I’m with you all the way. I want originality and creativity in my games - a game where I feel the design team really had a great time coming up with all this stuff, tying it together into a total package- creating something new. A pinball game should be a work of art in my mind, not a piece of merchandising.

I can only hope more original stuff is on the way.

nice touch - dung calling something a turd

Using this logic you could associate any pinball game ever made to some movie or entertainer. Do you think there were never movies made with junkyards, a circus or thieves? How about fishermen, taxis, diners or white water rafting ? You could say MM is a licenced theme based on King Arthur or AFM on HG Wells book/radio show. And which golf club doesn’t fear gophers? You just need to look a bit further back than the 90’s to look for pieces of our cultural identity.

And it’s those pieces of cultural identity which I appreciate seeing in my games. Sure, movies and rock groups have become a significant part of our culture, but unless the pinball game takes a new look at said movie or rock group, I’d rather just have the box set.

Well, I, for one, am really looking forward to the blockbuster film - Dialed In - the Movie. I wonder who they’ll get for the lead role. The studio will save alot of money because the storyline, music and images already exist. Maybe some of the pinball celebrities can make cameo appearances. And for sure there can be some product placements worked in. But I’m sure there will be criticism - people will say, oh no - a movie about smart phones!