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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Worf" data-source="post: 38530" data-attributes="member: 1047">Probably because they were copies rather than designed. Williams had the same problemw with SWE1 - the table was designed for another game and retrofitted to Star Wars. Not the best ideas and if it wasn't a time pressure to release, they'd have re-done it properly from scratch.The table has to be designed to fit the theme. You can't just take an existing table and try to come up with some theme to flow around it.Also - well, it shows the subtleties of design - Steve Ritchie, Pat Lawlor - their work isn't just good design, but in adjusting the design to get good flow. On a real table, moving something 1/16" can change the game dramatically (either way more fun, or completely frustrating). (And we've seen it happen on TPA until FarSight re-adjusts the table. It's that finicky).And even if the license makes no sense anymore, I'm sure the  younger players will treat it as an "original" style table. Unless all the pinball players are old aging folks and thus the IPDB ratings never get modified anymore... in which case pinball's dying and there's no hope of rescuing it.</blockquote>

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