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Pinball Wizards Join Forces for Kickstarter Project
Pat Lawlor - creator of best-selling and highest rated pinball machines of all time - to design new, exclusive table for PC, Mac and iOS reboot
Oxfordshire, UK. September
5th, in the year of our Lord 2012. Silverball Studios
today announced that it has launched a Kickstarter campaign to
fund the revival and remastering of Pro Pinball® - widely
regarded as the best pinball simulation ever made.
The campaign went live this morning, September 5th, with the
team at Silverball looking to raise a minimum of $400,000 to
fund this much-anticipated project.
The team promises that with the funding received from a
successful Kickstarter campaign they will be giving the fans
more than they would ever expect. The first promise made by the
development team is that they will revive the series with a
brand new ultimate Pro Pinball® table. To do this in the most
authentic way possible, the team have enlisted the help of
pinball legend Pat Lawlor, creator of the best selling pinball
table of all time, The Addams Family, and the highest rated
pinball table of all time, The Twilight Zone.
“Being involved with this project is hugely exciting. The team
at Silverball is the only choice when it comes to virtual
pinball. This project is like a dream come true for me too,
without the usual economic constraints of the real world, I can
explore design strategies that would normally be impossible.”
said Pat Lawlor.
The second promise, if the project receives full funding, is
that the team will fully remaster the four original Pro Pinball®
tables for PC, Mac and iOS.
“When the Pro Pinball® games were first made we pushed the
hardware to the limit, but time has moved on and now we can do
so much more! Our plan is to fully remaster the four tables to
ensure that the original, and hugely popular, classics maintain
their authenticity whilst looking and playing the best they can.
Plus you will finally be able to take Pro Pinball wherever you
go and play on an iPad or iPhone!” said Adrian Barritt, CEO of
Silverball Studios.
The Pro Pinball® series was created in 1995 by a team of
developers at Cunning Developments, headed up by Silverball CEO
Adrian Barritt. Since Silverball Studios was set up the team
have created new pinball games; Mario Pinball Land, Metroid
Prime Pinball, Pinball Pulse: The Ancients Beckon and Frogger
Pinball.
“All of our Pinball titles at Silverball have been a huge
success but not a day goes past without a fan asking me when we
are going to bring back the original Pro Pinball tables. So now,
after all these years, we really want to answer those questions
with "soon". Funding this project through Kickstarter will mean
that we can get input from those fans that back the project, and
we can also keep to the ethos of no compromise when it comes to
quality and realism.” added Barritt.
In return for their pledge, Kickstarter backers will receive a
wide range of reward items, including signed boxed copies of the
tables in the series; classic and new, and the opportunity to
appear on the back-glass of the new table, drawn by the great
John Youssi; the artist responsible for a the back-glass artwork
for The Addams Family, The Twilight Zone and Medieval Madness.
Plus the team are creating a series of metal Pro Pinball®
badges, in Chrome, Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum; and these
collectors' items will only be available to the Kickstarter
backers.
This project is set to be a major milestone in the world of
pinball and in light of the team´s passion for pinball games and
the dedication of the fans of the original series, Silverball
are confident that with the backing required, fans will not be
disappointed.
To visit the Kickstarter page and pledge your support, please
visit:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/1790321238/pro-pinball-revived-and-remastered
To visit the Pro Pinball® website please go to:
www.pro-pinball.com
To follow Pro Pinball® on Facebook or Twitter please go:
www.facebook.com/propinball and
www.twitter.com/propinball