Seeing how the MM on ebay has now already passed the 7k barrier I was thinking about the OZ remake.
What exactly did go wrong? Why did it prove impossible to clone an old machine? Was it the parts or boards? Was it that they ran out of money halfway through production? I've always been a bit surprised that there was never playfields released for MM and CC as a way of generating funds (I know the whitewoods were for sale....just not sure why you would want one). I would have thought that the playfield would have been one of the easier things to recreate.
Given the attempts to convert Congo etc to MM I'd be really surprised if it wasn't commercially viable to get a contractor in China to reproduce a run of 1000 boards. Was it the R&D costs for Croc hunter that killed it? Were there not enough pre-orders to pay the costs?
Not having a pop at Wayne here.:boink: When I bought a few bits off him last year he was straightforward to deal with and the stuff turned up quickly. Just wondering what the main issue was?
What exactly did go wrong? Why did it prove impossible to clone an old machine? Was it the parts or boards? Was it that they ran out of money halfway through production? I've always been a bit surprised that there was never playfields released for MM and CC as a way of generating funds (I know the whitewoods were for sale....just not sure why you would want one). I would have thought that the playfield would have been one of the easier things to recreate.
Given the attempts to convert Congo etc to MM I'd be really surprised if it wasn't commercially viable to get a contractor in China to reproduce a run of 1000 boards. Was it the R&D costs for Croc hunter that killed it? Were there not enough pre-orders to pay the costs?
Not having a pop at Wayne here.:boink: When I bought a few bits off him last year he was straightforward to deal with and the stuff turned up quickly. Just wondering what the main issue was?