Seawitch or Hot Wheels?

[StevOz]

Just trawling through IPDB as you do...

Internet Pinball Machine Database: Zaccaria 'Hot Wheels' Images

www.ipdb.org

Does seem a very similar design, did Stern copy Zaccaria?

 

[AnonTet]

Apart from the graphics it looks exactly the same. Anyone cares to mod my Seawitch table into that? Just saying (he says innocently) :D

Note to self: Seawitch could use an update to FizX 3...

 

[StevOz]

Apart from the graphics it looks exactly the same.

There is the centre swing target and single out lanes, embedded kickers instead of slings and the third flipper, otherwise the layout looks to be the same.

 

[Pop Bumper Pete]

I think if you look at most EMs, the same layouts are used over and over
There is only so much you can do with 3 pop bumpers and 8 targets/lanes

 

[StevOz]

There is only so much you can do with 3 pop bumpers and 8 targets/lanes

So you do have Stern shares in your portfolio?

 

[Pop Bumper Pete]

So you do have Stern shares in your portfolio?

No classic Sterns

 

[StevOz]

No classic Sterns

Given all the classic Sterns of the time, I would go Big Game, because it was Big in girth and ruleset.

 

[Pop Bumper Pete]

Given all the classic Sterns of the time, I would go Big Game, because it was Big in girth and ruleset.

It is a popular game
Most Sterns are

 

[AnonTet]

In my phone they looked the same. on a larger screen however... Still very similar.
Has to design copying and all that, maybe geometry dictated more the rules with just different elements being placed on the table. Along with art.

Not so much different as theme modding nowadays. I see a lot of tables based off JPSalas tables actually.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

Apart from the graphics it looks exactly the same.

Not quite, but I get the sense that the market came down to what was worth launching a lawsuit versus what wasn't.

I.e., an exact copy is a slam dunk of a lawsuit, while a 'sorta-kinda' copy means larger lawyer fees, with more uncertain outcomes.

So like Tevye said--