Table Pack #60 Speculation Thread

[Rudy Yagov]

It's Cactus Jack's. The table is about a polka playing cactus band. It's a fun game if a bit simple.

 

[Zaphod77]

Yawn.

its not horrible, but it is simple, and likely to be VERY exploitable (trap and shoot rmp over and over)

 

[pm1109]

Apart from a couple of good tables it's been a pretty poor season

 

[WesReviews]

Gottlieb hating snobs. Haha. I welcome Cactus Jacks!

Bring on Monte Carlo in Season 7!

 

[Trackball]

Oh my gosh, I just realized.

When you fail the video mode in Cue Ball Wizard, and that cactus shows up and says "Surprise, tenderfoot"?

This has to be the game that was referencing. Just looked it up--Cactus Jack's was released before QBW, so it has to be!

 

[Joelpbafan]

Ok I'm shocked another gotlieb premier sarcastic
Actually I'm bored now

 

[Tron]

 

[Joelpbafan]

Gotlieb cactus jack I'm bored

 

[Baron Rubik]

Damn - that sucks. And I'm hoping it influences my decision to pre order the next season through season pass.

 

[rehtroboi40]

Gottlieb hating snobs. Haha. I welcome Cactus Jacks!

Bring on Monte Carlo in Season 7!

I would've preferred Surf N' Safari. Cactus Jack's is a decent table though.

But that is the problem-the tables in season 6 have only been decent (EBD is the good exception and BB the bad one). The DW kickstarter was okay but a letdown. Farsight has apparently lost the WMS license and stopped sending out newsletters. SPA releases without any ability to buy the main selling points (their three newer tables) and numerous interface bugs. Consoles are stuck on seasons 4 and 5.

None of this should stoke anyone about season 7

 

[mystman12]

I'll be honest, the shaking cacti on Cactus Jack's creep me out...

 

[MisterVercetti]

Yeah, I think this pretty much has decided it. Since this seems to be the direction that TPA seems to be going, and with no signs of Bally/WMS being renegotiated, my Season 7 pass money will instead be going to Zen. They may not have real tables, but at least theirs are functional and enjoyable.

 

[yuriijos]

New table and hint released today. Maybe Big Buck Hunter?

 

[Kolchak357]

New table and hint released today. Maybe Big Buck Hunter?

That would have to go in the Stern Pinball Arcade. Looking like Cactus Jack's.

 

[Kaibun]

Eh, a bit of a disappointing season, wasn't it? Aside from the Bally tables, there was nothing truly amazing this time. Stern PA's release totally eclipsed it.

I hope we'll get a good season ender this time, at least.

 

[Kolchak357]

If we were going to stick in the Gottlieb realm, I'd have preferred Genesis, Devils Dare, Pistol Poker, or Mystery Castle. I assume the Stargate license makes that an impossibility. But Cactus Jacks's is a pretty good pin with a dizzying light show, even if the theme is weird.

 

[Ecktown]

That settles it - I will wait a few months before I buy season 7 (if I buy it at all).
Gottlieb pinballs almost always have interesting and unusual features, which makes them interesting from a pinball history point of view but they are very often not nearly as much fun to play as the many great Williams and Bally tables that are still out there. So far, this season has been quite disappointing and without knowing whether Williams and/or Bally tables make it into season 7 I am not prepared to spend my money upfront :-(

 

[Rudy Yagov]

If we were going to stick in the Gottlieb realm, I'd have preferred Genesis, Devils Dare, Pistol Poker, or Mystery Castle. I assume the Stargate license makes that an impossibility. But Cactus Jacks's is a pretty good pin with a dizzying light show, even if the theme is weird.

Pistol Poker and Mystery Castle are Alvin G games, not Gottliebs/Premiers.

 

[Zaphod77]

surf n safari is a much better table, and despite having the gottleib flippers, you CAN'T trap the ball after a ramp. at least in real life.

do wish they would say what's up with the bally/williams, though.

 

[lio]

Am I the only one who just hates the Gottlieb flipper angles?! They just feel wrong... way to stop-and-go.