Watching y'all reach for the word "art deco" when describing this art, but never getting it was KILLING me. I agree with Zach tho, love the playfield. Looks beautiful! And I appreciate the tour of the machine, that one was in great condition!
That is correct. In Germany almost nothing under 6000 Euros. I was looking for one with defects to refurbish, but i had no luck One of the best movie-Pinballs ever.
I really love the different feel to ramps because of the diverters. The ball lock and mini play field is great too. But the art and theme don't call out to me (the one I play don't have the modded trans light / back glass). Thanks for another great episode and review! 👍🏼
I know the pin is based off the movie but when it comes to The Shadow it's the old radio program that you have to consider. I commute and listen to audio books and old radio and The Shadow is legit.
Hello fellas, I have owned a shadow machine for years and absolutely love it except for it randomly resets during play. The worst was when I had like 3 shots left to conquer the final battle and the machine reset! Does anyone have any advice on fixing this reset issue? I have replaced the power board and cpu with german made pin led ones and still have this issue.
very nice show...watching it sitting directly byside my shadow in my swinning chair... perhaps a idea for one of our next shows: what spareparts are only available in which store or in which country around the world or from some users of pinside or other forums... greetings from germany
Shadow is an awesome machine, of all my machines that have come and gone the shadow is the only one I know I will own again one day. One thing worth mentioning about the music and callouts is they are amazingly crisp/clear/dynamic, or at least they were on my machine ( standard speakers fitted, no pinsound etc ), probably the best sound quality I've come across until GB came out. Also the slingshots on mine were very powerful, I don't know why but they were really fast.
It will be a keeper in my collection for a long time. If you have never played it with a colordmd installed you are missing out, because color in this game is amazing, easily top 5.
In episode 9 while you're reviewing Johnny Mnemonic your Star Trek game in the background shows a last game score of 26,158,690, the same score it shows in this episode 23. You've got that great game sitting there and you haven't played it since March 31st? Or do you do several episodes at a time and release them weekly in no particular order?
Damn man good eye. We often record a couple episodes at a time to save travel time (2hrs in between our homes). The Shadow episode kept slipping down our schedule for some reason. Thanks for watching and supporting the show buddy. Star Trek is gone......for now
Top 5 game for me, love mine. The art-deco playfield is beautiful but you need to have the Aurich package to supplement it. No pop bumpers make it so quick! Made it to final battle maybe 5 times, been 4 shots from completing it. Great review again guys :)
Art: B Shots/Layout: B+ Rules/Code: B Toys/Innovation: B Music/Call Outs: B+ Theme: B+ I found myself bouncing back and forth between B and B+ for every category. Toys/Innovation -- underwhelming. Black Knight and Flash Gordon also have good upper playfields.
Great episode. The Shadow was actually the machine that got me back into pinball by playing it at a local arcade about a year ago. The ramps can be brutal.
Gee Zach, do you give anything besides an A? I think I saw a B! Anyway great review, and now I got to find one for sale because of this video. Great job.
Took me a long time to get to like Shadow, admittedly. It's definitely not a game for the conservative player (ironic given the number of fan-shot layouts derived from what he did afterwards), it's brutal when it's set up properly and the license did it no favours whatsoever at the time, but give it time and you'll appreciate how it's 'different' rather than 'gimmicky'. And this was Brian Eddy's first solo design. Nobody can take that away from him.
The shadow looks like a really damn fun game to play but I'm with Greg on this one I don't really think it's the most attractive looking game ever lol.
I had a really nice Shadow but sold it. Didn't gel with me. I even bought the Aurich translite too. The artwork on the playfield sucks. I really don't know why its rated so highly..