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Nah, it wasn't all that great.

This doesn't mean anything. This is only graphics and doesn't indicate anything about how the flipper affects the ball. Remember how Medieval Madness had the graphically misaligned flipper for forever? That was only a visual artifact and didn't represent anything wrong with the collision...

There's a way to do original intellectual property while being fully recognizable in theme anyway. Williams did this superbly; Attack from Mars is the king of that, with Medieval Madness, Cactus Canyon, Whitewater ranking up there too. Sequels even work there too: Getaway, Revenge from Mars...

It's price anchoring: http://www.priceintelligently.com/blog/bid/181199/Price-Anchoring-to-Optimize-Your-Pricing-Strategy AC/DC alone isn't meant to sell at all, but it makes the pack look like a better deal. It's like a small movie popcorn for $5 vs a large for $5.75. Nobody buys the small...

Hah. Awesome. Thanks for the work! (But man, why were you trying to shoot the right orbit off a post pass without catching?)

I was excluding anything with an increasing requirement. That's not truly infinite, eventually the requirement will be higher than any human can manage. I thought Dracula's ramps and 1812's were also increasing too, didn't remember for sure. Dr Dude's EB from the standup targets also...

Here's what could be an interesting exercise: make a run of the ranking system using only tables where going infinite isn't an issue. I don't have experience with all the tables (only bought seasons 1, 2, 4) but here are the ones I know where extra balls are ultimately limited: Ripley's TOTAN...

I played Teed Off last night and recorded a weird-looking 60,003,399,000 that was sort of glitchy. It was a legit game in the 60B range (mostly accumulated in multiball by raising the jackpot to 1B and keeping it going for a while.) But TPA didn't recognize that the game ended after entering...

Hey, here's something to try on rollover logic if you're so inclined. On Teed Off, if you have 8-9 billion, and play and LOSE the double-or-nothing... will TPA interpret the billions digit going from 8 to 0 as a rollover? And then you could even shoot the restore-your-score shot to get back to...

If that's right, that's great info that we've wanted for a long time. I don't blame Farsight all that much, though. Remember that tracking rollovers at all is a new service by Farsight that the original machine doesn't provide. On real machines we'd all be doing the Fish Tales thing to try to...

Because he's counting a different metric. He's counting either games played or times launched. Which are both inflated for Big Shot compared to gameplay time because the games last only a few minutes.

Yes, if the scoreboard says Bozo, you missed the skill shot by grazing one of the standup targets. Which is very common, I think the railroad that does that is broader than the railroad that actually makes the skill shot cleanly.

A fair number of adults, particularly college students and the henpecked husbands they've grown up into, do do this. And have been ever since Pokemon 18 years ago.

A hypothetical reason: if Stern doesn't want people using the PC version for cabinet setups over buying a real Stern machine. I have no idea if that's actually something that would happen, but presumably Stern's marketing research does.

I think Whodunit is the only table where this is an issue. Afraid I don't know how to do what you're asking, and it's probably not possible at all.

The flippers are centered. The apron isn't. There's the same number of lanes on each side of the flippers. Left side has outlane, inlane, inlane. Right side has inlane, outlane, plunger. Same as Addams and TZ among many others.

Just do this, why wouldn't you? You're not wasting quarters.

You left out two more Bally/Williams games: Revenge From Mars and Star Wars Episode 1. :)

That too. I can't talk and keep up my same level of play. Also, pinball action happens too fast for commentary to keep up. I can make some great instinctual save, and by the time I can finish a sentence talking about it, I've already made three more shots and there's another mode going on...

Yeah, it's true. We're really sensitive to the timing. It's not just /decent/ performance while streaming, we need /perfect/. I'll notice one-frame hiccups while streaming that are enough to throw off my timing and aim, and I imagine the same goes for Tarek. Streaming also induces a higher...