There really does seem to be a simulation game for pretty much anything you can think of these days, and Flipper Mechanic is the latest to give players the chance to live out their very specific fantasies.
That's right, you can now experience what it's like to work as someone who fixes arcade cabinets, testing their faults and making things all better before getting them back safely to their owners. You can get a good sense of how this all goes down in the new trailer above, although we're not sure why the cash exchange looks like some kind of dodgy, secretive drug deal.
Here's a list of features to tell you a little more:
Main game features:
- The most realistic models of arcade machines in the history of games
- Machines consisting over 400 parts, realistically reproduced on the basis of real devices
- Possibility of mechanical, electrical and electronic repairs
- Possibility to test and play arcade machines
- Auctions, orders from clients, contacts with collectors
- Possibility to buy, transport and sell machines
- Modifications and construction of own flippers
- Installations of the best machines at pubs and making money from satisfied players
The game is planned to launch on Switch, PS4 and Xbox One, as well as PS5 and Xbox Scarlett. No specific date has been set just yet, but expect to see the game safely restored and delivered to your console next year.
What do you think? An intriguing premise? Share your thoughts with us below.
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To each their own
Yeah looks kind of interesting xx
Just when I thought the Switch library couldn't get any weirder, another doozy comes along to prove me wrong yet again.
Incidentally, Truck and Logistics Simulator is coming out (at RETAIL) later this month. I'm hella curious. And I think I might just cave in. Capcom won't release Resident Evil games on cartridge, but an indie is giving us this. At. Retail.
I would like to see more gameplay. Do you fix the games through mini games or look up repair instructions and follow them to fix or just click buy parts and fix buttons?
There will be a game where you clean dump off toilets soon.
Select your brush, choose your gloves and use your joy con to scrub.
I love quirky but this ?
This is a bit too weird, I'd rather just play the flipper tables.
So off course, i'll end up buying the damn game anyway.
I hope this turns out well, this is a crazy interesting concept. First simulator game to actually grab my interest.
This game could be cool, but as someone who works with real pinball machines... I can't stand how inaccurate this looks, haha. Like, nearly everything is wrong. Irl you access the underside of a playfield by removing the glass and then lifting the playfield up, not pulling the side of the cabinet off. Irl you access the computer boards by removing the front panel with the artwork in the head, and then swinging open a board that holds all the backglass lights, but in this game you remove a panel from the backside of the machine. It all makes me wonder if the developer has actually ever seen a real pinball machine.
Also, I can see a lot of artwork from real pinball machines in that trailer, and somehow I get the feeling none of it has been properly licensed...
I just want to play them, not fix them.
@mystman12 you gotta wonder how much research/expertise goes into these sorts of things. how accurate was the first truck/farming simulator? provide they can get liscensing and a legitimate portrayal, this could be a cool conept though
Is this intended to be educational? If so, I guess someone could find it useful...
Otherwise... why?
@holygeez03 interest in doing it but not having the time, expertise, or the incredible amount of money it takes to get pinball tables/arcade machines is my assumption
@somebread For sure, working on pins is pretty fun (That is until you drop a screw somewhere and have to find it to make sure it didn't land on a board creating a short circuit that could damage the machine if you turn it on... ), but I suppose it might be hard to make realistic pin repair fun in a video game, which might explain some of the weird changes from real life.
I hope that's the reasoning for all the weirdness anyways. If it turns out this guy has just never even looked up a video on how to repair a pinball machine, I'd be interested in trying this just to see how inaccurate it gets, haha.
I always look at these "builder simulator" games and wonder who would actually play these... then they make this one, which for the first time has me genuinely intrigued.
I will keep an eye out for a review whenever it does decide to drop!
You know... This actually sounds like something I'd be interested in. I've always had a deep respect and admiration for those scraggly dudes who could lift up the top of a pinball machine and work their magic, giving me an extra Addams Family game as they finished. I'm in!
I'm reminded of the story of the guy who played Truck Simulator all the time... 10-12 hours per day. Someone asked him "why not get a trucking license so that you could maybe do this as your actual job?"
He replied that would cut into his time playing Truck Simulator.
@Madder128 Will it have DLC or a sequel in which you actually come across escalations of the problems, and you subsequently have to dive down into the sewer?
@Dayton311 Other than Theme Park, I've never really been into these kind of games either, although a couple of years back, I did regularly play Bus Driver on PC. It was somehow a rather relaxing and zen experience, probably because of the need for precision driving and picking up and dropping off people, instead of racing other vehicles to the finish.
Kept me glued to my PC for months...
@Muddy_4_Ever That must have been the same guy, or at least the same type of guy that posted this Truck sim video on YouTube, of which I saw some footage.
He made a trip, in real time, from West-Germany to Poland, in his sim-truck. It was probably one of the longest YouTube videos I've ever fast-forwarded through...
@ThanosReXXX yeah man, and the amibos give you bleach to use.
@Madder128 Bleach in a sewer? That'll be the day. Will probably upset the resident crocs too...
I'm kinda interested in this. Sounds educational
I’m imaging this as an online multiplayer game where you can either compete to be the biggest earner, while machines breakdown and need repairing to get back online or you can work together with online randoms to create the most appealing machines in one place and drawing the biggest crowds. Would be interesting to see which route people take. Still want that permaculture sim though..
Looks really boring.
Surprised we haven’t gotten a simulation involving timberframing with intricate Japanese joinery.
This is pretty much what one of my best friends does for his actual factual living. And I'll hate him forever for opening his "barcades" after I moved out of the country forever. That's a lot of forevers!
I've been looking forward to this one for a while and really glad they're adding it to the Switch. The only thing is, I'm not sure if I trust the company making this as they've got a lot of these simulation games "coming soon", but it doesn't look like they've actually made any games before.
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