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Scores are on TZ now... it's gonna take some more hours.

Exactly... to almost everyone, art is almost completely unimportant. :( This is important if true (and I'm very curious if it is), but it doesn't make the art any less crappy at all. It doesn't excuse Stern, either, as Stern chooses who they get licenses from. As evidence for this theory not...

Big Lebowski is (mostly) great. Hobbit is Sternish crap. Magic Girl is unimpressive but at least somebody's trying; same with Full Throttle. Metallica is eye-pleasing but totally unoriginal. Timeshock is pretty great. No opinion on WoO yet... ;)

A funny review of the album: This is perhaps one of the best-known [CENSORED] albums, and can still be found as a CD. It is everything it is reputed to be: an incredible mix of influences crammed into a double-length album, with a sound that seems to exist outside of most musical styles. With...

The album name is probably sufficient. :) This is not singing but a spoken-word part that comes between two songs... it is included with the second of the two on the CD. Frank Zappa says two of the lines.

I forgot about it until yesterday :o. I've started grabbing scores... they take too long to stuff in my database and I need to figure that out soon. Hopefully I will post rankings today. Thanks for the reminder!

They drove WMS pinball out of business with this strategy from 1995-1999. I think? I actually don't know why WMS failed while Sega succeeded, but I think it's because Sega said only two things matter: "coolness" of license, and price. I think WMS made a horrible mistake with Pinball 2000...

"Venus in Furs", Severin. Here... (Fast and bulbous!) Fast and bulbous! (OK, do it again...) (Love that...) Fast and bulbous! (That's right, the mascara snake, fast and bulbous) Bulbous also tapered (Yeah, but you've gotta wait until I say: Also, a tin teardrop.) Christ. (Again, beginning.)...

They've had twenty years of success with this strategy...

Sorcerer came closer than any other table to being one I bought, for around $500 at an auction around 1995. (I should've bought the ~$1200 TZ's that were common then, of course :( .)

I'm glad you asked, because my reasoning was incorrect. I thought Fire! was fairly higher ranked than Mousin' on IPDB, but it's the opposite. Oops! Mousin' is #95, Fire! is #196, which is a minor shock to me. Fire! had 7,700 production, I thought it was a big smash. (I don't like it all...

Even earlier with Paragon?

I bet Fire! will happen before Mousin' Around.

Interesting. To be specific, I meant outsourcing the .rez and Enums.csv files as they look like "data" to me rather than "code", but I know those terms have different defns to different people. I'm curious what the 3000-4000 lines of code deal with. I need to look at the other files to pin...

I can't resist... (This is a 1986 classic that apparently is a progenitor of the fabled New Jack Swing style of 1988-1991.)

More... - Ace High has had not only the .csv enums file, but also a big .rez file, since the PC launch in Nov 1993. It is between a stub and complete. It doesn't have instructions, just as one thing I checked. - There is a TSorcerer_Enums.csv file, but it is a two-line stub with reference to...

FWIW, there was also a "TFrankenstein_Enums.csv" file in the PC version during version 1.40.6 (or perhaps near that version). It was pretty much just a stub I think. The only thing that may be specific are the ROM data. Here are its contents: [~/pinball/thepinballarcade-program-copy]$ cat...

+1 but that's just not fair.

Here is some pinball fantasy art that I can live with.

I have no disagreement that GoT is a cheap photoshop job... I just claim that almost all Stern/Sega tables are cheap photoshop jobs. I might consider the lack of reference to GoT on the PF a plus. ;) We don't have to dig for worse ones... I just chose the two worst I could quickly remember to...