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Would you buy Back to the Future or Jaws IF...

By pin2d

4 years ago


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    “would you consider buying a pinball machine themed on BACK TO THE FUTURE or JAWS if it followed the story of the movie, there were no movie scenes included, the movie scenes were recreated with animations, and original voice work was included?”

    • Yes 63 votes
      48%
    • No 42 votes
      32%
    • Maybe 26 votes
      20%

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    #26 4 years ago
    Quoted from Aurich:

    Jaws, same thing. The humans matter, but when people want the game they're asking for a big ass shark toy, they want the music, they want the shark eating motherfuckers. If anything a Jaws game that didn't use the movie at all would probably be better. It's honestly a slow film really, very few genuine action scenes. Skip all that and make a cool shark game with the Jaws name to sell it and you're gold.

    I honeslty couldn’t disagree more.
    Jaws is an iconic movie and forever will be. A generic shark game will most certainly do very poorly for stern and that’s just my opinion.

    Jaws will be special if they use the voice actors from the original movie. A unique layout and interactive toys/mechs would only be icing on the cake. They’d sell a boat load!

    #36 4 years ago
    Quoted from Aurich:

    That's fine, but "iconic movie" doesn't mean "great pinball". Just because you have an LCD screen, and can play a scene from a movie on it, doesn't mean it's a good fit. The actual action scenes are very sparse.
    What makes for a good, emotional, and satisfying movie is not the same thing as what makes for a good pinball display.

    An iconic movie is your foot in the door, the rest is up to the company building it.

    Most movies aren’t just action, action, action- you need a build up... And neither is Pinball action, action, action, in the sense of certain things/shots need to come together to get you somewhere in the story/moment-multiball, etc.

    Thinking out loud... Quint saying “we’ve got a barrel on him”(and a clip from the movie) wouldn’t coincide with a ball lock for Jaws?

    Jaws has plenty of material to make a very memorable and fun pinball machine, I think the proper licensing would only make it better.

    And I was just emphasizing the fact that a “generic Shark game” like you said, simply named “Jaws” would do poorly.

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