Alien Pinball

"I think alien Ripley addition is the best bang for the buck in all of pinball right now."

Pinball Brothers' Alien Ripley Edition is the best bang for the buck in all of pinball

"We've seen Alien Pinball, we've seen the LEn Ripley edition. That doesn't actually show you LEn Ripley's face... we see this really awkward translite where she's in the power loader, but she's at a weird angle, and you can't see her face."

Alien LEn Ripley edition is disappointing because you can't see her face

"From what I can see as an outside observer Both of these games Both the pinball brothers version And the highway version Have nothing but issues Every time I open up the thread It's always issues with these games These games were never built well from the beginning"

Heighway Pinball Alien and Pinball Brothers Alien are both problematic maintenance nightmares

"Something about this game just always feels like you need to constantly tweak it to keep it playing right. The issues were around when Andrew was there. The issues are still there with the pinball brothers."

Pinball Brothers Alien LE has quality and reliability issues that persist from Andrew Heighway era

"I think the standard version of alien pinball from the pinball brothers is really, really stale looking. It doesn't look great. The artwork looks flat. There's no glossiness to it. The armor looks terrible. Everything about it."

Alien Pinball Brothers standard version looks terrible

"seeing all six of them lined up didn't make it six times better it still looks really underwhelming I'm still not impressed by this package at all"

Pinball Brothers Alien game looks underwhelming despite working

"this game looks so underwhelming... nothing looks better than it did before... It looks basic. It looks standard and this is not what alien deserves."

Alien by Pinball Brothers looks underwhelming and basic

"I look at this game and it looks like they took one step forward but two steps back"

Alien pinball took steps backward in visual design despite fixing mechanical issues

"I got a little worried because when you heard the way they talked about manufacturing, they said, we are starting to order the parts. We're going to ramp up slowly... So that has me believing they don't know exactly how much it is to make each game... It's weird, right? Kaneda rooting for higher prices, but you know what I mean? I just don't want them to under price this thing, run into financial like hardships"

The $7,777 price point is competitive but potentially too low given manufacturing uncertainties

"I would have revisited the Playfield artwork. It was never popular. People never liked it and now we get it again... It's really perplexing to me that they didn't listen to consumer feedback on that art package of the Playfield... Look how far we've come with artwork in pinball since 2015."

The playfield artwork was never popular and should have been redesigned

"To me, the biggest mistake of this launch was the lack of details around the limited edition version of this game. You launch with your most expensive title on day one... Tell me another pinball company that has launched a game in which they didn't even show you the LE version of the game for six months."

Major mistake not having Limited Edition details ready at launch - should sell premium versions first

"This game will never go down as a classic game without Sigourney Weaver in it. I'm sorry like you just can't make a game where you leave out the main character of the films"

Alien pinball can never be a classic without Sigourney Weaver

"I don't think it's gonna happen I don't think aliens gonna be remade and I'm changing my tune... the price for each machine would be somewhere between 10 to 12 thousand euros"

Alien pinball remake is essentially dead - only one investor remains with unrealistic $13,500 pricing plan

"Chicago gaming company is making alien pinball. This is the original game from Chicago gaming company that is a license theme. So the pinball brothers have contracted Chicago gaming company to make alien pinball."

Alien pinball is returning manufactured by Chicago Gaming Company in widebody format

"It is not going to come out in a shitty Heighway Pinball cabinet. This game is going to be a widebody... they're going to fix a lot of the shitty stuff that was in the highway game."

Chicago Gaming Company will vastly improve Alien's build quality in widebody format

"I think Pinball should be made by another manufacturer. It is a theme that people love. It is a perfect theme for Pinball. It has never been given the proper Pinball justice. I think it deserves it. I know it would sell like hotcakes."

Another manufacturer should remake Alien pinball properly

"if you buy an alien pinball you are gonna have problems with it it's going to cause headaches and you're not gonna be able to enjoy it in the long run it's just a ticking time bomb"

Alien pinball machines are ticking time bombs that will cause problems

"I still think buying an alien pinball machine is a very, very risky venture. I do think the game is a design, ticking time bomb."

Buying an Alien pinball machine is very risky and a design ticking time bomb

"alien pinball machine is a piece of shit. It will break. It's terrible every owner who has it is having nothing but tons of problems"

Alien pinball is a terrible machine that will break

"alien pinball is not that good it's an okay game it's an okay game it's not great... put in alien pinball next the pirates of the Caribbean put it put them next to each other and you tell me that that widebody alien plays as good as pirate to the Caribbean"

Alien pinball is just okay, not worth the years-long wait

"I again I still predict these guys will go under. I think they're my prediction is they are going to show it clean at TPF and people are just going to roll their eyes and never given them a pre order dollar"

Prediction: The alien pinball company will go under/out of business.

"Can we can everyone just stop with that nonsense? It is not the best theme integrated pin of all time I'll tell you why because Sigourney Weaver Ripley is not in the god damn game How can alien pinball be one of the best theme integrations and the freaking main character from the films is not even in the machine"

Alien pinball is not the best theme integrated pin because Sigourney Weaver/Ripley isn't in the game

"Besides the Xeno head Which, I don't know, it's like, I don't even think it's that cool What else is going-what other mechs are in that game? There's like nothing... It is-it is deceivingly barren. It has one mech"

Alien pinball is deceivingly barren with only one mech and relies entirely on LCD to bring the world to life

"you're an idiot for staying very and on the LA because you're not getting anything. You're getting a piece of artwork that's amazing, that's covered up by the LCD screen. Then what else are you getting? They took away the gloss black trim."

Alien LE has nothing special compared to standard - just artwork covered by LCD screen

"you're an idiot if you did just go get an alien pinball refund and I'll tell you why you're an idiot and I mean this I don't want to be mean to you I don't want to challenge your intelligence but you're an idiot"

People still buying Alien Pinball after all the delays and problems are idiots

"If you went in on an alien LE, if you were one of the early adopters who put money down with Andrew Heighway to buy the LE game, as he described it, you're fucked. OK, just stand in front of a mirror and say, I'm fucked. And here's why you're fucked. We don't normally curse as much, because there is no alien LE."

Alien LE buyers are screwed - there is no real LE and Andrew Heighway had no plan for limited edition

"This isn't the alien game people really want it. I don't know, every time I see Hilton put up that image with there's so many shots and alien and with stupid lines going everywhere. It's a joke. This isn't the greatest pinball machine. This isn't the alien pinball machine people want it. I think it's a pinball machine with a great light show, great music and call outs by David Thiel."

Alien pinball machine is a joke - not the alien game people really wanted, just great lights and music

"I've always said that they should just make one version of Alien"

Alien LE should not exist - standard edition is sufficient

"I think the game is a miss. I always have felt it's a miss. I think the music is good. I think some of the LCD stuff is good. But the fact that there's no Ripley is a total miss. You don't even get the main character of the films in the game. And I think the artwork is really just mediocre at best."

Alien pinball is a miss - no Ripley, mediocre art, people should get refunds

"I think Alien Pinball is one of the most barren playfields I've ever seen. Tell me what the ball interacts with that's magical or awesome. I really don't see it."

Alien Pinball has one of the most barren playfields ever seen

"I would not want it to be at a show on the split without the major toy working right I think that's yeah if you take it to a show call them up and say hey look ship me out a working head or do something with the code"

Alien pinball has mechanical problems and shouldn't be shown at expo without major toys working

"You can't tell me those fiber optics on the rams when you look at them now and the way they're like zip tied It just feels like this wasn't part of the initial design like there could have been a better way to engineer"

Fiber optic rams on Alien look poor and zip-tied, not worth $800 option

"I think the artwork looks really cool. I think hand drawn artwork, it's done by Brian Allen, looks really, really dope, right? I don't think anyone looks at that art and says they're not happy. I do think that it's really curious as to why a completely new artist was brought on at this late stage to do the backglass."

Alien LE backglass artwork looks cool but creates confusion about artist changes

"I don't believe this stuff. I don't believe this stuff... I just don't believe that Fox is the delay. If that I would love to see some proof."

Doesn't believe Andrew Heighway's explanations about Alien delays and Fox licensing

"there's no yellow blade type aesthetic in alien it's such a tron move that everyone keeps moving over to other games I know it makes the ramps look cool but just that's not alien"

EL blades don't fit Alien's aesthetic - should have been LE exclusive

"I think that this game when it gets into the hands of the people that have been waiting for two plus years for it I think they're gonna be a lot more satisfied with the game then maybe how some of the people felt once they finally got the hobbit"

Alien Pinball will satisfy owners better than The Hobbit did after long development

"Ship it already. Get it to people. It's enough is there, enough is enough. Get the game on the line."

Alien Pinball is ready to ship despite minor issues - the game is complete enough as-is

"the light show and sounds just honestly blows away anything I've seen"

Alien Pinball's lighting and sound effects are phenomenal and top-notch

"I feel like the game plays a little clunky right now... The Atmosphere the game and the immersion which is something that you know Highways been talking about for a long time on the game seems to be really good"

Alien gameplay feels clunky but has great atmosphere and immersion

"There's a difference between Jersey Jack putting some dialed in on location months ago, and when dialed in's will actually ship. The gap there could be four to six months between real production begins. So I don't know what the case is. All I know is this. It's getting closer."

Questions whether Alien production games are actually shipping or just beta/prototype units being used for hype

"I think the game has one of the greatest light shows I've seen in any modern pinball game"

Alien Pinball has one of the greatest light shows in modern pinball

"I think the light show is great. The mode integration seems really well done"

Positive assessment of Alien pinball's light show and mode integration

"what I saw the photos, I come on guys, is everyone like so gullible where they see one thing and everyone's already popping the champagne... wait a minute, why did you only build one?"

Alien pinball shipping announcement is premature celebration - only one machine built doesn't prove production success

"there's a reason why alien LE is still not sold out because Andrew didn't put a real artist on the game"

Alien pinball LE is still not sold out because Andrew didn't put a real artist on the game

"And I guarantee you, when you see the LE artwork, you're not going to really see this tremendously different art package. And you're going to scratch your head and wonder why it took so long."

Prediction: When the Limited Edition artwork is revealed, it won't be tremendously different from the current version and people will wonder why it took so long to approve.

"I'm calling you out and all of you other people out there who have an alien get grow some xenomorph balls and come on canators pinball podcasts and tell me tell me why I'm wrong"

Challenges Alien buyers to defend their orders on the podcast

"look at alien the art package hasn't really excited people it hasn't blown people away the alien LE is still not sold out. I firmly believe that it that is 100% because of the art package if it was just visually beautiful. People would have gone in immediately"

Alien Pinball failed to sell out due to poor art package

"it's time now for them to stop bringing the game around to stop showing people the game until the game is working properly because the only thing that you accomplish when you bring a game that is not polished, that is not done at this stage, at this stage, because you're so far behind, is you are simply making people feel anxious and nervous about the game being finished anytime soon"

Heighway Pinball needs to stop showing Alien pinball at shows until the game is working properly

"the ones on the machine, they don't look good. They look really, really bad... There has to be a point where someone steps back and says, this just doesn't look good. This just doesn't look right"

The beacons on Alien pinball look terrible and Heighway Pinball lacks aesthetic judgment

"I know the momentum is pro alien on pinside, but I was really surprised how poorly it looked in person. I still think the playfield art is just not done well a populated playfield didn't change my impression of it. If I had to describe it it looked home brewed not a commercially produced product"

Alien looks homemade and cheap - not a commercial quality product at any price