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<blockquote data-quote="pseudokings" data-source="post: 23407" data-attributes="member: 612"><p>I was a SEGA kid. I can remember gaming all the way back to playing OutRun and HangOn when I was 4 in the arcade. I was never quite an arcade rat, but I wished I was at the time, and in retrospect, I still do. I was a DC fanatic, obviously, too. Shenmue, Skies of Arcadia, and REZ still rest in my all-time Top 5 video games. I've stayed gaming since the death of the DC, and the dismantling of all the Sega studios that made the greatest lineup of games ever published in a 3 year window, but my enthusiasm has waned significantly. I've had a harder and harder time staying interested long enough to finish even the "best" of games in recent years. </p><p></p><p>The Pinball Arcade is basically the only gaming I've done in the last 2-3 months. But I don't really look at it as "video gaming". I look at it as playing digital pinball. The fact that the tables are real tables recreated, and while not perfect, are for the most part emulated, not simply scripted, and the physics are so much better than the other pinball video games on the market at the moment (even if, once again, not perfect), it just makes it something different than just "gaming". Something better. More like simulation than homage, or imitation. It's the F355 Challenge of pinball. And I'm very thankful for that. First time I played the demo, I bought it, and I was floored. I called my best friend and told him if he didn't pony up he'd forever be a chump in my eyes (he's a big pinball fan too). He loves it to death too, has all the 360 DLC.</p><p></p><p>TPA would likely earn a spot in my top 5 video games of all-time, if I thought of it as a video game. But I don't. I think of it as pinball, just without the 250lbs machine. And while it still falls way short of the real thing, with the 250lbs machine, I can still hardly think of a better compliment. $5 for two usually great tables, versus ballpark $1200 for the least expensive table you'd actually want to own (I've been researching, extensively, on this), and that won't get you close to most of the tables you'd REALLY want to own, it's a steal. And other than going to the few remaining arcades (and the ones that actually have pins at that), is how a lot of us without a rich daddy get to play these pins at all these days.</p><p></p><p>TPA has also set my long held, but in recent years shelved, love affair with real pinball ablaze again. I've been to numerous places to play pinball in the last several months since TPA was released. I've made a list of all the tables I dream of owning someday. I've kicked myself in the ass a ton (metaphorically) for not getting to Castles N Coasters much more frequently in recent years before their HORRIBLE SOB of an arcade manager decided to start selling off pins left and right. I've purchased the two volumes of The Pinball Compendium that cover chronologically the tables in the game... come to think of it, I might have bought one of them slightly before TPA's release... not sure. Anyway, I am very grateful for this as well. I grew up a video gamer, who started getting into pinball in my teens. Now, I'm a pinballer (can't call myself a "pinhead"), who plays video games sometimes, and TPA played a notable role in that.</p><p></p><p>Now, if only the fixes and new tables didn't take so painfully long to make it to the 360.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pseudokings, post: 23407, member: 612"] I was a SEGA kid. I can remember gaming all the way back to playing OutRun and HangOn when I was 4 in the arcade. I was never quite an arcade rat, but I wished I was at the time, and in retrospect, I still do. I was a DC fanatic, obviously, too. Shenmue, Skies of Arcadia, and REZ still rest in my all-time Top 5 video games. I've stayed gaming since the death of the DC, and the dismantling of all the Sega studios that made the greatest lineup of games ever published in a 3 year window, but my enthusiasm has waned significantly. I've had a harder and harder time staying interested long enough to finish even the "best" of games in recent years. The Pinball Arcade is basically the only gaming I've done in the last 2-3 months. But I don't really look at it as "video gaming". I look at it as playing digital pinball. The fact that the tables are real tables recreated, and while not perfect, are for the most part emulated, not simply scripted, and the physics are so much better than the other pinball video games on the market at the moment (even if, once again, not perfect), it just makes it something different than just "gaming". Something better. More like simulation than homage, or imitation. It's the F355 Challenge of pinball. And I'm very thankful for that. First time I played the demo, I bought it, and I was floored. I called my best friend and told him if he didn't pony up he'd forever be a chump in my eyes (he's a big pinball fan too). He loves it to death too, has all the 360 DLC. TPA would likely earn a spot in my top 5 video games of all-time, if I thought of it as a video game. But I don't. I think of it as pinball, just without the 250lbs machine. And while it still falls way short of the real thing, with the 250lbs machine, I can still hardly think of a better compliment. $5 for two usually great tables, versus ballpark $1200 for the least expensive table you'd actually want to own (I've been researching, extensively, on this), and that won't get you close to most of the tables you'd REALLY want to own, it's a steal. And other than going to the few remaining arcades (and the ones that actually have pins at that), is how a lot of us without a rich daddy get to play these pins at all these days. TPA has also set my long held, but in recent years shelved, love affair with real pinball ablaze again. I've been to numerous places to play pinball in the last several months since TPA was released. I've made a list of all the tables I dream of owning someday. I've kicked myself in the ass a ton (metaphorically) for not getting to Castles N Coasters much more frequently in recent years before their HORRIBLE SOB of an arcade manager decided to start selling off pins left and right. I've purchased the two volumes of The Pinball Compendium that cover chronologically the tables in the game... come to think of it, I might have bought one of them slightly before TPA's release... not sure. Anyway, I am very grateful for this as well. I grew up a video gamer, who started getting into pinball in my teens. Now, I'm a pinballer (can't call myself a "pinhead"), who plays video games sometimes, and TPA played a notable role in that. Now, if only the fixes and new tables didn't take so painfully long to make it to the 360.:) [/QUOTE]
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