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Quoted from jibmums:Williams eliminating speech from solid state games up until Space Shuttle. How much cooler would Solar Fire, Time Fantasy, Barracora, Laser Cue, Cosmic Gunfight, Star Light, Defender have been with speech.
Well, maybe not Defender. The videogame used the same sound fx and was cool without speech.
I have a Laser Cue and it's perfectly fine without speech. Not every game has to talk back.. sound effects are fine for older games.
Quoted from soren:WPC minimum volume constraint
They should have done like Dataeast. Just let people know from the DMD that low volume potentially makes the game less attractive. The constaint have likely had pinball kickout of more locations than it has ever helped any earnings. And for home play - just pain in the ***
Especially when the amplifier components drift out of spec and "9" becomes OMG TURN THAT DOWN NOW!
Quoted from NPO:Pinside keeps buying half assed product out of emotion and nostalgia and hanging onto their childhoods.
I think you have it backwards... holding onto those WPCs is basically holding onto nostalgia and childhood. The newer games might have inferior boardsets but they're challenging, well designed and very fun to play. You're the one missing out, not me 
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