Why Didn't King Kong get DMD Pinball Treatment?

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Was it a licensing thing? I mean, Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy got one of the best pinballs Stern ever made, and I would argue that the King Kong brand is even more popular than the LOTR trilogy, so why no King Kong pin after he remade that title? Hell, they even made a Godzilla pin based on the more recent American Movie version. There wasn't a King Kong EM or SS version either, was there? RKO holding on that tightly? I think a pin based on PJ's Kong would rock.
 
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Data East King Kong: http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=kong&searchtype=quick#3194

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EDIT: looks like only 9 were made...
 
And what a weird time to try and produce one. First movie came out in 1933, second in 1976. Then they tried the ole 'King Kong Lives' treatment around the same time they tried 'Godzilla 1985'. So they try a pin based on those 2 or 3 movies in the early to mid 90's? 10 years before Jackson remade the movie? Me no understand.
 
I'm sure it had to do with $$$ for licensing. Same thing with Ghostbusters. The pin Bonebusters was originally going to be Ghostbusters, but they couldn't get the rights. Ghostbusters would have been killer and it was popular in the 80's and 90's.
 
PSST...DMD pins and SS pins are the same tech, fools. Just a different display used. :D

I don't care what they put in the head, I'm looking at the playfield when I play.
 
Wasn't Stern bought by Data East, then sold to Sega, then Gary Stern bought it from Sega and renamed it Stern? So isn't that DE King Kong technically a Stern? Still no DMD, but it explains why they didn't make another.

I think you would see Sten make a Twilight or Harry Potter pin first. :eek:
 
Wasn't Stern bought by Data East, then sold to Sega, then Gary Stern bought it from Sega and renamed it Stern? So isn't that DE King Kong technically a Stern? Still no DMD, but it explains why they didn't make another.

I think you would see Sten make a Twilight or Harry Potter pin first. :eek:

It was Chicago Coin before that! Gary Stern has been in charge since Data East.
 
Mmm, yeah, DMD... it's just not a pin without a distracting, repetetive clip playing on the backbox and putting a horrendous game-obscuring glare on the playfield glass.

And lets not forget the excellent flipper-mashing minigame possibilities. Like Kong flinging poo at airplanes or some such thing.
 
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