Is This Home Pinball Machine Any Good? - Wonderland Amusements
Is This Home Pinball Machine Any Good? - Wonderland Amusements
Is This Home Pinball Machine Any Good? - Wonderland Amusements @WonderlandAmusements was kind enough to send over their Alice Goes To Wonderland home pinball machine for review. Let's see if this...
Highlights
- Alice Goes to Wonderland is marketed as 80% scale of a traditional pinball machine
- The machine uses acrylic playfield cover with reverse-printed artwork instead of traditional wooden playfield with printed-on artwork
- Assembly takes approximately 1-2 hours and requires consumer to build cabinet, backhead, and connect components
- The machine has quirks including scoring delay (2-3 seconds), occasional ball loss tracking, and no ball search feature
- Stern home pinball machines start at $5,000, creating a gap between this $1,000 product and full-size commercial machines
- Wonderland Amusements chose Alice in Wonderland theme because it is public domain (no licensing royalties required)
- Playfield uses sensors instead of traditional switches for most gameplay targets, with no wire rollover inserts
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the next machine in development from Wonderland Amusements
Notable quotes
“This is a toy for all intents and purposes. Can you play it? Does it have mechanical features? Does it have similarities to a traditional commercial pinball? Absolutely. Should it be an apples to apples comparison? Absolutely not.”
“This thing is essentially what a Nerf football is to a traditional football.”
“I would not expect software updates and future support in the uh near future or any future. I just don't think the team over at Wonderland Amusements has the bandwidth um to add lots of code support for this.”
“There's a reason nobody's really trying to make cheap physical mechanical pinball machines. Stern has their home versions. It starts at $5,000 and then there's this for a $1,000 and there's really nothing in between.”
“This doesn't have input lag. Albeit it has cheap components and everything and everything scaled down, it still does a better job of replicating a traditional pinball experience than those other virtual pinball machines.”
Entities
- Arcade OneUp· company
- AT Games· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Wonderland Amusements· company
- Alice Goes to Wonderland· game
- Cooltoy· person
- Alice in Wonderland· product
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles· product
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