Tron Pinball feedback?

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Yeah I have to admit ive been thinking of purchasing the new Tron pin, only because I have been a huge fan of the original game(s) and the movies. I just have a hard time coughing up the money for a game I havent played yet and Sterns horrible track record. I find their games to look cheap, art always looks pixelated, back glasses are ridiculous and the game play just so-so.
I have also noticed that a lot of collectors are purchasing this game, which tells me that I can probably pick this up within a year of its release at a better price :)

Any opinions? thanks!

Jon
 
I have also noticed that a lot of collectors are purchasing this game, which tells me that I can probably pick this up within a year of its release at a better price :)

exactly,... they will be in circulation soon enough.. Give it a couple of years, right now its all about BRAGGING RIGHTS!!
 
Jon,

Being a guy that got my collecting started with Bally / wms games - and against Sterns from the onset - i now have Stern only (amongst my vids). I find that i have much more fun on the Sterns - an IM and SM now, with the Tron on order.

If, along the way, my AFM, TZ, TAF, or anyone of those games were more fun than the Sterns, they would have stayed. But, i found the Sterns get played a whole lot more, and are more reliable - they are well made despite initial impressions, and very nice looking machines (i would say the pixelation was early 2000s, since then, the art is much nicer). Out of a 10+ game lineup now (vids and Pins) SM and IM are the most fun and last to go.

Tron LE? Yeah, i am taking a gamble. I really cant tell you much until it gets here. I am taking a safe bet based on theme, Sterns track record on recent releases, and for me, most important - the layout looks kick azz.
 
I played Tron pinball twice over the past two days at the NW Pinball & Gameroom Show. I'm liking it a lot. If feels less complex with some of the shots that newer Sterns and the flow seems more Williams-like. I feel like Stern is hit and miss on flow, where Williams had it down to a science. The swirling disk up the middle is brutal, it can shoot the ball out randomly at your flippers super fast, which I loved. The weakest part I noticed was how bad the mini-'80s Tron arcade game looked, someone's going to mod that with a better one that lights up with blue LEDs and higher quality artwork immediately. The 3-D backglass works better than Avatar's, and while I still think the pixilation is annoying on Stern photo art, it all looks pretty awesome as a package on Tron. I'm betting this will be a big seller for them.
 
If your a tron collector, I don't see how you don't get one..

If you have no plans to get an LE, I don't see any reason to buy before you play it.. But I don't think your going to find one cheap anytime soon (especially an LE)..

I think the fact that lots of collectors are buying it, means its going to be harder to find a used one later on..
 
I have to get off topic here for a sec.

How does one go about finding a local machine to go play?
 
They had the TRON theme to work with and that is the pinball game they came up with?
It looks like they went as cheap as possible on design. They just took a basic pinball game and threw in some photos of the movie and sent it out. What a let down... I am a huge tron fan and this Tron Pinball is disappointing.

I can do this too; just buy an old pinball machine and glue on some tron photos. Pfft.

 
I just dont see how you guys can talk the wife into letting you buy a 4k or 5k game. No way in hell Id ever pay that much for a game unless I had cash out of my ass
 
Keep your bills/hobby separate. That is how people get into fights. If I buy something for $2000 and sell it for $5000 and it's my own private money I don't see why "running" it past anyone if you already contribute enough and pay bills makes a difference, that is why I never understand the "wife" argument.
 
Even if this becomes the next "it" machine, I think there is too much risk buying something NIB without having tried the game out. I also don't imagine the regular version being impossible to get NIB during the first year or so of release.

Stern Indiana Jones should be the ghost story people tell themselves when they feel ready to buy a NIB Stern without having tried it out first. I would be really, really pissed off if I had bought that stinker NIB without having played it. If not pissed, neck deep in buyer's remorse...and denial.
 
Everything I've seen so far looks fantastic. They have a great theme (I honestly can't think of a theme that I would be more excited about), great voice snippets, and great music to work with (the Daft Punk soundtrack is unbelievable IMO) so on those levels it's going to be awesome. The gameplay seems based on Funhouse which many people love so it's a tried and true design which makes me worry less about it being no fun. I don't know what else they could have done beside make the playfield an LED screen to make the haters happy. I'm glad I got my order in for an LE before they sold out.
 
Why not do something that's never been done? God forbid.

You have the Tron theme to work with and this is the end product. Tron is all about the "look". The game should be oozing with EL wire and neon. Filament bulbs behind blue plastic caps? Are you kidding me? They couldn't even put LED's in the thing? Pathetic.

Why in the hell does the original arcade game from 1982 look more futurist than this pin? Because it's a lazy, half-assed effort by a company that has no competition and therefore no reason to innovate.

Put one of these next to a DOT environmental and you'd swear the pin is from 1982.

What a let complete let down.
 
I'm not ever going to buy a new pinball, because I don't consider a toy to be worth 4 or 5 grand.

However, I never could understand the B/W fanboys who poo poo everything Stern does. The Stern games are superior in just about every measureable way. The boardsets are better. The art is better. The sound is better. The licenses are better. The backglasses are better. The rulesets are better. The art looks 'pixelated' on the cabinet, but that's because the B/W games never had art on the cabinet! They had names on the cabinet, lol. Look @ the Tron 'pixelated' art, and name 1 game Bally put out that had that level of detail, or even approached that level of detail. The only thing you can ding them on is they don't have as many 'toys' on the playfield, but it doesn't make the gameplay any worse in my opinion.

Oh well. Everybody's got one!
 
It's laughable people bashing the only pinball manufactuer. It is what it is, and happy I can still play a pinball machine in today's existence. I will admit some of the game's B/W put out where amazing in there own time and still hold up today. The art was great for the most part. But when you play a new Stern machine....it's really a fun experience, the sounds (imo) are better, the gameplay faster!
I will admit I am a huge fanboy for Tron, but I can already see that the game looks and plays great :)
I am glad I drank the kool-aid for a Tron LE ;)
Too each there own....I am sold.
 
Keep your bills/hobby separate. That is how people get into fights. If I buy something for $2000 and sell it for $5000 and it's my own private money I don't see why "running" it past anyone if you already contribute enough and pay bills makes a difference, that is why I never understand the "wife" argument.

exactly.. Hobby pays for itself.. I have zero out of pocket to this hobby..

I would have bought the tron pin either way, but I sold defender and joust pin recently. That was $5k and room for 2...
 
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