Arcade Collecting > Pinball
Limited Edition Run On New LOTR
shardian:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on July 09, 2009, 06:04:46 pm ---
Quality and Artistic integrity sells. Selling cheap crap will barely make
ends meet. Sure, there are a lot of 'Taste-Less' people out there... But,
there are many more who actually have an artistic taste... who can not
stomach the atrocities that Stern lets loose.
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Dude...you realize Wal-Mart is taking over the world right? I realize you don't live in the U.S., but c'mon! Get in the real world.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on July 10, 2009, 09:56:15 am ---Remaking classics has never been a success and it's been done several times (Fireball, Pin-Bot...)
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I don't know that I buy that and I've heard it several times. "Success" is relative to the market expectations at production and cost to produce. Sure, the followup Fireballs didn't sell as many as the original, but they were sold under different market conditions and with a dramatically lower production cost. If development cost is cut in half for a remake then raw sales numbers don't have to be nearly as high as the original game in order to be considered a success. Now, if people are talking creatively, that's a different animal. It always "Fireball Classic sold half what the original did thus it failed" that people base it on and I just don't see that as a point that holds up to scrutiny.
shardian:
Remaking classics and reproducing classics are 2 different entities. What is being discussed here is making exact replica's of the original machines.
Besides, doesn't Gene Cunningham own pretty much everything from William's pinball?
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shardian on July 10, 2009, 10:33:36 am ---Remaking classics and reproducing classics are 2 different entities. What is being discussed here is making exact replica's of the original machines.
Besides, doesn't Gene Cunningham own pretty much everything from William's pinball?
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I actually just recently listened to the topcast interview of him. It didn't sound like even he had a 100% picture of what he owns but it was clear that Williams sold the rights to everything piecemeal between him and Wayne in Australia. The split sounds such that neither one of them can reproduce most of the machines without licensing from the other. That also rules out any game with a licensed theme unless they pay for that too.
There was some talk recently that he sold a lot of that stuff to a different party in Australia but I didn't follow closely enough to know if it was just inventory or if he shipped off any rights with it.
Jeff AMN:
That sale report was pretty overblown by Wayne. One thing everybody should know and understand is that Wayne is a thief, a liar, and a HUGE hypocrite. He fights to get eBay auctions shut down when people are selling custom parts for WMS/Bally games, but then he goes ahead and sells multigames with 48-1 boards in them. He's a jerk and totally unprofessional. Over the past few days he's been spreading rumors that Stern is going down real soon and that they haven't produced anything for a while and that they don't have anything in the pipeline. What a lying jerk.
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