Real Tables Announced/Designed But Later Cancelled Before Release/Prototype

[WesReviews]

I've seen and heard about famous prototypes like KRULL, King Kong, etc.... but what about pins that may have been announced and only maybe completed the design phase before being cancelled for another title?

Are there any that were announced or rumored that never came to be?

 

[westofrome]

Endless ones in IPDB. Off the top of my head, Wizard Blocks and Playboy (in development as Pin 2000 when Williams stopped pinball), Brooks & Dunn (in dev by Gottleib when they closed).

 

[mystman12]

MAD from Data East was never finished. It was going to have a Rudy-like head on it. Here is the IPMDb page: http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=3440

 

[Dutch Pinball ball]

A couple of thousand.

 

[Bowflex]

Pinball Circus. Apparently Lyman Sheats wants to revisit the idea in a concept called "Flipper Circus"

 

[Kolchak357]

MAD from Data East was never finished. It was going to have a Rudy-like head on it. Here is the IPMDb page: http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=3440

This would have been great.

 

[Bowflex]

Who could forget the Crocodile Hunter. Probably the most publicized pinball table that didn't make it to production.

 

[mystman12]

It really is a shame Crocodile Hunter was never released. I mean, a new Bally game, and they could have released it in Steve Irwin's honor. IPMDb says there were huge licensing issues after his death though.

 

[dtown8532]

Data East's Total Recall

http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=4335

 

[Carl Spiby]

Deathball 2000

 

[Jeff Strong]

MAD from Data East was never finished. It was going to have a Rudy-like head on it. Here is the IPMDb page: http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=3440

Well, that's a bummer. The backglass alone looks incredible if you're into MAD.

 

[Naildriver74]

Been a MAD fan for years. If done right would have been great
Me Worry

 

[Jeff Strong]

Been a MAD fan for years. If done right would have been great
Me Worry

Same here, man. MAD magazine was my bible as a kid.

 

[gooche77]

Data East's Total Recall

http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=4335

Nice backglass! Seriously

 

[Espy]

Data East's Total Recall

http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=4335

Getting flashbacks from Pinballistik... don't take me back there!

Here is an oddity, not exactly a prototype, but a pinball table made specifically for being featured in a movie: Richie Rich. Was a reskin of Tommy.

http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=4344

 

[netizen]

Ice Castle

 

[Rudy Yagov]

A lesser-known one is Zingy Bingy, a Capcom game by Python Anghelo that (thankfully) never saw the light of day. It was a very explicit erotic themed game that offended a Japanese Capcom representative so much that he left without a word.

 

[Espy]

A lesser-known one is Zingy Bingy, a Capcom game by Python Anghelo that (thankfully) never saw the light of day. It was a very explicit erotic themed game that offended a Japanese Capcom representative so much that he left without a word.

Did someone mention that in the podcast? Rings a bell.

 

[Bowflex]

A lesser-known one is Zingy Bingy, a Capcom game by Python Anghelo that (thankfully) never saw the light of day. It was a very explicit erotic themed game that offended a Japanese Capcom representative so much that he left without a word.

Now I am intrigued!!!

 

[Espy]

Now I am intrigued!!!

To be honest if it was as bad as it sounds then no arcade would have housed it.