Maybe other people don't like it, but I love the way Charlie's running this new company. He's got the guts to go slow, when instinct (and all the people with no money involved) says go fast. Lots of companies fail because they try to go too fast.

Good for him and his family, I wish them success!

Yup! I do the same thing when I buy live concert DVD's. If I put in my Led Zeppelin concert, and they don't play "Four Sticks", I turn that stuff on mute and watch the band drum along to it streaming on Spotify!!! It's my house, i'll do whut i wunt!

Everything's different depending on who you're dealing with... but the reason you put a time limit on it is so you don't end up with people procrastinating (I.E., everybody in the pinball design business except Stern and Charlie, basically) and tying up your license for years.

So from Rob Zombie's perspective, if this is for 3 years, they're done after 3 years and if someone wants to make, for instance, a pinball ap game with his license he's free to sign a new deal with that person.

Of course you could probably extend it (unless there's another deal that prohibits it) but it wouldn't make good sense for Rob to just leave his contracts open ended like that, it would limit his possibilities down the road.

If he would have signed an open ended time commitment, like for instance, you have the license to make 1000 machines... a company could string that along and still be selling them brand new 15 years from now because they only built 20 a year. If 10 years from now Stern wants to work with Rob to do something, they're not going to want to do that if another company is still manufacturing games with his license. Etc.

Much better to make contracts as specific as possible, in about every way possible, so there's no misunderstandings, and no hard feelings when the contract plays out exactly how it's written.

BTW Rob Zombie's a pretty smart guy, and you're talking about a license so big he's made money in the music industry, the comic book industry, and even in Hollywood. Big time license here...

I don't blame 'em. They're just trying to get that 'casual' money

Hard to screw this theme up... it's going to be awesome, no matter what, just with the art and the music.

And a family owned business manufacturing things here in America on top of that. Awesome stuff, Charlie!

That's the whole thing. People need to fight against that, just because something is done differently than what's the accepted best way to do it doesn't make it bad art. You see a lot of that in music too, if someone dares to record something and mix it differently than how it's generally accepted as the 'best' way to do it, the music is panned by critics online.

I think the game looks great, it's a little different than everything else out there and that's a good thing. It looks like a Spooky Pinball. I think it's great to see an American company building stuff and providing jobs right here in America as well. I hope Spooky does well and turns into a much larger company with many more games!

It's really cool seeing a small group of people create their own pinball company, and doing it the right way (building it, THEN offering it for sale). I like seeing the evolution of the company, fascinating to watch.

I think the animation and the ruleset really has a lot of attention to detail, I've never played America's most Haunted but it appeared to me that game had a lot of attention to detail in the dots and the ruleset... this game seems to be further down the path from that... like I said it's really cool seeing the company grow and learn and figure out better ways to do things.

The animation capture's Rob Zombie's world very well in my opinion...