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FarSight Building Twilight Zone Pinball Table Via Kickstarter

Bally's Twilight Zone pinball table is one of the most beloved pinball tables of all time, and Pinball Arcade developer FarSight Studios is trying to fund the digital creation of the table via Kickstarter.

FarSight is seeking $55,000 to cover the licensing costs of the table (not including development costs) so it can bring it to Pinball Arcade on the game's various platforms. The developer also says that any overflow of money will be put towards digitizing other tables such as Star Trek: The Next Generation.

For more info such as the tier rewards, check out FarSight's Kickstarter entry. $10 gets you the table as a reward – except on Xbox 360, due to Microsoft constraints. The table will be available on Xbox 360, just not as a Kickstarter reward.

[via NeoGAF]

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  • i used to have a great pinball PC game. looking back, i have no idea why i played it so much. i don't really understand the allure of pinball.

  • Sure are a lot of Kickstarter projects nowadays.
  • They had one of these tables at my local bowling alley, can't wait to see how it turns out.

  • A Kickstarter for a virtual pinball table?, now I've seen everything.
  • Has anybody played this? I love the Zen Pinball games, but I don't think this can really compete with that.
  • The only problem I see with getting funding for this is who are you really trying to ask for money? I feel that most hardcore pinball fans don't care as much about video pinball, because they'd rather play the real thing, and most hardcore gamers who would put money toward a game don't care too much about pinball. I know there are people out there who are really into both, myself included, but it seems like a tough target audience to get funding.
  • Cool if your a fan of pinball or Twilight Zone like me.When I was younger I use to work at a movie theatre and they had a small arcade.My coworkers and I would spend  hours after work and  would always play Star Trek next gen pinball.So I would be all for that one to be made digital too.

  • Ah Twilight Zone, the only show that boggled the mind in black and white

  • I'm totally down with this.  I've been wanting the actual physical Twilight Zone pinball table for years, but it's so damn expensive.  $5,000 is kind of a lot of money for me right now.  I think I may have to support these guys.

  • I this table, full-sized and fully functioning, in my basement. It's a gift my dad got several years ago for his birthday. I should probably use it more than I do. <
  • Thank you for bringing attention to this. A good number of my friends and I prefer Pinball Arcade over Pinball FX2. It's for serious fans, no doubt!

  • Pinball FX 2 is great, but if you want an authentic pinball experience with expertly crafted recreations of real tables, there is nothing better then Pinball Arcade. It's a real challenge like the real tables are/were.

  • Awesome

  • What does it even mean to be a beloved pinball table in 2012? Who really cares? Especially when the original stuff in Zen Pinball (and whatever it's called on 360) are super awesome and look just like a "real" table - could've fooled me. I don't even think I've ever SEEN a real-life pinball table, come to think of it. Except for toys. And I'm no "My first console was an Xbox" punk - I loved arcades, and played stuff like NBA Jam, Street Fighter II and Sega's Star Wars Pod Racer in those like any good, old-school gamer. Literally have never seen a pinball table in real life. Whatever. I don't care about this, but I hope they pull it off. Why not? Good luck, Farsight.
  • "$10 gets you the table as a reward – except on Xbox 360, due to Microsoft constraints. The table will be available on Xbox 360, just not as a Kickstarter reward."

    If it comes out on the 3DS, I'll donate.

  • Kickstarter is the hype for everything

  • I get how these games are different enough to both be warranted; but that they're relying on Kickstarter, or even need to kind of makes me hesitant to pickup the XBLA version of the game when PFX2 isn't gating games behind $5K fundraisers. Also I wish the payment system was more akin to PFX2 on XBLA, as a bunch of the base tables with Pinball Arcade are pretty meh and the pricetag is pretty hefty considering.

    Also if they wanted to throw the 360 crowd a bone on this one, whilst also (likely) generating more sales on the base-game, they should just have the TZ table be free for the first month or so. That'd certainly get me to buy the game. That and The Adams Family table.

    At this point I'm waiting to buy the game until they announce more tables I'm interested in.
  • Man this show is sooo good, and i am totaly supporting this

  • This is a funny little project.