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Chuck Hess On Hand to Discuss Pinball 2000's NuCore
The Midwest Gaming Classic has always been about celebrating both video games and pinball, and for a short time at the end of the millennium, things came together just right for Williams Pinball to create an amazing pinball platform. Pinball 2000 amazed people by combining the visuals of a video game with the physical play of a pinball machine. These machines were awesome and great fun to play, but until recently, they had one problem.
The heart of Pinball 2000 was a computer with custom hardware that had been created to run the pinball interface. Those computers had become obsolete, and the hardware to run the Pinball 2000 games had become extremely expensive. On top of that, the components were much harder to work with than a traditional pinball MPU board, meaning that repair was timely and difficult, if possible at all.
Enter Big Guys Pinball. This team of Guys decided that the solution was to create a way to properly emulate the system hardware, and create a new core system for the games... or NuCore! This amazing drop-in replacement for your old Pinball 2000 system not just emulates the original hardware, it does it better allowing for smoother animation and better gameplay. It also enables your Pinball 2000 machine to have new features such as a jukebox feature to play music when the games aren't being played!
Learn more about the creation of this amazing system, and the people behind it as Chuck Hess of Big Guys Pinball speaks about that topic at the Midwest Gaming Classic!