They will stay with a "Zombie" theme, and my first name.

Ooh... "Head-in-the-sand/Whiny-kid" Zombie?

If follow up titles are Spooky related, does that imply we might should expect EMH (Europe's Most Haunted), followed by MMH (Middleast) and AAMH (Antarctica) editions?

Could just leave it AHM (Atlantic's Most Haunted) with a Titanic theme and have Charlie and Bryan Kelly singing "My Heart Will Go On" after you lose your last ball.

I'm just saying that my best guess is that game #2 is going to be horror related, but other ideas getting tossed around are not. Ben did state that he was serious about a Bible pin. Whether that's a practical idea or not is a different story.

I'm just wondering if the guys will stick to horror'ish themes or move into other territory in the near future. I love spooky themes and there really hasn't been any made since the 90s. I'm sure that if, for example, you're a super hero fan and 'Justice League Pinball Co.' starts up by making super hero games, but then by game #3 they are making a dirt bike racing game, that might be significant to you.

Hit a few Benton yard sales this morning... Ben was coming down to work on game #2 with me today... I took this as a sign. We're working in an ark, and a whores of Babylon mode right now.

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What the seller failed to mention is when you open that "Great Bible Adventures" box this happens!

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LOL! Nice attempt at misdirection.

You realize how quickly this would sell right? Time to make a call to roger sharpe and get the ball rollin

Make sure you get a license for RUSH too

there's also a ton of theme song remixes

The Outer Limits.

Ken

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I wanted to (still very much want to) re-theme Johnny Mnemonic into Futurama by changing the hand to a Planet Express ship, and centering the theme around the ball being "Bender". Everytime the magnet on the ship would activate he would sing 7-8 seconds of a folk song.

Anytime you placed Bender (the ball) on a spot in the matrix it would correspond to a mode/episode (Amazon women, journey/delivery to the moon, water people planet, etc.).

And for the wizard mode, you'd shoot the center shot, and instead of the magnet activating, it would shoot the ball up then fall right back down into the up kicker and Bender would be "lost in space". It would follow the Godfellas episode, and you'd have to shoot correct shots to add balls (help the Shrimpkins), shoot the wrong shots and it takes away progress. In the end, the shots get faster and faster and you would eventually lose regardless of how well you did, all the Shrimpkins kill each other in a nuclear war, the flippers die, the balls would drain, and Bender would run into the God Entity sharing the priceless exchange of dialogue from the show:

Anyway, if you guys made it, it would probably be way better than that, but a heads up if you ever actually do plan on moving forward (please please do). Someone has done a lot of legwork ripping audio from the show here:

http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/

EDIT: Also, would Keith have any idea of someone to contact from Fox from back when they did TSPP?

Elvira: Still Stiff.

Yes, please!

Futurama is enticing, but a new South Park pin would be a really, really, really good thing.

In the past, Spooky stated they wanted to avoid going down the path of lcd displays, preferring dmd's. This would rule out both Futurama and South Park, dang it.

... If Matt & Trey were involved and helped with the writing and provided a TON of audio so it didn't get repetitive and lame.

Not necessarily.

This would be a cool game to do justice to and I'm sure it would sell well. I'd love to see it redone right, but I think the reason it did so well back then was the initial explosive success of south park. They sold tons of merch during the first few years of the show. That honeymoon period is over, operators can still route the original game and I'm sure they still do well on location. Die-hard fans can own the original as well if they love the theme. I'd like to see Futurama (honeymoon period is over on this show too, but the sporadic nature of the production made it have more of a cult following) moreso because it has never been done commercially and therefore not available to anyone, even in a sub-par version.

Flashback 2013

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Must look brand new inside that box then.

rob zombie has a class of 1812. nice to see he's opened minded and embraces diversity.

Here is Charlie at TPF last month on subject of #2 (skip to 48m58s):

TL;DW - bad ass horror game (with not as much humor and better art)

Everyone knows our next game is KISS.

Duh.

I would love to see Futurama OR South Park. Zen Studios just made 2 new digital South Park tables on Pinball FX2, and all I can think of is how I wish there was an updated full game.

The original South Park game is not very highly rated, and there is so much more material to work with now.

Ben, I asked my son what the theme of next pin should be, and he said "poopy pinball". He'll be 3 in July. He may be on to something. Think about how well South Park did on route with toilet humor?

Thanks for posting that. Somehow I had missed it. Some good info there.

I played SP for the first time last week. My local place just got one. I think it's a 'terrible' game if a kid is standing right there, but I found it hilarious. The gameplay is pretty basic, but the shots are fun. That right kickout/habitrail is very fast if you aren't ready for it. Multiball isn't the default lucrative mode with its reasonably low jackpot scores, but if you can keep that alive for a little while, you can rack up the points. Killing Kenny and getting the Cartman mode going are the other big point areas that I noticed. Only have a few plays on it. Of course I blew it up AFTER the tournament ended...

The next game is always KISS.

Play it a couple more times. You'll be done with it. It's one of the most shallow games of the DMD era.

I forgot, when is it being announced. Allentown?

Oh I'm there already. The shots are fun, but I've seen puddles deeper than that game. My interests in knowing it more are only to do better in tournaments.

Is this still the plan?

maybe contact pinsider Linoleum about producing his "Haunted Cruise" pin that looks so cool and he has so much work into developing already? no offense intended Linoleum, it could make more of it available and sooner if Spooky were to buy and go with it.

What made you think that?

Any notions on when Charlie will let us know next title? I'm getting pretty excited here!

He's def in touch with my dark ID. Awwww yeah...right there, that's it!!

If I remember right, at the northwest show June 5th
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Thank you Toyota.

Now that is has finally happened, the echo chamber will collapse.

Just substitute Iron Maiden for Kiss and it will continue on I'm sure.

Thing is, nobody asked for KISS (though it will still sell great)

If you made the Ultimate Pinside Requested Game, it would be a Muppet version of Elvira fighting Jaws, with an Iron Maiden soundtrack.

SOLD!

I'd buy it, and I don't even like Iron Maiden. I'd be down with Muppet versions of a few games. LotR : ME
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Actually, it would be futurama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At this point I don't care who does JAWS... someone please make it.

I made you a virtual in MS Paint. You have to use you imagination to play it. Flipperless in 2015! (there may be a mode where you eat Flipper the dolphin though). It is the new cool.
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