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Yeah, there was no way I was going to be able to write an accurate history. They always say write what you know, so that's why I emphasized my experience as you point out. I'll have to do a Google search with the titles you mention to better inform myself. It's long since slipped my mind, but...

Yeah, you and I are practically the same age, so all the stuff I remember in my article would be the same for you, in terms of impact I imagine.

It’s one of my most memorable moments in a theater, seeing it double feature with Clash of the Titans. When the king stabs the dead dragon and is pronounced dragon slayer, some dude yelled out in the utter silence, “F&@$ you!” and the whole place just lost it. To a 10 year old, this was the...

Dammit, yes! Fingers clearly did not understand the difference in my brain. Great movie though!

Hey gang. I got asked to write up an article for thisweekinpinball.com about digital pinball. They are a site about real pinball, but a lot of their readers have been asking about the thing those of us in these here parts know all too well. The site gave it the title, 'A beginners guide to...

Yep, that was a fun read. And huge points (like 150 of 'em) for including NBA Fastbreak because of its low point totals. That's always been my main argument for why we need it in TPA, unlikely as hell that it will ever happen. I've played quite a few of the 'rare' machines listed too; Pinball...

True, no one has actually said 'season 8', but then they never said 'season 7' either, it just got listed as such within the game when the first table came out. I'm really hoping for a gap month again, as a lot of good came out of last year's.

Depending on the name of the person that holds that, it's legit. Tarek is one of those guys that posts insane scores on a lot of tables, and he has said it takes him upwards of 10 hours. Those are the guys that freak when we ask for a leaderboard reset, because they don't want to put in that...

“I’m not a fan of podcasts, but if I had to listen to one, I’d prefer it be the BlahCade”. The most interesting listener in the world

Exactly. I didn’t own the Gottleb collection so I can’t speak about Aces High. And Jive Time was always the joke of the collection, apparently picked solely because it had full size flippers. We only get EMs once a year, so I’d rather they be cream of the crop examples and not just what FarSight...

Lucky bastard. I had a line on one that was fully restored for 2 grand. Unfortunately I had precisely zero dollars to spend on a machine as I’d just bought Eight Ball Deluxe a few weeks earlier. I’m determined to own it eventually though. Can I ask how much and is it diamond plate or regular...

Clearly you didn’t listen to our interview with Norman in the BlahCade Pinball Podcast. Neither is particularly beloved at FarSight, nor do they own them. The only outlying hope would be if the Museum of Pinball in Banning had either, and then it’d still come down to whether they like the tables...

A lot of the reasons we ask for tuning changes to tables is because they don't behave how the actual table does. Twilight Zone is a notoriously brutal table in real life, but in TPA it was no problem to run the board with it. Ripley's was ridiculous with how predictable the ball behavior was...

Whaddya all say to spending the next 5 days with Pasha so we can all collectively go, "what the hell is this crap?" I admit I screwed up a bit in that I only wanted to do 5 minutes with this atrocity and instead selected normal 3 ball. Whoops. No wizard, pick your own passive. Enjoy?

The retuning is in an effort to make the tables more authentic to how they really are. FarSight used to talk about having 'tournament settings' as an option, but they never went anywhere with that. The leaderboards, well that's something of a sticking point. I've argued they should be wiped and...

No no, not overhead lighting! The lights on the table itself need to have a further throw or something. Look at this pic of a real table in dark room lighting: You see how the white insert is casting light up to the boxer so he's fully illuminated? That's what I'm talking about. This has...

I've mentioned it many times in our BlahCade podcast, but I'll throw it out here for you Matt. One of my biggest issues is always with the lighting, specifically DX11. If you look at Champion Pub or Cactus Canyon, the boxer and Bart are both in the dark. Ambient light from bulbs should light...

Wait, you can level up the rewind wizard power? I thought only the passive powers could get upgraded. Huh. Speaking of, takes a long time to level those things up on this table. When tournament started, all mine were at base level, as is often the case for me. Usually by the end of the week...

I hope everyone had as much fun playing Alien: Isolation as I did this past week. I make no bones about it, that at the Aliens table are top of the heap as far as Zen tables go for me. Here's your top 5: 1. shutyertrap 171 million 2. NimbleLee 135 million 3. p0mkin6 44 million...

correct, there will be more tables coming to TPA after the end of season 7.