Zen PinCab

[wilbers]

Is that a card reader I can see at 1.25? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIrqU9cQszk

https:/twitter.com/Mel_G_Kirk/status/1118006567914414082 something about it bigger than pinball.

 

[MBeeching]

Difficult to make out, but I think it says Swipe Card... Flair?

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

"Swipe Card to Play"

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

Payment methods will vary by location and/or operator, so there are likely all the usual options that will work.

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[Citizen]

What if I prefer to pay in livestock? Where's the attachment for that?

 

[jaredmorgs]

Wonder if it will accept Zen tickets earned in-app.

100 tickets a play.

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[wilbers]

I predict that Zen will do something for May 4th - most likely a sale on some Star Wars tables, but could be further details about this. After all, if Mel Kirk is asking people to ask "Why?" it stands to reason that before long an answer to that will be given.

 

[shutyertrap]

Tomorrow is Alien Day. Just sayin'

Let's see if Zen runs a sale on that pack too.

 

[Lroy]

Any likelihood Zen would make a home-user version of this virtual pincab in the future?


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[Lroy]

Tomorrow is Alien Day. Just sayin'

Let's see if Zen runs a sale on that pack too.

The ALIENS pinball back is currently 50% off on the Nintendo Switch eShop in Europe at least.


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[Pinballwiz45b]

Aliens is indeed on sale on Steam. Offer ends Monday.

 

[shutyertrap]

Any likelihood Zen would make a home-user version of this virtual pincab in the future?


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Pinball USA is making the ‘Championship Edition’ cab, and VPcabs has 2 different models to pick from. These are licensed cabs and come preinstalled with the game. The cab Zen is showing off with the video panel on the sides, that’s purely for commercial use I believe.

 

[wilbers]

Tomorrow is Alien Day. Just sayin'

Let's see if Zen runs a sale on that pack too.

Hey, a year later and the Aliens pack is one sale again!

Reason I'm necroing this thread is that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMrBhm2Xe-k popped up in my youtube feed. Claims its the worlds most advanced virtual pinball machine and looking at what he has made that could actually be true. https://www.dave-techguy.com/extreme-edition

 

[wilbers]

Just found out that someone discovered one of these months ago and posted photos of it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualpin...rst_time_seeing_a_pinballfx_cab_in_an_arcade/

$1 for 2 minutes of timed play at the time, beat a score to win tickets. Wonder what options they were testing as it surely won't have been the same all the time.

 

[Pete]

$1 for 2 minutes is crap. i mean i dont want to sound like too harsh or whatever... but yeah no, what a jip. its about $1 a game for real pinball, if you cant last 2 minutes on one of those 3 balls that is just sad. i usually pay a buck, get the replay, and then get another replay, lol.

 

[strells]

Beautiful. Played that at California Extreme last year.

 

[jaredmorgs]

This is the redemption version of the Zen cabinet that has been location tested at Dave 'n' Busters.

It only has 4 games on it because based on the play data that is the limit a person in this type of location can logically parse when trying to make a decision about what game to play.

 

[jaredmorgs]

$1 for 2 minutes is crap. i mean i dont want to sound like too harsh or whatever... but yeah no, what a jip. its about $1 a game for real pinball, if you cant last 2 minutes on one of those 3 balls that is just sad. i usually pay a buck, get the replay, and then get another replay, lol.

You are not the target punter here.

 

[Pete]

i feel like the existence of these will make real pinball machines less available in allot of places, this just hurts real pinball

 

[shutyertrap]

$1 for 2 minutes is crap. i mean i dont want to sound like too harsh or whatever... but yeah no, what a jip. its about $1 a game for real pinball, if you cant last 2 minutes on one of those 3 balls that is just sad. i usually pay a buck, get the replay, and then get another replay, lol.

Have you ever played a regular redemption game? Many don't even last 30 seconds! I do think it would be better if it had the 3 minute challenge like in the Skillz app, or Survival challenge where it ultimately times out if you reach level 15. The object of a redemption game is to churn users, not make converts.

i feel like the existence of these will make real pinball machines less available in allot of places, this just hurts real pinball

Locations that do redemption games don't have real pinball anyways. Well, unless they have that Mario Super Mushroom World or whatever it was with the short legs, as that could spit out tickets. They also want to put these in bars and pubs, where presumably they aren't set to a 2 minute game as those might actually have a real machine or two. This is still very much in the testing phase, by the way.