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Clouseau posted:A great place to check is Pinside's market. It's a bit easier to vet people's history on there so you can't get ripped off too. Welp, now I am green with envy and really want to round up $8,000 I don't have and make an 8 hour round trip to get Simpsons Pinball Party and Lord of the Rings into my life.
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If I'm only buying one or two or three Pinball FX2 table packs in this Steam sale, which ones should they be? Isn't the Star Wars pack a thread favorite?
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Jul 12, 2013 18:28
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I got Empire Strikes Back Zen table last week when it was free for iPhone, and whoa, there's a bit of a learning curve on that. There's a very generous ball save, which helps. Hitting that stormtrooper in the scene mode is a beast.
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Sep 18, 2013 22:43
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I want to own a physical table, but in addition to not having $5k to spare I would be stuck in indecision forever choosing between my 4-5 top tables. Also I'm worried that maintenance/repairs on it will break my heart, like every boat owner ever. But I'd super love to have the Data East Star Wars or Williams Indiana Jones 
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Jan 8, 2014 22:48
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NuclearPotato posted:iOS goon looking for some decent Zen Pinball tables to get. I've got Boba Fett and the free Sorcerer's Lair tables at the moment. I really like Epic Quest, Avengers, Empire Strikes Back, and Paranormal. I got the enormous Humble Bundle pack, and those are the 4 that I keep going back to.
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Apr 2, 2014 19:40
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Yay Pudding! posted:High Speed is pretty fun on PA. I'm looking forward to trying the physical table this weekend at Zapcon in Phoenix. Anyone else going to be there? The game list looks pretty good. I might go on Saturday. It's an otherwise really busy weekend for me, and living so far in the east valley I rarely make it out to Castles and Coasters for the pins there.
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Apr 11, 2014 23:22
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roffels posted:I just brought home a Gottleib Genesis. You know, the one with a hideous backglass. Which one is Phil Collins?
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Apr 25, 2014 06:10
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Galler posted:I should have mentioned I can't stand most movie/tv/whatever tie-ins but thank you. Just curious, is it that you hate the idea of tie-ins, or does it so happen that every tie-in that you played you didn't like?
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May 2, 2014 23:53
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As it turns out, a work teambuilder tomorrow is at a mini golf place. Not exciting on its own, but the internet tells me it has the following pins: Attack From Mars Medieval Madness Monopoly Revenge From Mars Rollercoaster Tycoon Spiderman Theatre of Magic I don't think I've played Attack from Mars, Medieval Madness, or Theatre of Magic in the flesh before!  I hope they are in decent shape.
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May 5, 2014 22:08
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Trip report: It was awesome. Very playable, good condition Attack from Mars, Medieval Madness, and Theatre of Magic less than 20 minutes from my home at $0.50/play. I am in love. And I placed number 3 on the scoreboard on my first game on Theatre of Magic, having never played the digital or physical version before 
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May 7, 2014 00:49
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Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man I'm somewhat surprised about the lack of a big reproduction scene in pinball. The digital pinball scene is better than ever, and I wonder if that's driving a surge of interest in the hobby?
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May 14, 2014 23:15
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Domus posted:In regards to tilting, by the way, please don't put your drink on the glass and then try to manipulate the machine. The beer seals only go so far, and you can never quite get the cabinet floor unsticky again. Just don't put your drink on the glass period. That's what the floor next to the table is for. Whenever I see people do that, I want to ask if they were raised in a barn.
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May 17, 2014 01:51
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Someone just posted a 6 year old Stern machine on Craigslist for $260. That's either a typo, or it's going to be my first pin  
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May 22, 2014 01:40
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roffels posted:Probably spam. Lots cases where they say "The item is now gone but you too can get a pinball game this cheap if you go to [Auction website]" Nailed it. I have been hoodwinked, bamboozled, and swindled. The guy who responded was named James Franco, and I'm never going to watch one of that dickhead's movies again!
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May 22, 2014 02:36
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Went back to my local pinball place and found that my 3rd place 1.5B score on Theatre of Magic got bumped to #4  I can still feel good about that 1.5B because that was literally my first game I've ever played on that table (never even played on TPA). That particular table has one of the plexiglass overlays tightened down a little too hard by the rollover masks on the upper right. Send it down the wrong side and it gets wedged in there. I've tried to nudge it out gently probably a dozen times, and it's only worked once without tilting. I could probably do even better on that machine, but it's so frustrating to have a ball or two just wiped out every game. I also put up 90M in Spiderman, which was good enough for #3 on the table I'm catching up to you, POO
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May 27, 2014 05:41
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I can play Paranormal until the cows come home, but Empire Strikes Back gives me some problems, man.
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Jul 2, 2014 17:08
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That's still not the worst Popeye pinball game
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Jul 8, 2014 22:38
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Tony Phillips posted:I assume you're saying "Popeye Saves the Earth" isn't good? Never played it - anyone else have an opinion on it? I've never played it, just repeating the infamy of such a lousy table with a really stupid theme. Pinside has an ad up for a fully restored one for $1800, which says something.
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Jul 9, 2014 16:38
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Yeah. You can even rent pickups from Home Depot or Lowe's
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Jul 10, 2014 07:56
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When I worked at the mall while I was in school, there was a pizza place nearby that had $5 giant slice/drink and the Star Wars 1992 pinball table. I'd go there for lunch almost every day. It was rad, and that's probably the single table I've put the most hours into. The movie theatre next door had Spiderman and Lord of the Rings. They used to let me in without a ticket to go play pinball  Now Spiderman/LOTR are gone, and the Star Wars table got replaced by a Monopoly in really poor repair I'd love to own that Data East 1992 table, even moreso now that there's a rules update. So I don't disagree with the criticism, but I love that table anyway and I will fight you.
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Jul 14, 2014 16:55
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I just saw a 1992 Data East Star Wars for sale near me for $2k. I'm having a real hard time talking myself out of purchasing it as my first pinball machine. Pros: That table holds some sentimental and nostalgic value to me I like the theme and gameplay New ROM available with updated ruleset looks really cool Seems like a good price Cons: I don't know anything about pinball ownership and maintenance sounds intimidating I live 5 miles away from a really well maintained location with great pins (MM, Spiderman, ToM) and about 40 minutes away from another location with 10 great pins (TAF, Whodunnit, T2, Williams Indiana Jones, Simpsons Pinball Party) I have a baby and plan to have more kids Maybe I get bored with it after a few months?
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Jul 15, 2014 20:04
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For all you people building digital tables, what software are you using? I experimented last night with some Visual Pinball tables and they sort of play like crap from a physics perspective and are animated really poorly. Is Future Pinball any better?
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Jul 16, 2014 17:49
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mattfl posted:I've had both Visual and Future installed on my cab and I've found visual to be the better of the two. Future has better visuals on some tables but I prefer the physics of Visual pinball. At least in my opinion I've found the physics to be about the same as the physics in TPA. VP9. I followed the latest guide on the site. I tried Star Wars Data East and Williams Indiana Jones and they just felt sort of janky and the animations looked like slideshows. Maybe I was playing older versions of the tables?
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Jul 16, 2014 19:58
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mattfl posted:Possibly. Although I've never had a table play like a slideshow. What kind of machine are you running it on? No, my PC is fine (660Ti and i7-4770k). The framerate is OK in general, but the animations on the table toys look slideshow-esque (spinning and bouncing R2D2 is very choppy)
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Jul 16, 2014 22:01
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DevCore posted:Went to a bar last night to play some LAH, some rear end in a top hat kept bugging me about super obvious poo poo. He even had to balls to reach over and hit the Smart Missile button when nothing was lit. Who does that!? That happened to me once playing LOTR at a movie theatre, but the person in question was a 9 year old boy. At least he had the decency not to touch the buttons.
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Jul 17, 2014 17:39
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There's a shopped-up Jurassic Park without a topper on sale near me for $2300. It seems a little high for that game, even though it's in great condition and has LED upgrades and new rubbers. I'd bite at $2k, but I'm concerned if I bought it at $2300 I'd have a hard time reselling it for more than $2k in the future 
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Jul 25, 2014 18:48
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Going to visit a new pinball place today. It has the following tables: AC/DC (Premium/LE) Addams Family, The Black Knight Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy Creature from the Black Lagoon Cyclone Doctor Who Dr. Dude Flying Carpet Freddy: A Nightmare On Elm Street Game Show Grand Prix High Speed Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure Johnny Mnemonic Medieval Madness NBA Fastbreak Pinbot Ripley's Believe It or Not! Star Trek Stargate Tales from the Crypt Taxi Terminator 2 The Simpsons Pinball Party Theatre of Magic Twilight Zone X-Men (Pro) I don't think I've ever played a TZ or ACDC in person.
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Jul 26, 2014 20:11
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mattfl posted:Sure, it might be another month or two before it's all done though, now comes all the really expensive stuff! Although I'm not sure if I'm gonna wanna post a total cost lol. If I had to throw a quick estimate now, 3-5k. Man, what's driving that? I can't imagine building a virtual pinball PC can be more than $600 or so, and you can get a decent TV for as much and maybe another $100 for the backglass monitors used?
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Jul 29, 2014 05:00
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Arabian Nights genie battle with unlimited balls is a really fun game mode. Also, when you all Make A Wish, do you choose the jewel every time? If not, which reward to you choose when it's available?
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Aug 1, 2014 23:48
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I tried pinball today using Steam Home Streaming. It did not go well. A little too laggy for decent play. Might be able to blame my wireless connection for part of that.
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Aug 11, 2014 03:55
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If any of you have Pinball Arcade on the Playstation, the table pack with Theatre Of Magic, Ripleys Believe It Or Not! and Black Hole is  FREE right now for PS3, PS4, and Vita.
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Aug 21, 2014 03:38
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Yechezkel posted:The free pack is only for the North American region. Sorry Europe. As of this morning, the iOS pack of the tables is now free
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Aug 22, 2014 16:31
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Niwrad posted:I still haven't been to Logan Arcade and I need to change that. Yeah, I think it will be neat. I'm tired of zombie stuff, but the Walking Dead will be a fun ride (as long as they don't have you spend the entirety of Ball 2 arguing with the other stupid characters on the farm)
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Aug 28, 2014 05:33
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https://pinside.com/pinball/map/where-to-play The pinside map shows a few good and great tables in Champaign. All pretty spread out, but still.
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MichiganCubbie posted:Pinball Arcade newsletter came out, and with it, the next table hint: I was thinking Birthday Serling, but Party Zone makes more sense.
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ovaries posted:I'm in Phoenix and I can confirm that Castles and Coasters is the only real option here. They majorly renovated last year to make room for some Fruit Ninja Arcade machines and got rid of a lot of their pinball tables in the process. Now there are about a dozen tops and they're all on the second floor. Golfland is hit or miss. I've been a couple times when the machines were working really well, but I've been twice as often when half the machines were unplugged (and the other half probably should have been). I live in the east valley, so it's worth rolling the dice with Golfland rather than drive 90 minutes round trip for Castles and Coasters. Medieval Madness's trolls are frequently broken, and the ball gets stuck by the pop bumpers all the time on Theatre of Magic. If you're ever in Tucson, the pinball place that opened downtown is incredible. I posted about it in this thread before. The owners are a married couple who both work as some variety of moneybags engineers at Raytheon. They've been accumulating tables for years, and they are all in fantastic condition and impeccably maintained. It's just a small industrial space with rolling garage doors in front propped open, and 25+ tables inside. Here was the games list last time I was there. They've got a few more that they rotate in and out. AC/DC (Premium/LE) Addams Family, The Black Knight Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy Creature from the Black Lagoon Cyclone Doctor Who Dr. Dude Flying Carpet Freddy: A Nightmare On Elm Street Game Show Grand Prix High Speed Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure Johnny Mnemonic Jurassic Park Medieval Madness NBA Fastbreak Pinbot Ripley's Believe It or Not! Star Trek Stargate Tales from the Crypt Tales of the Arabian Nights Taxi Terminator 2 The Simpsons Pinball Party Theatre of Magic Twilight Zone X-Men (Pro)
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To me it's puzzling that it's an EM-type game with a theme like that. Is that something that is supposed to go out on location and earn money? Or is that something to be sold to collectors for $5,000+ when they could buy a new or almost new modern solid state table with a theme that won't embarrass them when guests see it?
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Oct 16, 2014 21:09
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roffels posted:As I understand it, Stern recently expanded their production lines and are doing contract work for other companies like PPS and the Medieval Madness remake. This looks to be a similar situation. That's my thought too. The news article says its a partnership with Whizbang Pinball. That makes more sense. Smaller, boutique run, not 10,000 units and on the front page of the distributor catalog. I don't dislike the theme/layout combo, and I'm sure they'll sell as many as they'll make. Just not on the same scale as AC/DC or Star Trek
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Zaphod42 posted:I still have boxed / shrinkwrapped copies of Epic Pinball. The tables are pretty awful. When I was a kid, my dad maxed out the score on Epic Pinball Pot of Gold. The score didn't roll over, the game froze, and the processor melted down. Worth it.
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Zaphod42 posted:I'm gonna go to the arcade after work and lose a few more quarters into some tables. You can't really go wrong with the top 20 tables from Pinside. https://pinside.com/pinball/top-100 Anything in the top 10 of that is a "drop everything, I need to play that table right now" for me.
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