Alien Pinball

"I think this game looks halfway there and I have to say It would have looked so much better with hand drawn cabinet art from the Alien Universe Like Geiger style art Instead of having the playfield look a lot more generic Alien clip art"

Alien pinball artwork looks generic and halfway finished compared to other themed games

"Overall, I think that it is a really nice package... I do feel like that there are some areas still where it feels a little bit like a scrapbook... it almost feels like four different sections of art that were sort of dropped in"

Mixed reaction to Alien pinball artwork - technically solid but feels disjointed

"I think it's going to get mixed reaction... when I zoom out and look at the machine next to what's going to come out I think it's going to look cheaper than the competition"

Alien pinball delayed too long and may look cheap compared to expo competition

"I guarantee you all the fanboys in the alien thread are now thinking October, October, October, October, definitely by November, definitely by November, definitely by Thanksgiving, definitely by, and if you miss any of those dates, these"

Prediction: Fanboys will interpret tentative timelines as definite dates and will be disappointed if those dates are missed.

"But everyone's favorite Ghostbusters critic, Alien Highways creative pinball director is still talking crap about Ghostbusters. A machine everybody loves... He went on the Facebook and said that the video modes are shit on Ghostbusters. He's still talking smack, guys, can we all just stop with all the smack talking of other people's machines for once"

Calling out Alien Highway's creative director for talking trash about Ghostbusters

"I think Alien and what they're going for. I really think the bezel and the legs and everything should just be all black. I think it should be shiny black"

Alien pinball should have all black cabinet hardware

"I say we have to wait until all the toys and all lights and everything is on the machine and then we say oh well they showed you."

Alien playfield art criticism may be premature until all toys and mechanisms are installed

"What are we getting with alien people it is the exact same thing there's just a bunch of little clip art drop everything is clip art there's nothing drawn on on all of alien"

Harsh criticism of Alien pinball art and design

"it looks like a bunch of clip art is just dropped on to this black canvas I don't I don't know how anyone can get excited by just this clip art drop that is the alien playfield"

Alien pinball playfield art looks like clip art dropped on black canvas

"What I said was why would you start working on art and the game and the programming until you've had those negotiations finalized? Because I do think and I think all of you out there, whether you're in on alien or not agree that adding characters and call outs from the actors makes a game better."

Highway revealed Alien pinball too early before finalizing actor contracts

"I think Alien Art is okay. I don't think it's a home run slam dunk... I kind of wish if you ordered the backbox screen, you could get rid of the playfield one. It is like having two TVs showing the same thing."

Alien playfield artwork is mediocre - not a home run but acceptable, hurt by having LCD screen in middle of playfield

"I hope you guys get your alien pinball machine. But if people lose money and people get burned, I don't care. I don't care because people have constantly time and time again shown one quality on Pinside that you take at face value, what a pinball manufacturer tells you"

If people lose money on alien pinball, Kaneda doesn't care because they ignore red flags

"I still think you're going to see alien pinball remanufactured. All right. And I'm still confident that it's going to be Chicago gaming. It might be another manufacturer. But again, who would, who else would it be other than American pinball?"

Still believes Alien pinball will be remanufactured in the US, likely by Chicago Gaming Company or American Pinball

"Do I think this art package looks as good as like Ghostbusters? I don't think it's even close."

Alien artwork doesn't compare favorably to Ghostbusters

"we need to submit it for Fox for approval. And we did that nine months ago and we're still waiting for an answer... They're all sitting around the table and they're like, who the fuck sign this deal? Who the fuck are these guys over there in the UK?"

Alien Pinball development is stalled due to Fox licensing approval delays

"It's a little like busy. It's funny that I say it now that all everything's down. But if I look at the Playfield art, there just seems to be a lot going on that doesn't always tie together in my mind."

Alien pinball playfield artwork is busy and doesn't tie together well visually

"Highway has done the complete opposite. They announced a release date for Alien in 2014. They've since fumbled to have updates. The designer left. They showed the playfield art. It was underwhelming. They haven't sold out of their LEDs. They're just sort of slowly getting to some sort of finish line on this pinball machine and it's just been marketed terribly."

Heighway Pinball's handling of Alien Pinball has been marketed terribly and is a complete cluster

"I am betting you that Alien Pinball will not ship in the month of September. If Alien Pinball ships in the month of September, I will not do a Kaneda's Pinball podcast that entire month."

Alien Pinball will not ship in September 2016 - willing to bet entire month of podcasting

"You know what it looks like to me? A late 80s themed trapper keeper. Dole grey black plastic covered photoshopped bullshit. It is the trapper keeper of pinball machines."

Dutch Pinball's Alien game looks cheap and uninspiring despite great license

"When you miss release dates over and over again, there comes a point where people are going to raise red flags... When you show up to the biggest coin-opt show in all of Europe and your machine is broken, broken, how is that progress?"

Red flags about alien pinball delays and refund issues should concern buyers more