Players are challenged with getting the Party Animals, Party Monsters and Party Dudes to the Cosmic Cottage for a Multi-Ball Party! From there, they’ll score Jackpots and shoot for the ultimate Big Bang! Request Time allows players to make way cool musical selections using the Flippers, including Pinball Wizard from The Who! The colorful Playfield includes awesome features such as the Dancing Dummy who bops ’til he drops, the host and DJ, Captain B. Party Zone (1991): Designed by Dennis Nordman, this table’s theme is all about having a good time. Now you can! Just fire up Party Zone and never leave home again! Sometimes you gotta party, but don’t want to leave the house. A bright colorful playfield, interesting rule set, and great music and sound make Earthshaker a true pinball classic. 200 of these special tables were released. Early versions of the table featured a building that sunk down into the table during the earthquake but was removed for cost reasons. It’s just a little taste of some California excitement!Įarthshaker (1989): Designed by Pat Lawlor, this entertaining table features a shaker motor built into the cabinet that physically shakes the table when an earthquake is triggered. This table was inspired by the semi-frequent earthshakers we get due to the San Andreas Fault. I’m sure many of you have heard, we have some pretty crazy earthquakes out here in California. The gameplay features hardcore sci-fi action with three Flippers, high scoring Nuke ’em rounds, four unique Multi-Ball modes, a moving Warrior Bug live fire battle simulator, and a Brain Bug that pops out of the playfield! Starship Troopers has appropriately been described as easy to play but hard to master. Designed by Joe Balcer and Joe Kaminkow, this table conveys the style and feel of the movie with its vibrantly colored playfield, music from the movie, and custom speech. Starship Troopers (1997): features the license for the popular film of the same name released in 1997. The movie came out when we were around 10 (give or take) and it definitely had us running around the yard calling ourselves “Rico.” And don’t even get us started on Denise Richards. The Addams Family isn’t the only headliner launching with this batch of tables, though! Starship Troopersīadger and I would agree that Starship Troopers is one of our favorite licenses. We wouldn’t have been able to do this without the overwhelming support of our fans! THANK YOU GUYS! Thanks to our amazing Kickstarter backers, we were able to raise the funds needed to secure the licenses to digitize this amazing piece of Americana. Another great feature is “The Power” which causes magnets to dramatically affect the direction of the ball on the playfield. When the “Thing Flip” is active the table can actually make shots for you. The Addams Family featured the first ever optical target bank (in the bookcase), and the “Thing Flip” which was the first time a pinball tables flippers could be controlled by the tables CPU. This table was integrated more deeply to the movie than any other licensed pinball table of its time. It was designed by the legendary Pat Lawlor and Larry DeMar (who also designed Twilight Zone, Banzai Run, and Funhouse). The Addams Family was released by Williams in 1992 and is unquestionably one of the greatest pinball tables in the history of pinball, with over 20,000 units sold (More than any table ever!). That’s why we are here, to introduce a new generation to the amazing themes, designs, and deep rules that come with pinball tables. This launch brings the amount of tables available in your digital pinball collection to 56! These machines used to be found in arcades across America before video arcade games replaced them (bummer). We are proud to announce that we will be releasing the awesome Addams Family, Starship Troopers, Earthshaker, and Party Zone tables for PS4 on March 17th. It’s been a little while since we posted, and we have lots of new DLC coming out with this one! We didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose us. We live in the mountains of Southern California and frequently have to shovel the snow from our driveways before leaving for work. Badger and I handle many of the community tasks at the studio, as well as host a monthly Twitch stream where we show off the new pinball table before it’s released. My name is Mike Lindsey and I’m the Community Manager here at FarSight Studios.
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