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Actually, I think I've figured out how to make something like a $2-3K price range for a quality design viable. What you would have to do is use the "razor-and-blades" model—basically, you would sell the tables at cost or maybe even a little below and make a profit by selling mod kits, parts and...

So you don't think Heighway or Skit-B can hang around, then? I could be talked into not believing in the latter, but Heighway seem to mostly have their stuff together, not to mention the easier access to Europe, as I mentioned in the OP. I do think there is an upper limit to how popular these...

Oh, I completely forgot about them! I actually think I heard about Dennis Nordman joining them, but never got the specifics. After taking a quick peek at their website, you can certainly color me intrigued. It looks like they're trying to take UltraPin and make original pins with something...

As most of us know, Old Man Stern believes that there's only room for one thriving pinball manufacturer; however, I have a feeling that we could support several more. The main reason is that pinball seems to be undergoing a resurgence—we've had three new contenders enter the ring and I'm sure...

Though it's tempting to simply say "all of them," here are the 10 pins I would most be interested in seeing, listed from least interest to most interest: #10: Checkpoint: This one is mainly here for historical significance. As the first DMD pin, it has a special place in pinball history. From...

We take our first look into the wide world of video pinball with this next conference: Avenging Revenant (Handheld & mobile pinball): Age of Pinballs Arcade Pinball (Pinball HD Collection) Devil's Due Pinball ESPN Pinball Frogger Pinball Kirby's Pinball Land Metroid Prime Pinball Monster...

I've taken a look at Hurricane Cannon and here's what I came up with: Hurricane Cannon (Williams alphanumerics): Bad Cats Big Guns Black Knight 2000 Cyclone Diner Earthshaker F-14 Tomcat Fire! FunHouse High Speed Pinbot Rollergames Space Station Swords of Fury Taxi Whirlwind Kolchak wasn't...

I really wanted to be able to say better things about this conference, but Gottlieb solid states have a very poor reputation amongst hardcore pinheads from what I've seen (which I can't understand, as many of them look like great fun, particularly Freddy: Nightmare on Elm Street, which I kind of...

I just realized that if FarSight can keep up their current pace of releases, we'll have 40 tables to choose from next year. How much further can we go after that? Myself, I would like to have every table on either Pinside's Top 200 or IPDB's Top 300, but diminishing returns would probably set...

Indeed! I just heard that Centaur had been mentioned as an upcoming TPA release, so that should help it out even more. Also, would you like to be involved with this project as an analyst? I'm actually fairly new to the silver ball, so I could use somebody with a little more experience helping...

First off, I don't think FarSight count the premium tables as packs, so whatever we end up getting in January would be Table Pack #8, not #10. Also, if what I've gathered (mostly through this forum) is correct, then haven't FarSight all but confirmed Attack From Mars for January? If this is...

Is There Any Chance of Getting Rareware's NES Conversions of Pin*Bot & High Speed? As with many gamers of Generation Y, Rare was an integral part of my childhood. To this day, I still count the Donkey Kong Country games as some of the best platformers ever, while GoldenEye was seminal in the...

I think he means the Hall of Fame scores—each table can award up to 1,000 Hall of Fame points based on your high score on that table and there are 18 tables released so far, so until we get TZ, the maximum Hall pf Fame score is indeed 18,000 points.

I actually have a somewhat different but related bug—my wizard goals show that I've completed the Super Jackpot goal (which was also my last goal for the table), but I still haven't unlocked the tilt settings for the table (I'm on a third-gen iPad). I did end up quitting the game after getting...

1. I'm not familiar with any such announcement—I'll go check their FB and see what I can find. 2. I assumed that since every DLC pack so far has had one table from either PHOF Williams or PHOF Gottlieb, FarSight wanted to port as many of those as possible as quickly as they can. Since premium...

What DLC do you guys think FarSight will give us in the coming months? Here are my predictions from December until June (assuming we get TZ this month): December 2012: Tables Pack #8 (Attack From Mars & Space Shuttle): I think FarSight are going to go all in with the sci-fi theme here. I...

Yes, but those licenses were never owned by the Big Six pinball manufacturers. Basically, it breaks down like this: Bally bought Midway in the late 1960s, Data East made a number of video games through the '80s and '90s before going bankrupt in 2003 (with BurgerTime as the headliner), Gottlieb...

It occurred to me that even though all of the Big Six had some video game affiliation at some point, pins based off of those properties are (at least to my knowledge) fairly rare. The only ones I can think of are Defender, Q*Bert's Quest and Spy Hunter, which all seem to have largely flown...

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Actually, the brackets only come at the very end—there's going to be a 30-week regular season first, then conference tournaments, then the big bracket of 96 at the end. Also, in order to focus discussion a bit while I continue work on the lineup, I've randomly selected one of the current...