The pinball machine industry had masterful artists that created beautiful art for decades and decades. If the artists wanted more red in a certain area, they would have added more red. If they wanted more blue, they would have added more blue. Would you honestly walk up to Paul Faris or Doug Watson and say "hey look! I made your art better by drastically over-saturating this area with a certain color!" The art was designed and printed with a certain brightness and hue of light in mind. I'm ok with LEDs that try to match this type of light while maybe perhaps appearing a tad brighter than original, but the Rainbow Puke (perfect term, by the way) really has to stop. It's making certain games look flat out ugly.

Of course I recognize that this is a subjective topic, but I think one could make an argument based on color theory that adding additional color to existing work of art tampers with the balance of the piece a majority of the time. I personally just consider it disrespectful to the artists (not saying they probably really care, but that's just my perspective on it).

But some of these works of art ARE considered masterpieces by many of us and most of the artists took the job pretty seriously. The artwork that is on display at the Met is almost entirely commercial product - all of it was bought a paid for by wealthy patrons who could afford to pay an artist to paint something for them. Pinball art is really no different in that sense. If someone wanted to alter the colors of a Picasso piece, they would would be rightly criticized for tampering with a masterpiece that doesn't need fixing.

Sure, the design teams are probably thrilled that their games are still loved, but the artists may be insulted to see their lifetime of studying/mastering color theory being "puked on."

Now you don't need to get high to play High Speed with fruity colors.

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Someone decided that instead of articulately drawn faces expressing a wide range of emotions, it'd be better to just have the color blue.

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