Why? Why would you even say that?

I'll buy games that look good, and are fun, and well done. If I don't like the gameplay I don't care what the theme is, I'm not paying $6k+ for it.

And if the game is fun but it looks like crap I'm not gonna pay all that money for it either. Zombie Yeti ghost art sounds rad. But I love the theme on Creech, and hate the gameplay. Good art and theme isn't enough.

Because people who buy pinballs are old enough to be nostalgic about their youth, when movies like Ghostbusters came out. Same reason why WWE was such a dud, but there was a flicker of interest in the LE. It was the "old" wrestlers version.

Ghostbusters could make a fun pin. But I'm just beyond getting excited over a theme. We've seen how even the best ones can be ruined, and the more you love it the more painful it is when it gets crapped out.

I'm not an Iron Maiden fan, but they have 16 studio albums. They're not exactly in the "shallow catalogue" category.

My preference would be that if Stern is going to treat their games the way they did GOT, that they not pick any licenses I care about, so I don't have to be sad that they were hacked out so quickly.

I have nothing against the company, a 3rd of my games are Sterns, but man, I just can't pay the kind of prices they're asking for for these half assed blobs of commercial crap art packages. Maybe the ops don't care, but home collectors do.

And it sucks, because they have some real talent there when it comes to the actual games, that deserve better support.

Yeah, it's basically stupid and pointless for lots of otherwise great games. But it's great for Mario Maker. And I mostly ignore it for Mario Kart 8 or the Mario platformers, 3D and 2D, which are all otherwise excellent.

He meant that people were still having stupid partisan brand wars, not that they shouldn't play video games.

And he's right. I own a Wii U and a PS4. I'd buy an Xbox too if I felt like it, but honestly I don't play my existing systems enough to need a third.

Dooooo iiiiit. I basically bought the Wii U for Markio Kart 8, it was the game that sold me, and it's really great. Maybe my favorite of all of them, marred only by a shitty battle mode. But the racing is great, really inventive and fun tracks, and with the DLC there are a ton of them. Even the classic remakes are fun.

I couldn't tell if she was really talking about Hendricks gin, and Gary misheard and started trying to cover, or if the Hendricks part was an attempt on her part to cover for saying Hendrix, but yeah, either way, the reaction was pretty funny. And it's a rumor that has already come up.

Stern has multiple titles being made at any given time. There could be art and a playfield floating around internally that she's seen, doesn't mean it's the next game necessarily.

It's so obvious I would think it was a setup except for the fact that it occurred so late into a random event where that wouldn't make sense.

She didn't, at least I didn't hear that. She said have you guys had Hendricks? (For people not familiar it's a cucumber gin.) Then something about is their Hendricks in this, I dunno but it has gin. Totally innocent.

It's Gary who hears Hendrix and starts wigging out. Then she starts saying why not tell them.

If Gary hadn't said anything nothing would have come of it. That's how I heard it at least. But there's no doubt he was totally flubbing covering it up once he realized he said something he shouldn't have. Not going to read more than that into it, aside from it coming up as a rumor previously already.