Gottlieb virtual pinball machine - $400 at walmart, coming out early December

[k7]

this is pretty bad azz. i'll be grabbing one when they hit clearance.

[Marshall]

Chris now you can get your Goin’ Nuts!

Plus it has Centigrade 37, TX Sector, El Dorado and Class of 1812. Thanks for the heads up. I’m in for one for some holiday fun and to see how it all fits in that box.

Nice how they don’t show the adults and the micro-machine in the same shot when they have hands on it. 

Get ready Dudes for the inevitable customer wanting to trade toward a real pinball machine. Last year we were offered plenty of Arcade 1Ups in January.

[hawknole]

More reliable than a System 80!

[NormaJ]

Oh
My
God
Yes!

Forget clearance. The minute they put this on the floor I'll play test it and probably "back da truck up"!

[Weeze]

Where do you suppose they will be at inside your local WallyWorld? Toys maybe ?  Id like to eye ball one of these. I got a feeling , er, I guess if you cant say anything nice as the saying goes. Still want to see one in the flesh though.

[toastbot]

Where do you suppose they will be at inside your local WallyWorld?

Next to the Arcade 1Ups in the electronics section would be my guess.

[number six]

The best virtual pin I ever played was actually in a Zazzle/Zizzle/Whatever

For some reason it just seems to work better on a smaller footprint machine. I think staring at a 40in LCD in a full sized one is just too much.

This might be OK.

Wonder how hard it would be to hack it to be a full on pinmame? Probably not very hard.

[number six]

Where do you suppose they will be at inside your local WallyWorld? Toys maybe ?  Id like to eye ball one of these. I got a feeling , er, I guess if you cant say anything nice as the saying goes. Still want to see one in the flesh though.

Next to the large lady with the 5 unruly half-dressed dirty kids and the rare down-trodden Wal-Mart employee walking by a pile of trash in the aisle and not doing anything about it.

[hawknole]

Wonder how hard it would be to hack it to be a full on pinmame? Probably not very hard.

I had the same thought on hacking it 

[k7]

they say it ships with 12 games, sounding like it has upgrade potential. or maybe like the retro NES, we can put every pinball on earth onto it with a little hacking.

better price point than a 1up...

all of the florida dealers are going to get dozens of phone calls on December 2nd.

"hey. so...what can i get for a working haunted house pinball machine?"

"ok, how about black hole? goin' nuts? centrigrade 37? tx sector? ooooooo. 14 grand for the lot. ok....send a miata. no, not a truck. this fits in my miata's trunk"

[Weeze]

wierd. Does this mean Steve will be carrying parts? Does he have a piece of this business? Thing makes me think of all kinds of questions. Looks like something my nephews would break in about 60 secs flat! That is if kids would play it. Would kids think its bogus cause there is no real ball and such? 400 bucks? who are the guys that built it? are they the same ones that make the little table top pacman games with the little tiny joy ticks? Seen those never played them, are they what you mean by one ups?
 see? all the questions this iem has caused?

[k7]

wierd. Does this mean Steve will be carrying parts? Does he have a piece of this business? Thing makes me think of all kinds of questions. Looks like something my nephews would break in about 60 secs flat! That is if kids would play it. Would kids think its bogus cause there is no real ball and such? 400 bucks? who are the guys that built it? are they the same ones that make the little table top pacman games with the little tiny joy ticks? Seen those never played them, are they what you mean by one ups?
 see? all the questions this iem has caused?

yes to all.

i hope it doesn't come with a gottlieb manual, or primball resource is going to go madddddddddddddddddddd.

[Weeze]

wait a sec here, you saying all you tube testers out there in pinball land actually MIGHT be able to load a bunch of games into this things little ass puter? If thats true and its built well, which it definately looks kinda cheap from the fotos I found, it may actually be something that wouldnt be bad to have around. I mean you can play all these games even if they are not real.   

[number six]

Few downsides

The flipper buttons are going to be lower than 30in, that's pretty low.

Backglass is static with alpha numeric displays. This would limit hacking in DMD+ era games unless some software shennanigans is possible or you mounted a LCD in the back.

[k7]

the 1up mods out there are at the metric ton level. this will bring out a new world of mods. throw out the 95% stupid ones, and there will be a nice niche of cool mods for this thing.

at closeout pricing in april, these will rock with even just the stock 12 games at release...