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Is this a similar case to an 80's film (Uncle Buck? King Ralph?) that my sometime colleague Clive told me about? A Pin-Bot was seen/heard being played, even with character dialogue "I got a replay..". However, a glimpse of the displays showed the digits '00', as when the game was booted up and left in Attract Mode
Often in telly soaps the fruit machine(s) visible in bar scenes aren't actually running, but in a 'door open' state, so that roughly half the lamps remain lit steadily, alternating to the other half on a long interval to provide light inside for techs while preventing overheat damage to the vac-form plastics holding the lamps
The Yankees do always seem to use e/m sounds, don't they? The only time that I recall hearing a machines' proper audio was in an Argentine film where a Williams Flash in a café scene had the right sound effects
A combination of licensing and expectations I suspect.
Much easier (cheaper) to use em pinball noises than licensed music from pins. Also the general public expect a pinball to make pinball noises, mainly because that what they hear on tv and the movies
Better Call Saul is the best thing I have seen on TV right now, by a margin. I almost gave up on the first season after a couple of shows as it seemed so pedestrian compared to Breaking Bad.
'er indoors watches virtually zero TV, but binges this.
The person I know that watches the most TV rates this as the best show right now too.