After seeing those pics and that cost, along with my very meager income, I don't see why I wouldn't make one of those my next pin. Of course I would love to have the real thing, but when they look that accurate, outside of a little ramp flattening, it's very impressive.

whoa, 5k? where do you see prices listed? Building Vs. buying certainly with that price difference. I didn't even know you could buy these things, but it makes sense, if it can be built, it can be bought.

so in that case, that's what places need out on route. A machine that can't break or get dirty by every little thing. If this picked up in popularity, it would make emulation better and effectively kill pinball except for us entheusiasts. At the same time, that's the way everything is going. People don't need real things. from vinyl to cd's to mp3's, vhs to dvd to netflix instant.

Pinball to full size virtual pinball.. it just makes sense in it's own depressing way.

I'm confused how people making more machines like this and continuing to use software of this sort won't improve the software eventually.

Atari Video Pinball didn't have the best physics, but comparitively, Williams hall of fame is quite good (not perfect) with physics. If people are still demanding the video game, the physics will get better as time goes on, and those with the cabs are able to update the software I assume, they are just computers that can connect to the net right?

On that same note, the flatness of the graphics could be improved on already. Williams hall of fame came out for the Nintendo 3ds. 3d effects without glasses. That's where we're going.

I may be holding off long enough to get the hologram table with touchscreen controls though. My income isn't near what some people on here have.

I've done just as well on Taxi in real life.. I've also had my arse handed to me. I've done better on TOTAN in real life, but on both I only GOT to the genie, I didn't BEAT the genie.

I've crashed taxi on williams, that never happened on the real pin for me.

I'm really on my soapbox for technology lately, but I do have a real pin and want more of them. My ideas just delegate real machines to collectors and making cheaper technology for the vendors. Unfortunately while driving up the prices on real machines I would assume. Arcade games aren't doing exactly well out in the wild either.