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Title: Pinball documentary: "TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball"
Post by: ahofle on May 10, 2007, 06:35:39 pm

http://www.tilt-movie.com/

Anyone else heard of this?  Looks very interesting and some of the pins they show in the trailer are AMAZING, but I've never seen them.  I only found out about this today when the director, Greg Maletic, emailed me asking permission to use some of the arcade ambience sounds in the movie (unlike RCA Records  :laugh2:).

Title: Re: Pinball documentary: "TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball"
Post by: BobA on May 10, 2007, 07:01:16 pm

Looks really interesting.   I ordered the DVD set.  Looks like lots of good extras on it.

Thanks for the link. :applaud:

Title: Re: Pinball documentary: "TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball"
Post by: DrumAnBass on May 10, 2007, 07:08:49 pm

Very cool find! Seems to lack the drama of "King of Kong" as far as really sucking the viewer into the story, but seems to be well produced.

And some gorgeous games in there...!

Title: Re: Pinball documentary: "TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball"
Post by: patrickl on May 11, 2007, 05:16:18 am

I saw that Mars Revenge pinball at the local Cinema and thought it looked cute.

Cool that they are using your arcade ambience sounds.

Title: Re: Pinball documentary: "TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball"
Post by: ChadTower on May 11, 2007, 09:25:06 am

There is basically one consensus among Pin2k fans:

The Star Wars game sucks.

Revenge From Mars is cool but pretty much a half hour straight of making the same shot over and over again, like a pitch and bat.

The platform had giant potential but they didn't use it.

Title: Re: Pinball documentary: "TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball"
Post by: Crowquill on May 15, 2007, 10:18:58 am

That really does look pretty cool. I like their site too.

I have to admit that I'm drawn to the Pin2K machines everytime I see them. They look cool, but even as a novice pin player I wasn't that impressed with the gameplay. Those things really would have had to be huge to keep Williams making pins. Midway's coin-op video game division only lasted a few more years, too. The whole coin-op industry dropped off.

Title: Re: Pinball documentary: "TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball"
Post by: ChadTower on May 15, 2007, 10:21:46 am

RFM is tons of fun.  Not a lot of pure pin shot variety, but I can play it for a half hour straight, and be entertained.  Plus, on 50 cents, you can get a good amount of play time, which is good.

The Star Wars game isn't nearly as good and is actually very Jar Jar heavy.

I preordered the DVD set too... mostly so I could watch it with my kids, and to support making further documentaries in the arcade space.

Title: Re: Pinball documentary: "TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball"
Post by: ahofle on July 31, 2007, 04:55:10 pm

Just wanted to resurrect this to mention that there is now a review of this DVD in Arcade Miscellaneous...
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=69509.0