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<blockquote data-quote="CC13" data-source="post: 38603" data-attributes="member: 1151"><p>Yes, but those licenses were never owned by the Big Six pinball manufacturers. Basically, it breaks down like this: Bally bought Midway in the late 1960s, Data East made a number of video games through the '80s and '90s before going bankrupt in 2003 (with BurgerTime as the headliner), Gottlieb was a one-hit wonder (the hit in question being Q*Bert), Sega still develop video games to this day (though they recently dismissed much of their staff), Stern was another one-hit wonder (Berzerk this time) and Williams had an internal video game division that produced such classics as Defender, Robotron: 2084 and Sinistar, then got revived in the late '80s after they bought Midway and Bally's pinball division and made NARC & Smash TV. Also, for the record, the video game I most badly want to see made into a pin would probably be Donkey Kong Country.</p><p></p><p>P.S. There actually is a video game series called Modern Combat—it's a Modern Warfare knockoff developed by a mobile-centric French developer called Gameloft.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CC13, post: 38603, member: 1151"] Yes, but those licenses were never owned by the Big Six pinball manufacturers. Basically, it breaks down like this: Bally bought Midway in the late 1960s, Data East made a number of video games through the '80s and '90s before going bankrupt in 2003 (with BurgerTime as the headliner), Gottlieb was a one-hit wonder (the hit in question being Q*Bert), Sega still develop video games to this day (though they recently dismissed much of their staff), Stern was another one-hit wonder (Berzerk this time) and Williams had an internal video game division that produced such classics as Defender, Robotron: 2084 and Sinistar, then got revived in the late '80s after they bought Midway and Bally's pinball division and made NARC & Smash TV. Also, for the record, the video game I most badly want to see made into a pin would probably be Donkey Kong Country. P.S. There actually is a video game series called Modern Combat—it's a Modern Warfare knockoff developed by a mobile-centric French developer called Gameloft. [/QUOTE]
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