I am guessing Cassandra is contractually barred from licensing an Elvira game to a competitor for a period of years after the release of EHOH. It seems reasonable enough.

I don't follow. I'm sure they would still need additional licensing from Elvira, just like they would for the actors in TAF or TZ if they remade those games.

Maybe you could enlighten us and show us the exact wording that states they can make *any* game they want from the entire B/W library without any additional licensing. I would have thought that it's fairly common knowledge that that's not how it works. Farsight couldn't do it with their virtual recreations. Hell, the original manufacturers of these machines couldn't even make more machines after their associated licenses expired. Could Stern just go ahead and run more Tron without renewing the license with Disney? Of course not.

I do think that recent code updates being developed for WPC games suggests that a custom CC could be in the works. I can't see Planetary getting the licensing to do this just for funzies, or for the benefit of the owners of games from the 90's. I think it's more likely they had a commercial interest in being able to expand on the old code, but it's possible CC could be a red herring.

I've heard rumblings about updated code being in the works for B/W games. Not just bug fixes, and not just the remakes either. If true, this could really give a new lease on life to some of these older titles with great gameplay, but dated code. It seems like it could make sense if CCr is getting a makeover and bugs in the B/W games have been getting squashed recently.

Those are the bug fixes I was referring to, but I think the recent involvement of PPS is related to the expansion of CCr code and that new rules for some B/W games could be in the works too.

It makes almost no sense for a TZ remake. It's such a common pin already and it would be costly to reproduce. Having said that, the next game probably is TZr because I already own a mint original.

It's CCr. I don't think the title will be the surprise part of it.

Yup. I'm thinking that patent for TZ could be related to the Arcade 1UP or other recent virtual pinball releases.

I don't know much about the latest virtual pins, but I read that Arcade1up had been securing licensing for additional pin titles. It's not clear if this is for a 2nd gen virtua pin coming out, or a downloadable table pack. It's just a possible reason why there could be a recent pinball related hit on the licensing.

+1 for BBBr. I was collecting when B/W games could be had for a lot less, but I have never had a chance to get a cheap BBB. I also have no affinity for Capcom flipper feel, so they don't need to be a perfect copy.

You forgot the best one: "Lock is LIT... and so am I!"

So what was the big news that was supposedly going to drop along with the CCr announcement? Was it just that they have 5 more games in the pipeline? I was expecting something a little more earth shattering.