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<blockquote data-quote="Nate" data-source="post: 226786" data-attributes="member: 5142"><p>While I enjoy a wide variety of pins from the system 11 era thru the present I too have found that most post y2k tables seem to lack heart and that feeling that most of our now considered to be classic late 1990's tables that made us feel a certain way whether it be the need to one up each other and exploit the table for the maximum score possible or just to satisfy the human desire to discover and cater to that curious feeling that I often got when i got to play a new table, each one was its own little world that I knew nothing about, what is this world? Whats a Funhouse got to discover? whats this madness from midevil times or or this earthshaking highspeed whirlwind attack on the circus of voltaire on the black rose as we get this monster bashing show on the road with rudy's siblings Ted and Carlene Carter as they get caught mousin around with a pack of bad cats, do you guys see it yet??? YESSSS thats it! They were all ORIGINAL THEMES and each its own little reality in which it contains a bunch of fun secrets sounds lights and feel good shots and we knew NOTHING about the history of these worlds and it was all brand new like the first time we shot some idiot into space or the first time a kid sees disneyland, and i know what your thinking now and its T2 and TAF right what about them? so with the obvious exception of the occcasional terminator 2 or demolition man dredd weapon 3 from the crypt which at the time were amazing games because not only was the technology fueling these games brand new these movies were the first time we had ever seen any kind of HQ digital special effects and rendered cgi used in movies was so freaking groundbreaking and just GOOD it was also the first time that before our very eyes the t2000 morphed seemlessly into its victims and the action part of action movies became visually indecipherable between fiction and non fiction if you were to just cut a sequence out of one of these films and watch it by itself who was to say it wasnt something that just happened somewhere, i dunno about you guys but that nuke type thing goin off cyberdine industries where it shows the city get destroyed and the fire consumes the woman holding onto the fence as she turns to ashes scene in terminator scared the piss out of me (and i was 12 years old!!) and this concept was still very exciting to us so In my not so humble opinion whereas today i dont think that scene would phase most 5 year olds because that type of thing has been rehashed and redone so many times, i think alot of the charm of licensed pins from that time period was just that those type of realistic fictional worlds like the original pin themes were still new to us which is also the reason i feel like almost everyone comes to the same conclusion about what newer Stern games we all enjoy today, LOTR was so epic that i dont think there had really been a movie world brought into reality with impact and fan dedication since star wars, and then obviously all the now very popular music pins are all as i see them original themes with game modes based around songs we know and in some cases love being brought to life in their own little world, I love metallica and acdc and even some of guns and roses music when in reality non of these songs were ever really presented as an interactive fantasy world comprised of physical elements that represent song names and album cover art and even band members themselves, getting to launch metal rocks at mick jaggers face is the ultimate orignal concept for me as im only 33 years old and could give a crap about the stones (no offense to anyone who loves them, keith richards is the best guitar playing corpse to ever take the stage!) and i really dont know anything about them so that to me made that game a totally original theme with a better than usual (sorry chris granner no offense) altho to me unfamiliar soundtrack which fueled my violent attack on a horrible looking man straddling a microphone stand which to me as a stranger to the stones made this a very interesting fantasy world for me to explore.....oh crap i have to go i have been rambling for so long i am almost late for work (i dont really have a job) i gotta go!! if you read all this pat yourself on the back and then go bang your head against a metallica pinball while you listen to barbie girl on repeat until you forget all the crap i just stuffed your brains random access memory with before it saves to your hard drive and the brain cells are forever wasted. oh dont be so uptight people, i dont like me either im a terrible person.....-nate</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nate, post: 226786, member: 5142"] While I enjoy a wide variety of pins from the system 11 era thru the present I too have found that most post y2k tables seem to lack heart and that feeling that most of our now considered to be classic late 1990's tables that made us feel a certain way whether it be the need to one up each other and exploit the table for the maximum score possible or just to satisfy the human desire to discover and cater to that curious feeling that I often got when i got to play a new table, each one was its own little world that I knew nothing about, what is this world? Whats a Funhouse got to discover? whats this madness from midevil times or or this earthshaking highspeed whirlwind attack on the circus of voltaire on the black rose as we get this monster bashing show on the road with rudy's siblings Ted and Carlene Carter as they get caught mousin around with a pack of bad cats, do you guys see it yet??? YESSSS thats it! They were all ORIGINAL THEMES and each its own little reality in which it contains a bunch of fun secrets sounds lights and feel good shots and we knew NOTHING about the history of these worlds and it was all brand new like the first time we shot some idiot into space or the first time a kid sees disneyland, and i know what your thinking now and its T2 and TAF right what about them? so with the obvious exception of the occcasional terminator 2 or demolition man dredd weapon 3 from the crypt which at the time were amazing games because not only was the technology fueling these games brand new these movies were the first time we had ever seen any kind of HQ digital special effects and rendered cgi used in movies was so freaking groundbreaking and just GOOD it was also the first time that before our very eyes the t2000 morphed seemlessly into its victims and the action part of action movies became visually indecipherable between fiction and non fiction if you were to just cut a sequence out of one of these films and watch it by itself who was to say it wasnt something that just happened somewhere, i dunno about you guys but that nuke type thing goin off cyberdine industries where it shows the city get destroyed and the fire consumes the woman holding onto the fence as she turns to ashes scene in terminator scared the piss out of me (and i was 12 years old!!) and this concept was still very exciting to us so In my not so humble opinion whereas today i dont think that scene would phase most 5 year olds because that type of thing has been rehashed and redone so many times, i think alot of the charm of licensed pins from that time period was just that those type of realistic fictional worlds like the original pin themes were still new to us which is also the reason i feel like almost everyone comes to the same conclusion about what newer Stern games we all enjoy today, LOTR was so epic that i dont think there had really been a movie world brought into reality with impact and fan dedication since star wars, and then obviously all the now very popular music pins are all as i see them original themes with game modes based around songs we know and in some cases love being brought to life in their own little world, I love metallica and acdc and even some of guns and roses music when in reality non of these songs were ever really presented as an interactive fantasy world comprised of physical elements that represent song names and album cover art and even band members themselves, getting to launch metal rocks at mick jaggers face is the ultimate orignal concept for me as im only 33 years old and could give a crap about the stones (no offense to anyone who loves them, keith richards is the best guitar playing corpse to ever take the stage!) and i really dont know anything about them so that to me made that game a totally original theme with a better than usual (sorry chris granner no offense) altho to me unfamiliar soundtrack which fueled my violent attack on a horrible looking man straddling a microphone stand which to me as a stranger to the stones made this a very interesting fantasy world for me to explore.....oh crap i have to go i have been rambling for so long i am almost late for work (i dont really have a job) i gotta go!! if you read all this pat yourself on the back and then go bang your head against a metallica pinball while you listen to barbie girl on repeat until you forget all the crap i just stuffed your brains random access memory with before it saves to your hard drive and the brain cells are forever wasted. oh dont be so uptight people, i dont like me either im a terrible person.....-nate [/QUOTE]
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