New JJP: Dialed In by Pat Lawlor

[Jeff Strong]

Not sure I quite understand the theme yet, but I've only just glanced at the pics:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1305046659513927&id=188992294452708

 

[mpad]

Uh. Nice looking!
Real work of artwork.

 

[neglectoid]

that's a huge apron. looks like the flippers aren't centered also.

 

[Heretic]

well he did just dial it in...

from the name i was kinda hoping for a 80s/90s style parody (with some doctor dude)of the modern connected world, to constrast with its tech and glitizy features. for me doctor dude is 90s cheese at its stinkiest, ive always been very fond of the theme and the reflex shots

anyway....going by the pics who knows what the theme is

 

[Kolchak357]

Name and theme look like a total zero to me. But the pin itself looks pretty cool from what I could see on pinside. Hope it plays well.

 

[vikingerik]

that's a huge apron. looks like the flippers aren't centered also.

The flippers are centered. The apron isn't. There's the same number of lanes on each side of the flippers. Left side has outlane, inlane, inlane. Right side has inlane, outlane, plunger. Same as Addams and TZ among many others.

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

Umm... interesting. First look it's some kind of weird cross between Junk Yard and Attack From Mars. Definitely a Lawlor though with all the cartoon characters.

As for the apron looking big, it doesn't have any cards on it so it just looks bigger, I think.

 

[Baron Rubik]

Says it's the first pin to feature Bluetooth connectivity to a smartphone. Is that why it's 'dialed in'?

Well, it's not like he doesn't know what he's doing. I'm sure it'll be good.

 

[Captain B. Zarre]

Remove the cell phone and rename the machine Quantum City. Or retheme it as a Futurama machine.

I like the layout but the theme definitely isn't for me, although some of the things the phone does throughout the game are pretty cool.

 

[Kolchak357]

Do I have to buy a smart phone now? But my flip phone is so cool. Even my Grandma says so.

 

[Naildriver74]

I like my roatary phone

 

[dtown8532]

I just don't see this doing well. I don't care how well it shoots. I don't care how good the rules are. In the end, it's a cell phone theme with some cheesy looking toys. And at 9k for the regular model, how many ops are going to buy one? Like I said on Pinside, we got JJP with a cell phone game, Stern with a good lookin but overpriced Batman theme (come on! Batmobile on only the SUPER LE cabs!) and an Alien game that looks like something Sega would have cranked out in the 90's minus the deeper rules and LCD screens.

 

[Jeff Strong]

Yeah, it does look pretty cheesy, imo. Could be a cool game if it had better art and toys.

 

[DA5ID]

My friend who is at expo for the reveal described it as "unlicensed sim city disasters"

 

[Spork98765]

At first glance I was hoping it was a meta theme about destroying the phones of people who text/talk at the theater, but no - that was too much to hope for.

 

[MontanaFrank]

I like my roatary phone

I love my "party line", I just hear all the dirt. I am two shorts and one long and I can reach Sarah at the switchboard anytime.

 

[DanBradford]

I think Dialed In looks like the most fun of all the games I've seen pics of so far recently - Batman 66, Alien, Hobbit, Houdini, Iron Maiden etc

If only they didn't all keep hiking the prices up and up and up. People like me who will never buy a NIB and rely on the filtering down of second hand machines after a few years will never see one, as these prices mean less ops will bother, and the only home owners who can afford them will probably have so much space and money they'll never sell.

Shame. Just as the hobby was expanding again and they needed to lower prices and make the games easier and more accessible, they do the opposite.

 

[L33]

I think Dialed In looks like the most fun of all the games I've seen pics of so far recently - Batman 66, Alien, Hobbit, Houdini, Iron Maiden etc

Iron Maiden...is that a confirmed table? Is there any details on that? I always said...if an Iron Maiden table came out...id buy it.

 

[DanBradford]

There's pictures of it so I assume so. Another Dirty Donny art job, looks great but the theme leaves me cold.

 

[dtown8532]

There's pictures of it so I assume so. Another Dirty Donny art job, looks great but the theme leaves me cold.

That's probably a custom one. Stern has yet to announce Iron Maiden (if it's coming). However, pics of Aerosmith are in Dirty Donny's book that was at expo. That one is coming.