IMO modern pinball is now in the most un-cool era in it's entire history. Even as somebody that is "supposedly" in the demographic range these newer retro licensed old rock star and movie games are aimed at, I find nothing cool about them at all.

I find it rather unfortunate that this is what it has taken to keep pinball alive. When and if pinball decides to ever become "cool" again, I might be interested in supporting it.

Cool-

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I been gone for over a month sucka!

I'm not overly knowledgeable of the entire history of rap and hip hop music. But I've heard quite a few gems I really like a lot. First rap song I heard was Walk This Way by Aerosmith it would seem.

Pinball? Before the manufacturers started reading pinside dream theme threads and thinking there was a goldmine here I think.

The 80s were so cool, there is retro fashion available for you to wear while you are playing your retro 80s themed games whether at home or on location so you can really fit the part!

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That's seriously debatable. If you were a kid at the time of course you will have fond memories, but as a young adult at the time I can say the 80s was certainly not my favorite with the way people acted, dressed, worked themselves to death, and other goings on in the world. It was really a stressed out time.

In fact it would be at the bottom of my list and good riddance when it was over. But we made the best of it and there was plenty of good media and other things to do. I certainly have no desire to revisit it. Never did and never will.

They had us do nuke drills when we were kids where we would get under our desks at school like that would some how save us. As far as coke is concerned it was rampant from the late 70s and 80s and I watched quite a few friends of mine that went from smoking weed in the 70s take a real bad road that it some cases went onto meth later on. It was their choice, not mine.

I'm really stoked for when I was born because I not only got to see part of the 60s but also got to live the dream as a teenage skater and surfer in So Cal during the 70s before this place was way overcrowded and the ocean was still clean. At 56 now, I'm not feeling much older either because I just go with the flow and roll with the times. And good times they are.

This might be the only rap most pinsiders can relate to.

Period.

Too late for a Vanilla Ice rap game.

However, if they were to do a "Vanilla Ice Project" home improvement game, that could be very interesting.
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I'd like a Supreme between Snoop and Tupac machines. I wanna be as gangsta as I can be!

Well they aint ever gonna do Fast and Furious either so there! Pinball's become so lame....

LOL.

Actually if pinball survives there probably will be a Fast and Furious pinball machine sometime between the year 2030 and 2040, if that is long enough to make it a "nostalgic" theme.

They don't want my money that's fine with me. I just bought and opened a brand new TNA three weeks ago.

Nostalgic cool would be say something that happened long before we were born. Vikings, middle ages, old west. Nostalgic lame is a movie or band from 30 years ago. As new pinball themes of course. Old movies and music can be cool.

Obviously this is just the way I see it. The other 99% on pinside surely can't be wrong.

This just in!

They are making a Saran rap game.

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How bout some west coast?

Except when the white guy uses the n word, he can expect certain repercussions.

I'll take my 15 up votes as an indication that although not overwhelmingly decisive, there are many pinsiders that would surely rather have a Snoop Dogg game than another Aerosmith.

I still gotta wonder how much Aerosmith or even Kiss paid them to make those games.

If it's good enough for Clint Eastwood and Bruce Willis, it's good enough for me.

That would literally.. SUCK!!!!

I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I'm useless but not for long
The future is coming on....

Yeah, if you are an albino.

Depends on if you fill up at costco or not.

Shit, I'd suffer through trough a whole album of Bruce full blast, rather than watch those feeble fools in front of me dick around instead of putting the nozzle in and getting down to business.

Probably still less painful than watching those fools finish their phone calls and then start searching for their costco cards.