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It's not literally hitler because it's not a 1-ball game. Yeah, okay, I'll get my coat.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2NgByitFwg Jackbot Tutorial.  Bowen.
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Dec 13, 2015 23:50
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cool thanks. jack is my favorite of the bots
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Boxman posted:So, my local pinball place is closing at the end of the month. I stopped in to say goodbye and CHUNKA CHUNKA CHUNKA CHUNKA CHUNKA CHUNKA CHUNKA
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Boxman posted:So, my local pinball place is closing at the end of the month. I stopped in to say goodbye and You should ask the owners what's going to happen to their machines. Maybe you can figure out how they managed to acquire something that the pinball wiki claims only ten of exist.
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If it is CP then he's a private collector, I doubt he plans on selling many of his machines. Would be interesting to find out how he got that though. When is he open next Saturday? I am planning on going to St Louis anyways and if it's the last time he'll be open to the public I should probably make it a point to go. Been meaning to forever but never have.
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Dec 14, 2015 02:37
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Boxman posted:So, my local pinball place is closing at the end of the month. I stopped in to say goodbye and Setting Goin' Nuts aside for a moment, there was a Q*Bert pinball? 
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ninja alamode posted:If it is CP then he's a private collector, I doubt he plans on selling many of his machines. Would be interesting to find out how he got that though. It's 6 to midnight, today they had a noon to 6 schedule but I've been sick the past few days, I'm broke and a friend of mine didn't get back with me about going. Hopefully I can make it next week, especially if they have Goin' Nuts.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Setting Goin' Nuts aside for a moment, there was a Q*Bert pinball? Yeah I wanna know how Q*Bert pinball plays. Does he swear at you when you lose a ball?
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Dec 14, 2015 02:49
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It had a goofy figure-eight layout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B_BGvD33Ac
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Magic Hate Ball posted:It had a goofy figure-eight layout: That looks like an absolute nightmare to play, but at least Q*Bert talks to you the whole time. That makes it worth at least one game.
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Dec 14, 2015 03:14
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It's a shame that there isn't anyone out there making crazy designs like that anymore. I mean, I totally understand why, because Q*Bert's Quest isn't supposed to be good, and a poor selling machine could sink a company, but I'd love to see a terrible 80's Premier style game made today.
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Probably Wrestlemania is the closest example of any recent game. It's definitely not as strange as some of those Premiers, but it still ends up having some of the same depth problems caused by the separated sections. I think it's just not possible to make an actual good game like that without increasing the table size. Still, make sure to put a few plays on Gold Wings if you ever see one!
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Dec 14, 2015 06:38
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breaks posted:Still, make sure to put a few plays on Gold Wings if you ever see one! The rest were just "meh" compared to the stuff Bally/Williams was busting out at the same time.
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I love Gold Wings! Wrestlemania definitely does share some lineage, especially since Trudeau designed it. It's also a bummer like a lot of those Premier games. I think Wrestlemania is a big missed opportunity though, I think it could have been a much better game if the code was up to the task. The major problem is how boring the game is once it gets up in the ring, and they could just disable the ring sometimes or make it so the upper orbit shots just loop all the time instead of going into the ring.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Is Goin' Nuts actually fun in real life, or is it still literally hitler Yeah, it's pretty fuckin' bad. It's sorta funny because it's like "this is awesome this is a piece of history" then it's like "oh wait there's a reason this never went into production." I did go ballistic when I saw it though. ninja alamode posted:If it is CP then he's a private collector, I doubt he plans on selling many of his machines. Would be interesting to find out how he got that though. It is CP. I talked to him a little bit on my way out and he's not liquidating at all, just stepping back from the public openings for a bit. He won't be closing his doors completely, either; he's planning on running tournaments out of the location, with free play to entrants on those days. There's already one scheduled for mid January. You can take a peek on the website. Talking to him also makes it sound like he's planning on re-opening at some point in the future, he's just really not sure when.
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CP is the best. Before Chicago had any significant pinball scene, my friends and I would take a road trip down there once a year. At a time when the most pinball machines I had seen in one place since the nineties was around 5, it was incredible.
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Clouseau posted:CP is the best. Before Chicago had any significant pinball scene, my friends and I would take a road trip down there once a year. At a time when the most pinball machines I had seen in one place since the nineties was around 5, it was incredible. What's with Chicago? It's pretty much the home city of pinball. Seems weird that there could be no scene there. We have our machines in a business that is part of a small national chain called Punch Bowl Social Club. I heard from my boss that the Chicago location has pinballs that can only be played by those using smartphone payments. The area bans coin-operated machines. Machines that are pay-to-play, but don't take coins or dollars, are legal. Not only is that a WTF law, but apparently they are maintained by a guy from Denver, because no area operator would work with them.
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The reason that there wasn't much pinball until very recently has to do with some onerous licencing in Chicago. A standard bar licence in Chicago allows you to have three coin op machines TOTAL (including jukeboxes, those little bar screen games, etc), if you have parking you can add a couple more. Each machine has to have a licence through the city, and those licences have to be renewed yearly at cost. I don't know how long these laws have been on the books, but I'm sure it comes from some easily exploitable arcades are ruining my children paranoia from decades ago, and it pays so it's never leaving the law. I could have a couple details wrong here. Recently you can get a special use permit, but I'm sure that costs extra. Ultimately now, there's a ton of pinball everywhere. This would have been unbelievable to me 5 years ago. Regarding Punch Bowl, I wonder if that's in reference to their location opening up in the burbs. There is one opening soon in town as well though. I have no idea how Williams worked within these laws back when they were making pinball machines. FWIW, Stern is pretty active in supporting pinball in the city and they put out test machines and stuff regularly, as well send out designers and other staff to launch parties.
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Clouseau posted:It's a shame that there isn't anyone out there making crazy designs like that anymore. I mean, I totally understand why, because Q*Bert's Quest isn't supposed to be good, and a poor selling machine could sink a company, but I'd love to see a terrible 80's Premier style game made today.
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Clouseau posted:It's a shame that there isn't anyone out there making crazy designs like that anymore. I mean, I totally understand why, because Q*Bert's Quest isn't supposed to be good, and a poor selling machine could sink a company, but I'd love to see a terrible 80's Premier style game made today. 
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So how do banana flippers affect the ball? I've never actually tried a banana flipper machine before, but they look like they'd add extra forward or back spin relative to where the ball is. That seems like it'd be really annoying and hard to adjust to.
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They at least make it really easy to backhand shots.
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I've only played them a couple of times, but my experience was 1) they work sort of like jai alai baskets and make the ball go really fast if you flip it the whole length of the flipper, 2) they tend to send the ball in only one direction, which means you hit one spot on the table over and over and can't hit anything else, 3) they gently caress you up for the rest of the day when you try to go back to normal flippers. That being said I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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Farsight are doing a "12 Days of Xmas" daily announcement thing on Facebook. Day one was a timed holiday tournament on Steam, mobile and PSN. Day two was far more interesting - Oculus Rift support will be coming next year!
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Oh cool maybe they'll announce Pinball After Dark again. Or that horrific other game they were working on.
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Awesome! posted:apparently pba judge dredd is gonna use the production ball lock behavior rather than the orbiting locks unfortunately
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LordPants posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2NgByitFwg He shoots at individual targets at specific times on the visor and reliably hits them.  [Almost-bored voice] "And there's a super... and there's another super..." prefect fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Dec 16, 2015 |
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Tayter Swift posted:Oh cool maybe they'll announce Pinball After Dark again.
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Inferior Third Season posted:I think their licensing agreements are incredibly strict, and they have to do exactly what the production games did. I think on F-14 Tomcat, there are some lights that exist, but were disabled on the production table, because it turned out they were a fire hazard or something if the targets around them got too damaged. Of course, this isn't an issue on a virtual table, but they were forced to disable the lights anyway, because that's how the production table was delivered. They have no choice in the matter. What came out the door of the factory is what gets replicated. its the flashers above the two upper target banks. see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrs8COEiab4&t=272s i dont have season 5 yet so i didnt even notice it in the game. but that was changed after production started i believe. who knows if its a contract issue or them just being lazy
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When I restored my F14 I put those flashers back in. It really is only noticeable at the premultiball light show, and even then there are so many flashers going you have to know what your looking for. Production machines weren't missing much.
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Awesome! posted:jack is my favorite of the bots
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When is Farsight finally going to get to 3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent?!?!
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Judge Dredd just dropped on Steam! EDIT: We have our new Scared Stiff, ladies and gentlemen. This game will just not quit spitting out extra balls. Preliminary strategy is to just start modes, then ignore them while collecting crime scenes for extra balls all day. TheMcD fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Dec 19, 2015 |
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TheMcD posted:Judge Dredd just dropped on Steam! And once again, I complete three wizard goals before finishing the standard goals, so they don't count. 
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New table hint, supposedly using the theme of Theatre of Magic:
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Fireball and Cactus Canyon?
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