Silver Ball Century ep. 65 - Late 1992 - Star Fish

I think 1992 is one of the peaks of pinball, alongside 1980 and 1933. You can tell how much people appreciate the games from 1992 from how many of them have high-quality recreations by VPin Workshop. Two episodes ago, we saw the best-selling table of the era, The Addams Family. Now Data East has landed one of the biggest licenses possible, Star Wars, and had a lot of fun with it. Fish Tales is often the machine you love to hate. It's tough but fair, and it's an original theme that resonates with a lot of people, and that flapping fish topper is taunting you as your ball goes down the middle. Bally/Williams has their own aquatic creature, the Creature from the Black Lagoon. It's licensed from Universal and based on the 1954 film. But would you recognize the scenes or characters from that film? Probably not. So they took it in a fun and different direction: the theme is about going to a drive-in theater to watch Creature from the Black Lagoon, complete with '50s music, a snack bar, and…