Oh why Stern do you even bother making "lesser" models? This practice of making a more affordable pin by removing playfield features simply sucks.

Just make one machine, one playfield, and offer colored legs, alternate cabinet if that is necessary.

Offering "lesser" machines is offensive, "Oh, you can't afford the "real" pinball but we'll take your money anyway and give you this lesser playing version............."

Actually, no. My guess is that they can make a 5k pin with all the bells and whistles - consumers drive the market, not the other way around. If people refused to pay exhorbitant prices it wouldn't take long for those prices to suddenly adjust.

I stand by my dislike for offering multiple "not as good" titles, it sucks, and is something newly introduced to pinball that leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I don't think so. If only one model is offered, the production increases and the price for Stern actually *decreases* because they are able to purchase more parts = discounted price from distributors. That would also decrease the final price of the pinball...........

Basically, who wants to lay down cash for a pinball that "should be this" but because you can't afford it, "here's this sub-standard substitute". ACDC is a prime example. Does anyone really want to play this game without the lower pf and have to stare at that butt-ugly illustration instead of a lower pf feature??

It just seems like an unnecessary and greedy strategy - you can't tell me it costs that much more/less to produce just one quality game - it may actually cost more to produce different "versions."

I never said that - this argument is not about me. I could afford the pinball but that's not what's driving this argument.

I've never seen multiple versions of a game title offered in pinball before Stern started doing it and I think it sucks. That's the simple statement/ argument.

Now, let's get back to Ghostbusters, damn nice artwork and a fun movie to remember - enjoy the pin folks!!

I used to love playing GB on my Commodore 64. I recall when the movie first came out, round town were these pictures of a white ghost with the "No" red circle across the front of it. Everyone was wondering what the hell that meant........nice advertising stunt.

-Nate