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Jeff AMN:

--- Quote from: Visitor Q on July 06, 2009, 06:37:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: Jeff AMN on July 06, 2009, 03:45:52 pm ---What's wrong with the other Stern games? Why do you only like Family Guy? Lord of the Rings and Spider-Man are both fantastic licenses with great gameplay.

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SM I have seen but not played, not much on the theme.

LOTR is fun I guess, the theme is ok.

With that said, that does not mean there is not a million other people who love those themes... I mean ticket sales for those movies says it all.

However...

I prefer timeless themes in pinball machines which is why I own Monster Bash and Attack From Mars to name just a single reason.

I'm sure there are people who don't care for those too.

All opinions.  ;)

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Opinions, sure. I would just think that both Spider-Man and Lord of the Rings are iconic enough to be considered timeless themes in their own right. Now, I can see how something like Big Buck Hunter (Stern's next game) could be a passing fad or a product of its time.

I just don't like people dumping on Stern because it's Stern. Same goes for Data East. So many people pass up on good games because of the company that made them, not because they're not actually good games.

Visitor Q:
It's all what you like. I am thankful that Stern is still making pins but I can name about 20 games from Bally/ Williams that I would rather have before I came back to Stern.

RayB:
Played NBA last week at a Toronto pinball tournament. I liked it. The basket shot really surprised me. After a while though, there's isn't that much going on in this one.  I'm not a "conaisseur" of pinball so my opinion doesn't carry much weight....

Gary Stern was at the tourney and I heard via other sources who talked to him that future pins are going to be "simpler", and I think NBA is the first example of a simpler (AKA: cheaper to manufacture) pin.

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