Author Topic: Wizard Of OZ Pinball  (Read 70663 times)

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Offline Retropin

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Re: Wizard Of OZ Pinball
« Reply #525 on: June 11, 2012, 09:06:12 AM »
It's still just a Pinball...I fail to see how a LCD screen and some colour changing lights is game changing and this game even although visually stunning is no exception..Looks like it could be a stop and go spectacular as well but I could be wrong.
Neither company is changing the game for mine and I don't really care if it changes or not,...it is still just pinball and as long as there are fast pins with flow and cool themes that is all i care about.
This is not a cool theme at a all. ::)

Well or course its just pinball.. it was just pinball when they added electricity... just pinball when added the bumper.. just pinball when added the flipper... just pinball when flippers went at the bottom of the PF.. just pinball when you could play 2 players, just pinball when score reels were introduced...etc etc etc.... Its ALL part of the progress of this great game PINBALL and new innovations come in small steps which LEAD to larger ones.
The notion to make ALL lamps RGB is innovation.. no doubt this will go down as the first pinball to have complete colour changing GI and controlled lamps... how cool is the GREEN Condition on Space Station??? Its awesome! There were 2 GI power runs to achieve this and a switch over from one lamp circuit to another.. old and convaluted way to do it now, but the effect is awesome.
GONE is the now so boring DMD with its clumsy pixel arrangement... in comes LCD... its ALL innovation and the move forward in pinball.
I will lay money on both of these features now being a part of ALL pinballs made in the future... THATS why its innovation.

The step from EM to DMD wasnt done overnight... its a steady creep from one technology to another and this WOZ is a steady creep in the right direction.
STERN gets a kick in the arse and serve them right for sticking to the same old same old recipe... before ACDC there are quite a few discussions on how stale the Stern agenda is.. but you have to remember that right from the start they were industry followers not leaders.

Watch pinball progress and become more popular in the next 5 years.. and you can lay all credit to Jack...1 for making  a few moves forward utilising current technology ( successful idea for over 80 years) and 2 for making Stern lift their game.
Competition and innovation.. its what kept this industry alive for so long