/vr/ - Retro Games

Playfield

>>7931457
Also comes in Ultraman

>>7931689
>Also comes in Ultraman
Nice! Didn't see that one. Can't wait to try both out.

>>7931689
Found the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMUA9rnzbnQ

>>7931457
>>7931689
Man this is awesome but I wish they didn't have the exact same play field,,, well it's not like I'll get to play either one in RL anyway.

>>7931454
The playfield looks surprinsingly, and I don't even like the theme.
Too bad I've never seen a Spooky here in Europe :(

Also
>scoop
Fucking finaly! I love these.

>>7932184
surprisingly good*

>>7932072
>Man this is awesome but I wish they didn't have the exact same play field,,,
Most definitely a cost saving measure. I love the Michael's popping out of the headges tho.
>well it's not like I'll get to play either one in RL anyway.
If what I heard was correct it will be 18 months before they ship out.

>>7932184
>I don't even like the theme.
Honestly I would think a Halloween theme pin would be goofy but I really dig what they did. The art is fantastic.

>>7932072
How to find pinball and pinball tournaments in your area:
US, Canada, Australia, Japan, Finland, London
https://pinballmap.com/
Worldwide:
https://pinside.com/pinball/map
Europe:
https://findapinball.com/en/

Tournaments:
Depending on where you live, there may be a facebook group for players in your area.
You can also find tournaments near you here:
https://www.ifpapinball.com/calendar/

Pinball Simulators that will give you a free virtual pin or two as a sample:
Pinball Fx 3 (Sorcerer's Lair, Fish Tales)
Zaccaria (Time Machine)
Pinball Arcade (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)
Stern Pinball Arcade (Also Frankenstein)
There's also Visual Pinball, which is a freeware pinball simulator.

How to become Good at Pinball (wholly optional):
https://www.deadflip.com/tutorials/ (techniques in gif form)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-WQLGFMr97DnxeE1Rmi-wAwa-Vm7D-7i

Jurassic Park is incredibly innovative. Both the map system and the way the dinosaur modes work.

>>7932236
Sadly there are no real tables around me, not even close, I do play a lot of digital pinball though or rather did before Arcade died and FX went to Epic.

>>7932245
Where are you? Svalbard Island?

>>7932236
>Zaccaria (Time Machine)
Whatever company is responsible for this sim really cheaped out at some point. I remember getting the app on my phone years ago and it came with most tables without paying for shit, now they just give you Time Machine.
Also shame about pinball arcade, i really liked their Bally Midway tables.
>>7932245
You have to really hunt down tables these days for yourself, check out bars, pubs and any drinking establishments, anywhere there may be a pool table or a jukebox. They're out there, there's been a "renaissance" in the last 10 years and they're being sold, not just by private collectors, there's new Sterns out there waiting for you bro. Find 'em.

>>7932902
Why would you want to play the new Sterns? They're been extremely sterile and boring for the last 4 years.

>>7932957
Yeah I know, Sterns suck across the board. BUT they're the one big manufacturer left and those sterile boring tables are being bought and shipped over the world.
I'd rather play a real table albeit a new Stern than whatever shit Zen pinball is shitting out virtually.

Brahs..... Both Halloween and Ultraman pins sold out in just a few hours :^o

>>7932957
I disagree. Jurassic Park is highly innovative in both layout and code (moreso code maybe, but still).
Iron Maiden and Avengers Infinity Quest also both have innovative layouts.
Black Knight: Sword of Rage and Munsters are both soulful. Deadpool is popular, and the layout is at least a little unique.

The Michael popping behind the hedge looks amazing BUT only if your crouched at a force perspective. At a natural playing angle your staring down at three Michaels and three hedges. A little weird. They could have done that better i think.

>>7933592
Are you sure? Have you played on in person?

>>7933396

That's a good way to crack the pinball glass.

>>7934123
Well I can see from the video the standing angle.

>>7934239
>crack the pinball glass

Factory pinball glasses from that era don't crack, they fucking explode in a million of tiny shards.

>t. had a glass explode in my face when I removed it to clean the playfield

>>7934239
This may be controversial, but...
Worth it for the pic.

>>7934609
Chubby girls with no tits are a tragedy.

>>7933396
>soulful
That's not a metric of anything, stop using that retarded term, it's dumb and unimaginative. Outside of The Munsters being a complete bore of a table that reeks of cheap Stern shit I'd agree that Maiden and Avengers are at least a little more innovative than the same layouts Stern was happy with shitting out the last ten years.

Just a Jason pin now to complete the horror trifecta

>>7935825
Wait I don't like movies so I don't know much, but isn't Halloween the export title for Friday the 13th?
They just changed the mask in the sequel, right?

>>7935871
Halloween and Friday the 13th are completely different horror franchises fren. Halloween is Michael Meyers in a painted captain kirk mask and F13 is Jason Vorhees in the hockey mask(but he doesn't start wearing that until part 3).

>>7935871
What possibly led you to think this? Genuinely curious.

>>7935931
it's a weeb retard who's most likely underage

>>7935938
Too much anime does that to kids.

>>7935931
My guess is that anon is foreign

>>7935931
>>7935978
I'm indeed foreign but it was basically the exact same thing so I always thought it was different title for export.

>>7935984
>but it was basically the exact same thing
no, it's fucking not you dumb fuck.

>>7935990
Anon I'm 30+, I watched those movies when I was in middle school so don't expect me to have vivid memories?
Isn't it just an invincible guy with a mask killing teenagers in both series?

>>7935998
Halloween is a genuine classic suspense horror film, it set the benchmark for slasher films to follow, the director John Carpenter (who also composed the iconic title track) is responsible for some really great movies as well. The series outside of the 1st film and the anomalous 3rd film (had nothing to do with Mike Myers) is shit though and barely worth anybodies time.

Friday the 13th was one of a million cheap horror films that jumped on the horror/slasher boom after Halloween, it's unabashedly cheesy and incredibly bad at times and it takes a while into the series for the "Jason Vorhees in a hocky mask" killer to be properly established, and even then it drops him and has other people just taking up the mantle in some of the more worse entries in the series.

Outside of "dude in a mask killing people" the two series do have their differences from film to film. Calling them the same shit is a disservice and to make a /vr/ example it would be like calling Sonic and Bubsy the exact same thing, with Sonic being the innovative and original Halloween, Bubsy being a cheaper knock off that came later but still serviceable if you like that sort of thing Friday the 13th.

>>7936054
>even then it drops him and has other people just taking up the mantle in some of the more worse entries in the series.
That was only for one movie.

>>7936054
>Calling them the same shit is a disservice
As I said, I'm no cinema lover so I don't really care about those subtleties, especially if you agree that both are "horror/slasher".

>>7933396
>>7934609
I see your average run of the mill pin thots and raise with this silver ball succubus

Trying to get 2M on this.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space pin kino when?

>>7936072
Yeah I misremembered.
It was part 5 that had the copycat killer, I thought at one point there was a survivor who wears the mask or finds the mask or something like that in one of the other films but those movies become a bit of a blur and it's hard to keep track when there's been so many releases and retcons over the years.

>>7936705
lol ironically it was Halloween that seemed to keep pushing for that angle. Halloween 4 ends with Jamie murdering her step-mom wearing a clown costume just like Michael but that got retconned in Halloween 5.

>>7936742
Oh wait, my bad. Friday the 13th 5 actually ends the same way. Tommy puts on the hockey mask and seems to become the new killer but they completely ignore that ending in Part 6.

>>7936181
discussion topic:
Who is the mascot of pinball:
Black Knight or Pinbot and his Bride?

>>7935364
I disagree. Good butts are *much* more important than good tits. I dated a girl who had no more than beestings but an ass nearly 8 palms wide and it was worth every inch in gold.

>>7936760
Torn between PinBot and Rudy

>>7936760
>Who is the mascot of pinball
My vote is Bride of Pinbot. Sure the table itself is meh but as a character she is very iconic

>>7936746
Yeah I thought there was something like that, reading up on it now and they did that in the endings of both 4 and 5 teasing that Tommy was going to be the next Jason but completely dropped it.

>>7936764
Rudy is also a candidate.
>>7937087
Have you checked out Bride of Pinbot 2.0? Dutch Pinball gave Bride a more modern ruleset and a LCD screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuzC-6Vt8sU

>>7936763
I'm an absolute titman, but I respect you as a dedicated assman.

>>7931689
>>7932061
BASED
I find it disgraceful that more Japanese properties don't have pinball tables. Everything comes in slots or pachinko or pachislots.
we deserve a DBZ table with a 7-ball Shenron Multiball. or Naruto pinball with Shadow Clone Multiball. Or a great Megaman or Zelda table. So much Japanese shit already comes with amazing music you could use it's just ripe territory for the taking.

>>7937593
>he doesn't know
And weebs wonder why everyone mock them.

>>7937593
Pinball isn't that popular in Japan.
There was going to be a physical Zelda machine from Gottlieb, you can read the story here:
https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/gladiators
There was also an Akira pinball videogame called Akira Psycho Ball.
Naruto and DBZ isn't popular with the people in the US who play pinball, Nintendo is too protective of their IPs to license to a company like Stern, and every other video game franchise you're likely to think of isn't popular enough with the pinball core demographic to be worth buying.

>>7937623
Popularity and demographics have literally never mattered when taking into consideration making a pinball machine. Fucking Johnny Mnemonic and Last Action Hero have highly regarded pinball tables and both movies were box office bombs and suck balls.

>>7937632
They 100% matter in 201X/2X and have for quite a while.

Almost every pin is some boomer core shit to attract the 40/50+ year old demographic with expendable cash and pensions.

Aerosmith, iron maiden, beatles, batman 66, alice cooper, Halloween, star wars, alien. All 30+ year franchises with older fans.

Any modern themes are from ULTRA popular franchises like Stranger things, walking dead, game of thrones, Deadpool, avengers. Properties with millions and mega fans that will drop the cash for a limited item.

>>7937623
>There was going to be a physical Zelda machine from Gottlieb
Thank god it didn't happen! Gottlieb are really bottom of the barrel! Just look at their garbage Mario Bros pinball.

>>7937632
Some 30 or 40+ dudes in a bar can drop some coins for a pinball with a movie theme, but I can't picture them getting interested in Naruto or One Piece.

>>7937725
>Thank god it didn't happen! Gottlieb are really bottom of the barrel!
I haven't played a ton of Gottlieb tables but Gladiators is quite fun

Tilt

>>7938759
>tfw pingirls ceased to exist in the 90's.

>>7938806
>tfw introduced my last two gf's to pinball and they loved it
the general (younger) public don't know much if anything about pinball so unless you're dating some boomer milf it's a cool activity to do on a date to introduce a girl to pinball.

>>7938970
Gee anon, TWO gf's?

Jesus said please share :'(

>>7932072
This haha makes them both seem cheap.

>>7932072
>Man this is awesome but I wish they didn't have the exact same play field,,,
Obvious cost cutting. Come up with a playfield and satisfy both horror fans and jap culture fans all in one pin. I get it and look forward to hopefully trying both put someday.

I'm going to apologize up front about getting this song stuck in your head over the next day or two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBSwzJheylQ

>>7938976
it took me until my 30s before I got a gf, just bee yourself anon, you'll make it one day.
Keep your standards low, be willing to date fatties and single mothers.

>>7940989
Will you marry her?

>>7940989
>just bee yourself anon
This^^^ pic related is me after I took that advice to heart.

Give me your pinball machine ideas. Not dream themes, original themes.
I'll start:
Curse of the Zodiac
Constellations start coming to life and you have to fight them off.

>>7931454
>Pinball

>>7944175
Death to all zoomers.

>>7944179
>Death to all zoomers.
zoomers don’t even know what pinballs are

>>7944128
Criminal justice trial.
You'd have timed modes with ramp shots to collect evidence, timed scoops to present the evidence, skillshots to win jury members, etc...

Anyone in this general mess with virtual pinball? From my understanding it allows for uploading recreated boards into one of the modern pinball simulators like FX3 or PBA.

>>7944274
phoenix wright is the perfect pinball property, shame jap shit never gets adapted.

>>7944274
The hammer that hammers a ball "through" the playfield from Metallica premium could be reused and become a Gavel.

Aside from that, I guess Lady Justice carries that scale. That could be a good toy for a pinball machine. Maybe you could lock balls on it; I don't know. I'd have to think about it.

>>7944175
It's allowed, check the sticky. It's probably allowed in /v/ and /vg/ too, I've never seen a pinball thread get taken down by a mod.

My local barcade got a Mandalorian table. It's kinda neat.
When I went today it was doing this weird thing where at the beginning of every ball it would put two balls in the launch lane instead of one. This meant playing with two balls without being in multiball, which meant draining either ball means losing both of them.
It was kinda irritating obviously, but it actually kinda worked as a game mode since having to keep both balls alive added a lot of tension. Multiball, rather than being an advantage like normal, was a huge impediment instead.
Has any pinball machine actually had a mode like this?

>>7944593
Gottlieb's 'Goin' Nuts' was a multiball game, only 10 were made though

>>7944593
Judge Dredd has a "Super Mode" which is like this. It costs two credits. Read the details in the bottom left.

>>7945126
>triple deck ramp
What the fuck?

>>7945287
it means there's three wire forms on top of each other.

>>7946580