Table Pack #31/Halloween/Start of Season 4 Speculation Thread

[Dedpop]

I remember playing POTO a few times. Don't remember how well I did, but I remember playing it

It's a good start.

 

[Fungi]

I remember seeing POTO many times, looking at the backglass and saying, "That's not the mask from the musical" and moving on to play something else. Am I a putz or what? Don't answer that.

 

[soundwave106]

If it is POTO which would be the first Data East table and also Halloween table, I think most of us would prefer TFTC. Then the next question is whether Friday (Gottlieb) would be preferred over POTO. I think the choice of POTO was made because of two reasons. 1) License was easier/less expensive then Friday or TFTC 2) Friday/TFTC is better suited for After Dark

POTO was based on the book, which is in the public domain. All likenesses and music I believe are from Data East employees, from what I gather. If so, no license is required.

 

[Dedpop]

I remember seeing POTO many times, looking at the backglass and saying, "That's not the mask from the musical" and moving on to play something else. Am I a putz or what? Don't answer that.

ok

 

[DokkenRokken]

I remember seeing POTO many times, looking at the backglass and saying, "That's not the mask from the musical" and moving on to play something else. Am I a putz or what? Don't answer that.

Weirdo.

 

[ZenTron]

Yes, FREDDY . Its been a long week and I was thinking Friday the 13th which is still wrong..

I'm not sure what "Friday" is, but if you meant "FREDDY", than I'm guessing that would be just a taaaaaaaaad bit pricier, and might even require a KS.

As for TFTC, of course it's the most wanted Halloween table, but they've already said that it would, without a doubt, be a PAD table. There's no getting around that, due to all the gore in the DMD, as well as some on the table art.

 

[ZenTron]

This makes sense, thanks..

As it stands it seems POTO is the best choice for an Halloween theme tables since TAF won't be out till 2015. Anyone have any other suggestions? I heard Bone Busters mentioned a bit but it seems folks would prefer POTO over it. Im neutral between those two, but i do like the fact we're getting a Data East table which means Sega is a possibility too.

POTO was based on the book, which is in the public domain. All likenesses and music I believe are from Data East employees, from what I gather. If so, no license is required.

 

[Crawley]

As it stands it seems POTO is the best choice for an Halloween theme tables since TAF won't be out till 2015. Anyone have any other suggestions? I heard Bone Busters mentioned a bit but it seems folks would prefer POTO over it. Im neutral between those two, but i do like the fact we're getting a Data East table which means Sega is a possibility too.

Kinda have the best of the best horror themed pins right now. The only popular ones after POTO would be Frankenstein, Freddy, Tales from the Crypt and I guess Bonebusters.

But if their first original table does turn out to be Ghostbusters that would make a nice October table. Plus there's the new Walking Dead table coming out from Stern next month - So Season 5 with a lot of luck.

 

[soundwave106]

Kinda have the best of the best horror themed pins right now. The only popular ones after POTO would be Frankenstein, Freddy, Tales from the Crypt and I guess Bonebusters.

Yeah, they're kind of running out on the pure horror pins period. You have to search the Internet to kind of find the rest of the names: tables like Stern's "Dracula", Bally's "Vampire", Gottlieb's "Spirit" and "Devil's Dare", and some other obscurities like Unidesto's "Mephisto" and Alvin G's "Mystery Castle". Some of these might be interesting to see, but these are not exactly highly requested pins.

 

[DokkenRokken]

Yeah, they're kind of running out on the pure horror pins period. You have to search the Internet to kind of find the rest of the names: tables like Stern's "Dracula", Bally's "Vampire", Gottlieb's "Spirit" and "Devil's Dare", and some other obscurities like Unidesto's "Mephisto" and Alvin G's "Mystery Castle". Some of these might be interesting to see, but these are not exactly highly requested pins.

Close, but not yet.

We still have "Freddy: A Nightmare On Elm Street", "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein", & "Bone Busters, Inc.". There's also "Tales From The Crypt", but that depends on if and when Farsight actually does PAD.

 

[lettuce]

Ok so next years Halloween tables will be, Tales From The Crypt and Freedy

 

[Fungi]

Hey, if they run out, it's a good thing. That means they did them all. Well, all they can legally do that is. Just like they'll eventually run out of '80s and '90s machines to recreate. Again, a good thing.

 

[ZenTron]

thanks for the feedback.. If they starting with POTO which is Data East, seems MS Frankenstein from Sega is a possibility for next year..

 

[DokkenRokken]

Ok so next years Halloween tables will be, Tales From The Crypt and Freedy

They can't do TFTC for TPA. They've already said it MUST be a PAD table.

I'd be perfectly content with "Freddy" and "Bone Busters Inc.", though.

 

[soundwave106]

We still have "Freddy: A Nightmare On Elm Street", "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein", & "Bone Busters, Inc.". There's also "Tales From The Crypt", but that depends on if and when Farsight actually does PAD.

Yeah, Crawley posted those. I think Mary Shelley's is likely to make it, and Freddy if they can pull off the license. Tales if PAD happens. I dunno about Bone Busters. But realistically the four Crawley posted are the four that's realistically left.

The rest I just posted for completion. Some would perhaps be interesting (Alvin G's "Mystery Castle"), some a well-maybe-we'll-see (the two early 80s Gottliebs have good reviews, but Haunted House produced in the same year is average to me) and some look downright awful (the art for the Bally Vampire EM is one of the ugliest backglasses I've seen).

No one's really requested any of them. Alvin G's the only newer one. So practically, I think we're down to our last three or four horror pins, the ones Crawley listed.

 

[Dedpop]

We're BEYOND uglyness in here.

 

[Arjan]

still hoping it's gonna be Tales form the Crypt... Phantom of the Opera sucks...

 

[netizen]

still hoping it's gonna be Tales form the Crypt... Phantom of the Opera sucks...

 

[TomL]

I remember seeing POTO many times, looking at the backglass and saying, "That's not the mask from the musical" and moving on to play something else. Am I a putz or what? Don't answer that.

ProTip: Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables" has very little singing.

 

[DokkenRokken]

still hoping it's gonna be Tales form the Crypt... Phantom of the Opera sucks...

Do people listen?

WE'RE NOT GETTING "TALES FROM THE CRYPT"! IT HAS TO BE A PAD TABLE!!!!

My goodness.