PC version of The Pinball Arcade is being released via Steam on November 1st. You might recall Williams released both a T2 pinball machine & dedicated arcade fixed X/Y gun cab simulateneously when the T2 film debuted on the July 4th, 1991 opening weekend. I wouldn't be surprised if Stern gets the approval from Disney/Lucasfilm to make a Star Wars Episode VII pinball machine for the 2015 timeline to coincide with the movie debut. I'd imagine if one of the SW-Pinball tables was reproduced as a real one-off pinball machine, a Color DMD layout would be ace rather than using a monochromatic dot-matrix setup. However, there's no option to swap the screen to your liking (which would be nice a nice option though). The playfield is shown on the upper screen while the scoring and dot matrix display is shown on the lower screen. The dot matrix visuals are impressive, especially when the cloud car speeds by in the Bespin City scene which is super silky-smooth. Hope that the 3DS port of SW-Pinball gets a much needed patch to fix those issues. Unfortunately, it crashes (and returns you to the 3DS 'Home' screen instead) if you enable wireless communication to gain access to the leaderboards and if you finish a gaming session with Wi-Fi turned on as well. It's saved on an SD/SDHC card for posterity. Zen Studios recently released the Star Wars Pinball compliation on the 3DS on the USA region Nintendo eShop site for a mere $5.99 USD (9/19/13). YouTube | Twitch | Website | STG 1CC List I may do one for 9.7 as well once I familiarize myself with it. I rocked Necronomicon, but I was destroyed in Last Gladiators (the Gladiator table notwithstanding, I killed it there!). Still a great game (all things considered), but with some of the poor shot placements and some of the wonky physics, it's tough to go back to after getting sucked into Necronomicon.įor anyone curious, I did let's plays of both of these games when I was practicing them a ways back. Unfortunately though, the that's about the only area Last Gladiators does things better. Whereas Necronomicon uses the same bland shot arrows between each table, in Last Gladiators there is very specific art used for your shot arrows, which lends each table to stand out a little bit better. Obviously for one, it has more tables, but two, the playfields are more detailed in a certain regard. Interestingly, playing both heavily back to back, I see now why I initially preferred Last Gladiators. The shot placement is excellent (and actually makes sense), the flow of each table is much smoother than in Last Gladiators, and the game as a whole is just a lot more controllable (in a flow sense) than before, making for a much more enjoyable experience. In playing both relatively seriously for a good amount of time, I can rightfully say that Necronomicon is the superior of the two. While in the past I thought Necronomicon was the worse of the two (I know, I must have been smoking crack or something), I now realize it's the exact opposite. On that note, I actually revisited both Last Gladiators and Necronomicon pretty heavily a couple of months back. I'm really curious to experience the differences first-hand. Hopefully it should arrive here sometime next week. Zaccaria Pinball is a really cool ios app that digitizes tables that many of us have never seen let alone played, especially those of us in the States.Well, I finally did it! I found a copy of Last Gladiators 9.7 for a reasonable price. If anyone has really good photos of these two pins or knows anyone who does, you can post on, send them a PM on Facebook or just respond to this post and I'll direct them to it. Pinside does list a few owners of Spooky but no one as an owner of Mystic Star. I have given them some advice on getting in contact with possible owners but, since I don't think the developer is a Pinside member, I decided to post this here as well. They've requested if anyone has high resolution photos of these two games, to please get in contact with them. Homework, the developer of Zaccaria Pinball for ios, has posted on that they need help with digitally recreating two very rare Zac tables, Spooky and Mystic Star.
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