Today, at a seminar at the Dutch Pinball Open Expo in Veldhoven, the head of Dutch Pinball, Barry Driessen, gave the audience the first view of the company’s next release, Back to the Future.
The game was revealed in a teaser which showed virtual images of the cabinet and backbox, along with a glimpse of the area of the playfield between the slingshots.
The artwork is by Christopher Franchi and pre-dates his exclusive contract with Spooky Pinball.
The backbox has been redesigned to accommodate a 24-inch LCD monitor. The Big Lebowski, Dutch Pinball’s current title, uses a much shorter and narrower LCD designed to emulate a colour dot matrix display.
The display isn’t as large as the 27-inch model used by Jersey Jack Pinball, allowing more space around the edges for artwork.
There has been speculation about which assets could be included in the game, given the way it has been difficult to get access to the likenesses or voice recordings of some actors. Barry confirmed that the pinball is based on all three Back to the Future movies, and he could use clips from the movies and portray the likenesses of Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd.
Although no other playfield pictures have been released, Back to the Future is a standard-width design which will be sold as a single model with an unlimited run. The game is expected to premiere at the Texas Pinball Festival in March.
At the seminar, Barry showed the teaser clip before answering questions from the audience.
You can watch our exclusive official recording of the seminar including the worldwide premier of the teaser clip right here, as part of our Dutch Pinball Open Expo seminars playlist which also includes Rob Berk of Pinball Expo and Past Times, Alice Lemoine from Hexa Pinball, and John Buscaglia of Stern Pinball.
We’ll have much more on Back to the Future from Dutch Pinball very soon, right here at Pinball News.
