The Twilight Zone coming to The Pinball Arcade. Need your support please!

[lettuce]

Looks like one of the Greatest Pinball tables of all time might be coming to The Pinball Arcade......Twilight Zone. BUT they need support in the form of the Kickstarter project....

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1067367405/pinball-arcade-the-twilight-zone

Basicaly because of the different licensing this table holds, it cost ALOT more money to gain the rights than tables that arent based on a Theme, TV show, Band, Film etc. Basically if this comes off it will pave the way for tables such as, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Tron, Dr Who, The Addams Family etc....if it doesnt come off then i doubt will ever see this classic reallife tables in TPA .

So if your a Pinball fan please donate just something small like $5, if they dont reach the target then you dont pay anything, its easy to do if you have an Amazon account as you just sign it with your Amazon account and it sets up the payment through Amazon. I myself have donated $20

[yotsuya]

I just did $10 to get the table for my iPad.

[lettuce]

Nice 

[yotsuya]

So far I've bought Black Hole, Medieval Madness, Bride of Pinbot, and Theatre of Magic for my iPad, and MM and BoP for my Android Phone. Eventually, I'll get them all, and if they do a PC version that accomodates multiple monitors, I'll consider a virtual pin with these titles.

[Xiaou2]

I personally dont care for TZ much.   However, even so... the recreations dont look very good at all.  Especially all that camera zoom crud.

 Id be willing to buy re-creations that were photographically captured, like in the old MS Pinball package.  Nothing to date has matched that quality of table recreation.

[MameMaster!]

Just donated my $10.

I'm shocked at how quickly they got to over $30K (as of 5/22). I was at like $2K this past weekend. 

[MaineEvent]

the recreations dont look very good at all.  Especially all that camera zoom crud.

How don't they look good again? The PFs are identical to the real games. The cameras and zooming could be better yes. I just leave it on one camera angle.
When you start a multiball the camera moves out so you can see what you are doing. I'd love to hear why you think they don't look "good".

[Xiaou2]

How don't they look good again? The PFs are identical to the real games.

 Try taking a photo of a person, in the brilliant sunny daylight, then placing them in a different photo, in a dark candle-lit room.

 Sure... the person is the same... and the background is correct..  But the two dont match because the Lighting is All wrong.

 Thats the problem with more Virtual Pinball tables.   Heres an example:

MS Pinball - Haunted House:



(use full screen / high quality)

 And compare that to:



 Its not just that the lighting is bad... but also, theres missing colors, shades, shadows, and highlights.

 Even with a pure 3d rendered table, such as the ones being promoted here...  Just do not look "real".  The ray-tracing & rendering isnt good enough to match real photographic results.

 Its not that someone couldnt make a 3d render that looked indistinguishable from a real table... In fact, someome made an amazing Terminator pinball table that looks almost photographic... Its just that Most people wont even come close... and so it looks so different that to me... its a disgrace.  Its like saying a red Chevy Cavalier looks just like a Ferrari.  Or a Hamburg the same as a high quality steak.

 Most of these tables look nothing like the real tables in person. Nothing.

[MameMaster!]

The table is a done deal.  They have 11 days to go and have raised over $65K.

Pretty cool. 

[MTPPC]

It's one of my least favorite of the "must have" games on my mini pinball cabinet. There seems to be at least 2 places the ball gets stuck on my version anyway. I was just wondering, why are you guys helping to finance a commercial venture when HUO versions are readily available? I'm just curious.

[MameMaster!]

Despite Jim's wonderful reply....my reason is that I'll get the table now for my iPad/iPhone for $10 bucks. They're planning on selling it for $10, and w/o the kickstarter it would never have come at all.

Personally, I'm lucky to have this table already on my full size virtual pinball machine, but having a beautifully professionally recreated verison of a table I'm not likely to ever own is worth it for $9.99. 

So I guess we can re-phrase it to say- "SOME JIMS ARE IDIOTS".