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Quoted from Rarehero:WOF, CSI and 24 were top rated/syndicated shows.
TV show viewer demographics don't always translate to a good/desired pinball machine.
Also, it's gaddamn awful.
It's not the license that makes it awful, it's what the pinball companies do with it. Many collectors/players love games with horrible licenses (DM, The Shadow, Flintstones, BSD, Congo, JM), yet licenses that made a killing in the original media form are met with a luke-warm reception (Avatar, BDK, SW any version).
Quoted from Rarehero:We love the "horrible license" games NOW because they're cheap and offer great design...and some hokey nostalgia 20 years after the fact. Great bang for the buck with those games....but no one wants to pay NIB price for a bad license game.
My point is that license doesn't usually factor in as much as we want to think after the games are released. Art and gameplay are probably the biggest factors. Why do we love Tron more than Avatar? When I tell non-pinball people my CFTBL is worth a lot more than my SWE1, they are shocked.
Big Bang Theory "could" be a good license if the pinball company did a great job with the entire package. Our opinion that they wouldn't do a great job is based on WoF, 24, and CSI.
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