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Offline Caveoftreasures

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« Reply #615 on: August 16, 2012, 10:28:46 PM »
2.5 million spent.  It will take him 3 or 4 titles (perhaps more) to recoup his investment, but start up of something completely new was always going to be expensive.

Wonder how much capital Gary Stern has tied up in plant/machinery/parts/real estate/intellectual property rights/patents/licencing with the STERN Factory.  Probably a good 20 to 50 million, perhaps alot more ?  Its gotta be a BIG figure.  Something tells me JJP wont get much change out of 10 million minimum by the time he has been going for 2 or 3 years.

Be good to be able to look 5 yrs ahead and see what the deal is !  !@#
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Re: Wizard Of OZ Pinball
« Reply #616 on: August 18, 2012, 12:58:33 PM »
Link to You tube clip 


August 17, 2012
 
Greetings Pinball Fans,
 
 This week we are happy to show the beginning of game play where you can see our proprietary RGB-LED General Illumination Lights. This is Patent-Pending and a first on a pinball machine or any type of commercial amusement game.
 
You can get a small taste of the HD LCD Monitor and how it will keep score. This game is loaded with "firsts" and we still have a few surprises and reveals left! Enjoy!
 Check out Jack's Interview on "Down and Dirty" with Frank Fontana that aired live on Wednesday! - 
t=48m49s
 
           JJP is proud to welcome Eric Meunier to the team! Eric has been a part of the industry since he was a young boy, helping his father, Norb who started King Pin Games in North Freedom, WI (Now one of our authorized distributors). As he got older and started to understand electronics and mechanics, Eric helped repair games and worked full time every summer and weekend from the age of 12 on.
           After high school, Eric attended the University of Wisconsin Madison for Electrical Engineering, where he also played Trumpet in the UW Marching Band. Eric graduated with his undergraduate degree, and is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering, focusing on Robotics. He and his wife Ashley were recently married.
           Eric says, "I'm excited to start a career in the industry my parents gave me a love for at such an early age.  I'm very happy to be working for JJP, and getting a chance to be on the cutting edge of pinball development."
          "Eric has a love for the industry and we are thrilled to help build the next generation of talented people who will design games" stated Jack.

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Re: Wizard Of OZ Pinball
« Reply #617 on: August 18, 2012, 02:08:39 PM »

Thanks for the update. It's going to be really interesting to see this game in full, the test software is giving us glimpses, I really think the software might be very special when done given the effort that seems to be going into other parts of this game.
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« Reply #618 on: August 18, 2012, 05:30:16 PM »
That footage was better than what was shown at E3

I would have preferd though to see actual game play

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« Reply #619 on: August 18, 2012, 06:43:35 PM »
Jack will have his first one on location at iplay america NJ in the next few days .Its up the road from his place .
Then will surly see way more reviews .
Nice going Jack  ^^^

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Re: Wizard Of OZ Pinball
« Reply #620 on: August 18, 2012, 07:00:07 PM »

Simply outstanding. I love the color changing LEDs. Thanks for keeping us "up to date" with the progress, Ant, Really appreciated  ^^^
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Re: Wizard Of OZ Pinball
« Reply #621 on: August 22, 2012, 06:47:47 PM »
7 SPEAKERS!!!!
.... I was not expecting that :lol  #*# #*#
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« Reply #622 on: August 22, 2012, 09:22:09 PM »
7 physical drivers, but not 7 channels. That number includes 2 mid-range and 1-tweeter in each of the stereo channels (plus a bass/sub in the cabinet).

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Re: Wizard Of OZ Pinball
« Reply #623 on: August 24, 2012, 09:41:31 PM »
still extremely painfull... the waiting and the wondering...

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Re: Wizard Of OZ Pinball
« Reply #624 on: September 09, 2012, 07:47:50 PM »
There is video posted on Facebook of the game in action
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=415350061861481

While it does look good, it seems there is a long way to go with the programing
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« Reply #625 on: September 09, 2012, 09:50:24 PM »
yep....seems like still a lot of work to do............we might be waiting a while yet......

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« Reply #626 on: September 10, 2012, 12:55:15 PM »
THE NEGATIVES FROM THE VIDEO.
1.  The first thing required was someone who could actually play well, instead of a novice with lousy flipper skills. Sorry, but if u want to show off a game, get someone who can play well cause it presents so much better.
2.  Then, I hate to say it, but the large LED screen is very boring during gameplay. It shows what letters u have hit etc so u know where u are at spelling RAINBOW or HAUNTED etc but nothing moves much at all. There is no action like a STERN dot matrix display gives. Even Revenge from Mars or Star Wars Episode 1 were alot more exciting during gameplay etc.  It is early days, but the screen has more action sitting in attract mode before someone hits the start button. Perhaps this will change, or I hope it does.
3.  I didnt like the red flipper shoe-batts. Plain ugly I have decided. Thats the first mod i would make, and pick something that fits in and store the originals in the game etc.

THE POSITIVES.
1.  The LED lights look Terriffic. The audio is interesting ? But would have to hear alot more before making a real call on that.
2. Gameplay is very varied with alot of different shots with lots of cool ball returns with ramps, wireforms, pop ups via coil mechs etc, spinning house playfield, sliding monkey etc. The game doesnt look fast, but it looks like a game that you have to follow missions on and work away to achieve the bonuses and work through getting all the missions/top points etc. Its like the widebody games like TZ or Batman Forever, Royal Rumble etc, but doesnt look as fast as say Star Trek Next Generation. The ball returns are a little slow from the video, but that may change with a much better player.

The machine looks good, not great, but good. The final production model is still a little time away so lets see how she comes out etc.
Perhaps software/code updates after machines hit peoples houses/businesses will help with some changes after alot of feedback is recieved.

Bring it on. Cant wait to see the finished product.
P.S -What did other people think of the video (except for watching it sideways which also was crappy.lol) ??  !@# !@#


 
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Re: Wizard Of OZ Pinball
« Reply #627 on: September 10, 2012, 01:50:10 PM »
It looks very slow but as Brett said maybe that's the player lol , spinning house toy is cool but all you do is shoot around in circles maybe there's more coming and yeah LCD screen not alot happening there? anyway I think its a long way off completion so maybe there's stuff jack wont show yet?

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« Reply #628 on: September 10, 2012, 01:58:43 PM »
I just don’t get it.
As recently as last week it was announced the 1st shipment dates , confirmed into Australia are to have an arrival date of December 15 – that’s 12 weeks away including testing, packing and shipping times at both ends ,yet here we are discussing the possibilities of ‘a long way to go with programming’ etc etc …….none of this makes sense.

Call me the nay-sayer – I don’t care – but I have said all along this game wouldn’t be what everyone expected ( and maybe expectations were set high  !@# )

Now other people are agreeing with the ‘lousy’ music, the god-damn awful ‘slippers and now also seeing that the ( much highly anticipated and HYPED UP  ) LCD screen really wont do ‘that much’, add to that the ( overly discussed ) average and female oriented theme , the awful Toto multiball animation and the fact the game now looks “good but not great” ….and it also looks slow………well I don’t feel Gary Stern has all that much to worry about to be honest.

The common positive thing people are discussing appears to be the lighting – in the overall scheme of things I say to that - WOW.
For those that are keen on this and that have outlayed the cash - I hope it proves to be a LOT better that a green game with pretty lights!
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« Reply #629 on: September 10, 2012, 02:52:20 PM »
Wotto, this is not meant to be a demonstration of a finished product, but a show of where they are up too

I would expect the video parts to be finished last