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<blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 172035" data-attributes="member: 134"><p>I love this machine, and asked Bobby in person about it. Short answer, not a chance in hell.</p><p></p><p>FarSight used to do a football game, and Bobby said dealing with the NFL and the Players Association was not pleasant. It's not that they are difficult, it's that they want a lot of pieces of the pie. In the case of NBA Fastbreak, you are dealing with a decades old roster and any deal that was made back then has long since expired. So rather than just dealing with the PA, which would be a catch all umbrella for anything today, you'd now have to seek out individuals and sign each and every one of them. And trust me, there are a ton of names in that game.</p><p></p><p>As for the table's popularity, it's understandable. For starters, if the flippers weren't at full operating capacity and couldn't get the ball up the center ramp, the table was toast. It was also common that the mechanism that shot the ball into the hoop from under the rim would fail, which also gimped the table. In other words, it was not a friendly table for operators to have on sight. The other thing was that the scoring was pure basketball. It's not like WCS 94 where there's your typical score, and you can score goals. Kinda threw off the casual player, and made bragging rights fairly tame when you could say your high score was 62 points.</p><p></p><p>What I didn't know until recently was that two machines could be linked together, and then you could go head to head in a scoring battle. I would love for the opportunity to play it this way. In other words Nolan, you'll be wanting 6 grand so you can buy 2! And I gotta say, in terms of machines that would be plenty fun for replay value at home, this is one I'd want. I played the crap out of it in Visual Pinball, and it'd be a great 2nd or 3rd table. Like I said, it doesn't score in a traditional manner, so if it were your one and only table, I'd look at something else. But next to another table? Oh hell yeah.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shutyertrap, post: 172035, member: 134"] I love this machine, and asked Bobby in person about it. Short answer, not a chance in hell. FarSight used to do a football game, and Bobby said dealing with the NFL and the Players Association was not pleasant. It's not that they are difficult, it's that they want a lot of pieces of the pie. In the case of NBA Fastbreak, you are dealing with a decades old roster and any deal that was made back then has long since expired. So rather than just dealing with the PA, which would be a catch all umbrella for anything today, you'd now have to seek out individuals and sign each and every one of them. And trust me, there are a ton of names in that game. As for the table's popularity, it's understandable. For starters, if the flippers weren't at full operating capacity and couldn't get the ball up the center ramp, the table was toast. It was also common that the mechanism that shot the ball into the hoop from under the rim would fail, which also gimped the table. In other words, it was not a friendly table for operators to have on sight. The other thing was that the scoring was pure basketball. It's not like WCS 94 where there's your typical score, and you can score goals. Kinda threw off the casual player, and made bragging rights fairly tame when you could say your high score was 62 points. What I didn't know until recently was that two machines could be linked together, and then you could go head to head in a scoring battle. I would love for the opportunity to play it this way. In other words Nolan, you'll be wanting 6 grand so you can buy 2! And I gotta say, in terms of machines that would be plenty fun for replay value at home, this is one I'd want. I played the crap out of it in Visual Pinball, and it'd be a great 2nd or 3rd table. Like I said, it doesn't score in a traditional manner, so if it were your one and only table, I'd look at something else. But next to another table? Oh hell yeah. [/QUOTE]
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