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<blockquote data-quote="Matt McIrvin" data-source="post: 27976" data-attributes="member: 590"><p>I haven't seen this documentary yet, but I did just get the chance to play a Revenge from Mars in mostly-playable shape, hidden away at Canobie Lake (it wasn't at the main arcade, but at the skee-ball arcade by the chicken-finger stand in the Old Canobie section).</p><p></p><p>It struck me as not a bad game, but the Pinball 2000 gimmick wasn't really adding that much to the playing experience. It made the playfield seem cramped by making the entire rear section of it hard to see, and the video images effectively made everything back there seem like the same "shoot a bunch of targets" task. All in all, an interesting attempt, but probably not the idea that was going to save pinball.</p><p></p><p>Making the backglass an LCD like the Oz table does, on the other hand, just seems like the next logical step beyond the DMD: not revolutionary, but the way things obviously would have gone had the industry not collapsed.</p><p></p><p>That prototype with the screen in the playfield seems limited by the shape of the LCD. To do anything much cooler than this, we'll probably need to have affordable video surfaces that can be cut and drilled like a piece of wood.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Matt McIrvin, post: 27976, member: 590"] I haven't seen this documentary yet, but I did just get the chance to play a Revenge from Mars in mostly-playable shape, hidden away at Canobie Lake (it wasn't at the main arcade, but at the skee-ball arcade by the chicken-finger stand in the Old Canobie section). It struck me as not a bad game, but the Pinball 2000 gimmick wasn't really adding that much to the playing experience. It made the playfield seem cramped by making the entire rear section of it hard to see, and the video images effectively made everything back there seem like the same "shoot a bunch of targets" task. All in all, an interesting attempt, but probably not the idea that was going to save pinball. Making the backglass an LCD like the Oz table does, on the other hand, just seems like the next logical step beyond the DMD: not revolutionary, but the way things obviously would have gone had the industry not collapsed. That prototype with the screen in the playfield seems limited by the shape of the LCD. To do anything much cooler than this, we'll probably need to have affordable video surfaces that can be cut and drilled like a piece of wood. [/QUOTE]
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