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    Name that game.

    Darn, that's the one machine (besides one on the last page) that I could actually recognize. Never played it though... Nice to know the machine thinks you're special or even extra-special though.
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    Pinball article posted over at Wired.com

    The rising prices of pinball machines does seem to suggest it's growing more popular. I don't think it's really mainstream the way it was in the '80s or early '90s though.
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    The Big Lebowski Pinball

    Of course, I know it's the lower playfield. Something like that is where it belongs and not as the main thing like it is with Strikes 'N Spares.
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    Request Any chances to see more Stern tables in TPA?

    Hmm, perhaps then it's time for a paradigm shift in the way the businesses are run. Pinball got its start by being out in public for people to drop coins into and play, and its balls-to-the-walls difficulty was a result of trying to get as much money out of people as they could get away with...
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    Pinball article posted over at Wired.com

    I particularly liked this excerpt: I admire anybody who becomes great but had to start from nothing. They had to earn every last milligram of ability and talent they have. This is the first I learned about Roger Sharpe being that sort of person.
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    The Big Lebowski Pinball

    I have never seen The Big Lebowski either. There are a lot of classic movies I've never seen, which is probably strange coming from someone with a degree in Film & Digital Media. If you get a spare, the frame is worth 10 + the number of pins knocked down during the next ball. If you get a...
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    What's your favourite table you know will never come to TPA?

    But Cyclone is a high priority, and it has no multiball.
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    Request Any chances to see more Stern tables in TPA?

    All right, fair enough. I always had the impression that The Addams Family was the one machine that the mainstream has heard of. Certainly, it was the only one I had heard of before getting into pinball. I do feel that if there is an aim to get the mainstream into The Pinball Arcade, there HAS...
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    The Big Lebowski Pinball

    It reminds me more of Gottlieb's Strikes 'N Spares: http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?gid=4336&puid=32859 Considering Strikes 'N Spares was somewhat popular among bowling alley owners (and no one else) to put in their establishments, as it's also a bowling theme, The Big Lebowski has a chance of...
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    PAPA Fathom Tutorial

    Is Swedish Fish a sponsor?
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    The Big Lebowski Pinball

    I hope to see one of these on location. I've never watched the movie, but the bowling thing down there looks interesting. They said they'd use normal bowling scoring, right? I find that to be one of those things I understood after much studying that nobody else really seems to understand.
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    Request Any chances to see more Stern tables in TPA?

    I think it should be made as an option. The Addams Family will bring in a lot of people who would otherwise never even play The Pinball Arcade, let alone pinball. While this sort of difficulty is good for people used to pinball and in want of a challenge, beginners are not looking for a...
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    Drain Monsters

    It's not so much the outlanes as it is the shape of the slingshots. If the ball ever lands atop a slingshot, it's going down the outlanes, as they are shaped to guide the ball down there. Although yes, the cannons do make it impossible to see where the ball is as well. It drives me nuts in...
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    What is the most overrated table in TPA?

    I didn't play pinball until late-2013, so except for the most recent Sterns, I didn't grow up with any of them. I can say that the '80s, I feel, are the weakest point in pinball from a gameplay standpoint, having played them from a modern perspective. I can understand how stuff like Gorgar and...
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    I'm getting Star Trek Pro!

    That being said, they've only done Part 1, which is an overview of the playfield and some thoughts on how the ball reacts to those things. Part 2 will be done later (probably much later, if Transformers is any indication), which will cover the rules and how those affect the quality of the game...
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