Late yesterday the new company Wonderland Amusements shared the first look at art for the inexpensive pinball machine that it is currently working on, Alice Goes to Wonderland (see below).
This morning a “Launching Soon” page for the project appeared on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. It will be very interesting to see if the project funds once it goes live.
“We knew when we hired Carlos Mendoza III to create the artwork for Alice Goes to Wonderland that we were in for something special - and he hasn’t disappointed! Today, we’re excited to share the first look at some of his incredible work!
In more news, the dev team is headed back to Asia next week to see Alice prototype 2.0 which will include some of Carlos' art as well as version 0.1 of the game code. Stay tuned for more updates!
Meantime, enjoy Carlos' art - and let us know what you think in the comments!”
After shipping its first game at the end of 2024, overnight the pinball manufacturer Homepin shares a number of a bunch of Blues Brothers pinball machines on the assembly line.
I’ve been keeping a close eye on this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas for interesting pinball and arcade stuff. I already talked about how Stern Pinball showed off its latest cornerstone game Dungeons and Dragons at the event.
Switching over to the arcade side of things, a new company called Iconic Arcade has thrown its hat into the home arcade arena with two multi-game machines. It showed off two 9/10 size cabinets powered by Raspberry Pi 5s. The machines have Street Fighter art and include 14 licensed Capcom games for $700.
The maker of small collectible arcade machines, My Arcade showed off a lot of cool stuff at CES as well, a couple of which caught my eye.
The first interesting one is a handheld game developed in conjunction with Atari called the GameStation.
Machines and software that contain classic Atari games is nothing new. I own just about every old school Atari game both on Steam for PCs and on my Nintendo Switch. The thing that caught my eye with the GameStation is its unique controllers. In addition to the normal joystick and buttons, it has a mini trackball, a spinner, a number pad.
My Arcade and Atari also showed off a mini pinball machine called the "Balls of Steel Player Pro." I like the idea here, but $150 for a little machine that as far as I know is not expandable and includes games that I already own on Steam seems like a little much.
Now If I could get something like this that would import all of the tables that I own in Zen's Pinball FX for that price I would be interested.
My Arcade showed off a number of other devices featuring classic games from SEGA, Bandai Namco and Capcom, but the last item I want to mention is actually a new unlicensed product that it showed off...a mini gambling machine. I love playing poker. I also love all sorts of other casino games when I don't actually lose real money playing them, like slot machines, roulette, video poker, etc... This last device, the My Arcade Casino Player appears to include all of those.
"With over 20 timeless casino and card games, players can enjoy favorites like roulette, slot machine, baccarat, poker, blackjack and many more. Both devices are thoughtfully designed to combine portability with high quality features, ensuring users enjoy an engaging and immersive gaming experience."
