I'm not a fan of Balcer - he mostly did poor knockoffs of Lawlor layouts; generally very clunky and lacking in smooth shots.
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I'm not a fan of Balcer - he mostly did poor knockoffs of Lawlor layouts; generally very clunky and lacking in smooth shots.
Quoted from Caucasian2Step:I seriously disagree about Oursler. The quality of his work, especially the early SS games are great!
The thing about Oursler is that he did all his games in collaboration with another designer. So, quite often the style of the other designer would dominate and that's why his games seem so different from one another.
Quoted from Flippermatt:However that Harley Davidson ,Popeye and Hurricane got approvl to go into production is beyond understanding...
I asked Larry DeMar once how a game like Popeye got made. He explained that managing creative people is very difficult, especially when you have set in stone production deadlines and you're past the point where you can put the brakes on.
I'd blame Python for games like Popeye and Hurricane more than Oursler, as per my previous statement. And now that I mention it, Python holds a lot of responsibility for dropping some serious turds in the punchbowl - his "creativity" killed two different pinball companies!
Quoted from trunchbull:Wait, what did Python do?
He's responsible for the muddled mess that is Popeye, which is thought to be the beginning of the end of pinball at Williams when WMS forced distributors to take that game even though no one wanted to buy it or play it, and then introducing close-out pricing of games. The snowball rolls from there.
He's also responsible for causing the closing of Capcom by wasting tons of money on go-nowhere projects like that stupid titty game and making bad decisions in general, like Flipper Football.
Quoted from TheLaw:I agree with you in general, but have you ever met Python? Anyone that hired him had to know some serous wacky shit could go down.
Yeah, he was a character for sure. Maybe he wasn't so wacky when he started at Williams. Also he took a massive paycut to work there - that probably helped. Then after that he was just "around."
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