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    Season Two - Your thoughts so far?

    Season 2 has been particularly great for 1980s pre-DMD solid-state machines, including my favorites from PHoF: The Williams Collection. The TPA adaptations of these have generally been better-done than in Season 1 (compare with Black Knight). Firepower and Pin*Bot are among my favorite pinballs...
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    Table Pack 16: Flight 2000 and Goin' Nuts!

    True. And electromechanical games have sub-eras as well: pre-flipper, flipper but pre-standard-bottom, and the final flowering in the 1960s and 1970s. I think I roughly think of the pre-DMD solid states (which I love unreasonably) as falling into three narrower categories: - the 1977-79...
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    Bug GOR and GAR lights?

    Thanks, Stuart! Looks pretty good.
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    The next Stern?

    At least that guy looks like Godzilla!
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    The next Stern?

    Arrrgh. I should have known it'd be that Godzilla. That thing is a crime against the King of the Monsters.
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    Atari pins

    Superman is the one of these that is widely remembered, but it's also the one that would have additional significant licensing hurdles. I like these tables, if only for the way they look: several have artwork by George Opperman, the designer of Atari's logo and much of their early cabinet and...
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    The next Stern?

    Godzilla is a theme that is definitely asking for a pinball adaptation.
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    Terminator 2 Kickstarter BEGINNING NOW!!!

    It wasn't that people didn't like the table. It's that a bunch of fans of it kicked in some money for the Twilight Zone Kickstarter, not for Twilight Zone but for Star Trek: TNG; and it then became clear that the Kickstarter wasn't going to come anywhere near making the stretch goal. Unlike a...
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    Terminator 2 Kickstarter BEGINNING NOW!!!

    I have to admit that I don't give a damn about the Terminator 2 pinball table (despite the fact that I'm normally a Steve Ritchie fan, and the movie is a classic). But The Addams Family is another story entirely; if they got as far as an actual Kickstarter it'd be really attractive. As I said...
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    Camera Bugs

    That bug in TPA's Firepower is cross-platform and it's been there for a while. I forget the precise combination of circumstances under which it happens, but sometimes the machine just won't detect a ball drain. The workaround is to tilt the machine. Just nudge it until you get a tilt, and the...
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    Rejoyce! Pinball Arcade coming back in August?

    While the certification process perhaps takes longer than it should, I blame Farsight more than Microsoft for the episodes in which they had to go through it multiple times. Farsight knows what kinds of things Microsoft is testing for, and they ought to have hashed out most of these issues with...
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    WOAH! Talk about a museumpiece.

    So this is Gottlieb's Revenge from Mars, eh? I appreciate that they were thinking outside the box, but I'm not sure this was the direction to go in. I've always felt that the overuse of timers is a hallmark of unimaginative game design, and Goin' Nuts takes most of the typical elements of...
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    Flight 2000 Rocks

    ...The layout/art style reminded me of Genie, maybe mostly just because it's a sort of asymmetrical widebody from about the same era with a whole complicated thing going on in the upper left. Playing it, I was initially wondering whether it was a Gottlieb (because of the way the rollover lights...
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    Flight 2000 Rocks

    This is a great, fun table! The overly complicated ball lock/double-launching thing is both kind of hilarious, and a significant challenge to load up and get going. Though I understand the probable reasons for it, the pedant in me is mildly annoyed by the fact that the splash screen shows the...
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    Best TPA Tables in Regards to Tuning

    I'd vote for Star Trek: TNG, though, as stated above, not every detail is perfect. They got Firepower a lot closer compared to the PHOF:TWC version, but it's still easier than the real thing. I think Genie is not too far off, actually. I don't have real-life experience with Black Hole...
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    Where Do You Play Real World Pinball Tables?

    The main place I go to play pinball is Pinball Wizard in Pelham, NH, mentioned frequently here. But it's worth mentioning that the last time I went to Canobie Lake Park, they seemed to have actually had someone come in and fix some of the pinballs in the main arcade! For years, all but the...
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    Which of the TPA pins have you played the actual physical table?

    And today I played a few games of Harley-Davidson (not a great table, but my kid likes it), and suspect that I actually had played it before as well. So strike that from the list...
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    First impression

    Love the use of "The Maple Leaf Rag."
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    Top 10 Pinball Arcade Machines So Far!

    Honorable mentions: the old electromechanical ones can be inexplicably addictive, the John Popadiuk tables are all worth playing just because they're so pretty (on consoles especially), Space Shuttle is way better than in PHoF, and Centaur's weird multiball mechanic is something special.
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    Top 10 Pinball Arcade Machines So Far!

    My favorites keep changing, and it's really hard to pick. Here's a stab at it: 1. Firepower 2. Pin*Bot 3. Star Trek: TNG 4. Taxi 5. Twilight Zone 6. Monster Bash 7. Creature from the Black Lagoon 8. Black Hole 9. Elvira and the Party Monsters 10. Funhouse I would not have thought, when I first...

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