![]() ![]() That said, serious fans of the movie might be a bit bummed by the Creature From The Black Lagoon table, though here I mean the original table, not just the two versions in the Williams Pinball Monster Pack. Which can be a problem since, as I mentioned, there’s a pond in the area just above the flippers, and - on both tables - you can see the titular swamp thing swimming around, almost like he’s trying to distract you. As a result, the ball really picks up speed when you play, often quickly shooting downward in unexpected ways. While the lower half is largely clear of obstacles, the top is a mess of ramps and pathways, with a bunch of bumpers hidden beneath. As always, the ball physics are spot-on, and the multitude of camera angles recreates what it’s like to play the real thing if you’re tall, short, or, er, a ghost hovering over the table.Īs for how the tables in the Williams Pinball Monster Pack stack up, it’s basically a draw, with the two being different but not radically so, and equally fun and challenging.įirst up in the Williams Pinball Monster Pack is…Ĭreature From The Black Lagoon, which is a comparatively simple table as these things go. But in playing them, it’s clear the good people at Zen Studios have done an impressive job of recreating these classic tables. Of course, without the smell of stale beer, the tables in the Williams Pinball Monster Pack can only be so realistic. Instead, the updated version swaps the static spiders hanging out by the flippers for two who move like they’re digging on some groovy tunes, man. The changes are much less noticeable in the Monster Bash table, which already had 3D versions of Frankenstein’s Monster and other characters on it. Where the original Creature From The Black Lagoon had an image of the titular monster in the mid-table swamp, the updated version instead has a 3D version that looks like an animated action figure crawling up from the muck. Instead, they’ve made two versions of each machine: one a spot-on recreation of the original, and one that has updated visuals. ![]() In Williams Pinball Monster Pack are all based on real pinball machines, they don’t boast the mechanically- and fiscally-impossible gameplay mechanics of Zen Studios’ original tables. It is part of that ongoing series that we find Williams Pinball Monster Pack, which features two classic tables: 1992’s Creature From The Black Lagoon, which was loosely based on the 1954 movie of the same name, and 1998’s Monster Bash, in which Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Bride Of Frankenstein, The Wolfman, and the aforementioned Black Lagoon resident teamed up Avengers-style.Ĭreature From The Black Lagoon (original) Things like TIE Fighters dogfighting over the Star Wars: The Last Jedi table.īut since 2018 Zen Studios have also been recreating classic pinball tables made by Williams, starting with Williams Pinball: Volume 1. All of which pair realistic ball physics and sound effects with elaborate mechanics that would be physically and financially impossible in a real table. ![]() The game is essentially a free platform on which its creators, Zen Studios, usually present their own pinball tables. Which is good news for both monster mashers and pinball lovers alike. There’s also the BBC’s upcoming BBC miniseries, Dracula, which clearly owes as much to Universal’s 1931 movie as it does Bram Stoker’s novel, while the entire film series recently inspired the board game Horrified: Universal Monsters.Īnd now two of their classic pinball tables are being brought back to life in the Williams Pinball Monster Pack for Pinball FX3 (Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Switch, PC, Mac, iOS, Android). Director Guillermo Del Toro has said repeatedly that his movie Shape Of Water was inspired by Creature From The Black Lagoon, while the creator of the titular creature, Millicent Patrick, was recently the subject of Mallory O’Meara’s excellent biography / memoir The Lady From The Black Lagoon. While the proposed Monsterverse movie series is deader than a zombie with a gunshot to the head, the Universal Monsters are still very much alive and kicking. ![]()
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