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I call BS. First, the longest period you could be talking about is 1947 to 1971: that's 24 years, a far cry from 40. Secondly and more importantly, the 1990's dominate TPA because the 1990's dominate pinball. Every large poll or survey (or list of most valuable machines, or machines most used...

OK, I'm curious about what you're saying here. In my part of the country, pinball machines were in bars & bowling alleys long after EBD, at least 20 years longer, probably more like 30. Actually, bars have had pinball machines pretty much as often as they always did, at least until the last...

I've played EBD quite a bit now and I suppose I agree with you folks: it's a real winner. The playfield is gorgeous and Farsight should be commended for that. The physics seem great too, and yeah it's fast and I feel like I've gotta work hard to keep the ball from draining. The rules seem a...

I still want Laser War (which I played new) pretty badly, and I'm curious about Time Machine and the other early non-licensed DE's. None of these are frequently requested of course.

Yes, it's not a surprise. It might be mildly interesting that it's Mustang instead of Walking Dead or Game of Thrones or whatever, or it might not :). It doesn't matter much until SPA ever gets released for the unwashed non-VR masses of course.

Somebody in the twitchy said he'd seen Mustang in a game file. This was new to me, but yep, it's there: $ grep -i mustang z.PinballArcade11.exe-1.53.5.strings.txt 5417084 SternMustang.dll 5417104 CPBTableMustang 5617252 Resource\TMustang.rez 5622180 Dev/Mustang/PBTMustang.csv 5624280...

OK... I guess whether TPA gets these "4.0" physics when SPA gets them is a separate question. I think it's safe to say that the answer is yes, at least soon after, at least for the Steam version.

Ben, you keep asking this, and I suppose I'll keep answering it :). They've said that a physics upgrade is planned, to come sometime after SPA has been released. So there's no point in continuing to ask until at least SPA has been released for all platforms. Source: "Stern Pinball Arcade is...

Fun Fact: Most of the rabbits' feet you see come from rabbits that won a million-dollar lottery. The problem is that like most lottery winners, these rabbits spent it all on heroin and bath salts, and soon died. :(

I can answer this one: content ratings.

If only every question were that easy.

Do you have a license to put Capcom tables in TPA? Is there any chance of seeing a Capcom table in TPA this season?

This is a silly thing to say. Just one of thousands of examples: in the last (say) 35 years, Western science and engineering has increased the lifespan of most people born in the "third world" by I'd guess about 20 years (I'm sure the winning of the Cold War played a significant role, too)...

Hasn't that been the case since about 1950? I'm no space expert, but I read The Right Stuff and one or two Apollo books earlier this year, and I think it was. This is also where I get the impression that NASA was given mega-funding because of the Cold War, keeping up with the Soviets. I don't...

Yep. I was very interested in NASA stuff as a kid around 1980, and truly flipped out when my family took a vacation to the Space Museum (officially "U.S. Space & Rocket Center") in Huntsville, Alabama. I wanted to go to Space Camp so badly but my evil parents wouldn't let me. The initial...

I think space flights are gonna have to be privately funded from now on. Unless Russia becomes another USSR-level threat, which was certainly the reason for the USA's open-checkbook policy in the 1950's-70's. And I agree that this has been a rotten century/millenium.

I'm surprised a lot these days, but I'd be very surprised if the subject matter of TftC had anything to do with it not being in TPA. The main reason: Bram Stoker's Dracula and Frankenstein have some very grisly animations (and art?). Tales from the Crypt is what I call a "live" license; it is...

IPDB says the five Bally SS widebodies are: Future Spa (1979) Paragon (1979) Space Invaders (1980) Hotdoggin' (1980) Embryon (1981) I'd say nope to all five. They look like undesigned, jumbled messes.

I'm playing and I didn't need to register at mlpinball.com. I guess my registration from last time is good enough. It looks like there are no prizes this time.

I wouldn't mind seeing this one, which comes up occasionally.