Get a special version of the Twilight Zone pinball table with access to the table operator’s menu on every platform (again, except the Xbox 360). ![]() Get the Twilight Zone pinball table on a single platform of your choice (except for the Xbox 360- Microsoft won’t let us!) plus the satisfaction of knowing you helped make the preservation of this table possible. Plus the top five contributors will get their initials featured as the default high scores for the table, immortalizing them as true pinball fanatics! Check out our Kickstarter site and video using the link below. If we don’t reach our goal no credit cards will be charged, but if we raise more than our goal we’ll be able to digitize other licensed tables as well (like Star Trek: The Next Generation!) We’ve put together a tempting list of rewards to say “thank you” for helping out. If we can raise enough money through Kickstarter we’ll be able to digitize the Twilight Zone and preserve one of the greatest pinball tables of all time. We’ve set up a Kickstarter project for the Twilight Zone (just the licenses, not the development costs- we’ll cover all of those ourselves). So we’ve decided to try crowd-funding the cost of the licenses. Unfortunately when we add up the costs of each required license and calculate what we’d have to charge for the table, we’ve realized that the Twilight Zone is just not commercially viable. This table was released by Midway under the Bally label and is unquestionably one of the greatest pinball tables of all time (in fact it’s currently #1 in user rankings on the Internet Pinball Database!) We’ve finally succeeded in negotiating all of the licenses we’d need to bring the Twilight Zone to the Pinball Arcade. Other then that the game feels solid like an old Williams machine and I hope it does well for them.We’ve received many requests to bring the Twilight Zone pinball table to the Pinball Arcade. Hopefully they'll iron out the rules so everything it's explained better and they'll get a high score wall going. I also saw one of the horses turn into a cow so I had no idea how it turned into a cow or how much it was worth. Every time you hit a shot the color of the horse will change (like in the movie) but nothing tells you the value of the shots. I noticed a lot of horse lights and there's something called "A Horse of A Different Color" that you get for hitting certain shots. The biggest problem is the game doesn't explain to you what everything does. I had both balls in play and ended up getting the main multiball for getting the rollovers THEN I got a double scoring reward from the right mini playfield so I was able to stack all of them for a ton of extra points. Two of them are a two ball double scoring round called Lights Out or Lights On. If you spell out BALL on the left side of the table and hit the spinner you'll get an award. I wasn't able to get the Rescue Multiball but I found out that even now you can stack multiball modes. Not as much as Red & Ted where it would hurt your hands but a deep enough rumble that you can feel it two games away. Jon set up up to high and it has a good shake to it. Some people were bugged about the "Winky Guard" drop target hitting too hard so you can tone it down as well as adjusting the shaker motor. I watched him set the machine up when I got there. (Considering how much the game cost I can see why he doesn't have it giving out free games) He's also got the match set extra high so I didn't see one match the whole time I was there. I'm not sure if it's the way the owner Jon has the game set but it's set for 30,000 gets an extra ball, no replay score. Even with the newest code the game doesn't have a high score table! Why? We figured 300,000 is a high score since it scores low. Jon got it delivered by Jack not even two weeks ago and he installed the newest code. Why!? It's a one shot game! Granted the machine was very nice, but still that was way too much. At the Allentown Pinfest somebody got 2,200 for a Back to The Future machine. Even games that shouldn't go for much are somehow getting insane prices. As you said, people keep hording games and the ones that are out there fetch a pretty penny. Getting into it now is going to be a slog. I like it a lot once I figured out what to do. Most people I've seen are low balling one dollar donations. I read somewhere they had to do this now to get the license before the release of the new movies their planning, but when you don't give people what they paid for with the past two it's hard to give them more money on the hopes they'll get it done. It's sad when Pinball Arcade Fans has more information then their official site. Farsight should have gotten their shit together before starting another Kickstarter.
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