Ar Harrrr, Pirates O' Caribbean Pinball Ahoy!
Yo ho ho! All manner of piratical jibber jabber! Over at RetroBlast!, they have the news that Stern is launching a new Pirates Of The Caribbean pinball machine, continuing a run of neat-looking pins from the sole mass-market manufacturer left in the pinball construction biz.
It's revealed: "The goal of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean pinball is to go on a pirate adventure to defeat Davy Jones, Jack’s nemesis in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean/Dead Man’s Chest.... Two former Williams’ developers designed Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean, game designer Dennis Nordman and rules designer/software engineer Dwight Sullivan." Oo, Dennis Nordman - White Water still rocks.
And just listen to the features: "A mechanical pirate ship that the player strikes with the pinball. With each hit, the ship lowers its sails and eventually sinks into the playfield, thus revealing a shot into the Kraken’s mouth... A mechanical treasures chest, the Dead Man’s Chest, through which the player can shoot the ball... A map compass comprised of playfield inserts that shows the player each feature they need to finish." The excellent Pinball News has lots of close-up pictures of the machine too, for those interesting in ogling some more.
Comments
mmm i've missed new pinball machines... its been awhile but I could ROCK Adams Family and Twilight Zone
Posted by: abelincolnjr | July 19, 2006 1:41 PM
It may not be Lawlor or Ritchie designing this one, but yeah, this could rock. I think the theme is well-suited to pinball at least, there's enough in the movies to provide a lot of modes and objectives, while the license is fairly popular and likely to remain so after the movies leave theaters.
Lack of a good license is why it's easy to overlook pins like, say, The Shadow, Demolition Man or the Flintstones movie, these days, they may have been okay games, but while pinball machines (unlike video games) are be able to remain playable for years down the road, it's easy to peg many of Bally/Williams' products of that time as disposable because of the short life of their licenses.
Posted by: John H. | July 21, 2006 11:35 AM