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Blues Brothers… but by HomePin
- Thread starter JustLikeMe
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I don't know. Tournament players often recommend one-handed practice as a good way to improve your game.
Tried and failed
. I might have had better luck on a Whoa Nellie.
Damn. There goes my party trick....
KendarTheOrc
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How else are you meant to shift gears in Getaway2?
FFS please just rein in the off-topic ******** about sexism etc, this is just a pinball forum. i've been away 7 years and it has changed a LOT.Yeah, basically. Booth babes in french maids costume only sell your game if your entire audience is male and horny.
My main thought, looking at those women, is “boy, they look bored” and “I wonder if these were students hoping to make a quick buck.” Having worked at a PR agency where me, and other staffers, got wheeled out to look nice in the hope of scoring business with some [insert derogatory description of your choice] of a male tech client who fancied his chances, my main reaction is “yuck.” Because, yes, this is how attractive women feel doing these jobs - utter contempt for the men. It’s especially cringe when they try flirting (badly) and you have to pretend to be sweet, girly, kind and accommodating to them
Also, it tells me nothing about the pin.
From a marketing point of view, it looks like @Homepin explicitly wants to appeal to straight male players. There’s no reason to focus exclusively on this demographic, especially as a boutique company, when he could simply sell the pin based on - well - the Blues Brothers theme and the gameplay.
It’s worth mentioning no one has complained about the JJP ads that feature beautiful women playing pinball. This is because there are, in fact, attractive young women who play pinball. It’s the same reason most women like Lara Croft as a video game character. She’s an attractive, capable woman wearing practical clothing who explores tombs.
i was told to come and read this car crash of a thread when i asked a mate about Spinal Tap and he told me about Mike and the other games, but after reding all this lot i just feel like jumping off a cliff. I have lived in Taiwan for 18 months (in the 90s) and can confirm what Mike says, this is just how they sometimes market stuff over there. it's not his fault. and as Tucks said (i paraphrase) it's still pretty normal for most blokes to fancy women. and also, someone said "they're in Taiwan so i expect nobody is being well-paid" - well that is total ******** for a start, they get paid the same or more as people in the UK. Taiwan is an advanced civilised democracy, not some ****ing cave full of idiot sexist troglodytes. the Taiwanese people and lovely kind genuine curious people with their own culture, and it is a male-dominated society, yes, but not so far as Japan with all its weird rape-based schoolgirl porno etc......... i digress.
@Homepin where in the sweet potato that is Formosa are you based? oh and where in Oz are you from? (i also lived 18 months in Oz in the 90s, mostly in Queensland).
anyway now i am off to go and look for what i actually wanted to read about - the Tap. Mike, i wish you well, the hobby definitely needs more manufacturers than just Stern or even just Stern+JJP ..... but i do fear for the little guys who just won't be able to compete imo. the hobby is in trouble as the old farts like me who remember playing pins in their heyday of 80s and 90s are dying off, and the younger breed of wealthy 20- and 30-somethings lucky enough to have pins have been brought up to think that the be all and end all of pinball was the latest shiny Stern for ten thousand pounds. It isn't, by the way - the golden best age was the one that produced Creech, and Twiglet Zone and Medieval Madness.... and Rollergames
- and no more than two grand for any of them.i've rambled on and done exactly what i accused you of, and gone off-topic, so i apologise.
edit: btw i am not the intended market either as games without ramps or toys are not pinball to me; and i'm not a Homepin apologist either, i totally agree with what Stormy said above, that Mike has to be a bit less defensive and work on those communication skills. you'll make no friends calling us all trolls (i AM a troll btw, i enjoy it, but not everyone here is, we're all just pinheads). to those moaning about Blues Brothers theme being wasted on a stripped down game i say surely another BB could also be made in the future? they remade GZ and JP and GNR to name but 3. oh, and i searched but cannot find a Spinal Tap thread here anywhere ..... someone link me please?
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