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Quoted from o-din:I blame Pinball2K. RFM made money on location, but it must have been a pricy venture to create. Most players I knew thought it was a novelty at best and were waiting for their next real pinball machines to come out.
As the song said "video killed the pinball star"
It wasn't a game that killed pinball--sales were still reasonably strong. It was a particular fellow in charge at the time (Neil Nicastro) who shut down the pinball division and destroyed it to prevent anyone else from picking up the pieces.
Who knows, maybe if it wasn't for him, it might have been both stern and williams chugging along and keeping the pinball torch alive during the lean years.
Quoted from Phat_Jay:I think pin2000 was more for arcade enthusiasts than pinheads. It was Williams attempt to bring in cross over traffic from arcades and home consoles to pinball. If the tech had existed in 1982, it might’ve worked. Of course it didn’t work out. But I think it was a noble try. I like rfm myself, swe1 was a loser tho imho.
A bunch of different hybrid games were experimented with over the years prior to pin2000:
Chicago Coin, Supper Flipper, 1975: http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2432
Atari, Video Pinball, 1978: http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=6292
Gottlieb Caveman, 1982: http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=475
Bally Baby Pacman, 1982: http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=125
Williams Varkon, 1982: http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2721
Bally Granny & the Gators, 1984: http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1083
Mr Game, Motor Show, 1989: http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=3631
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