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    PAF Top Ten Most Wanted Table Poll Series : #5 - Gottlieb/Premier (Closed)

    The one of these that I've played recently is Rescue 911. My daughter liked the helicopter toy a lot. (We were at Pinball Wizard, and she's still so freaked out by the Rudy head on Funhouse that it's difficult to coax her into the entire row of the arcade containing Funhouse, which...
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    What Licenses Would You Like To See Made Into Pins?

    Hit Tomorry the Ostrich!
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    Lanes and Games in Cambridge, MA (thanks Nightwing!)

    This takes me back! I spent many an hour playing pinball at Lanes & Games when I was in graduate school in the 1990s. Probably Star Trek: TNG most of all, though they had a Twilight Zone and an Addams Family as well. Didn't play much candlepin there, because most of my friends greatly preferred...
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    Atari pins

    Superman was actually slightly unusual for an Atari pin in that the score displays were in conventional positions up on the backglass. Many of them had score displays oddly positioned down at the bottom of the playfield. I'm not sure why they did it that way; maybe it allowed them to use...
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    Atari pins

    ...not using a mechanical tape loop like the Echoplex, of course; I can actually see why Atari management would object to something like that, which would probably wear out before long. But as Ritchie says, machines with continuous background sound appeared pretty soon after that.
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    Atari pins

    ...and Eugene Jarvis eventually went on to produce classic Williams videogames like Defender, Stargate and Robotron: 2084, whose sound is a huge part of their appeal.
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    Atari pins

    On IPDB there's an interesting anecdote from Steve Ritchie about how he and Eugene Jarvis tried to get ambient sound effects into this machine: I brought my Echoplex (a guitar player's tape loop mechanical echo chamber on the cheap) to work, and connected it to our Superman Prototype. The...
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    Stuttery, poor framerate on Galaxy S4

    What I observe is that, on a variety of Android devices, there are some specific tables that have a lot of performance/framerate issues. Dr. Dude is one of the worst; unfortunately, Flight 2000 is another one. Centaur and Twilight Zone stutter a little bit, but not as much as those. There are...
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    Atari pins

    The unusual look, with the bright colors and orange stripes going everywhere, is basically Atari's house art style from that era. (Think of Atari 2600 cartridge box art.) The sound is just what pinball machines were like from about 1977 to '79, when they'd gone from electromechanical chimes to...
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    PAF Top Ten Most Wanted Table Poll Series : #4 - Premium Licensed (Closed)

    I think you're thinking of "Mary Reilly", which was about Julia Roberts interacting with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" was the one with Kenneth Branagh as Dr. Frankenstein and Robert De Niro as the monster.
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    iOS - Bug Target banks don't light the shield

    I thought I'd cleared it all up by playing and observing an actual Firepower, but the story turned out to be apparently more complicated. The bottom line is that the real table's behavior is pretty peculiar. I suspect the simulation is mimicking it accurately, whatever it is.
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    Top 5 wish list

    With no concessions to realism: 1. Doctor Who 2. The Addams Family 3. Black Knight 2000 4. AC/DC (LE, I suppose) 5. Lord of the Rings Of those, Black Knight 2000 and maybe The Addams Family are the only ones I give any great probability of appearing.
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    Season Two - Your thoughts so far?

    I'm a sucker for the space and monster themes, judging from my favorites. (TPM has at least three already in which Dracula appears as a character, and they haven't even done Bram Stoker's Dracula!)
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    What's the worst tpa packet, you can imagine?

    That's a great choice, because not only is it not any good... as a video simulation, its gimmick (its enormous size) wouldn't even be noticeable!
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    do pinballers have a higher iq than.....

    Reply hazy - ask again later
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    do pinballers have a higher iq than.....

    Than what?
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    The next Stern?

    Dean Devlin, though, produced Leverage, which is a pretty entertaining show. He seems to blame himself for the Godzilla movie, says the script was the problem.
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    Season Two - Your thoughts so far?

    Isn't it the other way around? According to IPDB, Hurdy Gurdy is the add-a-ball version, and Central Park is the replay version.
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    Say that again...

    It's so unusual to hear a threatening bass voice in one of these games that isn't Steve Ritchie.
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    The next Stern?

    Even in Japan the series changed emphasis over time. If you've ever seen the original 1954 movie, in its original Japanese edit (pre-Raymond Burr), it's a surprisingly serious film with well-drawn characters and pointed moral dilemmas; the nuclear-bombing theme is obvious there, and it also...

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