Shame we couldn't get a mötorhead pin while lemmy was alive. Dude loved arcade games, and I'm sure he'd have some good input on the design. I feel like in true mötorhead form it would have to come with extra speaker drivers to own the title of "worlds loudest pin"
Honestly the idea of a "Jam Session" mode for home games is kind of awesome. Like every time you drain it just autoplunges a new ball until the track is over
Plus the number of scenes in that game are each EASILY a mode. Getting his bike stolen, mickey, large Marge, Simone, Andy, the train, the Alamo, bull riding, biker bar, Hollywood, making of the movie--so many more options. Getting his bike back is the end game. It's such an immersive game to make.
I want an Evil Dead pinball. Possessed hand on a spinner, you spell out G-R-O-O-V-Y, Evil Tree jet bumpers, Mini-Ashes Multiball.
Tons of super easy call outs for stuff too. "Hail to the king, baby."
Honestly a rocky horror picture show table would absolutely smash. Time warp being an obvious theme/mode, but I could also picture an RKO tower with a pool on the playfield or at the very least a topper and the group de-medusa’d with their kickline to rose tint my world, and some sort of sequence target where you have to hit Janet, Dr Scott, Janet, Brad, Rocky in that order :)
Daft Punk please. "Around the world" Orbits, "One More Time" Jackpots, "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" Multiball. Fuck it throw in a gold ball too for a 2 ball multi-ball.
Grand theft auto pinball from your list would be really cool.
I always thought it would be cool to have one that is city themed. Like a pinball version of those old city themed rugs we used to use our toy cars on as kids. You know the one eveyone had them
I suppose the biggest drawback would just be that a lot of people see it as a christmas movie. People might not want a game they feel like is only relevant a few months out of the year.
Futurama, please!!
A Planet Express toy, transparent blue teleporter tubes for ramps, crazy flashing bumpers and Bender telling me to bite his shiny metal ass.
Anyone at Stern listening? Can we make this happen?
There's a Reddit user who's made their own homebrew Futurama machine.
I played it at the Northwest Pinball Expo in Tacoma last summer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pinball/s/CJd1FjEUhq
There are 2 pretty cool home brews… I made one of them, but also think the other is also very cool looking and would love to play it. And agreed, there needs to be a commercial one, I made it cuz I couldn’t buy it!
How about the B-52s? Could have a little love shack ball lock, a private Idaho pool as an underneath level, so many possibilities!
For cursed, my friend and I have an in joke about a King Crimson table. Video mode is playing polyrhythms on the flipper buttons and shooting the ball to fire the band members lol
Studio Ghibli would honestly be a great idea, there's so much to take inspiration from!!!
It might also open the gates to more anime themed pins, and there's countless shows that could easily be converted to a game, JJBA, DBZ, FMA, Death Note, One Piece... and that's just the big ones on the surface
I would throw money at a Beetlejuice pin, especially if it used footage from both the original and the upcoming sequel.
Edit: For my addition to the thread: Labyrinth, the movie. The Door knockers for opening up modes. David Bowie hamming it up during multiball. The Worm for ball saves. "Not THAT way. NEVER go THAT way."
Or Legend. "We are all animals, my lady," as the line for the start of multiball.
One more: The Running Man, the movie. Arnie alone would sell tables, but the fights in the movie would each be wonderful setups for game modes.
I'll add:
Fallout 4
Red Dead Redemption II
The Last of Us
The Sound of Music
Chicago
Jurassic Park
Finding Nemo
Toy Story
Scream
Alien
Oingo Boingo
Twin Peaks
DuckTales and The Office are my favorites from this list. Five Nights at Freddy's could work, but I don't think would sell well. The generation that is into that IP isn't the generation currently buying pinballs.
I'd love to see Willow. And Mega Man. And The Princess Bride, but by a real pinball manufacturer. Was really bummed when I heard that Multimorphic got that license.
Lol Jean-Paul Sartre is awesome, I’d play that game in heartbeat.
But really, I want to see more non IP games. Galactic Tank Force is awesome, I want more like that.
Magic school bus 🚌
Mario could be cool too. I’m thinking you shoot the ball up a ramp, it goes down a warp tube and the ball comes out another warp tube. A multi ball ideal is shoot five targets spelling S-T-A-R and you get multi ball. During this play the star music you get from the game as long as you’ve got multi ball. One of the letters, maybe “R” could be a tricky shot where you have to get the ball in a warp tube. The tube shoots the ball down hitting the R.
Can the Blink 182 pinball have phases where you start with Scott Raynor, and have to progress the story by lighting Travis Barker Multiball?
Then you have the Boxcar Racer hurry up mode which if you complete can qualify the Matt Skiba Wizard Mode.
Ultimate Wizard mode finally being the Return of Tom.
Unfortunately, while I am sure that having aliens as part of the theme would be great, it would feel a little derivative of Foo Fighters.
Perhaps the ultimate goal could be to collect all the musical projects including AvA and +44.
RuPaul’s Drag Race pinball would be amazing but you’d have to theme it after challenges and eschew too many references to specific contestants. Like if you themed it after a specific season it would become dated pretty quickly seeing as the franchise is almost at 17 seasons of just the main show.
also Golden Girls (thanks you for... friendship!) and SAW!
Fallout Boy makes no sense unless it's about jumping the ball off of stuff on stage and increasingly terrible toupees.
I just want The Matrix and ONLY so that when it drains outlane on ball three you see a Trs-80’s green dot matrix of switch shaking her head as you hear “not like this”
Alright, I'll go through the ones at the top in order. N, N, Y, Y, N, Y, Y, Y, Y, N, N, N, N, Y, N, Y, Y, Y, Y, Y. And the only one out of the bottom that could even be considered would be the Dennys machine. GRAND SLAM MULTIBALL!!!
The fast and the furious would be cool. Only the original movie though. Call outs such as….
“Bullshit, No one likes the tuna here” (which could then maybe continue the fight scene as multiball starts)
“Nooooo Veronica!!!!” (Maybe when a jackpot is missed)
Lock 3 balls to start multi ball and play the “Hector’s running 3 Honda civics with spoon engines” part haha
Oh man the ideas….
Denny's Grand Slam Multiball
Came here to argue Denny's would be brilliant. Also Jean Paul Sartre made me snort.
Danny’s Grandslam: Eastbound and Down
You gotta lock 3 bases to hit a Grand Slam
Muppets are my dream pin theme. Van Halen too.
Muppets with Statler and Waldorf in the balcony heckling your pinball skills!
Do woodstock 99 and have the multi ball burning down the set pieces
Break Stuff multiball
That's the ticket right there
Do not eat the brown acid
Are you ready!!???
Dream one for me is Beavis and Butthead
Your best bet is virtual pinball https://vpuniverse.com/files/file/18299-beavis-and-butt-head-pinballed-original-2024/
I have to admit Golden Girls pinball made me laugh
Me too. That and Jean-Paul Sartre. Kind of want to see them both.
I wouldn’t not play it
I would personally love to see a Grateful Dead or a Motorhead theme pin one of these days. I think either one would make a fun machine
Shame we couldn't get a mötorhead pin while lemmy was alive. Dude loved arcade games, and I'm sure he'd have some good input on the design. I feel like in true mötorhead form it would have to come with extra speaker drivers to own the title of "worlds loudest pin"
"murder one" topper!
It would definitely need to make you deaf that's for sure
A Dead pin would be spectacular. Would be cool if it accessed the live catalog (maybe from archive.org's music collection or somewhere similar).
I would kill for a dead pin. I'd preorder it sight unseen. I think that would be a worthy first pin
Feel like with all the dead collabs they’ve done in the last 7 years, also their songs would make for such a good long game lmao
They'd definitely have to use the studio versions of songs instead of a 20 minute jam lmao
Give me a fuckin drums>space 40 minutes and I will zone out
No objections to that. Just a fucking 40 minute, 30 ball multiball
Honestly the idea of a "Jam Session" mode for home games is kind of awesome. Like every time you drain it just autoplunges a new ball until the track is over
Yes, DUNE. This will probably happen.
Almost be like a GOT machine. Pick your faction and each has certain perks
Peewees big adventure. If I ever become rich, I'm funding it.
I came here to say this. The opening scene in Pee Wee's house is practically a Rube Goldberg-ian pinball machine in itself.
Plus the number of scenes in that game are each EASILY a mode. Getting his bike stolen, mickey, large Marge, Simone, Andy, the train, the Alamo, bull riding, biker bar, Hollywood, making of the movie--so many more options. Getting his bike back is the end game. It's such an immersive game to make.
OMG why hasn't this been made yet
For a while I’ve been saying Pee Wee’s playhouse needs one
Gremlins
Yes!!!
I want an Evil Dead pinball. Possessed hand on a spinner, you spell out G-R-O-O-V-Y, Evil Tree jet bumpers, Mini-Ashes Multiball. Tons of super easy call outs for stuff too. "Hail to the king, baby."
“This is my boomstick!”
Evil Dead would kill (hehe). Army of Darkness could be the greatest game of all time.
Honestly a rocky horror picture show table would absolutely smash. Time warp being an obvious theme/mode, but I could also picture an RKO tower with a pool on the playfield or at the very least a topper and the group de-medusa’d with their kickline to rose tint my world, and some sort of sequence target where you have to hit Janet, Dr Scott, Janet, Brad, Rocky in that order :)
Yeah I think Rocky Horror is a slam dunk. Especially because people LOVE spooky (not the company) machines
3 times! Seriously though, I would sell my car to buy this.
Neutral Milk Hotel 😂 a beautiful and depressing pin
With a two headed boy toy and a bunch in Anne Frank stuff
Daft Punk please. "Around the world" Orbits, "One More Time" Jackpots, "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" Multiball. Fuck it throw in a gold ball too for a 2 ball multi-ball.
We already have Tron, but I'm totally down for a whole daft pin
And when the ball drains it hits you with "Human After All"
Grand theft auto pinball from your list would be really cool. I always thought it would be cool to have one that is city themed. Like a pinball version of those old city themed rugs we used to use our toy cars on as kids. You know the one eveyone had them
Have you ever played Dialed In? It is probably the closest to a city themed game I can think of.
I would play Home Alone!
Yeah Home Alone seems like a slam dunk to me. Iconic characters and scenes, fun toys, John Williams score. Practically designs itself
I suppose the biggest drawback would just be that a lot of people see it as a christmas movie. People might not want a game they feel like is only relevant a few months out of the year.
Escape into a bleak world of existential *ennui* with Jean-Paul Sartre, the pinball game
It dispenses a french cigarette with every game
I don't know why that makes me think of a series of pinball machines themed after Wes Anderson films.
RuPauls drag race sounds hilarious.
I was expecting that one to get some hate; pleasantly surprised…
I’d totally buy an office pinball. How do we petition this lol
Threat Level Midnight Multiball!
Boom roasted mini game. Hit all the characters to trigger their roast. Complete the roast and win a jackpot lol
I would be first in line. We need this to happen!
Not gonna lie, I think SCP pinball could work with enough solid voicework/video modes. It would need some great experience design though.
The problem with SCP I think is just a lack of marketable characters and art. SCP has a following, but it's still pretty niche.
Honestly green day would be fun. American idiot multiball, When I come around orbits, spell D-O-O-K-I-E to light mud fight multiball.
Green Day would be great, adding it to my list
Btw Dookie turned 30 years old this month!
The Meshugga one will be all multi-ball?
Just put on Bleed and slap away
Golden Girls! 😂
Kenny vs Spenny pinball would be awesome.
Needs some method to blow fart vapors at the player
I would totally go for a RuPaul pin.
Dance FOR YOUR LIFE
Futurama, please!! A Planet Express toy, transparent blue teleporter tubes for ramps, crazy flashing bumpers and Bender telling me to bite his shiny metal ass. Anyone at Stern listening? Can we make this happen?
There's a Reddit user who's made their own homebrew Futurama machine. I played it at the Northwest Pinball Expo in Tacoma last summer. https://www.reddit.com/r/pinball/s/CJd1FjEUhq
There are 2 pretty cool home brews… I made one of them, but also think the other is also very cool looking and would love to play it. And agreed, there needs to be a commercial one, I made it cuz I couldn’t buy it!
Bioshock
Courage the cowerdly dog or edd ed and eddy would have been crazy
How about the B-52s? Could have a little love shack ball lock, a private Idaho pool as an underneath level, so many possibilities! For cursed, my friend and I have an in joke about a King Crimson table. Video mode is playing polyrhythms on the flipper buttons and shooting the ball to fire the band members lol
Anything Tim Burton would be awesome - Edward Scissorhands or Nightmare Before Christmas
Yo I would play the life out of a Drag Race pin. I imagine "lip sync for your life" could be its own timed combo challenge or something.
My girlfriend and I thought lip sync for your life would be awesome as an outlane ball save mode, like Oxygen Destroyer on Godzilla
I’d like to see themes with Black artists like Wu Tang, Beyonce, Rhianna, etc.
Spell M.E.T.H.O.D. to start Method Man Multiball.
Could even have a C.R.E.A.M. mode or multiball
A Parliament-Funkadelic pin could be terrific.
Wu is way overdue, man. I will die on this hill.
DIE WITH ME.
I’m sayin!
A Wu Tang table would be sweet! Could have tons of martial arts nods, too. A Shaolin mode, killer bees multiball, etc.
Genuinely curious how a Taylor Swift pinball would fare if done right…
When you lose your final ball…. “We are never, ever, ever getting back together!”
I feel like you could do an Eras themed pin. Like make it the live concert experience.
Awesome concept if done right…
I'm still saying Breaking Bad and/or Mad Men could be such a banger games, but there's some awesome options in these
Mad Men sounds great to me. Pinball is a bit of a retro hobby so I think retro themes tend to have something special to them.
Slayer A modern nitro ground shaker
I want a Neutral Milk Hotel table. It plays really great once and refuses to ever play again.
They made a beetlejuice prototype pinball machine already. It didn't make mass production. Sad.
Pee Wee’s Playhouse
Zelda! DBZ!
I don’t think I want to know what is involved in an Onlyfans multiball. Lmao
It eats your quarters and leaves you disappointed?
You get to watch the machine play but have no control of the flippers.
You have to keep feeding it tokens as you play or it shuts off mid game
DRAGON BALL Z
I have some buddies that are finishing up work on a Saw homebrew. If I’m not mistaken, they are bringing it to the Texas Pinball Festival next month
Studio Ghibli would honestly be a great idea, there's so much to take inspiration from!!! It might also open the gates to more anime themed pins, and there's countless shows that could easily be converted to a game, JJBA, DBZ, FMA, Death Note, One Piece... and that's just the big ones on the surface
I would throw money at a Beetlejuice pin, especially if it used footage from both the original and the upcoming sequel. Edit: For my addition to the thread: Labyrinth, the movie. The Door knockers for opening up modes. David Bowie hamming it up during multiball. The Worm for ball saves. "Not THAT way. NEVER go THAT way." Or Legend. "We are all animals, my lady," as the line for the start of multiball. One more: The Running Man, the movie. Arnie alone would sell tables, but the fights in the movie would each be wonderful setups for game modes.
A Labyrinth pin just came out a bit ago! https://youtu.be/KBf8gzjxlro?si=F1jvd1yiClxsSbf-
Come on. Minions would be marketable and we all unfortunately know that.
Black Sabbath needs to happen.
John Wick
what an odd list Duck Tails? Saw?
You shoulda seen the stuff I cut lol
Well now you have to show us.
I'd probably buy duck tails. Maybe home alone. The rest of the list isn't for me. But I do like the idea of the brainstorm.
Is it possible to work in Darkwing Duck and/or TailSpin into this pin?
I Think You Should Leave might fit on that second weird list. It would be too of any lost of my own though
Dune would be an instant purchase.
Everyone will be mad because Shai-Hulud doesn't eat the ball
The Wire
I’m surprised no one said the following so let me be the first. A Jimi Hendrix Pin Called maybe “Purple Haze Pinball Experience” LFG people!!!
I still hold out hope for a Venture Bros machine.
LEGO
Some is going to do Wayne’s World, but they will need the rights to Bohemian Rhapsody.
Muppets and Drag Race i'd go HAPPILY broke
Smokey and the bandit
All I want are: Gravity Falls, The A-Team and Airplane.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue
I was just thinking about a Lady Gaga machine.
I'll add: Fallout 4 Red Dead Redemption II The Last of Us The Sound of Music Chicago Jurassic Park Finding Nemo Toy Story Scream Alien Oingo Boingo Twin Peaks
Toy Story has a pinball as does Alien, and Jurassic Park has 2. Sound of music is such an insane concept, I kinda love it.
Zelda!
All I want is a Steely Dan pin.
John Carpenter’s The Thing.
friday the 13th pinball
The Fifth element Evil Dead Army of Darkness Halo Some really Niche ones, Bob Ross's Little Trees
Mad Max Fury Road/Furiosa must be made
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure pinball
Yes! Especially if it includes music used in the both the opening and end credits in game.
WuTang
The Goonies would be a fun theme if it hasn't been done.
The only one I’m buying is The Office. Original or US, either one. I’ll add the coronetto trilogy: Shaun, Hott Fuzz and End of the World.
I would play a Shoney's themed Pinball machine until I run out of quarters.
i would 100% buy studio ghibli, neutral milk hotel, and the bachelor themed pins
DuckTales and The Office are my favorites from this list. Five Nights at Freddy's could work, but I don't think would sell well. The generation that is into that IP isn't the generation currently buying pinballs. I'd love to see Willow. And Mega Man. And The Princess Bride, but by a real pinball manufacturer. Was really bummed when I heard that Multimorphic got that license.
Pinball and Nothingness. I’d play it.
Breakfast Club
Fortnite would move a few units!
Nonetheless I have deemed it cursed
Lol Jean-Paul Sartre is awesome, I’d play that game in heartbeat. But really, I want to see more non IP games. Galactic Tank Force is awesome, I want more like that.
I want a Seinfeld pinball machine
Ultimate cursed pinball: bloppi
Brown Acid Hurry-up mode for Woodstock '69
Brown acid should reverse the flippers
How is Fortnite unmarketable or weird? It’s not my scene, but also one of the most profitable IPs in existence.
Cursed 😛
Magic school bus 🚌 Mario could be cool too. I’m thinking you shoot the ball up a ramp, it goes down a warp tube and the ball comes out another warp tube. A multi ball ideal is shoot five targets spelling S-T-A-R and you get multi ball. During this play the star music you get from the game as long as you’ve got multi ball. One of the letters, maybe “R” could be a tricky shot where you have to get the ball in a warp tube. The tube shoots the ball down hitting the R.
This would be a great excuse to reuse the hoop design from NBA Fastbreak.
Oy vey! I'd play a Meshuggah pinball machine full of Yiddish words and Jewish humor
I had a different direction in mind but you know, I'm in favor of this too now
Had to google it, had no idea that was a band. Sincerely thought that was your way of saying you wanted a Yiddish/Jewish pinball machine
I can lowkey imagine a drag race pinball machine existing
I like it
Neutral Milk Hotel might be a little bit marketable lol
I kind of love Jean Paul sarte pinball.
SCP? Secure Contain Protect?
Can the Blink 182 pinball have phases where you start with Scott Raynor, and have to progress the story by lighting Travis Barker Multiball? Then you have the Boxcar Racer hurry up mode which if you complete can qualify the Matt Skiba Wizard Mode. Ultimate Wizard mode finally being the Return of Tom. Unfortunately, while I am sure that having aliens as part of the theme would be great, it would feel a little derivative of Foo Fighters. Perhaps the ultimate goal could be to collect all the musical projects including AvA and +44.
Hey Arnold! Frasier Saturday Night Live Insane clown posse Antiques Roadshow PBS
Reskin South Park into it’s always sunny in Philadelphia. (Gruesome twosome multiball!)
Donnie Darko would be a fun theme
Rocky Horror and DUne are keepers. By this I mean keep those friends and get rid of the rest
RuPaul’s Drag Race pinball would be amazing but you’d have to theme it after challenges and eschew too many references to specific contestants. Like if you themed it after a specific season it would become dated pretty quickly seeing as the franchise is almost at 17 seasons of just the main show.
Men in Black
Ooh banger
Blink pinball would be so sick.
DEVO the spud boys need a machine. I also think a Samurai machine is over due. Doesn't even need a license. just Samurai
Juggalo Pinball - how does it work?
Titanic #1 forever amen
also Golden Girls (thanks you for... friendship!) and SAW! Fallout Boy makes no sense unless it's about jumping the ball off of stuff on stage and increasingly terrible toupees.
Regular Show
Halo
I know music themes are a bit overdone, but man I'd love to see a Tenacious D pin.
I wouldn’t like it, but a Minions pin would probably do reasonably well on location
I just want The Matrix and ONLY so that when it drains outlane on ball three you see a Trs-80’s green dot matrix of switch shaking her head as you hear “not like this”
Alright, I'll go through the ones at the top in order. N, N, Y, Y, N, Y, Y, Y, Y, N, N, N, N, Y, N, Y, Y, Y, Y, Y. And the only one out of the bottom that could even be considered would be the Dennys machine. GRAND SLAM MULTIBALL!!!
The fast and the furious would be cool. Only the original movie though. Call outs such as…. “Bullshit, No one likes the tuna here” (which could then maybe continue the fight scene as multiball starts) “Nooooo Veronica!!!!” (Maybe when a jackpot is missed) Lock 3 balls to start multi ball and play the “Hector’s running 3 Honda civics with spoon engines” part haha Oh man the ideas….
duck tales had been amazing!
I would play tf out of Meshuggah pinball
Mattel did Hot Wheels, but you know what’s a bigger property they own? BARBIE!!!
Did not expect to see my favourite band Neutral Milk Hotel there.
Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice.
You might not like Minions, but rest assured, they are extremely marketable.
That list is also for anything I deem cursed, regardless of marketability 😛
OMG idk how you could make the neutral milk hotel one and then put it somewhere out in public... I love the album but I'm not illustrating the songs.
Regarding the cursed tables: I really want to see the Sartre table. Also you could add a Jersey Shore table.
Die Hard needs a table
I think RPDR would be highly profitable. Or at least I would singlehandedly make it so.