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Message: <blockquote data-quote="invitro" data-source="post: 165511" data-attributes="member: 446">I wish someone would make a FAQ on licenses and TPA.  I was under the impression that TPA would not be making a licensed table without a Kickstarter.  This is based not on anything Farsight might've said, but rather on the recent history of releases.  Does the release of BSD mean that Shadow and Johnny Mnenomic and similar tables are possible? (?!)I am also very curious why FS would release this evidently very popular and desired table at the -end- of a season, rather than at the beginning of a season.  My mind is boggling at these two seemingly improbable events.I think I have been able to play a working BSD only once... as a qualifying table at some Pinburgh.  Knowing the rules is crucial to BSD (making it a terrific tourney table), and I didn't, and so mostly ignored it.  But I played Visual Pinball version a ton, and really enjoyed it.The rec.games.pinball folks called it Dr*c*l*.  It was loathed.  It isn't that bad of a table, of course, but it does have some problems: the dots are ugly and sloppy.  The sound is also mostly ugly and sloppy, and is kind of like Black Rose in really paling against the sound of the great WMS tables of 1992/1993.  The animation and delay after hitting that Rats scoop is way, way too long, iirc.  And it looks bad compared to the WMS classics of 1993 that I'm sure you know: Whitewater, Twilight Zone, Indiana Jones, STTNG, and probably Judge Dredd blow it completely out of the water.  (Is 1993 the best year in pinball history?  I think a case can be made for any year in 1992-1996, and maybe 1979 and 1981.)I'm glad to see BSD, but I'm more glad that I have some hope now of seeing other licensed WMS tables.</blockquote>

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