Comments on: What Arcade Games Can Teach Us About UX http://johnnyholland.org/2012/01/what-arcade-games-can-teach-us-about-ux/ It's all about interaction Wed, 05 Jun 2013 06:03:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Samuel Ericson: Stuff I read last week (w. 10) http://johnnyholland.org/2012/01/what-arcade-games-can-teach-us-about-ux/#comment-118418 Samuel Ericson: Stuff I read last week (w. 10) Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:27:18 +0000 http://johnnyholland.org/?p=15786#comment-118418 [...] What Arcade Games Can Teach Us About UX “Don’t follow trends. Your competitors may have flashy slideshows, social features, and even walk-on videos. But, you should resist using the latest features in your designs unless they create a solid improvement in user experience.” [...] [...] What Arcade Games Can Teach Us About UX “Don’t follow trends. Your competitors may have flashy slideshows, social features, and even walk-on videos. But, you should resist using the latest features in your designs unless they create a solid improvement in user experience.” [...]

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]]> By: Jon Abrams http://johnnyholland.org/2012/01/what-arcade-games-can-teach-us-about-ux/#comment-118391 Jon Abrams Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:44:21 +0000 http://johnnyholland.org/?p=15786#comment-118391 Great article! One tiny quibble about Pinball 2000. The Pinball 2000 platform was not a flop. The two games released for it sold at much higher volume than the previous ones. The problem was that Williams, the publicly traded company, was seeing much greater profits from their rapidly growing video slot machine division and decided to can the pinball division. There's a whole lot of politics and drama surrounding Pinball 2000. I highly recommend the documentary "Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball" which chronicles this incredible chapter in interactive entertainment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIolBJwH9p0 The real reason why Stern is still around, and Williams is not (as a pinball company at least), is because Stern in privately owned, and only produces pinball. Williams' board members couldn't justify operating a relatively tiny, thin margin, pinball division while trying to expand an extremely lucrative slots business. Great article!

One tiny quibble about Pinball 2000. The Pinball 2000 platform was not a flop. The two games released for it sold at much higher volume than the previous ones. The problem was that Williams, the publicly traded company, was seeing much greater profits from their rapidly growing video slot machine division and decided to can the pinball division. There’s a whole lot of politics and drama surrounding Pinball 2000. I highly recommend the documentary “Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball” which chronicles this incredible chapter in interactive entertainment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIolBJwH9p0

The real reason why Stern is still around, and Williams is not (as a pinball company at least), is because Stern in privately owned, and only produces pinball. Williams’ board members couldn’t justify operating a relatively tiny, thin margin, pinball division while trying to expand an extremely lucrative slots business.

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