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Pinball Re-Releases?

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ArcadeDunce:
Here's a question.. why not re-release classic NEW machines to the collectors market?  I'd love to have an affordable, new Next Generation, or Adams Family...if the owners concentrate on the popular machines, of franchises still on going, i'm sure they'd get alot of classic collectors as customers...

I'd love to own a pinball, but used at $5,000's in questionable shape doesn't cut it :)

Le Chuck:
Likely because it's not cost effective do to that.  Most of those parts were done on custom runs using economy of scale to bring down the price.  There aren't shelves full of old Addams parts waiting in the wings just to be reassembled into whole machines so they'd have to start the run over.  To redo Addams when there are so many out there already probably isn't economically fruitful, and that's if they charged an arm and a leg.  If pinball was affordable to produce you'd see new affordable pins.  You don't so that leads me to believe that cranking out a bunch of pins is a somewhat pricey endeavor.  Same thing goes of a certain classic cars which have a market that dwarfs pinball and it still doesn't work out.  Plus a lot of the companies that made these great machines aren't exactly in the pinball business anymore.

It's a nice sentiment tho. 

pinballjim:
If there was latent demand for old games, their prices would currently be through the roof.

$5,000 for something that was $3k 20 years ago doesn't outpace inflation much.

Ken Layton:
Licensing would be a problem too for the originally licensed theme machines.

nickbuol:
That is why virtual pinball is probably in my future at some point.  I can't afford to buy more machines, especially a lot of the ones I like in the top 10 (http://pinside.com/pinball/top-100), and I don't think that I will EVER see a Medieval Madness to even try to play.  Sure I've put many quarters into Twilight Zone and The Addams Family, but a number of the top 10 I've only played once but would love to again.  It is NOT quite the same thing as a real silver ball like my ToM, but like I said, without going that route, I will never get to play those machines or any other machines supported virtually.

I figure that in a few years when I might actually be ready for such a project, so much of the remaining kinks and such will be worked out. OK, not kinks, but there are several ways to similate physical bumpers and action into sensory feeling, but it seems that the things that try to add realism are either pricey, or somewhat odd to me, like wiper motors inside a pinball, etc.

Anyway, that is my thought on the situation.  For the cost of 1 decent machine, I could built a virtual cabinet that could support many... and put it right next to my real ToM...

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