Request Pinball Circus

[bailorgana]

Looks like this would be the best unreleased game to put out... no license issues either.

 

[Sean DonCarlos]

This has been discussed a few times before...the main challenge (besides convincing one of its 2 owners to allow FarSight to take it apart for modeling) is that Pinball Circus extends in the vertical dimension to the point where representing it on a phone's screen in an intelligent way would be very difficult.

 

[Fungi]

Also, it gets old fast. It's not really a score chase, or a multiball chase, or a wizard mode chase. You just wanna get to the top. Once you get there, that's pretty much it.

Plus the game is more of a 3d kinetic sculpture. Stick it in a 2d medium and much is lost in translation.

 

[shutyertrap]

Also those in control of all things Williams have no interest in letting FarSight put out a game that was only considered a prototype. I believe the way I heard it was, "there's a reason we never let it go beyond prototype".

 

[Ark Malmeida]

I'd love to see it personally. It's a piece of pinball history and a very unique table to boot. A lot of people may never get the chance to go to The Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas to play it. Plus Farsight does have a relationship with them so getting access to it (perhaps during a scheduled maintenance period) might not bee too far fetched.

 

[Sean DonCarlos]

The prerendered-vs-3D argument needs to stay dead, people.

 

[night]

The prerendered-vs-3D argument needs to stay dead, people.

The reason why I brought it up was because of the shape of Pinball Circus, which is more like a cabinet than a table. Anyway, awesome table if it could be made by FarSight or anyone into pinball simulation. The thing is, it will probably be impossible to strip this thing down..

 

[pseudokings]

I'd love to play it. Certainly a unique table.

 

[McGuirk]

I enjoyed playing this on my honeymoon. It might get old if you spend hours on it, but I figure that's the same for other pinball tables as well.

 

[Pete]

ha, my gf would explode on me so hardcore if i spent our honeymoon playing pinball.

I think digitizing this table would be very hard, not impossible, but allot of hard work. probably enough work to have done 4 or 5 normal tables with that time. The physics would have to be tweaked allot for it to work. Also it would have to have really good ball following angles to make to flow right.