Reminds me of when they eagerly pushed people to buy a downgraded Wii for more money. When they region locked everything for no reason. When they threatened Animal Crossing modders. When the sued creatives who made fan content and game remasters. This is Nintendo now ->🟥<- nothing more.

Maybe one day when it's a lower price, they come out with a special edition that doesn't look like a tabletop roomba. When they find their soul again and actually care about the inspiring creativity that used to be the heart of their company. Probably won't happen.

And I don't miss the irony here that a bunch of "female feminists" are wearing masculine clothes, with masculine haircuts, and acting like men celebrating the definition via oppression by the government while ignoring the fact their own choice of autonomy is going to soon be chastised.

Who has so much time and worthlessness that they use their wealth to hurt the very people who made them popular? I wouldn't be surprised to find out she actually stole the whole book & wrote in the racist parts. How do you have nothing better to do than ruin other lives?

That would be amazing but I wonder if license restrictions would keep them from being able to do much. Maybe with IC they could but the machines themselves might not be able to have anything showing the other. I'm sure they could do something with Insider.

Jersey Jack is soon releasing a pinball machine based on Harry Potter which I will just be referring to as Hateful Pissfuck. Any venue that puts in an HP machine now, is sending a message & I won't be going near your venue. She hates women and especially trans women. Fuck anything HP & fuck her.

I also really miss crossovers in games. Maybe that's not a thing they can do with IPs anymore but boy would it blow my mind if they did some easter eggs of Godzilla in this.

People just blindly use this shit and you all wonder why your apps are broken. Why simple functionality is buggy. Why a simple tool does weird things.

It's because modern devs don't think, they vibe code.
I've seen this in practice and it sucks.

They spend more time fixing AI code than making code

On top of that AI will cast variables even if the version you're using cannot cast and even if casting actually throws an error. That's because AI doesn't know things, it just does things. It can't learn from testing unless you tell it how to learn. It can reinforce bad programming.

Speaking of what are the chances Stern uses this as an excuse to raise prices? I expect it.
They do employ a lot of people though so who knows.
They made a big show of not doing it but let's be real a lot of pinball parts are made in China, Europe, and Canada.

Can Stern "absorb"? Not likely.

I need my Pinky fix! I've been waiting for this to release. I played the demo and had so much dumb fun.

To top this all off most of the new machines were breaking down. CGC's machines had numerous problems with sensors and switches failing. Flippers weakened quickly in gameplay. Sterns felt overpowered and lots of flying balls on the new machines. JJP & Spooky seemed to have the best eod condition.

Honorable mentions
The John Wick topper is nice looking but ffs it's not worth the price.
The Venom topper... it's a thing I guess. Still looks cheap.
X-Men, has not improved and still feels flat and unfinished

P3 only brought 2 machines, only 1 was Portal.
To a retro game convention. Fail hard.

Metallica Remastered - Stern - 6.6
Keep your original you ain't gonna miss a thing. Aerosmith joke. I make it known I hate Metallica (the band) for many reasons but this game doesn't really improve on the original in a way I enjoyed. Like many I prefer the original, but it's not my jam.

Cactus Canyon with Sheats ed - CGC - 9.0
The Sheats mod does step up this machine but I'm outraged this wasn't core to the game ($1200?!). It feels like it belonged on it to begin with. It adds some gameplay changes and I enjoyed it more but CC still feels a little drab in audio presentation.

Dungeons & Dragons: Tyrant's Eye - Stern - 6.2
I'm starting to think I just don't like Stern machines. This fell flat for me and I love D&D. I thought I'd love this machine but I was so bored and shots were obviously set up to force you to use the shield.
I hate center buttons.
I hate them so much.

Evil Dead - Spooky - 9.8
One of the best experiences I've had with pinball. This is on par with the experience of Labyrinth but not nearly as hard and a lot more fun. The callouts are awesome, shots feel great, the lower playfield is minimal and fun, the game is awesome. The cabin had some problems.

Medieval Madness Merlin edition - CGC - 7.9
This re-re-release looks really gorgeous. The gold trim inside, the playfield art is more vivid, the topper is nice, and the cabinet trim is superb. Sensors weren't working, the castle was already breaking down, the flippers were weird.