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Lord Of The Rings Pinball Machine Announced

Posted by simoniker on from the makes-perfect-sense dept.

Thanks to Retrogames for pointing to the news that a Lord Of The Rings pinball machine has been announced, courtesy of sole remaining pinball manufacturer Stern Pinball Inc. There are no pictures yet, but the press release reveals features including "...a Balrog toy that pivots when hit by the ball, revealing the jump ramp that leads to The One Ring", and the fact that "...players can knock down Barad-dur, which also features the eye of Sauron." The game "will begin shipping in November, 2003", and follows recent Stern machines such as The Simpsons Pinball Party and Terminator 3.

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  1. Re:Stern by keefer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, I've been brought out of my 2+ year shirking of /. because of this article. Hope you all are satisfied!

    The "designer" the pinball news article is referring to is the PLAYFIELD designer. I'm not a mechanical guy, though there's really no reason that I couldn't draw a playfield some day as plenty of other programmers have gone that route.

    I consider myself to be the game designer, or experience designer, or whatever, since I'm pretty much in charge of coordinating what's on the display, sounds, music, speech, writing the rules, etc. etc.

    It just depends on who's working on the game who the designer is. With other teams, the playfield designer is also the rules designer, and the programmer is just a code monkey. I'd sooner quit before that happened to me though.