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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steven120566" data-source="post: 288310" data-attributes="member: 5261">Fascinating discussion. I'm 52, played some pinball whenever I could from 1980 through like 1984. Enjoyed it but got into video games in the years that followed. Got an xbox 360 many years ago and stumbled upon FX 2. That game turned me back into a "pinball" fan big time before I even realized there was a Farsight studios. And the fact that THEY were recreating real machines made the whole digital pinball scene even more amazng for me. Then the "nostalgia" hit me in addition to the fun of pinball that I rediscovered with FX2. So what I am saying is the Zen originals are my fave, even up to Son of Zues. But TPA was also a great time and I would switch back and forth alot.You guys have basically laid out a slew of reasons recreations will likely be the bulk of where FX3 and Zen studios are going. But I will always play all of those Zen originals. And what keeps me playing FX 3 is that Zen themselves included all of those in FX3. Basically we have so many tables we can play. And I am now playing on Switch, and when you scroll through the tournaments, if you want to have an Earth Defense, El Dorado, or Wild West Rampage tournament, you pretty much have to make it yourself. You'll get some players with it, but not too many are creating tourneys on those. And while I look at my friends on the leaderboards, while I am still trying to climb up the boards on those old tables, all two dozen of my switch freinds are stagnant. I also am buying all the awesome Williams recreations, but with so many tables and so little time, I am not likely going to keep going back to a Champions Pub like I do with Rome.But I also realize I am in the vast minority here <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> And the discussion of where Zen will be putting most of their resources into, you guys are spot on. Any additional tables they release will keep people playing the game and buying the new ones whether they are originals or recreations, but I think that the fan base is most fired up about real tables at this point in time. Not knowing much about the technical side of making real tables digital, this question may be dumb. But why woluldn't Zen make solid states Gorgar and Firepower, Whirlwind, Taxi, Pinbot etc? I can see where EMs just might not cut it any more but there were great Midway/Williams tables before there were DMDs.</blockquote>

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