Quoted from ryanwanger:Tron has been an interesting one.
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The blue line is Tron's average daily earnings. Red is the average daily earnings of all other games at the same venue. The black boxes represent the two separate times that it has lived at my main venue (which is a barcade).
First time it did pretty poorly. When it returned two years later, it was suddenly great. It was the exact same game, though this time it had the Eli ramp lighting mod, and was connected to an external subwoofer. In the second box, you'll see it was way above average. The moment it evened out was the moment that Deadpool arrived and I switched the subwoofer to Deadpool. (It then dipped below average, and then came back up above average).
I hadn't really analyzed this much until just now, but it certainly seems like conclusions can be drawn about lighting and sound. I'll hook it back up to the sub at the next collection and see what happens.
I don't think it's too far fetched to say pinball's growing popularity has an impact on it too?
And...do you do this for all your route games? Man...that is attention to detail!