Electronic Bowling Tables

[morguecart]

Should electronic bowling games like League Champ, Strike Zone, Aristocrat, etc. be listed as arcade or as pinball?

The reason I ask, is because a lot of these games are not in the Launchbox db and I have been adding them under pinball. I've been adding them there because of emulation. If you were to get these tables, they are typically .vpx files and run with Visual Pinball. I tried adding King Tut, but noticed that it's already listed under arcade.

[JoeViking245]

17 minutes ago, morguecart said:

Should electronic bowling games like League Champ, Strike Zone, Aristocrat, etc. be listed as arcade or as pinball?

My opinion, I'm inclined to say no as they are not actual pinball machines.  Despite the fact that users have been able to create/emulate them with VPX.

Strike Zone (also by Williams), Aristocrat (Prosperity Coin Machine Corporation) and King Tut (Bally) are [also] actual pinball machines.

e.g.

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I suppose if you were able to find these bowling machines on a definitive pinball source such as ipdb.org, then I might re-think my thinking.  

[morguecart]

Yeah, I started thinking about it after I already added a few. I think I'm going to put in a change to move them over to arcade and figure out how to import the artwork to my Pinball category, that or move those files over to my arcade folder as a subfolder or something. May just need to re-organize a little bit.

Edited 1 hour ago by morguecart

[JoeViking245]

14 minutes ago, morguecart said:

figure out how to import the artwork to my Pinball category

One option:

Edit your Pinball platform and change Scrape-As to "Arcade".
Select those games and then Tools < Download < Update Metadata and Media for selected Games...
(or do edit them individually)
When done, change Scrape-As back to "Pinball"