Love the sign. We need more ramp spinners!

Yeah glo balls stink. They get dirty really quick and the plastic coating rips off not long after.

Bally made Goldball with an anodized (?) gold colored ball. It'd be so fun if a pin had different colored balls and could tell them apart. PinballFX has a few virtual pins that toy with the idea and possibilities.

It made me think of Hot Wheels. Some other games have two bulbs under inserts, but not used for an effect like that (to my knowledge)

I like the wire. I think it's neat to skillfully "lock" a ball behind an upper flipper during a multiball (I'm assuming there is stage flipping). You'll also want to fiddle around with the balls search parameters so the flipper moves if the player tilts with a ball trapped there.

If the shot was tighter, then I'd suggest no wall because then a player can raise the upper flipper to make the opening a bit bigger. An example is the lock shot on F-14.

Maybe you could use it as a topper. It could display a progressive jackpot value for points/rings/whatever.

I guess you’ll just have to make a companion Miles “Tails” Prower edition, code Fastbreak like link play, and span it over the two.

I don’t think they can to a one off fan project. It’s not like a video game that is easily replicated and distributed.

I believe you need to be a Pinside editor to do it or ask one of them to do it. Idk if there is a list of them... Seems like the OP should just be able to do it since it's their thread.

Idk how I like the look of the sonic head on top vs him being entirely on the spinner, although the aspect ratio may make the graphic too small

What about Sonic wagging his finger like the splash screen?

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What if a fast shot gave you a minor % bump in score/completing goals related to the shot? Like make a few speed ranges and award an extra 0/5/10/15% on a jackpot shot. Sorta like a AIQ’s tower

I guess it’s more likely to be similar to what happened with Godzilla. Spooky approached them to buy a license. Then the licensor thought, I wonder what other pinball companies may offer for the license and as a business partner, and approached other companies to sell the license.

There’s no way Stern has any sort of access to Sonic IP simply because they were once a subsidiary of Segas arcade division for a few years.

Anyway, I think American Pinball should still be thrilled they hired a guy with the skills, eye for design, and passion to build such a great game mostly by himself. Just think of what Ryan can do with a team of engineers, coders, artists, and other designers to execute on his ideas for other games/themes.

Sure someone active in the licensing department could theoretically still know Gary (though I really doubt it considering it was about 25 years ago that Stern was spun off and Sega has gotten rid of their entire arcade division since then). I was speaking more to people who thought Stern has had some sort of right of first refusal or other nonsense. Sega of Japan never cared about Stern Pinball. It was just an investment in their portfolio for a few years.

I suggest reading the book Console Wars which covers the Genesis vs SNES era. It covers a lot of the history and cultural differences of both Sega and Nintendo, and how the American and Japanese sides would interact. They didn't get along at all. Example Sega of America tried to work with Sony to make the Sega PlayStation when Nintendo abandoned the Nintendo PlayStation project, but Sega Japan vetoed it and started to develop the Saturn. We all know how that went...

Ive been meaning to pick up Reggie Fils Aime's new book which discusses some of the issues that were still present in the Japan-America divide when he was in charge of NOA.