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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EccentricFlower" data-source="post: 215649" data-attributes="member: 5393">I posted this in the #41 speculation thread, but I hadn't read far enough to realize that thread was basically already closed. So I'm reposting out here:When I was attempting college (it didn't work out), circa 88-89, Eight Ball Deluxe was the one machine you could find EVERYWHERE. No matter what filthy bar you walked into, if they had any table at all, that was it. A thousand college hangouts, at least in the Deep South, resonated to the cries of "Quit talkin' and start chalkin'!" Even once pinball died, there still seemed to be more of these and TAF floating around than any other tables. (Obviously with TAF it was because there WERE more of them than any other tables.)So how come Eight Ball Deluxe wasn't in, I dunno, season one? It seems like a really obvious choice for early adoption. Have there been licensing or other issues anyone's admitted to? Understand, if I recall rightly, I didn't even LIKE the table very much - I'm just curious because so far TPA has covered pretty much all the tables you saw EVERYWHERE (except a few too expensive to license) and Eight Ball Deluxe is the big, very obvious exception to that rule.</blockquote>

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