Remember when pinball used to be popular?
Remember pinball, period?
I do. So does my dad. But now isn't made and distributed anymore, and that's makes us sad pinball wizards. Dad's played pinball since like forever, and I relished in the pinball boom of the 1990's. It was great.
Some of them were better than others, but most of the pinball greats of the 90's, as in the ones I played, were licensed games; T2: Judgment Day, The Addams Family, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Judge Dredd, The Twilight Zone, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Star Trek: Next Generation. All these great pinball games, and now they're gone, or in disrepair. It really does sadden me.
The 'newest' pinball game I've seen in Star Wars: the Phantom Menace. Came out in 1999. It was fun. But I haven't seen a new pinball game since. No more of these licensed pinball games anymore. Think of all the licenses that came out this decade that could've had pinball games. There could be a Pirates of the Caribbean pinball game, complete with new Jack Sparrow-isms. There could be a Lord of the Rings pinball game, where winning the battle at Helm's Deep with just your flippers and silver ball nets you a jackpot. There could be a Fullmetal Alchemist pinball game, where 'transmuting' a multiball would fall within equivalent exchange. The possibilities are endless.
And now pinball is dead. I weep for the pinball-less.
