Learning of a neat-themed pinball game from the 50s and feeling annoyed that even if I ever find a place to play it it'll be sluggish and a little flaky.
We need a woodrail-era virtual pinball machine.
@Austin_Dern are reproduction pinball machines a thing?
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@Felthry There are a handful, in fact! There's a company that's been making new versions of some of the most popular (and most expensive) games of the 90s.
... The new editions are somehow much harder than the originals, but that might reflect the operators setting the games harder to appeal to the hardcore players who want a 'new' 1996 pinball machine.
@Austin_Dern I was thinking that ones from the 50s would probably be particularly simple to recreate, since there'd be a minimum of electronics involved
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@Felthry About a decade ago some madmen *did* take a 1957 pinball game and reconfigure it to make a 'new', loosely old-style, table. I believe most of the scoring mechanisms and all were replaced with computer scoring.
They did get Stern (the big pinball manufacturer) to produce the game, though, and it even got two new editions with new art and themes but the same gameplay.
@Felthry They might be, although I'm not sure how easy it would be to reproduce the game-scoring logic. All would be done with mechanical parts and pre-solid-state electronics, after all. (There's a follow-up to be had, though.)
Bigger problem would be demand; could you ever sell enough instances of the game to cover development and manufacturing costs?