Cactus Canyon Remake Pinball Featurette (Chicago Gaming Company, 2025)
Cactus Canyon Remake Pinball Featurette (Chicago Gaming Company, 2025)
THE MAKING OF Cactus Canyon Remake by Chicago Gaming Company Take a deeper look inside Cactus Canyon Remake Pinball with the game developers, as they present the history of this game. Legendary game designer Lyman Sheats Jr. and creator Josh Sharpe also discuss features, player objectives, the finer details of the machine, and staying true to the nostalgia and feel of the original title. This new pinball machine embraces the very essence of the golden age of pinball, while bringing the player into a new, immersive world of what pinball has become in the 21st century...
Kineticist’s take
Josh Sharpe & Lyman F. Sheats Jr. detail Cactus Canyon (Remake) (Remake) approach, balancing original vision with modern home gameplay.
Synopsis
Josh Sharpe and Lyman F. Sheats Jr. discuss their work finishing the Cactus Cactus Canyon (Remake) for Chicago Gaming Company, emphasizing story-first design philosophy, respect for the original Williams team's vision, and mechanical enhancements like the Boss Bart topper and expanded modes. The project preserves the 'Williams charm' of 1990s games while adding new content including previously unrecorded speech calls and story-driven ramps. They highlight the challenge of completing an unfinished 1998 game while maintaining its original skeleton and appeal to modern home players.
Entities
- Chicago Gaming Company· company
- Williams· company
- Attack from Mars· game
- Cactus Canyon Remake· game
- Medieval Madness· game
- Monster Bash· game
- Boss Bart· game_character
- Polly· game_character
- International Flipper Pinball Association· organization
- Josh Sharpe· person
- Lyman F. Sheats Jr.· person
- Matt Coriale· person
- Rob Berry· person
- Roger Sharpe· person
- Pinball 2000· product