Table pack #38 speculation

[chinzman93]

The bodies flying around to seem to be a bit similar to the once on the Xenon back glass. How many tables are left in Season 4?

 

[Dedpop]

Two after the release of Xenon.

 

[Fungi]

The bodies flying around to seem to be a bit similar to the once on the Xenon back glass...

35 years. 35 years! I've never noticed the two flying bodies in the backglass for 35 years!

 

[The loafer]

Well seriously there are other things on that backglass that demands attention more than the trapeze stuff

 

[Kratos3]

Spirit. It's covered with silhouetted people. It could be the mystery Gottlieb.

 

[chinzman93]

Spirit. It's covered with silhouetted people. It could be the mystery Gottlieb.

That's a good guess. They match up better as well. Hmmm....

Apon further review....I change my guess to Spirit!

 

[IGoFirstIndy]

Spirit. It's covered with silhouetted people. It could be the mystery Gottlieb.

That would be awesome!

The last paragraph of the clue talking about flying, doing perilous stunts and dropping bombs makes me think of F-14 Tomcat.

 

[chinzman93]

Two after the release of Xenon.

So I would guess the remaining list would be:

38 - Spirit
39 - Some DMD table (High Speed 2)
40 - Xenon

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

So I would guess the remaining list would be:

38 - Spirit
39 - Some DMD table (High Speed 2)
40 - Xenon

Except #38 is definitely Xenon, because I don't see how the hint could be anything else with all those "eX" references in the text.

#38 Xenon
#39 Mystery Gottlieb [DMD] [R911?] (get over to the Table Pack #39 thread!)
#40 HS2

Then we kick off S5 with R&T.

Except... well BSD came out of nowhere to finish off S3, so who knows what might be lurking in the wings?

 

[Gorgar]

Except #38 is definitely Xenon, because I don't see how the hint could be anything else with all those "eX" references in the text.

#38 Xenon
#39 Mystery Gottlieb [DMD] [R911?] (get over to the Table Pack #39 thread!)
#40 HS2

Then we kick off S5 with R&T.

Except... well BSD came out of nowhere to finish off S3, so who knows what might be lurking in the wings?

There was an interview with Bobby King from around the time Dracula came out where he confirmed that The Last Action Hero would come out during Season 5. He could have been joking, but he sounded kind of sincere to me. I think this will be the first table of Season 5.

 

[shutyertrap]

Didn't this 4th season start with a Data East table too? Maybe a new trend if LAH opens season 5?

 

[invitro]

There was an interview with Bobby King from around the time Dracula came out where he confirmed that The Last Action Hero would come out during Season 5. He could have been joking, but he sounded kind of sincere to me. I think this will be the first table of Season 5.

LAH apparently has Columbia to get the license from. Is there any evidence that Farsight has a license from Columbia? And there are a LOT of real people on the backglass to get a license from, too, I count eight besides Arnold S.

(Edit: I think I recently read somewhere that Arnold was considered particularly easy to deal with for licenses, and accepted a pinball machine as payment. I think it was from an interview with Gary Stern on pinside?)

LAH is not an awful table for a Data East, and I played it a ton when it happened to be the closest machine to my grad school building. But if Farsight uses another big license, there are so many, dozens, maybe even a hundred, better tables to choose from.

(Please correct me if I'm wrong on license info.)

Edit: I'll correct myself, Columbia is a division of Sony Pictures, oops. So this could be part of the Sony license deal, except that I understand that the deal was for two tables, and those tables are BSD and SST... can anyone confirm or deny this?

 

[Kratos3]

Except #38 is definitely Xenon, because I don't see how the hint could be anything else with all those "eX" references in the text.

#38 Xenon
#39 Mystery Gottlieb [DMD] [R911?] (get over to the Table Pack #39 thread!)
#40 HS2

Then we kick off S5 with R&T.

Except... well BSD came out of nowhere to finish off S3, so who knows what might be lurking in the wings?

Waiting in the shadows.....

 

[shutyertrap]

An exact number was never given for how many licenses were included in that purchasing block. The general assumption was it was for 4; BSD, SST, Ghostbusters, and one more. Again, that was an assumption.

 

[Fungi]

Good gawd that is one fugly backglass. I remember doing collages in grade school. Looked just like this!

 

[invitro]

An exact number was never given for how many licenses were included in that purchasing block. The general assumption was it was for 4; BSD, SST, Ghostbusters, and one more. Again, that was an assumption.

Thanks for the info! Any chance PotO was the fourth?

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

Thanks for the info! Any chance PotO was the fourth?

POTO is not a license. It is quite clearly stated in the game literature that it is "based on the 19xx novel", which is out of copyright, and thus requires no licenses. The artwork is all original for the game; the model for Christine is the artist's daughter.

In other words there's zero connection between POTO and any other IPs based on the novel that were around at the time, in particular the musical.

 

[chinzman93]

Except #38 is definitely Xenon, because I don't see how the hint could be anything else with all those "eX" references in the text.

#38 Xenon
#39 Mystery Gottlieb [DMD] [R911?] (get over to the Table Pack #39 thread!)
#40 HS2

Then we kick off S5 with R&T.

Except... well BSD came out of nowhere to finish off S3, so who knows what might be lurking in the wings?

I was on the Xenon boat as well, but the more I look at Spirit I think is it. The flying people look very similar to Spirit. It also has a star field on the play field with (Star Chamber). Now, I think maybe the EX's are just a head fake from FS knowing that we already know Xenon is coming at some point. It could then also be the "mystery" Gottlieb. But maybe am reading in way to much....

 

[Kratos3]

I was on the Xenon boat as well, but the more I look at Spirit I think is it. The flying people look very similar to Spirit. It also has a star field on the play field with (Star Chamber). Now, I think maybe the EX's are just a head fake from FS knowing that we already know Xenon is coming at some point. It could then also be the "mystery" Gottlieb. But maybe am reading in way to much....

Oh I know I'm reading into it way too much. I think we're onto something here though.

BTW, credit should go to Tales from the Crypt!! for this. He mentioned it in another thread and it just sort of clicked for me. I had brought up Spirit a while back, but really kind of forgot about it.

 

[shutyertrap]

You're all wrong, you know. Clearly this is hinting at the Pinball Circus. For starters, the pic is of trapeze artists. Considering the multi level nature of PC, it's a long drop for both ball and trapezist. But then look at the text...

"direct your attention to an extreme example of extraordinary excitement."

This was not only an 'extreme example' of where pinball could go, there'd be 'extraordinary excitement' were it to come to TPA. It goes on...

"In an exlusive engagement" (only 2 exist, 1 in Las Vegeas) "ex members of the famous flying extroverts" (a fitting description of Python if ever there were) "expertly perform extremely perilous stunts while carrying explosives" (meaning this table could have been a bomb, which is why they didn't go into actual production)

Sheesh. Open your eyes, people.