{"id":10002,"date":"2014-01-29T10:44:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T07:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=10002"},"modified":"2014-01-29T10:44:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T07:44:21","slug":"the-shadow-over-the-invisible-lovecraft-pinball-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/01\/29\/the-shadow-over-the-invisible-lovecraft-pinball-table\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shadow over the Invisible Lovecraft Pinball Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lovecraftconcept.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lovecraftconcept.jpg\" alt=\"lovecraftconcept\" width=\"372\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10003\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nope, sadly it doesn&#8217;t exist, seemingly being just a concept mock-up for a total makeover of a classic old <em>Ghost Busters<\/em> solid-state pinball table from the 1980s.  It seems the guy went with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tristatechapter.com\/arcade\/ghostbusters\/ghostbusters.html\">a straight refurbishment<\/a> rather than a Lovecraft mod.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rather amazing to realise there&#8217;s no digital pinball table for the PC for any Lovecraft story. There <em>was<\/em> a very obscure, but well-reviewed, Sega Saturn game made by Japanese, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/nfgworld.com\/mb\/thread\/55-Necronomicon-Pinball\">Digital Pinball: Necronomicon<\/a><\/em>.  Today it looks more than a little basic, compared to the latest Marvel <em>Doctor Strange<\/em> pinball table&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/necro6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/necro6.png?w=529\" alt=\"necro6\" width=\"529\" height=\"370\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10004\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/docstrange.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/docstrange.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"docstrange\" width=\"529\" height=\"297\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10005\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So there seems a whole lot of room for a Kickstarter here, to develop a nice three-table Lovecraft pinball game.  One of the tables might even be based on Lovecraft the man, maybe with a &#8220;get back home to Providence from the hell of New York&#8221; theme: subways, trains, towers, libraries, night-walks, lack of money, all providing natural game elements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nope, sadly it doesn&#8217;t exist, seemingly being just a concept mock-up for a total makeover of a classic old Ghost &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/01\/29\/the-shadow-over-the-invisible-lovecraft-pinball-table\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}