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    PAF Top Ten Most Wanted Table Poll Series : #2 - Williams (Closed)

    It seems unlikely that they'd go to the extra effort to get the Pinball 2000 platform working just for one or two tables, which are themselves not tremendously well-loved. (I've played both of the Pinball 2000 tables, and I agree that while they're interesting given the significance of these...
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    PAF Top Ten Most Wanted Table Poll Series : #2 - Williams (Closed)

    Well, I clicked Black Knight 2000 in about a quarter of a second. The other choices were slightly harder. I voted for Fire! just because it's one of two real tables on which my daughter has thrashed me (the other, I am ashamed/proud to say, was Star Trek: TNG, about a week ago).
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    Which of the TPA pins have you played the actual physical table?

    I've played a majority of them, partly because I played some pinball back in the Nineties, but mostly because I'm fortunate enough to live near the aforementioned Pinball Wizard. Some didn't grab me in RL and I haven't played them very many times. I think these are the ones I haven't played...
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    Williams and Bally: the "next 30" unofficial poll.

    Fire! has the distinction of being a table that my daughter (age 6) thrashed me at the last time we went to Pinball Wizard.
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    Kudos, Farsight - great reproduction

    I wasn't familiar with White Water until now, but it strikes me as a really fun table. This is a great table pack all around.
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    Is Pinball Arcade's "Black Knight" version same as 2008's Williams Pinball Classics'?

    The good work they did on Firepower and Space Shuttle, both of which are noticeably superior to the PHoF versions, makes me hopeful that they can do Black Knight justice if they ever get around to an overhaul. But it wouldn't be a money-maker in the way a new table pack is, so I understand this...
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    First impression

    The Pinball Hall of Fame version of the table was tuned very easy, and became boring quickly. I don't know exactly what the difference is here, but it's a much more exciting play in TPA. This table seems to be exhibiting the doubled-ball-in-plunger-lane bug a lot. I haven't precisely...
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    Outlanes...

    ...then, of course, there are the complaints that Twlight Zone's left outlane is not bad enough in the simulation, and the complaints in both directions about Cirqus Voltaire at various points in its history.
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    Outlanes...

    As for outlanes, I think most of the recent complaints about them have focused on Star Trek: TNG and Firepower, which really do have brutal outlanes by design (I suspect ST:TNG's were intentionally designed as remakes of the left outlane from Firepower). If I were unfamiliar with these tables in...
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    Outlanes...

    The TPA table that I notice as having an incredibly sensitive tilt is Genie. I've only played a real Genie once or twice, and I'm not a skilled nudger in real life, so I can't say how realistic this is.
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    Run you clever boy!(doctor who series 7)

    That spoof was written by Steven Moffat, who now produces the show and often writes it. I think it was the first Doctor Who story he wrote for TV. The extravagantly loopy use of time travel in it is actually much more characteristic of Moffat's run on the current series than it was of the...
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    Star Trek: The Next Generation

    The one at Pinball Wizard was out of order last Sunday. But this was my favorite machine back in the 1990s.
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    its time to change back to 5 balls a game.

    As I've said before, you'd be surprised how much people paid to play pinball back in its glory days. I tried to figure this out a while back using a simple inflation calculator, and the amounts typically charged by pinball machines for most of the last half of the 20th century usually translated...
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    2013 texas pinball festival report

    Well, he is Radagast the Brown, and I suppose wizards outrank hobbits in at least some regards.
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    Random Tales of Glory...and Woe

    I don't know if this is glory or woe or both, but I took my 6-year-old daughter back to Pinball Wizard, and she kicked my butt in a two-player game on Fire! She used to insist on playing co-op with me, operating just one flipper and the plunger, which makes it rather difficult to play anything...
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    Android - Request Beta Build with High-Resolution Tables Enabled

    Speaking as a mobile-device guy, this situation in which a device has such a high-res screen that it taxes the available CPU and/or GPU horsepower is... not unheard of. Everyone's always trying to cut manufacturing cost and power consumption to the bone while putting an impressive screen on the...
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    TPA titles in the wild

    Except, of course, that the real thing is always harder (and I'm not much of a player). I was just trying my hand today at the one at Pinball Wizard in NH, and got the sequential F-I-L-M award but drained my last ball before I could make either of the shots to start multiball... Great photos!
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    Kickback Lane?

    Actually, as far as I can tell, TPA is the one that's right! I just checked this out on a real Firepower, and TPA's weird behavior seems to be what it does. To light the kickback, you have to complete the whole target bank on a single ball. (Online rulesheets tend not to specify this, which is...
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    Kickback Lane?

    ...Here's the specific scenario I'm wondering about: 1. Complete one or two targets in a bank of three 2. Drain the ball 3. Complete the remaining targets Currently, if you do this in TPA's Firepower, the kickback doesn't light. I'm probably going back to Pelham pretty soon and may see if I...
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    Kickback Lane?

    Even on the second or third ball?

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