years ago


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#49 6 years ago
Quoted from TheLaw:

I'm trying to think of a theme that "aged poorly" and I don't really know what I'm looking for; maybe someone can list some?

Johnny Mnemonic... bad movie, old tech like modems and touch-tone multiball, bad impersonation of actors in the bad movie trying to act cool... Game shoots great and has nice music and rules, but the theme.. bleh.

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#80 6 years ago
Quoted from Hazoff:

What a reach, JM was pure 90's sci fi cheese greatness. "I've got to get this data out of my head" not too mention Dolph, because a film doesn't do well at the box office or maybe has some terrible acting which for JM is part of its allure, doesn't mean a pinball machine can't be made based on that, Congo, never saw the film but the pin is amazing,

JM is a special kind of cheese because the movie starts off pretty good, then drives off the cliff. Plus it's aged poorly with all the 90's tech references. Congo, DM and Shadow are kinda bleh movies but the pins don't suffer at all because the themes (jungle horror, future comedy and superhero) are a bit more timeless. Shadow is an awesome pin, probably the best of the bad movie bunch. JM is a great player, but wouldn't shed a tear if every single one got rethemed to the Matrix

#81 6 years ago
Quoted from Whysnow:

Overall, I think it is positively the best designed lawlor game of all time! Pats masterpiece which honestly makes me even more excited for his next game as we all know TZ is what cam after and because of TAF

DI is pretty cool but I don't think Pat will ever top Funhouse. That game is pure genius.

Quoted from Whysnow:

that is not true at all. I like some of the good Stern games (TWD in partciular is a great game)

Stern just makes so much cheap crap form cost cutting and their pack of code support is maddening. Every new release from them brings about new surprises in a bad way. Granted they have been better on the support side (replacing playfields with ghosting and now cabinents with splitting), but I woudl prefer to not have those issues to begin with.

You need to separate the GAMES from the COMPANY. Even if you think Stern is churning out firewood now, that doesn't make early and current titles PLAY worse. Metallica and TWD are some of the best coded games in history, and they've both held up very well in the field. My MetLE has thousands of plays and all I've done is change the magnet core. You should rate a game based on gameplay, looks, sound, etc... then add on a big asterisk: "assuming you get a good example, beware these issues: etc etc " Not all machines Stern makes have playfield and cabinet issues, although the ratio has gotten worse lately. It's silly to rate Metallica poorly because Ghostbusters has playfield issues or whatever...

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