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New stern pinball MPU system
jennifer:
I kinda like it as an idea.... As a crossover its bound to have some issues for a few years, but ultimately (in theory) the whole machine could be run on one or two MPU"s.
Fursphere:
--- Quote from: pbj on January 09, 2015, 12:24:33 pm ---I really doubt they're starting from square one on anything. Every single one of their games has been identical since around the time Sopranos came out - ramp, toy, ramp.
Either they're bleeding money or they're pushing these things out for $500, IMO.
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Nevermind the fact that Stern X-Men is a shot-for-shot, ramp-for-ramp copy of Gottlieb's Stargate. They did a really good job on the artwork on rules, but then they took a huge steaming turd on it with the horrible cheap looking toys.
In my opinion, it seems like every other Stern release seems to be pretty good, with an absolute stinker in between the good ones. :dunno
Ken Layton:
I have yet to see decent sized pictures of any of the new game hardware boardsets. I have heard that everything on them is surface mount. That's going to make board repair on location impossible. To "repair" the machine, you'd be limited to "board swapping". So unless you just happen to have purchased complete spare boards, you could have a machine down fo several days or weeks.
nickbuol:
And here I thought that *I* was the only one that didn't care for Stern's games. It always seemed to me that they spent more time in rights licensing than on game design. Everything that they have cranked out for a while (maybe like pbj mentions, as far back as Sopranos) have so "blah" for gameplay. You could probably take someone who has never played pinball before, remove all of the company branding from the games, and they could tell you which ones came from Stern (sure, they wouldn't know the company name, but they would be able to easily group them together).
Nephasth:
I don't know... I sure love my Luci. But I can't say the same for any of Stern's other titles. I've often described Stern machines as "plastic-y".
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