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Other than having all your games on at once when you don't need to, the only real reason I can see this being trouble is when you've got a bunch of people over for a tournament or something and someone inadvertently hits the wrong switch. Everything turns off, and riot ensues. As long as the...

It's an interesting way to compromise between the direct print cabinets and decals. I think it's a little excessive for most home environments, since it's a $400 upgrade, but I'm glad that it exists. Now, if they decided to make these standard on the LE/SE games, I wouldn't complain about it...

Yes, we can definitely talk about that.

If you're just using sharpie to fill in the colour, are you worried that it'll smear easily? Not sure how well the marker would stay on top of the old paint. Are you finding that the colour fades at all as the wood absorbs the ink? It's definitely an interesting way to do touch ups if it...

Right. The 6 year old probably wouldn't take things apart, but might take to hiding things in machines. The 3 year old would figure out how to open the doors pretty easily, and would then start: a-ripping wires off of things, or b-getting shocked by touching the wrong thing. Right now I have...

Had everyone over for TOPL last night, and as usual, that's when things chose to go wrong. Nothing catastrophic-mostly just balls getting stuck on things, and a couple of light bulbs getting knocked out, but still had to go for keys more than once. It's really time to get some keyed alike...

Seems like it could be something different at least, but I'm still worried that the ring is going to slow things down a lot, and get old really fast. A little like Champion Pub maybe? In any case, looking forward to trying one out for myself to see. Any idea when Starburst is getting a game...

Sounds like a neat project-where are you going to put the walkie talkies :)

Nevermind-in that picture, you can definitely tell that it's a deeper design to allow for more verticality in the game. Was there ever any talk about open sourcing the code to these games? With such a small team, I'd imagine that the games could me mechanically complete, but the software is...

Some of those samples are looking much better-the TSPP sample was just really jagged. Could be something that you could fix with a filter, but that's something that they'll be able to iterate. Glad to see they're rolling more value into the product.

They probably won't, but it's worth a try. As long as people keep buying new, incomplete games from them, why would they update? Unless it sells someone a new machine, a code update makes them nothing.

I have to hope those look better in motion... I suppose it'd take new licensing, but you could probably create new drawn animation frames that key off the originals, couldn't you?

Weren't the cabinets in these supposed to be deeper than a standard game? They look pretty much the same as everything else.

I bought one for my son, but he was 2 at the time, and I set it up lower than the shipped legs (on top of some boxes) so he could play without standing on a stool. He was also having a hard time reaching both flipper buttons on the "real" games. He plays it occasionally, and I should at least...

I can definitely see Playdium getting one of these-looking forward to giving it a try. Could also do well in movie theaters. $2 a play and it should make its money back. Then they'll sell them at auction for $25k :)

Thanks for the detailed writeup-definitely a cool mod. Pricey, but I like the way he's added more feedback to the LCD besides just the creature image. If the game is a keeper, why not add something like this?

I've had static on one side my TSPP before, but that seemed to just be a loose speaker connection. Cleaned/reseated the connector and it was fine.

Nice progress-the touchups don't look too complicated, but still not something I've ever tried doing. I'm a little surprised that magic eraser didn't lift the paint though. Are you planning on clearcoating the whole thing once you're done, or is that generally not a good idea with EMs? As an...

Why? What colorDMD is doing is a nice alternative, but why translate everything you want to create to a dot matrix pattern when you don't have to? At this point, I'd suspect that it's almost MORE work to create dots than composite text/video on a screen. Some of the animations that TSPP uses...

I think I might try to grab one of these next time I'm in the states. At least then I can save some of the taxes?