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Here at FarSight Studios, we have over 20 years of experience developing video games on consoles, phones and tablets. We are also pinball fanatics. For the last seven years, we’ve been developing modern videogame recreations of classic pinball tables.
We have licenses from the original manufacturers of the tables (Bally, Gottlieb, Stern and Williams) to do this. Our latest project is called the Pinball Arcade and is currently available on a wide variety of platforms: the iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Ouya, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PS Vita and Mac, with versions coming soon for the PC, Nintendo Wii U, and PlayStation 4. The process of digitizing these tables is very complex.
We first acquire theactual physical pinball table we want to digitize. We want our videogameversion to play exactly the same as the table played when it was new, so westart with a restoration of the table. We then strip the table down tothe bare wood playfield and take high-resolution digital photographs of everypart. We use these to create three-dimensional computer models of each of thecomponents on the playfield. When the modeling is complete we export the datainto our graphics engine, which displays the table on each of our targetplatforms.Next, we implement the table logic and sound. We do this by emulating theelectronics from the original pinball tables.
Most complex tables werecontrolled by what are by modern standards primitive computers. We’vecreated ROM-emulation technology that allows the same program that controlledthe original table to run on our target devices. This means that everyrule, sound effect and light sequence is exactly correct in our digitalversion. The idea that you can run the original code that controlled a hugecabinet-based pinball machine on your iPhone is pretty cool!The last step in digitizing a table involves tuning the pinball physics.
We’vecontinuously improved our pinball physics engine for the last seven years andwe’re very proud of it. We can individually control reflection angles andphysics parameters for every section of any component on the playfield. We usethe original table as reference when doing this to ensure accuracy.
Finally,the table goes through a review process where it’s critiqued by pinball expertsand approved by the table manufacturer. The end result of this painstakingprocess is an exact digital recreation of the pinball table you can play onyour handheld device or in your living room! What we’re most proud of is that we’re preserving these tables for futuregenerations to enjoy. We can remember when these tables were in everyarcade, pizza parlor and bowling alley, but they are becoming increasinglyrare. If you find one, chances are it’s not been well-treated and many featuresare burned out or broken. If you’re a pinball fanatic like us you can buy oneand restore it, but they are expensive, maintenance-intensive, and there arefewer of them every year.
In fact some of these tables can cost more than $15,000! We wanteveryone to be able to appreciate these tables, not only people who can affordto spend as much money on a pinball table as a car. Chances are very goodthat our children will never get the opportunity to appreciate the greatpinball table we did- unless these tables are digitally preserved.Some of the greatest pinball tables were based on licensed properties. Oftenwhen a manufacturer created a special new table they’d base it on a popularcultural feature of the times: a movie, a band or television show. Theiroriginal license to use these properties have long since expired, so when wewant to create digital versions of these tables we must research who now ownsthe rights and negotiate with them. Sometimes the discussions are easy andsometimes they are very difficult.
In addition if the table features actors onthe backglass or playfield we must secure licenses to use their likenesses(sometimes from their estates if they are deceased). Some table also featuredpopular music of the times that we must secure composition and performance licenses for.
It can be a daunting task! One of the licensedtables that we’ve always wanted to digitize is Terminator 2: Judgment Day. This table was released byWilliams in 1991 and is unquestionably one of the greatest pinball tables ofall time. It was designed by the legendary Steve Ritchie (who also designedFirepower, Black Knight, High Speed, and Star Trek: The Next Generation).T2 was the first game by Williams to use a dot-matrix display. The table was also the first game to featurea video mode and a swing out cannon that can be fired by the player. It'sone of our favorite tables ever!We’ve succeeded innegotiating all of the licenses we’d need to digitize Terminator 2: JudgmentDay and bring it to the Pinball Arcade.
Unfortunately there are severallicenses involved: in addition to the Williams license, we need a license forthe Terminator 2 property, the actor likeness of the Terminator (ArnoldSchwartzenegger) on the backglass and play field, and the right to use theactor voiceovers during gameplay. When we add up the costs of eachrequired license and calculate what we’d have to charge for the table, we’verealized that the Terminator 2: Judgment Day is just not commercially viable.The more we charge for the table the fewer people will be able to buy it- andour goal is to expose as many people as possible to this great table, not justa select few. Here’s where you comein! Thelicenses for Terminator 2: Judgment Day will cost $66,000 (and that’s just forthe licenses- we’ll cover all of the development expenses ourselves).
Thanks to the amazing generosity of pinball fans throughout the world, ourprevious Kickstarter project for the Star Trek: The Next Generation pinballtable raised $7,000 more than we needed for the StarTrek: licenses and we're applying this towards the licensecosts of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. If we can raise the remaining $59,000we’ll be able to digitize Terminator 2: Judgment Day and preserve one of the greatest pinballtables of all time. If we don't reach our goal no credit cards will becharged, but if we raise more then the goal we’ll be able to digitize otherlicensed tables as well, including the next table we'd really like to pursue- Bally's incredible classic The Addams Family!We’ve put together a tempting list of rewards to say “thank you” for helpingout. Plus the top five contributors will get their initials featured as thedefault high scores for the table, immortalizing them as true pinball fanatics!Please join us!
Risks and challengesWe've digitized over 20 of these tables, and we are very confident in our ability to deliver a digital version of the Terminator 2 table that our fans will enjoy. However, the process of creating these tables is very complex and delays sometimes occur. We're targeting a release date of August 2013, but it's possible this date might slip if we encounter unforeseen problems in development. Also, the lead time for deployment on some platforms (particularly the consoles) is longer, so it is likely the table will release later on these platforms.In addition, we have had problems in the past with deployment on some platforms. In particular, our publisher for the Xbox 360 version of the Pinball Arcade filed for bankruptcy last year, and we have been unable to ship new tables for the 360 since then as we fight in court for the return of the publishing rights. We are highly confident that we will be able to deliver the Terminator 2 table on the Xbox 360, but we can't say with certainty when that will be.
As the title states, this is the home conversion of the arcade rail-shooter based on the film Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Up to two players shoot through future and present levels as robotic killers reprogrammed to serve the human resistance. Both players wield a machine gun with infinite ammo that lowers its firing rate (overheats) as it is continuously fired. A secondary weapon (missile launchers in the future, shotguns in the present) has limited ammo but deals heavy damage. Powerups inside the game world include secondary weapon ammo and coolant for the machine guns, and are shot to be collected.T2: The Arcade Game features seven levels based on specific scenes or general concepts in the film. The first four levels act as a prelude, as the player guns down waves of metal Terminators across a post-apocalyptic Battlefield, a besieged Human Hideout, and through the security checkpoints of the enemy supercomputer SkyNet. After destroying the computer, players travel back in time to protect John and Sarah Connor, while also destroying every scrap of SkyNet research at the headquarters of its manufacturer.
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From there, players must fend off the indestructible T-1000 until the final showdown in the Steel Mill.Assets from the movie are used when possible, such as voice clips from Arnold Schwarzenegger, and close-up digital stills of Robert Patrick for the final battle against the T-1000. The Genesis and SNES versions also support lightguns (the Menacer and Super Scope, respectively).Games based on movie licenses are a dime a dozen, these days. Most of them are just attempts to cash in on the popularity of the movie - and often they manage to do so, at least until the general public catches up on to how much they really suck. Every now and then there's an exception from this rule, but these are few and far between.