A Vpin for 9 large?

Holy toledo! That's silly money for 2 TVs in a box. Fugly too.

I don't know why but I actually like the design. I have no interest in pincabs, but color me impressed.

I wouldn't buy anything from the pinball company.

Price is too high, but I do like the look of it. I did a mini one using Pinball FX and it was pretty easy to get that 2nd monitor showing the proper backglass and dmd placement. This makes me want to dig that unit out and update the laptop. (I used the laptop to drive it and the laptop screen became the backglass and I just rotated a 20" monitor for playfield)

Wow the story about William’s Vidball prototype from 2001 just came out a few days ago and this looks just like it.
https://www.thisweekinpinball.com/vidball-the-untold-story-of-midways-last-pinball-project/

The authorized distributors are listed here:
https://www.baytekent.com/distribution/
Most of them are operator-centric.
.................David Marston

GRG has it: https://www.gameroomguys.com/Skillshot-FX-Digital-Pinball-Machine

I do like the appearance, but it's nothing like a "real" pin and should probably be placed in its own space as it will look quite out of place in a lineup. I imagine the objective was to make this look more palatable to fastidious interior décor types and therefore more versatile in terms of placement (improved "wife acceptance factor" vs. a traditional machine).

The biggest issue seems to be high cost and relatively minimal available technical information. At this price it isn't too far away from something like a P3 (if you can swing $9k you can probably swing $12k), which offers a significantly upgraded pinball "experience" as well as significantly more complex hardware for the $$$.

Until there's concrete information to the contrary, I'll assume this thing consists of some generic PC parts, a couple of commodity-grade flat panels, a couple of solenoids and striker plates, a few buttons/switches, and a laminate-over-MDF cabinet; if this turns out to be accurate then I am afraid "the rent is too damn high" at $9k!

A vpin for that kind of cashola ought to use AI to head track without the user needing to wear anything, and adjust the 3d effect as your head moves around for a realistic depth effect.

I bought the Legends vpin a few weeks ago, and while the games seem more playable than on a phone or tablet, everything looks so flat! The inherent flatness doesn't seem to matter as much on a small screen, but on that big screen, angled away from you, it looks bad. Head tracking would help immensely.

Vpin? Yuck!

Late thread reply, but I agree.

High-end vpins like this which integrate video game pinball into a traditional pinball form-factor certainly have their place. I definitely like the idea of playing the Star Wars and Marvel games (for example) as “real” pins, and high quality vpins like this probably offer as close an experience as possible.

Sure the Williams games won’t be anything remotely as good as the real machines, but they do have appeal. I think some of us who have been doing this a while have probably had sufficient experience with the old “A” list classics (either through play or ownership) that we have lost interest in continued buying/selling of those games in favor of some of the newer stuff. At the same time we still desire to revisit these games from time to time, and a good quality vpin can scratch that itch without any issues of space or maintenance; the “flatness” and artificial nature of vpin is less of a detriment when one is already intimately familiar with the game’s “secrets” through play on real machines, IMO.