Here's A Totally Sweet Digital Pinball Setup I Would Like To Own

Needs more moving parts.

DO WANT!

If this had a decent control scheme, that's a pretty damn awesome pinball table subsitute. However, can't you just buy a real table for less then the price of that huge-ass tv? Or am I totally underestimating the price of pinball tables?

What a great idea, it actually looks pretty good. You could get some “cheap” parts and have one set up the whole time. Lacks the soul of a real machine but at least you can get it up stairs without killing yourself.

This looks completely awesome. Probably a really expensive setup, but then physical machines are pretty expensive anyway.

A Real virtually real pinball machine. Sexy.

How do they control it?

Someone has some spare time

It's real cool and all but it seems like a waste of a good HDTV.

DUDE!!!! thats sooo cool.
Emulating REAL pinball machines like this is awesome!
and with today's technologies, they can make it look just as good as the real thing.

That's actually really cool.

That looks cool, I enjoy the Real deal myself.
What WOULD be cool is if people made Actual Vurual arcade machines like this, instead of a tv and monitor its an actual machine but with screens instead of moving parts, would lack some authenticity, but it would last longer and still serve its purpose.

That is really neat. I have been digging pinball lately, but mostly play simulations at home on the PS2. The conditions of the 6 or 7 machines at Gameworks is just sad. Several of them are programmed oddly, spitting out extra balls randomly. The South Park table is just flat out missing some parts, etc. A setup like this would be so awesome.

Wow, thats really neat.
I would love to have something set up like that.

Thats looks amazingly wicked. But like Meatsim says, seems like a bit of a waste of a perfectly good TV to use it like that. But if you have a spare one laying around, why not.

I've never been one for digital pinball, nothing seems to emulate the feel of a real system.

They actually produced something like this commercially called Ultrapin, with 'realistic' nudging etc.

That never took off either!

Nick
The Pinball Blog

I can see this taking off because you could have multiple tables on one machine, that way, one machine can have a broad appeal.  Also, good for the few places that do have pinball machines, because all's you need to get a new table is update the software.

I dunno. Is their force feedback? There's something about feeling the ball slamming into shit in the machine that I think would be missing here.

Real pinball machines are relatively expensive, depending on rarity and a host of external factors. $2000 is a pretty reasonable price for an average machine. My father has one (a.k.a, the Medieval Madness one that Tina Fey is in) that he could probably sell for somewhere around $8000 and up.

That's awesome, I want that too.

I had an idea like this a while back, except it used 120hz screen with stereoscopic glasses and infra red head tracking for proper depth perspective.

Would be best to set the screen on a real/replicated pinball cabinet with force feedback, flipper buttons, and a pull spring launcher. I could see pinball making a comeback in bars if it was dynamic like the technology now allows.

Cool!

After reading the post I downloaded the software and got the same kinda setup working, dual monitors with a HDTV and a PC monitor. Not hard to do at all. The worst part was moving my PC and TV and setting it all up, but the software itself is easy enough and theres plenty of tables to download. Thanks for the Heads up Jeff.

That's something I would have in my living room.

Practical.

Jeff your love of pinball and the posts about it are adorably niche, b/c pinball is great, but YOU KNOW its not relevant. but still fun

I'm impressed.

Very, very cool.  I'd really like to try out that table they are playing, "Dead Honkeys".

what about tilt?
its just not pinball without tilt.

his digital pinball setup is sweet, but man, dude sure doesn't know how to make an interesting youtube video. We get it, there's a menu. Play a damn game.