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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richard B" data-source="post: 4468" data-attributes="member: 306">I watched that AMC's History of Pinball, and it was awesome! At the end, they asked several of the interviewees where they think pinball would be in ten years? Their optimistic answers look sadly naieve today (the documentary was made in 1999), but it does bring up an interesting question - what would pinball look like today if it was still a booming industry and we still had several prominent companies competing with each other? Here's some of what I think we'd see:*One thing we would definitely see is the old DMD replaced with a full color display. Why Stern hasn't done this yet I don't know, but it would make the whole experience better, especially since a majority of their tables are based on television and movie properties. They could use footage from the source material, go all out on score displays, and even have some video modes that don't suck. Having displays on or under the playfield itself is another possibility, though the benefit gained wouldn't be worth the extra expense in most cases. *Sound chips that store more, and better quality, sounds and music. Stern has already made significant progress in this area, and with a better marketplace and more competition, more advancements would be made. *Pinball 2000 was a cool concept, and the two existing games are some of my favorites, even if their playfields are rather spartan. Had things turned out differently, they might have incorporated the technology into more sophisticated, full sized playfields. It wouldn't work for all tables, but for those that feature a bulk of the action centralized at a single location (such as Medieval Madness and Attack From Mars), it would definitely make things interesting. *Shifting / changing playfields. It would probably be too expensive and too prone to failure, but it would be cool to see large sections (or even the entire) playfield reconfigure itself. With a flourishing marketplace, it could have happened!</blockquote>

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