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    What Licenses Would Give FarSight The Best Bang For Their Buck?

    ...oh, yeah, and it features the Daleks too, which probably means dealing with the notoriously prickly estate of Terry Nation. For a while it wasn't even clear that the revived TV series would be able to use the Daleks.
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    What Licenses Would Give FarSight The Best Bang For Their Buck?

    Doctor Who will probably never happen (I imagine the licensing would be tricky, since aside from the BBC property itself it has likenesses of all seven classic-series Doctors and many other characters from the show, including a fair number of now-deceased actors). But I'm another one who would...
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    TZ out in a few days!! Will we get the real version right away?

    Early production machines of Twilight Zone came with a barrier between two of the jet bumpers on the left side of the machine, which made draining to the left outlane less likely. Later on, the table shipped without the barrier installed; they put it in the coin box in case the operator wanted...
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    What do you aim for on a table?

    On some tables, there are lots of things to do that are great fun in themselves, but are dangerous sucker bait if you're going for the wizard mode (e.g. anything involving the guns on Star Trek: TNG, especially on the real machine). So whether I do them or not depends on the mood I'm in. If I...
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    If you score over 10 billion . . .

    The scoring in Attack From Mars seems ridiculously inflated to me, even by Nineties pinball standards. But it seems to very a lot from table to table even within that era.
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    Wesley Crusher.

    I'm not sure, but I don't think Wil Wheaton appears in the pinball game at all. By that point, he only made occasional appearances on the show. He's played the machine, though: https://twitter.com/wilw/status/136705439462211584 (Wheaton's recovered a considerable amount of geek-culture cred in...
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    Any TPA Tables You Regret Buying?

    On Android, where it's possible to buy tables individually, there are a few that I don't enjoy or play enough to really justify having bought them: Harley-Davidson, No Good Gofers, maybe Scared Stiff. And I actually didn't buy Ripley's (though I have the XBox version). But these tables are so...
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    A VERY dangerous thread!

    1. Fix known table bugs. 2. Keep improving the physics, flippers especially. New packs are much better than older ones, but flippers still don't respond to fleeting micro-flips like a physical solenoid-driven object would. 3. Higher-detail art for the older packs on mobile platforms, where...
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    Flipping heck: Is pinball about to stage a recovery

    Well, there are some like Addams Family or TZ that have some hidden magnets under the playfield just to make some extra craziness happen. (And even where they don't, people imagine them. It's remarkable how many people will insist that all pinball machines have magnets in the outlanes designed...
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    Bug The Right Orbit Physics Error is Still There!!!!!

    Aha! I wondered if there was a magnet or something there.
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    The Random Thought Thread

    I find that surprisingly many people literally cannot tell the difference between a 16:9 HD picture, and 4:3 standard-def video stretched to fill a wide screen. They might get it if you carefully explain to them what to look for, but generally it just goes unnoticed. I think that's why the...
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    Best TPA tables up until now

    I didn't mention Funhouse or Cirqus Voltaire above, but CV is one of my favorites to play on the 360 (which I rarely play these days) just because it's so pretty there, with the crazy neon effects. The Android version doesn't do it visual justice. And I guess I did get pretty familiar with...
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    Best TPA tables up until now

    I played a fair amount of real-world pinball back in the 1990s (and play it today when I get the chance), though I never got very good at it. My affection for Star Trek: TNG and Twilight Zone is based on affection for the real tables, both of which are also among the best TPA ports (though...
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    Flipping heck: Is pinball about to stage a recovery

    I very much doubt it will ever be what it was; the latest wave of pinball emporia is built on nostalgia, and I don't see kids flocking to play these machines. And with maintenance costs, the economics aren't great. The biggest problem is that there just isn't a busy arcade for every shopping...
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    Best TPA tables up until now

    I can't tell, really. I tend to overrate whichever tables are in the latest pack, because they're new and shiny. Right now I'm playing Genie an awful lot, but I don't know if it will have staying power. But I don't think there's any doubt that my favorite is Star Trek: TNG, even though it kicks...
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    Atari's US operations file for bankrupcy: Effect on Rollercoaster Tycoon?

    For that matter, I dream of seeing some of the old Atari widebody pinballs on TPA (mostly because I like the way they looked), but given the probable IP difficulty and the low demand, it's vanishingly unlikely.
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    ST:TNG Tactics and Strategies

    Launch Probe is tempting just because it's fun, but, yeah, I wouldn't choose it when playing for points. It's either Start Mission or Warp Factor 4.
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    Unrealistic!

    Drive around in Boston in the winter and you get patina and uniqueness in just a couple of weeks.
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    I'm not against older tables, but is this boring?

    But making Picard shut him up is so satisfying!
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    Is Scared Stiff an overrated table?

    On TPA, I much prefer Elvira and the Party Monsters to this one. But I assume that at least part of that is down to TPA's emulation; I have no significant experience with the real-world tables.

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