Official table / theme idea suggestion thread

[acerry]

Table suggestion ... request... whatever you want to call it. I'm loving all of the table requests / wants / suggestions I'm seeing, but if I were a Zen developer, it'd be terribly hard to find all of the great suggestions and not miss one that was in some random, totally unrelated topic. So, I'd like to suggest we gather them and add to them in a specific thread.

I've seen a few that I'll start with and add my own:

Sonic the Hedgehog
Devil May Cry
Resident Evil
Disney animated movies
Cinderella
Fox and Hound
Pete's Dragon
Beauty and the Beast
Sword and the Stone
Aladdin
The Lion King
Scooby-Doo
Nickelodeon animated TV shows
Rugrats
Hey Arnold
Doug
Transformers
The Jetsons
The Flinstones
Power Rangers
Toy Story
How to Train Your Dragon
Monsters Inc
Finding Nemo
Final Fantasy

[Madmikeee]

Since licensing is an issue I am assuming that Zen will be sticking to mostly self created tables so here are a few of my ideas for custom tables.

I.T. Table based on us poor lan janitors who work in the computer field. Gremlins in the system, virus's, etc etc.

Hair bands and Heavy Metal, c'mon who doesn't want to play a cheesy hairband / metal music based pinball machine throw some dragons in there too

Zombie apocalypse...go ahead and jump on the bandwagon while it's universally hot. I have loved zombie movies for 30 years and would love to see a table based on the genre

A bettter Hot Rod/Classic car style board. Not a fan of V12 and I am a gearhead

Post apocalyptic. I am a huge Fallout series fan, and even though I am sure you would never get licensing to do a Fallout based table a cool post apocalyptic table would be a blast.

[parathod]

Monkey Island
Clockwork Orange
Tokyo
Fritz the Cat
Nightmare Before Christmas

More ideas:

Stephen King Books (The Stand, Dark Tower, etc.)
Flaming Lips
Castlevania
Cyberpunk
Critters (you can even use them as pinballs)
Dark Crystal/Labyrinth (mentioned in another thread by others)
Journey (PSN title, not band)
Clue
Aleister Crowley / Mystic
Casino (also mentioned by others)

[BarbieBobomb]

ERRMAGERRD! So many suggestions! Thanks for the requests, I will make sure the team sees this for sure!

[tenorhero]

There is a thread in the xbox forums that have great ideas.

here's one of my favs.

Back to the future - where you go to from 1985 to 1955/2015/1885 The ramps generally stay the same but other areas of the table changes depending on the year. I think it could be done.


Tombstone Could be a cool western theme. We haven't had a western themed table yet.

Great table ideas though

[Rafie]

Table suggestion ... request... whatever you want to call it. I'm loving all of the table requests / wants / suggestions I'm seeing, but if I were a Zen developer, it'd be terribly hard to find all of the great suggestions and not miss one that was in some random, totally unrelated topic. So, I'd like to suggest we gather them and add to them in a specific thread.

I've seen a few that I'll start with and add my own:

Sonic the Hedgehog
Devil May Cry
Resident Evil
Disney animated movies
Cinderella
Fox and Hound
Pete's Dragon
Beauty and the Beast
Sword and the Stone
Aladdin
The Lion King
Scooby-Doo
Nickelodeon animated TV shows
Rugrats
Hey Arnold
Doug
Transformers
The Jetsons
The Flinstones
Power Rangers
Toy Story
How to Train Your Dragon
Monsters Inc
Finding Nemo
Final Fantasy

You my friend are awesome. I have suggested the same things a few months ago, but it's refreshing to see that someone else holds my interest in those said titles there.

[acerry]

Or, how about, if they want some more kid-aimed easy tables, let's go with the current (or somewhat recent) hot kid's animations:

Dora the Explorer
Blue's Clues
CareBears
Tellytubbies (spelling?)
Little Einsteins

And I agree with you, Madmikeee, that all of these would be horrific to work deals out with, but I never claimed they were *doable*, just that they were theme suggestions. And to add to your original table idea:

Mother Nature: Fire, Wind, Water, Tornado, etc either work in harmony or wreck havoc on the world
Political Race(s): Red v Blue, Donkeys and Elephants, paper-cut outs of generic head shapes on sticks
Cats vs Dogs: (not necessarily the movie, but a generalized take on the same concept)
Competitive Horse Jumping: horse jumping competitions used to be pretty huge... could still be fun as a pinball game
Hockey / Basketball / Football / Baseball etc : Again, generalized concepts with no names / brands
Air Hockey: (I played an awesome version of just such a virtual pinball in one of the Windows open-source programs with an insane amount of flippers going in both directions, so that you had to be able to 'beat yourself', if you will)

[parathod]

They could do a table based off the One Thousand and One Nights aka the Arabian Nights. It's not quite Aladdin so you won't be able to hear Robin Williams, but the source material is much larger in scope anyway. By the same principle, I believe Grimm's Fairy Tales, Aesops fables, Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, the works of Homer, and Edgar Allen Poe's tales are all public domain.

When in doubt, just do a Gumby table.

[surf1der]

I must be old. All those ideas sounded terrible to me except the sports themed tables and maybe back to the future. What's with all the cartoons/pixar themes. I think archer is the only cartoon that has been mentioned that i would be interested in. And i only say that because zen has 0 comedy themed tables. Some comedy themed tables would be a nice change.

@parathod: there already is a pinball machine called tales of the arabian nights. You can play it on the pinball arcade.

[parathod]

@parathod: there already is a pinball machine called tales of the arabian nights. You can play it on the pinball arcade.

That might explain why I see the theme so vividly in my head though I've never played it ;p

[LumaFan")]

Here we go......

GREATEST PEOPLE PACK-Steve Jobs,etc

HOLIDAY PACK-Christmas,New Year's etc

SPORTS PACK-Soccer,Football,etc

LBP Table (LITTLE BIG PLANET)

I'd LOVE Holiday Pack Christmas table would look awesome!

[Bearded_Warrior]

Table suggestion ... request... whatever you want to call it. I'm loving all of the table requests / wants / suggestions I'm seeing, but if I were a Zen developer, it'd be terribly hard to find all of the great suggestions and not miss one that was in some random, totally unrelated topic. So, I'd like to suggest we gather them and add to them in a specific thread.

I've seen a few that I'll start with and add my own:

Sonic the Hedgehog
Devil May Cry
Resident Evil
Disney animated movies
Cinderella
Fox and Hound
Pete's Dragon
Beauty and the Beast
Sword and the Stone
Aladdin
The Lion King
Scooby-Doo
Nickelodeon animated TV shows
Rugrats
Hey Arnold
Doug
Transformers
The Jetsons
The Flinstones
Power Rangers
Toy Story
How to Train Your Dragon
Monsters Inc
Finding Nemo
Final Fantasy

Nice list. If I had to pick just one of those it would definitely be Final Fantasy. Especially if it was based on FFVII.

[acerry]

I must be old. All those ideas sounded terrible to me except the sports themed tables and maybe back to the future. What's with all the cartoons/pixar themes. I think archer is the only cartoon that has been mentioned that i would be interested in. And i only say that because zen has 0 comedy themed tables. Some comedy themed tables would be a nice change.

@parathod: there already is a pinball machine called tales of the arabian nights. You can play it on the pinball arcade.

Thank you for your input, surf, but I'm not trying to offend anyone or even suggest that everyone should buy every table they see. (In fact, I'm having a hard time grasping this mentality on these forums that some people seem to hold about 'I must buy every Zen table they ever make. Because I am a Zen zombie. Even if I do not like a table, I must buy it and I must play it. Braaaaiinnnzzzz!') I'm not even suggesting that ANY of the table themes I suggest would sell well, because I know most of them wouldn't. (If you were to ask me to only post table ideas that would create high profits, I couldn't say a word, because I'm not trained in that business.) That is up to the Zen (marketing? play-testing?) team to decide.

I was simply trying to collect my and others "wish list" of themes they *might* like to see. Because as a new non-lurker to the forums, I found them incrediby disorganized and chaotic with information repeated or hard to find or simply in a forum for a different platform (where I may never look!).

[Cruisix]

It may have been hovering around somewhere but i'd love to see a collaboration between Naughty Dog/Sony and Zen and bringing us an Uncharted themed table.

In my eyes an instant classic and on the top of my wishlist.

[JacklyJazz]

More old classic titels:

- Pac Man
- Space Invaders ( the old arcade theme )
- Ice Climber ( Nintendo )
- Star Wars
- Donky Kong ( Nintendo )