Spaceballs: The Pin

So, I've decided I want my next project to be a custom Spaceballs themed pin.

It's a movie that my wife and I love, and seems to have lots of elements that will translate well to a pin.

However, I'd love the opportunity to approach this a little differently. Instead of running to my bat-cave, designing it in a vacuum and showing back up with a spit shined turd, I though I might make it more of an open design to really get some valuable feedback during the process.

So,first I'd love to get your thoughts on the style of the game. I lean toward the mode style game, because of the tie ins with specific scenes in the movie. "Comb the desert" mode comes to mind.

Some of the basic scenes I want to translate to gameplay are:

-radar jamming
-mega maid emerging
-mega maid going from suck to blow
-Schwartz is as big as mine
-ludicrous speed
-gotta be a mr coffee
-perriair
-the Winnebago in general

So, what do you all think?

#2 10 years ago

RJC

Rcade

Inactive member

Have a "warp ramp", like in STTNG and ST, but instead of increasing warps, you increase colors.......so eventually, you get to Plaid. Getting the call out of "They've gone to PLAID!" alone would be worth the trouble.

#3 10 years ago

GAC

Rarehero

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Los Angeles, CA

12y 134K 23,322 22 119

"Combing the desert" mode "We ain't found shit!"

#4 10 years ago

RJC

Rcade

Inactive member

Or what about a mode called "Marketing Madness!!" where each shot is linked to an officially licensed SpaceBalls product?

-SpaceBalls the lunchbox!
-SpaceBalls the Cereal!
-SpaceBalls the Flame Thrower!
-etc...
Until you collect all the products

#5 10 years ago

JAM

Wolfmarsh

Pinside member

Quoted from Rarehero:
"Combing the desert" mode "We ain't found shit!"

It's a mode where only 1 target gives the jackpot but its not lit up. You have 15 seconds to find the target or the mode ends and you get the "we ain't found shit" line. lol

Game has so much potential

#6 10 years ago

RJC

Rcade

Inactive member

How about lighting up false JP shots? Then when you shoot it, you get the "FOOLED YOU!!" call out.

#7 10 years ago

AJB

ajb1138

Inactive member

11y 23,900 65 4

Make sure you somehow incorporate Major A**hole and Gunner's Mate First Class Philip A**hole.

#8 10 years ago

JAM

Wolfmarsh

Pinside member

Quoted from Rcade:
How about lighting up false JP shots? Then when you shoot it, you get the "FOOLED YOU!!" call out.

Haha, I love it.

#9 10 years ago

GAC

Rarehero

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Los Angeles, CA

12y 134K 23,322 22 119

How about something with the transporter putting President Scroob together wrong. Maybe the pops? Every certain amount of pop hits switches the order of his body parts...getting x amount of his puts him together correctly & gives you a multiplier or points or lights something.

#10 10 years ago

GAC

Rarehero

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Los Angeles, CA

12y 134K 23,322 22 119

Quoted from ajb1138:
Make sure you somehow incorporate Major A**hole and Gunner's Mate First Class Philip A**hole.

LOL how about those lines for high scores? Instead of Grand Champion it's Major Asshole ...how funny would that be to get the high score on the game and hear "I'm surrounded by assholes!"

#11 10 years ago

AJB

ajb1138

Inactive member

11y 23,900 65 4

Quoted from Rarehero:
LOL how about those lines for high scores? Instead of Grand Champion it's Major Asshole ...how funny would that be to get the high score on the game and hear "I'm surrounded by assholes!"

Haha, Great idea!

#12 10 years ago

BBB

BillE

Inactive member

Bakersfield, CA

10y 37,150 329 4 8

Pizza the Hut mode
Outer Space gas station ramp
Dink dink dink targets
Self destruct button
Milk bone award
You shot my hair!
Virgin alarm
Yogurt cave scoop

#13 10 years ago

RJC

Rcade

Inactive member

..... If the game doesn't have an alien target with a top hat and cane that dances across the playfield a'la Drac attack/Mick on a stick, while singing "Hello my baby!..."...........I riot and flip the machine over.

#14 10 years ago

SKY

Skypilot

Pirates Life Pinball Co

12y 155K 6,689 32

Just thinking about it makes me......well.....

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#15 10 years ago

JJZ

toyotaboy

must include something from Diner scene, just so it can have a van halen song in it

#16 10 years ago

DOG

Whysnow

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12y 192K 35,360 30 2

love the idea.

may the schwartz be with you!

#17 10 years ago

NIL

Nilroc

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Vancouver, BC

11y 80,900 2,562 3

You must have a timed "Dink Dink mode"

#18 10 years ago

JJZ

toyotaboy

Oh and it must have subways.. ya know, for beaming. But the flippers reverse, just like president skroob's head

#19 10 years ago

DAV

schwarz

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12y 103K 2,168 19

I guarantee your schwarz isn't as well at least official as my schwarz.

#20 10 years ago

NIL

Nilroc

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Vancouver, BC

11y 80,900 2,562 3

"I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate."

#21 10 years ago

JAM

Wolfmarsh

Pinside member

Love the suggestions! Keep them coming.

I was thinking about a multiball lock out of mega maid. You lock balls in the vacuum bag, and when you trigger multiball it starts with "shes gone from suck to blow!" And all the balls come out of the bag. I'd love it to be a variable multiball where you can lock between 2-4 balls in the bag, and trigger the mode start at any time once you have at least 2 in there.

We're the spaceballllss! WATCH OUT!

#22 10 years ago

TSS

Tsskinne

Tommy's Pins

11y 138K 6,901 14

This is literally my favorite movie. I used to watch it the night before every wrestling match I had in high school as part of my weird superstitious behaviors.....Please keep this updated and if you want go ahead and just make two because I will gladly take the second one!

#23 10 years ago

SKB

Eskaybee

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12y 163K 13,087 42

Quoted from Nilroc:
You must have a timed "Dink Dink mode"
» YouTube video

Dink dink mode would have to be all targets worth x amount of points and each target makes a different da dink dink sound. Like the MAMUSHKA

#24 10 years ago

SKB

Eskaybee

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12y 163K 13,087 42

Quoted from Tsskinne:
This is literally my favorite movie. I used to watch it the night before every wrestling match I had in high school as part of my weird superstitious behaviors.....Please keep this updated and if you want go ahead and just make two because I will gladly take the second one!

This is a killer theme for a pinball. So much material to feed off of.

#25 10 years ago

JAM

Wolfmarsh

Pinside member

Quoted from Tsskinne:
This is literally my favorite movie. I used to watch it the night before every wrestling match I had in high school as part of my weird superstitious behaviors.....Please keep this updated and if you want go ahead and just make two because I will gladly take the second one!

We love it too, it's such a great movie.

I'll definitely keep it updated, but don't expect super fast progress. I've never done a pin before, but have done a lot of design projects ranging from miniature timers to big liquor dispensing robots. Plus, I really want to get community input into the design and rules. That's going to take a lot of time to draw out of people and compile.

I made this original post when I was a little under the influence last night, so this morning I figured I better follow through and officially started a new project on my server. Good times.

I'm gonna start with the easy stuff like flipper geometry, slings, etc... since I can most likely copy those from a current machine.

#26 10 years ago

TSS

Tsskinne

Tommy's Pins

11y 138K 6,901 14

I think there should be "Barf Bonus" at the end of each ball, since he is his own best friend......and Asshole multi-ball since there are so many of them on the damn ship anyway.

#27 10 years ago

TSS

Tsskinne

Tommy's Pins

11y 138K 6,901 14

And don't forget to include a self-destruct mode with a cancellation button to complete it...could be similar to the eject or die mode on Goldeneye.....if you don't complete it in a certain amount of time machine machine dies and ball drains.

#28 10 years ago

GOV

Gov

GOVS_Mods

Springfield, MO

11y 108K 5,802 10 28

The Gov approves.

#29 10 years ago

JJZ

toyotaboy

Ball save or extra ball: "keep firing assholes"
Score is tracked not by points, but by spacebucks. Reach a million, pizza the hut gives u an extra life. (Extra ball ).
If u cradle the ball too long, prince Valium starts yawning

#30 10 years ago

REC

RyanClaytor

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Holt, MI

12y 112K 4,376 13 14

Ha! This is genius. Here's hoping we see it at expo one of these years. Good luck on this fun and ambitious project!

Ryan Claytor
Elephant Eater Comics
www.ElephantEater.com

#31 10 years ago

JAY

Jgel

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12y 67,650 1,760 2 15

may the schwartz be with you should be the ball save.

#32 10 years ago

jjsrt8

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11y 56,300 1,014 1

In for updates I'd love to see this made

#33 10 years ago

CAD

Crispin

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If you walk away from another game it could taunt you with; "What's the matter Colonel? Chicken?!"

#34 10 years ago

LOW

Lowrent

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Montreal, QC

12y 21,150 112 2

If you hit standup targets 1-2-3-4-5 in order, you get the stupidest combination bonus.

#35 10 years ago

LKD

Luckydogg420

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Kitchener, ON

11y 115K 5,924 14

Quoted from Lowrent:
If you hit standup targets 1-2-3-4-5 in order, you get the stupidest combination bonus.

Beat me to it. You have to include the code to the shield.

#36 10 years ago

MJN

mickthepin

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Brisbane

12y 64,400 2,333 2 25

I have suggested this before in past threads and I think it's a great idea.

#37 10 years ago

FRX

Frax

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Can I cancel my MMR remake and get in on this? Heh. =P

#38 10 years ago

EDG

Richthofen

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11y 75,800 2,701

I would prefer the 'match' sequence to be "I've got the same combination on my luggage" callout when you match wrong.

Outlane drain callout: Fuck, even in the future nothing works.

Ludicrous speed multiball. callout when it start: "We can't stop, we have to slow down first"

#39 10 years ago

JAM

Wolfmarsh

Pinside member

My wife just put this on, so I'm "doing research".

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#40 10 years ago

JON

jonnyo

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Oakland, CA

14y 57,150 2,873

OP
Quoted from Wolfmarsh:
So, I've decided I want my next project to be a custom Spaceballs themed pin.
It's a movie that my wife and I love, and seems to have lots of elements that will translate well to a pin.
However, I'd love the opportunity to approach this a little differently. Instead of running to my bat-cave, designing it in a vacuum and showing back up with a spit shined turd, I though I might make it more of an open design to really get some valuable feedback during the process.
So,first I'd love to get your thoughts on the style of the game. I lean toward the mode style game, because of the tie ins with specific scenes in the movie. "Comb the desert" mode comes to mind.
Some of the basic scenes I want to translate to gameplay are:
-radar jamming
-mega maid emerging
-mega maid going from suck to blow
-Schwartz is as big as mine
-ludicrous speed
-gotta be a mr coffee
-perriair
-the Winnebago in general
So, what do you all think?

You would be my hero if you did this. I think I've seen Spaceballs at least 50 times. If WOZ adds easter eggs I hope they'll do the yoghurt statue scene.

Other possibilities:

- virgin alarm - could be done similar to Creature's KISS.
- Prince Valium weak flipper mode
- 1-2-3-4-5 combination
- "What? You went over my helmet?!"

Tilt audio clip: "F***! Even in the future nothing works!"

#41 10 years ago

RJC

Rcade

Inactive member

Tilt callout: "why don't we take a 5 minute break?"

#42 10 years ago

???

Part_3

Inactive member

Indianapolis, IN

10y 15,150 767

Don't forget Pongo, and his review of Rocky 5.........thousand!

#43 10 years ago

ROB

WileECoyote

Pinside+ Frequent

Linthicum Heights, MD

11y 54,400 174 1 14

Some callouts:

Why didn't somebody tell me my ass was so big?

Are you playing with your dolls again?

GET BACK HERE YOU FAT BEARDED BITCH!

What's the matter, Colonel Sandurz? CHICKEN?

Keep firing, Assholes!

#44 10 years ago

ALT

taylor34

Game Room Info

13y 124K 2,366 9 32

As one of my favorite all time movies, this is a great idea. I was so disappointed when they cancelled Spaceballs 3 the search for Spaceballs 2.

#45 10 years ago

JJZ

toyotaboy

Don't you people read up on the latest technology? Get me spaceballs the pinball
"What do you mean spaceballs the pinball? We're still in the middle of designing it"
"Instant pinball, the latest breakthrough in pinball design. it's out before the whitewood is even laid out"
"What the hell am I looking at? When does the wizard mode happen in the code?"
Now, we're at now now

The real question is, will it use segment display, LCD, or... dot matrix?
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#46 10 years ago

PPE

ff6735

Inactive member

10y 76,150 1,765 6

I'm not gonna lie, I would buy this in a heart beat. One of my FAVORITE MOVIES of ALL TIME.

#47 10 years ago

JAM

Wolfmarsh

Pinside member