Gene decided to sell off the remaining BBB parts back in '07 and not reproduce any of them, for fear of someone buying them up and remaking a BBB like some were able to do with MM.

You can reproduce anything you want for your *personal* pinball machines. However, if you try to sell what you have reproduced is when you run into legal issues.

If you buy a BBB, keep in mind that if anything breaks, it just breaks.

Not many of these machines ended up overseas.

The ending bid price is an example of the greater international demand.

Due to Gene's current financial situation, the Capcom rights would probably go for a staggering seven figure amount at this point.

Next to that you're reproducing a game, unlike PMI, at rock bottom with NO inventory.

Even with a 100 run, you're looking at an additional six figures *before* assembly.

Watch the BBB documentary and listen to some of the 2004 prices Gene had to pay for small stuff.

Gene wanted $8K for KP, six years ago. To turn a profit today, you would have to sell the game for at least $10K ~ $12K.

You would also have to sell more than 200 of them. To sell it for $8K, you would have to sell MORE than that!

For a game that can be mastered in less than 15 minutes, I just don't see the demand, profit or time to remake something, mostly for notoriety, to a *handful* of collectors.

LOL!

Gene wouldn't be selling the licensing under his name.

You obviously don't know how bankruptcy works.

Sadly, I'm a realist.

Gene still answers his phone. Call and ask him. Things may have changed since the last time him and I talked.

Heck, just a few months ago he told Vid1900 "maybe" to a BBB remake. Now he's filing for bankruptcy.

Get ready for Vid1900 to deny that conversation in 3....2....1.......

PM me if you want Gene's number.

This is a legal matter. I'm not going to voice a private conversation in a public forum.

However since you already have Gene's number, you already know what I know.

Feel free to fill everybody else in at your leisure.

Says the "Location Unknown" guy.

Well if that's the case, you might want to stop using her as your avatar.

Yeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr out !

Says the *other* "Location Unknown" guy.

Let me guess, someone was stalking you on the internet too?

Don't try to change the subject about the false conversation you had with Gene Cunningham months ago just to stir up s**t on Pinside.

NOT COOL!

In the TOPcast interview, Python takes full credit for virtually every design aspect of this game. Even the invention of the tube dancer.

He said that Rob Morrison was never around and was always busy getting drunk, but got credit for the design.

"Rob Morrison couldn't design his way out of a paper bag!" ~ Python

One of my favorite TOPcast interviews!

Kingpin would be neat to have but, in my opinion, PMI made the better one of the two.

Lots of wild ideas and new innovation were put into BBB, especially for 1996.

Besides, BBB uses an actual porn sample. How cool is that?

Kingpin however, is just another re-themed Mark Ritchie criss-cross ramp game.

Didn't do much for me when I played it, but I would buy one just because I'm trapped in the 1940's.

The parts are harder to find than the machines.

There were a lot of rare BBB parts that ended on eBay recently that went for big bucks!

I thought this sold at TPF for $17K.

Capcom's pinball division closed shortly before Expo. It was *never* intended for BBB to ever see the light of day by the viewing public. All 13 machines were to either be sold or destroyed.

Everyone can thank designer Rob Morrison for literally begging Capcom to bring them to the 1996 Pinball Expo.

The rest is history....

Not true.

Capcom closed it's pinball division before the 1996 Expo.

It was not made *public* until December.