Jersey Jack - Wizard Of Oz News

[SKILL_SHOT]

cant wait to play it later this month.

 

[Fungi]

In the documentary, they discuss what Pinball2000 should be, and one of the Popadiuk ideas was a screen on the backglass. They opted for the incarnation we're familiar with because they realized that players don't look up while playing. If the balls are flying around down there, I ain't taking my eyes off 'em. If the screen is being used for non-ball action, then I can see its use, otherwise, the P2k team was aiming for actual interaction.

 

[trachea]

Man, those are a lot of LEDs.

Yeah. Is it typical during the development process to leave all of the lights on all of the time?

 

[Richard B]

Doesn't look good so far. It fails to take advantage of the LCD screen very well - I hope it doesn't become like the second screen on the DS. The sounds are merely okay, the voices repeat too much, and the music - that would get annoying after a while. Of course, I'd have probably said the same thing about MB, if I saw a video like this before playing it, so there is still hope.

 

[Kolchak357]

Doesn't look good so far. It fails to take advantage of the LCD screen very well - I hope it doesn't become like the second screen on the DS. The sounds are merely okay, the voices repeat too much, and the music - that would get annoying after a while. Of course, I'd have probably said the same thing about MB, if I saw a video like this before playing it, so there is still hope.

I thought the very same thing about the repeated voices and the music. That would drive me nuts. I assumed the LCD screen just wasn't ready yet. I can't believe it would be so underutilized. But I must say that the artwork is great and I really like the lighting.

 

[spoonman]

It does look nice. The only way I would be able to play this would be on a video version such as TPA. Maybe that will happen some day.

 

[jkonami]

I agree with you guys talking about the music and LCD. I was hoping there would be modes where the music would change - there's a couple of iconic points in the soundtrack that would have been perfect to switch between for this. Like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4kiXh8YOzk&feature=player_embedded

The LCD looks pretty static, hope they do more with it.

 

[BonzoGonzo]

the table actually looks nice... well the overall brightness of the leds gives a somewhat kitschy vibe, but its not really horrible... that lcd on the back is looking pretty useless at the moment... and its really LARGE for what little info it's displaying

 

[mmmagnetic]

Yeah. Is it typical during the development process to leave all of the lights on all of the time?

Exactly what I was implying - it looks just like a sea of blinking, color-changing inserts, with no real indication what to shoot for - like a goa rave from above.

My guess is that those aren´t really programmed yet.

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

It looks like the LCD screen is just to show off a really cool jersey jack logo...I might wear headphones playing this to avoid following the yellow brick road all day!

 

[shutyertrap]

I liked the flying monkey ball capture. Those back targets? ramp? seemed like a pain to hit, as the player kept shooting over and over and the ball just kept coming back down. Is is sad that whenever I watch a real pinball table in action now, I'm looking to see what it's physics are like? "Oh gee, looks like that ball is a touch heavy!"

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

In that video when they show the witch getting hit the glass is off and someone is rolling balls at it to show it off and other scenes.

 

[shutyertrap]

Oh, I also like the left outlane 'no place like home' nudge fest!!