GI is a really unfinished game.... Too bad that a great theme has such a bad pinball based on it!!

LOL just noticed this thread is 7 yrs old and Clint's still with us!!

I think they should just go ahead and dip Clint in bronze right now and make a monument out of him.
While they are at it they can bronze Dolly Parton as well.
Both of those two celebrities should be considered national treasures in this country.

If you want to improve the value of DH, you’ll have to update the callouts to include dialogue from Gran Torino.

I’d pay a premium to have a DH that calls me a z*pperhead when I drain.

Yeah, and my DH sample game is now worth twice as much as it was then. Woohoo!

I really enjoy my Dirty Harry and think its a fun player. Time bomb is my favorite mode.

Clint actually went to Chicago, sat in an audio booth for Williams and did the callouts. That makes the game special to me especially these days with companies using impersonators. And the call outs are vintage Dirty Harry and some are hysterical.

Long live Mr. Eastwood

Seems like we got the answer to the OP’s question in a thread from earlier this year —

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/for-sale-nba-1#post-5435330

The celebrity death pinball cash grabs are always fucking hilarious.

Zero effect on pin value. SHort-term (like 4 days) effect on asking prices.

The news cycle moves so fast these days, I forgot Kobe was even dead!

There's an oft repeated story from one of the game developers about Clint's involvement. Pasted below:

The game was in development during the time Clint was
shooting/directing/editing/etc. Bridges of Madison County. After
contacting his people about getting him to record custom speech for the
game, we were generally told that he was too busy, but a sound-alike
would be just fine. So we brought in our standard sound-alike guy who
did a GREAT job. His Dirty Harry voice was everything you could want in
a Dirty Harry pinball game; growly, angry, exciting, big than life, etc.
Generally, exactly waht you REMEMBER Harry to be in the movies (which
isn't necessarily what he WAS in the movies).

Pretty close to the end of the development cycle, Clint's people called
and said that now he WOULD have time to do the speech, since he was
doing some dialog replacement stuff at a sound studio. So Vince, the
sound guy, flew out and did a recording session with Clint.

Well, Vince comes back, and we're naturally all excited to hear his
stuff. And we were all pretty disappointed, with what I'd call, at best,
a very Disinterested Harry. Now given the situation, I don't think
anyone can be blamed, as there were many factors involved here:
a) Clint had a lot of things on his mind at the time, and pretty much
only had a hour to spare to read a very long set of dialog.
b) Clint at the time was now over 20 years older than when he was when
he filmed the first movie, and pretty much acnowledged that to Vince.
"It's been a long time since I've played this character."
c) It's gotta be very intimidating to have Clint in the sound booth and
try directing him "C'mon Clint, grit your teeth a little bit more, sound
ANGRIER!! Trust me, I know how your classic character should sound."
d) And just the fact that we REALLY liked the way the sound-a-like
turned out.

Unfortunately, everyone felt compelled that we had to use Clint's speech
even though we weren't very happy with it. So, rest assured that every
speech call in the game was specially recorded for the game. And when
Dirty Harry leans back and finishes his coffee as he off-handedly
mutters "Hey, that punk just stole my car" in a voice that seems to want
to add "but that's okay, it's a rental," you can be sure that it's Clint
Eastwood.

It's a great story and some good history. I think Clint's voice calls have aged pretty well, and no matter how "good" the impersonator was I think it's for the best we got what we got.

Lost in all this is Clint recently celebrated his 90th birthday. Well, he doesn't really like to celebrate these kind of things, but he is now 90 just the same.

A man as fit as he has always been should make it to 100 no problem.

You nearly ruined my weekend until I got to the end of the story. Thanks for the clarity and posting.

I was a little worried about him when he started talking to empty chairs but he's held it together nicely.

He just keeps cranking out movies of varying quality. Keeps him going!

A long time ago I saw some pics of Clint working out and there was a story to go along with it. Although I am not the fitness freak I once was, at the time he was certainly an inspiration.

https://www.theroadoftrials.com/legendary-actor-clint-eastwoods-advice-on-how-to-not-get-old/

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