Kolchak357
Senior Pigeon
- May 31, 2012
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Played Meteor and Flight 2000 at Pinfest today. Sterns of that era are just so satisfying to play. All those drop targets and spinner shots. TPA can't make them fast enough for me.
Whatever the pinball, it will be played. It is its nature.
Yeah sure, tell that to my Harley Davidson.
Classic Sterns need to be represented in the PA, so there is no downside to this..
Oh, that makes a lot of sense.
Maybe they plan on doing all of them, and using them as companion tables for next year.
They will be done with Williams PHOF and Gotlieb PHOF by the end of this year. So maybe next year they plan on making PBA the unofficial Stern hall of fame.
Just to clarify, Sorcerer, PinBot (next month) and Whirlwind are all that's left of Williams. Victory, Tee'd Off might be all that's left of Gotlieb depending on what they intend on doing. Some of the Gotliebs won't make it because they were made from pictures, not the actual tables, and I think Farsight is on record saying they won't be adding those.
So just to clarify what I am trying to say. It is my current belief that they are going to use Stern to round out the rest of Pinball Arcade. I'd say that once Gotlieb/Williams re-releases are done, which is another 6 months give or take, it's going to be classic Stern as the companion boards from then on out. Can't say for 100% certainty, but if I had to guess I'd say yes, as this makes a lot of sense.
So everyone freaking out that Space 2000 or whatever is going to lose to Sea Witch can take a major chill pill since it's doubtful they'd only do one of these.
It's gonna be Stern mixed with Data East and Sega. Bobby mentioned in the Jeff's last interview that those are probably a year out, which ties in with when FS will have to get a new list of tables from WMS. So Stern for the 'b' table, unlicensed WMS for the 'a', and Data East and Sega sprinkled in for easy licenses.
And with that, I think I've talked out my butt for long enough, since I'm just completely spinning wild speculation there!
I agree completely. I always seem to end up liking the late 70's to mid 80's era tables a lot.
So let's hope these guys are right about what Farsight's plans are:
Eight Ball Deluxe was neck-and-neck with Centaur. Fireball was a very distant third.I also think Fireball's #2 position (or was it third behind EBD?) from the classic Bally poll will eventually show up.
I just played a Stars for the first time this weekend. Playfield was a little rough, but otherwise it was an excellent game. I even managed to earn the special and the first replay score (and nearly the second).Man I can't believe I forgot the excellent Stars was a Stern Electronics table (1978). I bet that would have won if it had been in the poll. >_>
I'm sure the poll was based on tables that FarSight had already sourced and knew they could acquire at a reasonable cost. As good as Stars is, though, I doubt it could've beaten Flight 2000 or Seawitch.
And I still want Catacomb.