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They’re easier to make on a tight schedule as characters, story, art, music, voices, feature ideas, mode concepts etc already exist.
They sell better. People who buy pins for home will drop big money on something nostalgic or something they already love.
They do better on location for the same reason they sell better.
Quoted from holminone:It's interesting isn't it. The license provides the initial money making draw, immediate attention, etc... yet at the same time I can't help but feel it dooms the pinball platform to irrelevance.
It's actually the opposite...here's my theory. Pinball is already irrelevant to most of the world. It's popular in places like Barcades, where you're specifically going for a retro nostalgic experience. Pinball is inherently retro...despite modernizations like LEDs and LCDs, it's still an "old" retro game. This is why licenses, especially nostalgic retro ones tend to really work well with pinball....even going back to Addams Family. Stern's best selling games like AC/DC, Metallica, Ghostbusters - they seem like games that SHOULD have existed in the 90's, but were never made...now they exist and seem like perfect matches for pinball. I think that's why Munsters might also be a hit...it's not really relevant now, but to anyone who likes pinball, they probably remember The Munsters fondly...it's a great match. Two cool retro things smooshed together.
Quoted from benheck:A nostalgia sandwich!
Home use pinball = middle aged men turning their basements into bars to remind them of being single and buying games with themes that remind them of being 10.
Mom jeans man holding a cel phone doesn't remind anyone of being 10. But if you made Stranger Things pinball people would be stuffing money down your throat.
Stranger Things is a show that tugs on nostalgia...buuuut do people have enough love for THAT show to want a pin of it? It's too new for nostalgia.
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