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Fair enough: Star Trek Pro on the Stern side of things shows that you can have a real table, using real mechanics, create a successful, flashy and engaging table.ĭoctor Who: Master of Time does none of these things. Some people scoff at that, claiming that classic pinball is the way to go. Zen has really gotten this down to an art with ridiculous, physics bending designs and unreal representation of what you can do with a singular table. For example, if you’re going to be making your own table, and it’ll only exist as a digital entity, you gotta go for the throat. That’s not to say Farsight is forbidden from making original tables, but I think there are certain ideas in place. First and foremost, Farsight’s claim to fame is faithful reproductions of older tables a la Stern and making sure things are grounded in reality.

Unfortunately, there’s a lot, a lot to not love in this particular table. The promise is there, right down to an actual, miniature TARDIS that sits smack in the upper register of the table.

Cybermen, Daleks, Angels and more all appear in some variation, aligned with Missy and throwing themselves in your way. After all, making a table where you play the Doctor, and you’re trying to take down the Master, is like creating a video game where Mario is trying to foil Bowser “someplace at some time.” It probably happened, and it’s not like it’ll affect the canon anyways, so why not dive whole hog in? Besides those characters, basically every iconic beast from recent memory shows up on the table as well. Set in the most recent arc, the table features actual voice clips from Peter Capaldi (the Twelfth Doctor) and Michelle Gomez (Missy/The Master) and has a mostly believable storyline. Out the gate, Doctor Who: Master of Time has a lot of promise in terms of delivering for fans. Doctor Who is easily one of the most rabid, loyal fanbases out there, and spans several decades. So a Doctor Who table for The Pinball Arcade seems like a smart move on Farsight’s part, at least from an outsider perspective. Fandom, you see, is the fuel that keeps even the smallest flame burning long, long after the main kindling went to ash (Firefly, anyone?).

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The Balls of Glory expansion for Pinball FX3 may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s universally agreed that the handling of the series that get jammed into the four set are hilariously well done. Branded tables are something that can make a pinball game really come to life, and, in several instances, help overshadow glaringly boring tables with adventurous and iconic characters.

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