Frank Thomas' Big Hurt baseball

[TNT]

Any chances we see this table? Looks pretty cool.

 

[Kolchak357]

It would probably come down to the license. I wonder if the Big Hurt would play ball with Farsight.

 

[gooche77]

Your analogy was off base Kolchak.

 

[Captain B. Zarre]

The layout of the table is cool, but it's never actually used during gameplay at all. The only huge scoring thing to do for good pinball players is shoot the left loop over and over to eventually get 500 million per loop (yes, this is a thing, and it can be done in 6 shots).

 

[Kolchak357]

Your analogy was off base Kolchak.

Touché.

 

[Antonio Gaeta]

Magari

 

[Antonio Gaeta]

Quasi tutti i gottlieb's dot Matrix sono licenze costose. Speriamo un giorno

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

I like the fact that one of the awards/modes/whatever on the playfield is called "Steal Home". Because stealing bases was not exactly what Frank Thomas was all about. I think someone was designing this table and was just told to make it a "baseball-themed table" and ignore the abilities of the player the license was based on.

[Edit] "The Big Hurt" was 32-for-55 in stolen base attempts in his 19-year major league career (1990-2008) primarily with the White Sox, and towards the end with the Athletics and Blue Jays. He also never won a Gold Glove for his fielding, which, given he primarily played as a Designated Hitter - and never took the field - makes a whole world of sense, and kind of invalidates that feature.

 

[invitro]

It would probably come down to the license. I wonder if the Big Hurt would play ball with Farsight.

Since he's a Hall of Famer now, his price has probably gone up.