Silver Ball Century ep. 70 - Mid-1994 - Welcome to the Rumble

In this episode we're going to see possibly my favorite Data East game, Guns N' Roses, which I would also say is the first band-themed pinball game that convincingly plays their actual music. (Cactus Jack's and Al's Garage Band don't count.) Unlike most of Data East's previous games, we won't see a "Coming Attraction" attract-mode ad for it on a previous table. The recurring feature where Data East games would advertise an upcoming game, with a light show and DMD animation, was on the way out when we played Tommy last episode. We never saw the promo for WWF Royal Rumble, even after sitting through the entire credits of the touring musical. Orin Day, who designed code for Data East and Sega's pinball games, posted on rec.games.pinball (as quoted here on Pinside) that the "coming attractions" screens were causing problems with licensors and operators. For one thing, operators would see the next game advertised and decide "maybe I'll wait for that one instead". Data East's coders changed…

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