Author Topic: Wheel of Fortune pinball machine (Read 6242 times)

dazztardly · « **on:** October 06, 2007, 09:43:36 AM »

http://www.pinballnews.com/games/wheeloffortune/index2.html

-Dan Berger

tpirfan28 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 06, 2007, 10:00:45 AM »

As freakin' absurd this sounds, that game looks awesome.

I like the wording about the $5K wedge: "the highest value on the wheel that can be multiplied."

tvwxman · « **Reply #2 on:** October 06, 2007, 10:52:55 AM »

Agreed. For the pinball/game show fans, what a way to merge em!

/It really is a Magnificent Marble Machine.
//Hey, that sounds like a good idea for a game show!

JamesVipond · « **Reply #3 on:** October 06, 2007, 10:54:01 AM »

Judging from the "1-2-3-4" picture, I get the impression that Stern either couldn't afford Dan X. Solo's 24 Moderne Display Fonts CD-ROM and book from Dover Publications, which contains the Chesty font (which looks like the true source of the show's logo, except for an altered uppercase R) or thought that the freeware Fortune Wheel was the only such font available.

If one uses the flipper buttons to select letters in solving the puzzles, there had better be a generous time limit (about two minutes, but inversely proportional to how many letters are showing), or no time limit at all.

mcsittel · « **Reply #4 on:** October 06, 2007, 11:20:54 AM »

Cool... but 75 cents a play? Ouch! That would be an awesome centerpiece for a game room. Remember when games cost a quarter? I still kid my wife that when she finds a spider in our basement, I ask if it was making the noise from Centipede. In our house they're worth 300, 600 or 900 points depending on how big they are!

I wonder if a DOND machine will be next. Lots of possibilities there for mini-games there with taking deals, removing cases, et al. for given actions. Oh, and 26 numbered targets, each with a case on them!

Matt

weaklink75 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 06, 2007, 11:23:35 AM »

Some high-res pictures.... I bet we'll see this as a Prize Puzzle prize or Wheel prize eventually (Those pinball machines are about $5,000 a pop...)

clanky06 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 06, 2007, 01:12:12 PM »

Ah pinballs! I remember when bowling alleys and mall arcades were lined with Bally, Gottlieb and Williams machines. Has only Stern survived?

Wikipedia Article

Adam Nedeff · « **Reply #7 on:** October 06, 2007, 01:41:06 PM »

[quote name=\'weaklink75\' post=\'165712\' date=\'Oct 6 2007, 11:23 AM\']
Some high-res pictures.... I bet we'll see this as a Prize Puzzle prize or Wheel prize eventually (Those pinball machines are about $5,000 a pop...)
[/quote]
No chance in hell. Wheel strictly wants trips for those.

Adam
-The prize-gathering temp

clemon79 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 06, 2007, 02:48:29 PM »

[quote name=\'mcsittel\' post=\'165710\' date=\'Oct 6 2007, 08:20 AM\']
In our house they're worth 300, 600 or 900 points depending on how big they are!
[/quote]
Shouldn't it be "depending on how close you're willing to get to it before you kill it?"

[quote name=\'clanky06\' post=\'165715\' date=\'Oct 6 2007, 10:12 AM\']
Ah pinballs! I remember when bowling alleys and mall arcades were lined with Bally, Gottlieb and Williams machines. Has only Stern survived?
[/quote]
Pretty much. The Second Arcade Crash wasn't pretty.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #9 on:** October 06, 2007, 02:52:15 PM »

That looks pretty sweet. But wait, the wheel is way too close to that puzzleboard! BOYCOTT!!!1!

Seriously, I like what I see, but I have the same problem that I have with the D/ND arcade game: a little too much to pay for one game.

And is this the first Wheel game to actually feature Pat's mug in addition to Vanna's?

clemon79 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 06, 2007, 02:59:07 PM »

Okay, but don't blame the designers for that; that amount is settable by the machine's operator. I'd be VERY surprised if the minimum for a credit was 3 coins.

/hopefully it'll show up for Visual PinMAME soon and I can find out

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #11 on:** October 06, 2007, 03:35:24 PM »

[quote name=\'mcsittel\' post=\'165710\' date=\'Oct 6 2007, 11:20 AM\']
Cool... but 75 cents a play? Ouch! That would be an awesome centerpiece for a game room. Remember when games cost a quarter? [/quote]
I remember when you got three plays for a quarter, thank you very much.

--A much older "Matt"

clemon79 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 06, 2007, 03:56:12 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'165730\' date=\'Oct 6 2007, 12:35 PM\']
I remember when you got three plays for a quarter, thank you very much.
[/quote]
Did they have balls then, or were you smacking around a really round rock?

weaklink75 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 06, 2007, 04:08:23 PM »

Yeah, the 75 cents a play is on the high end...for places that still use quarters, it's usually 50 cents for one play, or 5 for $2 (and it's about the same amount at places where you swipe a card, like Dave and Busters and Gameworks..)

I've read some stuff on rec.games.pinball (which has known about this since late last year apparently)- it's really split down the middle with the hardcore pinball fanatics- some people think it will be really popular, some people think it will tank...

tpirfan28 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 06, 2007, 04:18:32 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'165732\' date=\'Oct 6 2007, 03:56 PM\']
Did they have balls then, or were you smacking around a really round rock?

[/quote]
Yeeee ouch. I call for yer bannantion.

/comic genius