Quoted from unigroove:I watch till the stream crached. Interesting comment from Charlie of Spooky Pinball: adding a ramp to such a game would add $100 to the bill of material, but when the game doesn't have a ramp people expect it to be $1000 cheaper which isn't the case. Here I was hoping this could be a $2500 game built from mainly standard parts... Maybe as a kit?
I think at this point, in 2017, with all the companies in the market, if there was a way to make "cheap pinball" it would be done. I think that's impossible. The Stern $4k Spiderman seems to be as low as things are going to go. Not from greed, just from the reality of such complex machines and such small production runs.