I’m always excited about new releases. So when I was browsing yesterday and saw that pictures were released, I was thrilled. Right up until the time I actually saw them. WTF? I’m a Pro guy, so that was the first one I looked at closely. I don’t think art needs to be great on a pinball machine, but it can’t be this bad. So I went to the second level and watched the Pro play video (and I would like to thank Stern in this case for releasing one early). Watching the video isn’t the same as actually playing it, but ouch. The emptiness, and dead ends... what? The shot just stops there? Huh?

After watching the Premium video, I understood the dead end on the Pro... and just rejected it out of hand.

So now this mess is down to rules. I’ve got a few games that I didn’t think were good until the rules came together to save the game. Star Trek, MET, games that were not great until the rules were finished. And others I didn’t fully appreciate until I learned them (like AC/DC). So there is a chance they could do something with it. But this game starts in a deep hole. Except it isn’t a hole, because I took out the hole to save a few bucks, it’s just a dead end.