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As a Millennial I posted:Let's be real, here: Metallica is arguably the worst band of all time, yet their pinball machine is very good. The Kiss table will probably be good, too. Okay I can get behind making GBS threads on KISS, but Metallica and AC/DC as the worst bands of all time, are you loving high?
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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 Is Goin' Nuts actually fun in real life, or is it still literally hitler
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Dec 13, 2015 21:03
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I'm not shocked that they need that much for AC/DC. The music alone is probably an insane amount of money. Not sure if I like it being a separate app, though, don't they already have Stern tables in regular TPA?
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May 2, 2016 20:26
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Tasteful Bulge posted:He also hates pinball sims in general since they don't come that close to recreating Harry Williams "wild ball." All behavior is a result of programming, and there is no way to leave everything up to raw physics. Hasn't this been more or less untrue ever since physics engines started being a thing? I've never played Havok-powered pinball but I imagine it'd be pretty close with some tuning.
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May 2, 2016 21:05
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Galaga Galaxian posted:What was with that thing? Is it a private custom build or is it a prototype for a commercial product? I didn't get to see much of it in action on friday because it spent more time with its guts pulled out being fixed(?) instead of playing. Google tells me it's still in the whitewood stage, so it may have been intended for play even with said missing guts.
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May 17, 2016 01:32
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Pretty sure the LCD screen's jet bumper animation was Lana's breasts bouncing around, which is equal parts amusing and silly. You'd think it would be Pam, really.
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May 17, 2016 02:58
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Gottlieb SF2 is pretty janky, but it's fun. If you've played their Mario table it's along similar lines.
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May 24, 2016 22:58
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Scared Stiff is fun as hell, even if it's easy. Medieval Madness would probably be the best pick, though, if you're not just getting the Season One pack.
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May 27, 2016 21:16
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LordPants posted:I've seen Scared Stiff set up super hard for tournament play used at PAPA and it looked really cool. You can, you just have to buy the pro upgrade, iirc.
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May 28, 2016 01:23
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LordPants posted:Oh, the roms yeah, but not like the post positions and (I think even maybe the table bank or whatever) that they do. I think those are configurable, actually, but I could be wrong. I don't own any of the pro upgrades, I've just hosed around with TOTAN's a bit.
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May 28, 2016 05:59
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xarph posted:Barb Wire Is Barb Wire really that bad of a pin? Looking it up, the reviews on Pinside say it's actually pretty good even if the theme is awful.
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May 31, 2016 20:49
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While we're on the note, I'll ask again, since it seemed to get lost in the shuffle the first time: is Barb Wire actually a terrible pin? The PAPA game notes page shits on it, but... the Pinside reviews are all along the lines of "bad theme, decent game."
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Jun 13, 2016 21:49
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Lone Goat posted:I've never played Barb Wire, but keep in mind that the PAPA notes are for competitive play. It might just be a fun game for home play, but with a degenerate strategy for a high score. Generally they point those out specifically, though, rather than just saying "are you really gonna do this? Seriously?"
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Jun 13, 2016 21:54
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Tony Phillips posted:lovely you're joking right, Demolition Man is like the definitive early-90s action movie
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Jun 28, 2016 03:53
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Same Great Paste posted:I played PA for years on iPad, and just recently bought a gaming pc for the first time in 20 years. If I understand this thread correctly the steam version is poo poo and not worth buying? PA is totally fine on Steam, and PC is honestly probably the best platform for it. The pros of TPA over Visual Pinball are that it's much easier to set up, the tables are licensed recreations instead of users' potentially-iffy ones, it looks prettier, and it has leaderboards and tournaments. The pros of Visual Pinball are that you can get any table you want (with the caveat that some might not be 100% accurate) as long as it's been made by somebody, it supports virtual pinball machines (you don't need to worry about this if you're playing on a regular PC), and the ball physics are arguably more accurate (though I can't really tell a huge difference).
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Jan 9, 2018 21:26
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If anyone wants to buy a fuckton of pinball machines from some guy in Italy for 66k euros, CoinOpExpress just posted this today. There's two Revenge from Mars machines and two Pirates of the Caribbean machines, but other than that, no duplicates, and it's a pretty not-terrible selection. I don't have the scratch for this, but someone here probably does, and since this is a private sale that COE is facilitating instead of you buying from them, you probably won't have to deal with any of their Hong Kong jank.
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Jan 31, 2018 20:13
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You know what, I usually laugh at Stern's dad tables, but I want a loving Maiden pinball table holy god drat
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Mar 25, 2018 20:08
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Deviant posted:fuckin Spooky needs to get off its duff and get me my TNA machine. wait, what? there's a TNA pinball machine? like, TNA wrestling? 
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Apr 5, 2018 19:24
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oh that's... less surreal, for sure
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Apr 6, 2018 20:21
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Doggles posted:Welp, so much for that Alien pinball table. is Alien just a cursed IP for physical tables or something? I feel like several attempts have all been botched
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Apr 30, 2018 18:33
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Unsinkabear posted:Are pinball dudes that greasy and unpleasant to warrant a gender league schism? I feel like we could have avoided the dogpile and just responded to this part with "they're actually somehow worse" Like, it's gotten marginally better as youngs and hipsters discover how rad pinball is, but you're never gonna get the divorced creepy uncle stench out of pinball pretty much
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Oct 9, 2018 02:02
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She Bangs the Drums posted:Not many joined in on this one, so I guess people have a limited stomach for these types of tables. For what it's worth, the Zen original tables are usually a lot cheaper than the licensed ones, so you'll probably get more people willing to play V12. AFAIK, part of why V12 is so infamous is because everyone ends up owning it.
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Feb 25, 2019 02:50
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It's funny this comes up, because I just got Aliens vs. Pinball and the skill shot on Aliens is a fucker. Also the Isolation table can suck my balls.
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Mar 8, 2019 11:11
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super nailgun posted:lmao a GnR table in 2020... Slash is a hardcore pinball nerd, this isn't his first rodeo with designing a machine, and the old Data East GnR table he did is pretty well-regarded Theme aside, this'll probably be a pretty solid pin
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oh thank god someone posted it
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