Cartoon Pinballs ?? - your opinion.
I read something that Gary Stern said in a recent article, and I didnt agree with it. First lets have a look at what he said in a interview >
He said, "Our product - pinball machines - is an adult game. Many are in bars. History has shown that children's titles do not do well in most cases – Bugs Bunny, Popeye, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, even Rocky and Bullwinkle; that used to be an adult title but became a children’s title. Adult location owners (pubs and bars) didn’t want kiddie titles, especially in the United States.
So I did some homework, looked at some figures and came up with these numbers -
3750 x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Data East 1991 (3750 produced) and so on, at the start of each title
2500 x Bugs Bunny Birthday Bash - Bally 1990
4217 x Popeye - Williams - 1995
5500 x Rocky n Bullwinkle - Data East - 1993
5502 Simpsons - Data East - 1991
Family Guy, Simpsons Pinball Party, Shrek - all Stern titles - no numbers available*
These are the ONLY DMD Pinball Machine titles that I can find/think of that are TRUE cartoon titles where there was a actual cartoon of the same name in mainstream media available for adults or kids.
Can anyone else think of a DMD Pinball Machine other than those I have listed. It has to be a cartoon, not a movie.
Anyway, I was thinking the opposite to what Gary was saying. I thought the above numbers were decent pinball machine sale numbers, and I thought anything between 2500 (Bugs Bunny) and 5502 (Simpsons Data East) would be great numbers for Stern to produce or match.
It seems that Data East was the king of cartoon titles so to speak, having done the most cartoon titles.
Keeping strictly with cartoon titles, is there a NEW Cartoon title you would like to see produced, and would u buy it ?
It can be a mainstream title like Superman for arguments sake, or a out there cartoon title like Beetlejuice ?
On this occassion I am thinking Gary has it wrong, cause Cartoon titles have SOLD very well in the past, and funnily enough, Sterns BIGGEST title to date is Simpsons Pinball Party, which is the opposite what Gary was saying...........
Any cartoon titles u want to ever see get produced by either Stern or JJP, strictly cartoon.
