Great new vid from my friend Chris Bucci, this time for possibly the most overlooked pinball in the hobby...Bally's "The Shadow".

"The sun is shining, but the ice is slippery."

"Shadow?" "Margo?"

I have Shadow, and people over, always overlook it the first time they see it (usually make a run to my LOTR). Once they see the cool Shadow gun handle, diverters, Inner Sanctum, and Battlefield work...they fall in love with Shadow.

I love having kids walk up to my Shadow and hit the blue buttons not during an active game. Phurba lets out a scary "RAWR" when you hit them. So funny.

When they get older, they might find the attract mode message informative; the message that says to avoid contracting AIDS.

If Sam Raimi does indeed go ahead with a Shadow reboot, and Stern wants to do a Shadow pinball...I doubt Stern can outdo the brilliant game design Brian Eddy did for Bally.

In the meantime, while the reboot goes into production, I'll play some more Shadow...with the soundtrack playing in the background.

One of my fav Shadow faux-period Big Band music tracks from the soundtrack:

Link is up now vex. I can't wait to see his upcoming vids (Banzai Run, Whirlwind, Whitewater, Scared Stiff, HSII: The Getaway, No Good Gophers)

Price is about the same for Shadow and JM. Both are very affordable, and some of the best pins you can find for the money-to-features ratio included (dot matrix games with good rules and DCS sound).

That left Phurba diverter shot is pretty brutal if you miss. Still not as painful as BSD though. I'm trying to convince my buddy to place a swear jar near his BSD, for everytime a visitor misses a shot in that game. He'd make some decent funny money.

God! Been playing Shadow for almost 2 hours non-stop. Addictive little sonuva...! Finally got the Final Battle with buy-in disabled & 3-ball. Couldn't quite defeat Shiwan Kahn. Completing all scenes, to get to the Final Battle, had me sweating bullets!

Shadow is such a kick-butt game...and in the sense that it will also kick your butt. I wonder if Lamon Cranston ever spent some time in Transylvania with his other pinball zen-killer, Dracula [BSD]. "Everlasting love!"