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I played a nice round of Cue Ball Wizard this morning but when I started the app, I already got a message that the server "pinball analytics" has an invalid certificate and "may be pretending to be that server". I closed the message and went to play. Posted a new HS that was saved to my list, I...

You posted about 120 TPA posts per year of your life young fella, that's about 1 in 3 days, think about that.... ;)

:) yep, that's us....

Hi Axlsgolden, define old man? :) I will be 44 this October and I know from an interview that Tarek will be 48. I have the impression that VikingErik is much younger but I may be wrong. Anyway, I thought for sure that after 40 everything went downhill but seeing that Tarek approaches 50 and...

:) I will pass this message on to the proper authorities and get her opinion of your assessment...

That's it! I should have gone with a name like "SoftlyPushingTheFlipperButtons23", not with Slam....

That's another plus of iOS: it won't confront you with statistics about how bad your addiction really is :) Although I suspect Apple and/or Farsight will probably collect those behind the screens. It reminds me of the old wisdom that if you want to be truly competent in a complex task, you have...

You sure have the name to go with the pain! :) But seriously, if I read my own list, a lot of the complaints come from playing too strained and don't really have to develop. It's the same thing with playing real machines. If I would find a way to casually push the buttons instead of mashing them...

Tempting! :) I'm only an iOS guy for TPA though, all my other main gaming fixes come from PC and I have been a PC guy since back in the mid to late 80's when we used words like CGA, MS-DOS, XT, and 386. I have to pick my spots to play and I need a portable device for that, it's that simple. TPA...

Right, nice one, didn't know about that technique, have seen the reverse of it though: use nudge to compete a flipper pass that falls short. And on some real machines I have seen a pro move being pulled off where a player uses a quick flip to quickly hit the bottom of the slingshot right when it...

Just posted 48M for 7th on the leaderboards, I'm definitely on a great TotM roll these last couple of weeks. I followed the strategy posted by VikingErik above, and had the most success with one-timing the return ball directely from the right flipper to the bonus X hole (Boomerang) with the...

Hi guys, I thought it would be a "fun" topic to cover something nobody probably wants to admit: if you get really addicted to this TPA thing, bad things can and will happen to mind and body. Aside from getting your soul sucked into the Abyss by say a table like Big Shot or experiencing a major...

Yes, exactly, I had flow and control after a while hitting the boxer. For me it seemed all about gut shots but on a specific angle, also depending on which flipper (left --> slightly to the right, right --> almost dead-on) and speed of the ball. Mix that with copious amounts of nudging towards...

Wow, this table was driving me crazy! I thought I cracked the code to speak with my 800M+ game, little did I know... Between a lot of garbage games, I had 2 or 3 in which I got to the same point as in that earlier game, only to lose 1 or 2 max Cash Fights. I came this close to throwing my iPad...

A broken Ultimate Challenge will cost you a ball, because you will be locked out from regular gameplay unless you drain. So it's even a bit dangerous to KO during UC.

Nice one Captain! I haven't payed much attention to Shadow Boxing, will check it out. Edit: although it is smart to save up on Smart Punches and KO's, using the ramps to set up a potential KO does freeze the boxer for a few seconds, long enough to get some gut shots in, or a head shot on the...

I feel your pain Espy, I also lost a couple of nice scores to the vagaries of Wifi over the years, especially in the early days things were rocky sometimes with TPA's leaderboards. Get back in the saddle and kick some Yagov butt!

I just got lucky with the Ultimate Challenge: finished it with no Smart Punches used as I was stacking those up for Cash Fights. I definitely got some health bars back without shooting for those and I was near the bottom of my health when I took out th lasr boxer. UC awarded me around 70M and...

Got a game going a bit for the first time, ended at 670M. My previous best was a hard-fought but paltry 160M, so I'll take 670M any day! Even activated Ultimate Challenge but it ended quickly. I must have had 3-4 EB's, one from the Spitting Gallery, and one from Poker Night (4 of a kind). I...

Never got the hang of this one, so a good challenge.