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Well one things for sure, the ball would actually behave and move at speeds appropriate for an EM.

Absolutely, and Zen could go a step further and not even bother with the 'hologram' images but just do fully animated versions I bet, or something that wouldn't require rendering a teleprompter like surface.

The manual stack was I think a huge easter egg. The machines in the office are quite good hints too. The one that drove me mad though was having Zsolt leaning up against an NBA Fastbreak at the Budapest Museum. If only that was in the office!! And no, I have never been to any part of Europe...

Well I saw it with my own eyes when I visited FarSight in June.

They are also stuck using a game engine that is nearing 7 years old, which is ancient by development standards. Maybe this will convince them to make a new engine.

Yes, they still have Stern. They are about to release two Stern tables this week. They are actively working on a revamped version of Stern Pinball Arcade including a VR version.

You mean like the ones both of us bought because of the game sparking our desire?

They haven't been useless, far from it. Were it not for them, digital pinball would not be nearly as popular as it has gotten. According to that leaked Steam info sheet, they absolutely dwarfed Zen by nearly 500,000 in the download department. And Steam is not even their most popular platform...

My point exactly, Jeff.

That's one way to look at it. Another is that due to licensing, the tables that would potentially make the most money going forward were never going to happen. Zen has the capability to afford those without need of crowd funding. If anything look at this as upgrading from the DVD version to the...

Me neither. That joke might have had a little too much zing on it. What I'm actually hoping for is that this will cause FarSight to step up their game so we can have a nice "who's doing it better" competition. Kinda like before EA bought the exclusive NFL rights and competing games were driving...

Nobody was playing you. It wasn't like Zen and FarSight were conspiring together to get you to double dip. You have a huge wonderful collection of tables. Now you can choose whether you want to buy them again, as they slowly get released, in a quantity nobody knows. There might be tables that...

I get exactly what you mean, and it looks like Zen responded to you as something they are working on.

A warning shot? How firm is that Stern contract, eh?

Believe me, I will hammer that point until I'm blue in the face. I think for now they are going to focus on DMD because that is what the current Zen base of players is used to. I don't know how much cross-over there is, but according to Zen a lot of their customers either never played TPA or...

Yeah, when it rains it pours, right? We are going to have Mel Kirk from Zen on our podcast in 2 weeks. That's a good question that I'll try and ask. We simply don't know their staffing other than rumors we've heard.

I agree. I'm hoping it falls in line with all of Zen's prior pricing, where say a 3 pack is around $10 - $12. That'd still make them less expensive than the $5 per that was in TPA. We'll have to see though.

That Flip Grip looks pretty awesome. Even though the Switch is my kid's, I'm tempted to buy one.

Did you try the demo yet? These aren't the standard Zen physics, but something all new. It's quite simply the closest in feel to real pinball I've experienced digitally.

Hey, I'm a big fan of FarSight too. I have 140+ podcasts to prove it. They have been wonderful stewards of pinball, and will continue to be for Stern and Gottlieb. It looks like you are only on console, so you won't be able to play the demo just yet. When the time comes, download it just to give...