New Pinball Hall of Fame game for 2012

[Oobgarm]

Pulled directly off their Facebook page:

FarSight Studios is extremely proud to announce that we will be releasing a new pinball game in early 2012! We’ve been busy acquiring licenses, building new tables, and developing our technology on many platforms (including iPhone, iPad, and Android). We welcome all comments and table suggestions (we keep a running tally of all requests). We want to ensure that our game will be the definitive collection of classic pinball! Stay tuned for updates over the next few months!

The list of suggestions is pretty long. I hope they get some licensed tables, Addams Family being tops on my list.

[Queen Of The Felines]

I'd kill for Earthshaker. I played the hell out of that thing in college.

[Robocop2]

I desperately want to love pinball collections but I suck so bad at pinball it makes it hard for me to maintain my intrest for too very long

[Melf]

RollerGames!!!!!


Please!

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

All of my pinball wishes were met with Medieval Madness on the last collection ... Twilight Zone would be my next choice, and I would imagine not a terribly expensive license to obtain if need be.

I suppose there's little to no hope of a STERN set containing some of their recent licensed table brilliance like Lord of the Rings and Indiana Jones.

[le geek]

Twilight Zone and Addam's Family = Day One Purchase

[norkusa]

Is there any reason why Pin-Bot/Bride of Pin-Bot wouldn't be on this? They weren't on the last compilation, so I assume it had something to do with licensing.

Would love to see Fish Tales, Cyclone, Theater Of Magic, and Terminator 2 on it. And Twilight Zone of course.

[Leo_A]

Is there any reason why Pin-Bot/Bride of Pin-Bot wouldn't be on this? They weren't on the last compilation, so I assume it had something to do with licensing.

Would love to see Fish Tales, Cyclone, Theater Of Magic, and Terminator 2 on it. And Twilight Zone of course.

Pin-Bot was on every version of the William's collection.

I assume they just didn't license Bride of Pin-Bot. They said they included every table they had licensed, so they apparantly license these on an individual basis rather than having a license that gives them free reign to the entire library of whatever company they're dealing with. I imagine if they're dealing with the William's library again instead of something like a collection focused on Bally or Stern tables for something new (Which is what I'm hoping for), that it has an excellent chance.

I don't think there's much hope for tables that depended on expensive outside IP (Such as Terminator 2) since that would destroy their budget for a game that will likely be sold for $40 in fairly modest numbers. But perhaps something like the Twilight Zone license, if the IP holders don't have an unrealistic view of the worth of the IP, would be a possibility.

[cheesystick]

Have there been any releases for Circus Voltaire? I'd really like to see that one, Star Trek: The Next Generation and a version of The Shadow. I realize that the film adaptation of The Shadow was not the blockbuster that everyone was hoping for, but damn is that pin a good one.

[Duke.Togo]

Fantastic, I hope it is Bally focused. I really want Attack from Mars. What is the name of the Facebook page?

[Sniderman]

Two tables needed:

[InsaneDavid]

I don't think there's much hope for tables that depended on expensive outside IP (Such as Terminator 2) since that would destroy their budget for a game that will likely be sold for $40 in fairly modest numbers. But perhaps something like the Twilight Zone license, if the IP holders don't have an unrealistic view of the worth of the IP, would be a possibility.

Which is why we'll probably never see a Data East collection. I don't care what anyone says, they made some of my all time favorite modern tables: Back to the Future, Lethal Weapon 3, and The Who's Tommy. I know a lot of people really like their Jurassic Park table as well.

I suppose there's little to no hope of a STERN set containing some of their recent licensed table brilliance like Lord of the Rings and Indiana Jones.

Bah, Indiana Jones Pinball Adventure by Williams is superior!

[YoshiM]

RollerGames!!!!!


Please!

This. I wanna go for the wall when it's Sudden Death.

[Gamevet]

RollerGames!!!!!


Please!

I can't believe I've never seen or played that machine. I had to check out a youtube video, to see what it was all about. The cheesy 80's music works well with what I've seen of the table. It looks like a pretty cool pinball machine!

[Sanriostar]

Williams 2?
Gottlieb 2?

Bally 1?

I'm buying it. If I can get Wii controls, I'm buying it.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Bah, Indiana Jones Pinball Adventure by Williams is superior!

Agreed. I'll take one of each please!

[Flashback2012]

Twilight Zone and Addam's Family = Day One Purchase

Co-signed!

[Compute]

Two tables needed:
(Haunted house)

They may have to talk to Microsoft about the rights for Haunted House. It was used in Microsoft Pinball Arcade, roughly 1999-ish. I am pretty sure that Pinball Arcade is the reason that the Gottlieb collection had such weak tables. Pinball Arcade had Baffle Ball (one of the first big-selling pinball games), Humpty Dumpty (first game with flippers), Knockout (neat 1950's boxing theme with playfield animation), some halfway decent wedgehead game from the 60's, Spirit of '76, Haunted House, and some shitbox billiards-themed game from the 90's.

I think we're due for a Bally collection. Bally always had great artwork.

[Leo_A]

They may have to talk to Microsoft about the rights for Haunted House. It was used in Microsoft Pinball Arcade, roughly 1999-ish. I am pretty sure that Pinball Arcade is the reason that the Gottlieb collection had such weak tables.

Licenses usually don't run for 12 years, so the agreement probably lapsed years ago.

[Leo_A]

Some exciting news.

http://www.pinballarcade.com/

http://www.youtube.com/embed/QhXyRfbIQLQ

It's called Pinball Arcade. It will feature tables from Stern, Bally, Williams, and Gottileb. It will be available on XBLA, PSN for the Vita and PS3, 3DS, Windows, Mac, Android, and Apple platforms. It's due in early 2012 and promises regular updates for years to come (Following the model set by another popular downloadable pinball release, it appears). And we'll be seeing licensed tables make appearances.

The initial slate of tables (What was shown off in the trailer, at least) is Arabian Nights, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Black Hole, and Theatre of Magic (I know that last one will make a lot of people happy).

I normally prefer a physical release and hope we'll eventually get one in the future when downloadable additions to this ceases, but I think a downloadable model supports this concept to a tee. Will allow people to just buy what they actually want, it will hopefully see us get many more tables than we'd of gotten with a normal retail release, and it should make licensed tables far more viable rather than something not even worth wasting time hoping for.