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Ian:
Well, Spooky is small. I mean a very very small manufacturer. They started this up back in 2014 and Dominos was released in 2016. It was a contract manufacture. They didn't think "you know what? We should make a Dominos Pinball machine!" No Dominos came to them.

Spooky isn't a bad manufacturer, quality wise they are one of the best, this is just such a poor example because of the situation. Contract manufacturing can be a real crap shoot with pinball machines because random companies like Dominos probably don't have a clue how much it actually costs to manufacture pinball machines. And was probably shocked at the final price. And from there they had to start cutting things so that everyone was happy. Do you think that making only 140 machines and selling them at $4000 isn't going to be a complete ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- show?

I doubt you would see any of those things missing from a Total Nuclear Annihilation. I know for a fact that when Scott Denesi made the first version of the machine to shop it around to manufactures both Stern and Spooky wanted it. Scott had things in that machine that made no business sense but were cool like a total surround sound overkill stereo system in the game. Long story short Scott went with Spooky because Spooky didn't cheap out on any parts of the machine. In fact they even included that crazy speaker set up. That is one reason why TNA sounds so damn good next to any machine around it. If anything Stern the leading manufacturer of pinball machines (and it isn't even close) has been releasing games with less and less mechs, and toys. This helps them maximize profits.

Stern just released the Beatles pin... this was a Contract manufacturing job from Kapow inc who make mostly Slot machines. They will release only 100 diamond edition pinball machines. The average price distributors are asking?? $25000!!! That is right! Crazy! And better yet, Stern took an older game called Seawitch and reskinned it and added a spinning disk and a magnet and released it. So there is a place for contract manufacturing. It all depends on who the contract is with!

Ian:

--- Quote from: Mike A on November 13, 2018, 01:11:52 pm ---They really have a lot of confidence in their product. ::)
Is that standard in the industry?

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That is what is in writing... however these companies bend over backwards if there is a defect or something keeps breaking. Charlie the owner of spooky is extremely nice and would do anything to help anyone out on a spooky pin.

And just for the record... Spooky only has released 3 purely in house spooky games, Americas Most Haunted, Rob Zombie, and Alice Coopers Nightmare Castle. Total Nuclear Annihilation was a partnership with Scott Denesi. The Jetsons and Dominos were contract manufacture.

The Pinball Company is an online retailer of pinball machines and they hired spooky to do the Jetsons last year. Only make 100 units. The goal was to keep the price below $5000 so they could be easily sold to families. However since Spooky and The Pinball Company didn't want to cut costs they had to make a basic game and the selling price for the Jetsons was $6000. So it looks like Spooky had learned it's lesson on Dominos and refused to release inferior products to save a buck.

pbj:
Seawitch is on that list of "probably shouldn't have sold it" machines.  Maybe they'll do something with that updated playfield besides The Beatles.

 :dunno

Ian:

--- Quote from: pbj on November 26, 2018, 05:24:07 pm ---Seawitch is on that list of "probably shouldn't have sold it" machines.  Maybe they'll do something with that updated playfield besides The Beatles.

 :dunno

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What games do you have?

Chicago Gaming company is releasing these remakes and driving the market down. No longer can you sell an Attack for Mars for $9000 when you can get a new remade one for $6000. Reskins and remakes are knocking prices down. I bet you could get some good money still for the Seawitch! It's hot now, as is Fathom.

Ken Layton:
You'd think Spooky would at least include a manual and schematics in the Dominos for us service techs to use. They should have included score/instruction/pricing cards too. How much could those have costed?

In fact, very little information about Dominos and the Jetsons are on Spooky's website. Since Dominos is my first experience with a Spooky product, I am very under-whelmed. First impressions do count and judging by Dominos, I would likely tell people to not buy Spooky products.

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