He tried installing the software on two machines and had the same issue. I thought he was making the new Trilogy for me, but it was for my kids all along.ĭgoett, my friend tried Pinbox on his RFM. Say what you want, but Lucas knew what he was doing. After playing SWEP1 they had to watch the movies and are Star Wars freaks now. Playing devil's advocate here though, before I picked up SWEP1 my boys showed no interest in what I felt was the superior SW trilogy(4-6). The price increase, coupled with a release of a months-old property that did not deliver on the insane expectations/hype of a new Star Wars movie, sealed the pinball division's fate IMO. Wizard Blocks never had a chance.Ī thousand times this!!!! People can shit on the Pin2k games that were produced, but you cannot deny that pinball STILL hasn't advanced past what these guys accomplished 14 years ago! Wizard Blocks most likely would have been the game that cemented the Pin2k format, and understand that the intentions(according to Gomez) was that they were going to produce Pin2k games and "classic" DMD games. Consumer sales were never even considered. Everything was driven by Dealers/Operators back then. Remember - Pinball Circus was cancelled because it cost $300/unit more to make than a conventional pin. All they had to do was release SW:E1 with a higher price and the rest was history. My opinion is that Williams was planning to close down Pinball (to make slot machines) and when the success of RFM hit, got worried that their plans to show it as a loosing division was being thwarted. Wizard Blocks had one mode partially programmed for it so the game is playable to a point but not anything close to a complete game. The SW:E1 team were working in parallel with the RFM team for a lot of the time. About 4 or 5 whitewoods were created for Wizard Blocks and judging from the last one, it was close to being done as far as playfield layout was concerned. It's simply no comparison.Īs I know it, that's what happened. I put $4 in a RFM a couple of days ago and didn't touch the SWEP1. Yes SWEP1 is a movie license but in this case it sold less and was played less than an unlicensed theme. In my opinion they should have put Lawlor to work on Wizard Blocks immediately after Revenge From Mars.
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