After all, the last new table pack Zen released was back in November of 2020. The only thing that troubled people about the VR announcement was that while yes, The Mandalorian and Star Wars Classic Collectibles (the other new table) would be coming to PinFX, there was still no release date on that and people were worried about how long the wait would be. Being able to lean over the cab, altering your viewing angle to better view the ball, for tables that exist purely in a digital space, it’s the closest you can get to playing a real machine. For the record, pinball in VR is kinda awesome.
This game will actually be released toward the end of April for Oculus Quest 2, PlayStation VR, and on Steam VR. In their second episode they announced Star Wars VR, an 8 game package that would feature 2 new tables, one of those being based on The Mandalorian. You may recall last time I wrote about their first episode, which served as an announcement for their new pinball platform, Pinball FX. It’s a heavily scripted ‘interview’ show that essentially is an infomercial for getting Zen’s news out to the public. Zen has been putting together a monthly show on YouTube called The Pinball Show. To the hard core fans of Zen pinball, many are acting like it’s an asteroid ready to cause a mass extinction. Reason being, to the casual observer the news I’m reporting might not be anything earth shattering. This article in particular I’ll be curious to hear from your reaction. The response has been great, real and digital pinball fandom can co-exist, glad I can take you all on the journey. So yep, when Jeff asked me to write for TWIP, I really didn’t know what the reception would be.
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Then there was the look I’d get if I brought up a full size virtual cabinet to sit amongst their collection of machines.
When I was in a monthly pinball league and the topic of my passion for digital pinball would come up, a lot of players would sorta look at me strange and say something to the effect of “if I want to play pinball, I’ll play pinball. Before I jump into the big news that is causing all sorts of havoc across the various forums that discuss digital pinball, I wanted to just say thanks to you the TWIP audience for showing a genuine interest in this digital corner of pinball fandom.
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