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<blockquote data-quote="Zombie Aladdin" data-source="post: 145238" data-attributes="member: 4242"><p>I see. I can understand why the art would be something that would turn people off from it. I have not seen any of the movies, so I can't tell if it'd be intentional or not, but I always got the impression the movies were rather trollish. (I must wonder what a pinball machine made by Penn Jillette would look like. The Penn & Teller books are already trollish enough as they are. I read one, for instance, with a black-and-white spiral pattern background on every page designed to disorient you and make it difficult to make out the letters.)</p><p></p><p>"Cheap-looking" is something I'm trying to look into but cannot really get much headway. In the case of <em>Austin Powers</em>, does it mean that the plastic characters on the playfield were action figures just sourced from elsewhere and not made specifically for the game? Maybe it's because I never saw any of the Williams or Bally tables when they were at their prime in the '90s, and by now they've become worn down and dodgy in their gameplay having been in service for 20+ years, but I honestly cannot see the quality difference between games praised for their high quality like those '90s tables and the modern Sterns accused of cutting corners. <em>Iron Man</em>, for instance, is said to break down within 6 months, but I've seen some well-maintained <em>Iron Man</em> machines, and they look sturdy to me. (On the other hand, I have never seen a <em>Monopoly</em> without flaking artwork or a malfunctioning safe door. Is that what is meant by cheap quality?)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zombie Aladdin, post: 145238, member: 4242"] I see. I can understand why the art would be something that would turn people off from it. I have not seen any of the movies, so I can't tell if it'd be intentional or not, but I always got the impression the movies were rather trollish. (I must wonder what a pinball machine made by Penn Jillette would look like. The Penn & Teller books are already trollish enough as they are. I read one, for instance, with a black-and-white spiral pattern background on every page designed to disorient you and make it difficult to make out the letters.) "Cheap-looking" is something I'm trying to look into but cannot really get much headway. In the case of [i]Austin Powers[/i], does it mean that the plastic characters on the playfield were action figures just sourced from elsewhere and not made specifically for the game? Maybe it's because I never saw any of the Williams or Bally tables when they were at their prime in the '90s, and by now they've become worn down and dodgy in their gameplay having been in service for 20+ years, but I honestly cannot see the quality difference between games praised for their high quality like those '90s tables and the modern Sterns accused of cutting corners. [i]Iron Man[/i], for instance, is said to break down within 6 months, but I've seen some well-maintained [i]Iron Man[/i] machines, and they look sturdy to me. (On the other hand, I have never seen a [i]Monopoly[/i] without flaking artwork or a malfunctioning safe door. Is that what is meant by cheap quality?) [/QUOTE]
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