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JERSEY JACK PINBALL
pinballwizard79:
The monitor image should stay black & white until completing the first mission (tornado mission maybe) & then go color afterward.
That would be a nice tie in or nod to the theme.... You do know if they do that it was all my idea right?
TOK:
--- Quote from: pinballwizard79 on May 28, 2011, 11:24:56 pm ---The monitor image should stay black & white until completing the first mission (tornado mission maybe) & then go color afterward.
That would be a nice tie in or nod to the theme.... You do know if they do that it was all my idea right?
--- End quote ---
It is a cool idea. Someone mentioned it on rec.games.pinball a few months back.
I'd love to be excited about this, but the theme is just so beat. I've heard the music clips and thought they were cool, I've seen the melting witch toy and the prototype house and they're neat, but I'm having trouble caring about the end result because I have zero interest in the Wizard of Oz.
Like Wheel Of Fortune or Shaq Attaq, its just something I wouldn't want weirding up my gameroom (even if I could afford it! :lol )
smartbomb2084:
Modern LCD monitors for coin-op are junk. Just ask any operator running TouchTunes jukeboxes. Some of these monitors are only a few years old and they already need their Inverter Boards and A/D Boards recapped... or worse.
The ION monitor in a Megatouch isn't much better.
I have a HURRICANE with the original Dot Matrix Board and Controller board. This game has lived a long hard on-the-route life and the display still works. It does have the usual 'burned' appearance when it is off however but it is still running just the same. I would like to see an LCD last as long. Twenty years that is.
Besides, I was told by a full-time monitor tech that LCDs are being phased out due to the Mercury that is present in the Cold Cathode Flourescent tubes used to back light the display.
LED monitors will be our only option for replacement.
I also wonder... How long do you think the 128 X 32 Dot Board is still going to be made? I mean, what else have you ever seen it used in except a pinball machine?
pinballjim:
They make LED replacements for DMDs and they're widely available - they're installed in everything Stern sends overseas. Pretty sure one of Qbert's games has one... 24? and I couldn't tell any difference.
Ken Layton:
I don't know any operators around here that would spend $7,500 for a pinball machine. This "thing" looks awful IMO. I wouldn't play it.
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