Author Topic: SHOULD PINBALL 2000 ever be redone again ?  (Read 936 times)

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Re: SHOULD PINBALL 2000 ever be redone again ?
« Reply #30 on: July 31, 2010, 12:41:30 AM »
Here is an article on Wizard Blocks:
http://www.pingamejournal.com/articles/makehtma.php?file=article3.txt

Pat explains Wizard blocks was a long way from completion, in his opinion Pin2k will never be done again:

"The amount of manpower it takes to do it is so astronomical. Here's an example: I now have a normal game team ... an old-time game team ... which means to me that I have a mechanical engineer, a couple of software people, an artist, a sound and music guy, and a dot matrix artist. That's a core game team that works full time from between nine and twelve months to produce a pinball machine. You take all their salaries and you come up with some number and say this is what it costs me to develop that game.


A Pin 2000 project immediately doubles that number of people. It becomes a combination video game and pinball machine. It's like taking a Midway game team and coupling it with a pinball game team. You have an immediate increase in overhead and an immediate increase in the technological level it takes you to pull it off. There are people who bandy about this idea that you could somehow just buy the patents and build Pinball 2000. The amount of technical expertise is huge."


On a side note it is very interesting those rotating lights were designed to be in TZ, but were costed out.  They look awesome, wish I could get my hands on some, that is one mod I would consider  *%*