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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sean DonCarlos" data-source="post: 4581" data-attributes="member: 152">You're entitled to that opinion, but keep in mind some of us really like those peacock tails. Pinball was competing with ever more complex video games and home systems, and it was basically innovate or perish. They innovated as long as they could (about 10 years) and then they perished. By the time I discovered pinball, DMD tables were the only games around, with the occasional battered Funhouse or Whirlwind somewhere. So yes, I like my ToM, MM and CV with their rotating trunks and exploding castles and Ringmaster heads and multiple modes and multiple multiballs and DCS sound systems and kickass light shows. Yes, the 90s tables are not as "pure" a pinball experience as the 80s tables, and don't get me wrong - I like a lot of the 80s tables too now that I've found them - but dismissing the 90s tables as peacock tails isn't doing them justice.What I do object to is the current parade of hit-or-miss licensed tables from Stern. Not that all licensed tables are bad, but the early-2000s Sterns are overcrowded monstrosities (see Ripley's, Simpsons Pinball Party), and sometimes with the newer Sterns I feel like the license is there to disguise the fact that the gameplay is so similar from table to table. (And sometimes there's no disguise: see the Family Guy --> Shrek conversion.) That's why I'm interested to see that new Jersey Jack company take off...if nothing else, its presence might induce Stern to shake up its games a little.</blockquote>

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