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Help Get the ‘Terminator 2 Judgment Day’ Pinball Machine Digitized!!
One of the greatest pieces of technology launched in 2012 comes via FarSight Studios, who is responsible for bringing real pinball machines into the digital world. Pinball Arcade, which carries “Elvira,” “Creature from the Black Lagoon,” “Theater of Magic,” “Black Hole,” “Tale of the Arabian Nights,” “Funhouse,” “Cirqus Voltaire,” and more, is currently available on a wide variety of platforms: the iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tables, the Kindle Fire, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, and Macintosh, with versions coming soon for the PC, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Wii U.
Last year they delivered the infamous and legendary “The Twilight Zone” machine, one of the greatest ever created. This year, they’ve set their sites on “Terminator 2: Judgement Day.”
The only issue is licensing – much like with “Twilight Zone” – and for them to make the game, they’re going to need to recoup their licensing costs pre-development. I just plopped down $10, and if you too want to play one of the greatest pinball machines of all-time on your devices, click here to pledge. There are also widgets and videos inside.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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