Farsight should have gotten their shit together before starting another Kickstarter. It's sad when Pinball Arcade Fans has more information then their official site. I read somewhere they had to do this now to get the license before the release of the new movies their planning, but when you don't give people what they paid for with the past two it's hard to give them more money on the hopes they'll get it done. Most people I've seen are low balling one dollar donations. I doubt it'll get the money they need.
Nice call on Ripley's, Spike. For me it's a really underrated game. I like it a lot once I figured out what to do. Getting into it now is going to be a slog. As you said, people keep hording games and the ones that are out there fetch a pretty penny. Even games that shouldn't go for much are somehow getting insane prices. At the Allentown Pinfest somebody got 2,200 for a Back to The Future machine. Why!? It's a one shot game! Granted the machine was very nice, but still that was way too much.
Sorry for the long photo. Jon got it delivered by Jack not even two weeks ago and he installed the newest code. Even with the newest code the game doesn't have a high score table! Why? We figured 300,000 is a high score since it scores low. I'm not sure if it's the way the owner Jon has the game set but it's set for 30,000 gets an extra ball, no replay score. He's also got the match set extra high so I didn't see one match the whole time I was there. (Considering how much the game cost I can see why he doesn't have it giving out free games)
I watched him set the machine up when I got there. The test screen for the game is awesome. You can adjust everything in the game. Some people were bugged about the "Winky Guard" drop target hitting too hard so you can tone it down as well as adjusting the shaker motor. Jon set up up to high and it has a good shake to it. Not as much as Red & Ted where it would hurt your hands but a deep enough rumble that you can feel it two games away.
I wasn't able to get the Rescue Multiball but I found out that even now you can stack multiball modes. If you spell out BALL on the left side of the table and hit the spinner you'll get an award. Two of them are a two ball double scoring round called Lights Out or Lights On. I had both balls in play and ended up getting the main multiball for getting the rollovers THEN I got a double scoring reward from the right mini playfield so I was able to stack all of them for a ton of extra points.
The biggest problem is the game doesn't explain to you what everything does. I noticed a lot of horse lights and there's something called "A Horse of A Different Color" that you get for hitting certain shots. Every time you hit a shot the color of the horse will change (like in the movie) but nothing tells you the value of the shots. I also saw one of the horses turn into a cow so I had no idea how it turned into a cow or how much it was worth.
Hopefully they'll iron out the rules so everything it's explained better and they'll get a high score wall going. Other then that the game feels solid like an old Williams machine and I hope it does well for them.
