I am curious what older movies pinheads think were interesting enough to deserve a modern pinball machine title?

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Like say John Carpenter’s The Thing with Kurt Russel? A playfield toy that “morphs” from one “thing” to another... and then simple drop banks and 3 bank stand ups, some ramps, bunch of bells and whistles, and a magnet thrown in for no good purpose. Blood Test Multiball... shoot lock 1, sizzle... shoot lock two, sizzle... shoot lock three... and all hell breaks loose... “You gotta be fuggin kidding me!!!”

I could see Stern churning out an “Oldies but Goodies” line of limited use pins, all the same layout and basic rules, but each with a single specific movie based toy, and then just grab callouts from the films, capture some screenshots and clips from the film, secure the licensing rights and pump out 200 games. You would get die hard fans (and Die Hard fans if Bruce Willis is in it) lining up for a machine. Now all you need is a rule cribbing intern flunky to translate the existing ruleset to each title, a couple of Art department interns to photoshop hack the art package, and use the music score from the movies for the soundtrack, and fill in music from Debbie in Soldering’s nephew’s dubstepping 3 piece power trio. Total investment is minimal and maybe we get a title or two we like to play? (Or wait, is this Stern’s real business model? Yikes!) Or they could throw a little money at it and make it a decent machine. I’d play the knockoff on location at least once. The more $$$ one, maybe twice? Maybe more if it was any good

This is great! Keep them coming.

All of these are good material.

BTILC... that would be an instant cult classic pin.

the war movies... too many good ones to name just one but that is a great one.

We have an arcade here in Az called Last Starfighter... and yes it has a lot of pinball! (And video)

Snake Pliskin?, I heard he was dead!

Forbidden Planet... Someone ought to build a tribute machine using an Attack from Mars as the basis of a FP machine. This would make a great pin.

Willow... maybe... but goonies is a no brainer.

Pull out Harry, you’ve hit an artery! Wow, lot of good ideas here. Some themes are coalescing... Sci Fi... Action/War... Fantasy... Cult classics... how long till someone mentions Rocky Horror Picture Show?

Or Little Shop of Horrors?

Or Tank Girl?

Now that is fringe right there...

Anyone for a Frank Herbert machine? Dune... Dune Messiah, Children of the Corn of Dune, Dune II, III, IV etc... etc...

H.G. Wells machine? 20k leagues undah da sea (la la la la la) undah the sea ( la la la la la) or a Time Machine machine?

Arthur C. Clarke? Rendezvous with Pinball?

I knew Freaks would show up, it always does in pinball theme discussions.

All these great ideas... every time a new title is mentioned, your mind can almost instantly picture a playfield and toys and artwork... callouts, animations, ball interactions... If it were just easier to throw one of these things together.

Thanks o-din... way to open up that Disney vault... Disney’s SOTS- Vault Edition.

+++237 for Blues Brothers

And yes my little Droogies, I could go for a little of the old in and out... Burger.

+1 Rollerball

-1 Roller Games (only because, well it’s Roller Games... game play is fine, but the theme and that song... NOoooo!!!)

Sound of Music? The hills are alive with the sound of pinball? How do you stop a multiball like Maria? o-din what have you been doing with that lonely goater?!? Yoda-lay-hee Yoda-lay-hee Yoda-lay-hee hoo!

Actually that makes a lot of sense @o-din. Would they be bold enough to put a Nuns verses Natzi mode in it? But that actually sounds like a real pin title...

The Nuns v.s. The World

Oh, and just so I don’t get the expected flames on this, born and raised Roman Catholic right here... and Yes I loved the “Penguin” from The Blues Brothers.

I hope we don’t start down the N road... unless it is Hogans Hero’s, which has been historicaly given a pass due to comedy. Doing Nazis respectfully is a super controversial issue, even Sound of Music would have Nazi problems... War Movies are historic, pinbal is usually more light hearted, but you put war in a future setting with aliens and bugs... and war looks great! And Inglorious Basterds was the weirdest fictional war movie I have ever seen... but I digress...

But Das Boot would make a good pinball... but maybe thats just my old submariner life showing a little. If not already listed-
Run silent, Run Deep
Crimson Tide
Hunt for Red October
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