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    New interface thoughts and comments.

    Actually, the previous version worked better on small screens. The buttons are all itty-bitty now with tiny text crammed into them.
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    New interface thoughts and comments.

    The aesthetic criticism is fair; this is the kind of thing that happens when you let a coder design the appearance, and I speak as a coder. On my phone I have a hard time actually clicking on the elements in the carousel. And, in general, the display looks weird on small screens. I understand...
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    Good news!

    Well, that's the best thing I've heard all day.
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    On Pride and Programming [NP]

    ...Also, I don't think most people on the forums realize how unusual it is to even allow the coders in the trenches to talk to users. In the situations I mentioned, I certainly never would have posted anything to those fora in my professional capacity as a company employee. Usually all this is...
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    On Pride and Programming [NP]

    I've worked on publicly visible projects that got flak from users on fan sites and places like Gizmodo. It's a weird and sometimes dismaying situation to be in. At some point you just have to either tune it out or develop a thick skin; it's part of the job. Fortunately, it wasn't our primary...
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    great support system

    Basically, you don't contribute to Kickstarter because you want to come out ahead on the deal (or if you do, you shouldn't, because you won't). You contribute to Kickstarter because you really want to see the project happen. The rewards are secondary, and the great advantage of the Kickstarter...
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    The Official Latest NEWS And INFORMATION Discussion Thread

    Hmmm. The physics on Medieval Madness already felt greatly improved in the last release, but the flipper gap still seemed wide in that version.
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    The Official Xbox LIVE Gamertag Thread

    I'm SpooneyAgate282 (a randomly generated name, but it kind of grew on me). I haven't played TPA on the XBox in a little while, though, and my scores there are not terribly impressive.
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    Christmassy Movies?

    One suitable for kids that I actually liked a lot was last year's "Arthur Christmas" (now out on disc).
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    Vote for your top 5 favorite TPA tables to date

    As stated elsewhere, Black Hole is rising rapidly in my estimation after the last update, which completely overhauled the physics. The two-level multiball is quite challenging to get, and extremely cool when it happens. The backbox still doesn't animate (and the "infinity mirror" in the...
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    Anyone consider leaving 360 for WiiU? (re: TPA)

    Not gonna buy a WiiU just to play TPA. Our XBox was primarily purchased for Kinect games. I'm more likely to break down and get the Mac version if I want a bigger screen, though I understand that has problems of its own.
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    Black Hole faster?

    Completed all the wizard goals and broke a million a couple of times. Maybe it just got easier! I have no real-life experience with Black Hole, so can't say how accurate this is. I remember someone complaining that in real life, the lower playfield has a wider flipper gap with a post in the...
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    Black Hole faster?

    This table definitely got a fun transplant in the most recent revision (the one with Twilight Zone). People who had been ignoring it should probably give it another try.
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    Bug LIZ Cleanup delay in returning next ball

    Wow! That could probably happen on a real table!
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    PS3 - Bug Display blinking bug?

    This bug exists on other platforms too, and similar things happen with all the two-line alphanumeric displays (Bride of Pin*Bot, Taxi, Elvira and the Party Monsters). It seems to happen particularly with blinking or moving displays. Sometimes just one line of the display goes blank. I think...
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    Is the camera shot too hard?

    IPDB has a great photograph showing what the main playfield looks like under there, which makes it clear why holding the flipper is important: http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2684&picno=37887
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    Is the camera shot too hard?

    I always hold it even when the rocket kicker shoots the ball into the Hitch-hiker, even though this makes no difference in TPA. I think it's an instinct left over from playing the real TZ back in the Nineties (the skill shot was one of the few things I could master). On a real TZ, I suppose...
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    How Many Pinball Manufacturers Could The Industry Support?

    ...A while back I messed around with an inflation calculator and tried to figure out how much people were really willing to pay for a game of pinball back in the olden days, and I was surprised to discover that prices per play which, translated to 2012 dollars, would be in the range of US$0.75...
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    How Many Pinball Manufacturers Could The Industry Support?

    I think AC/DC gave Stern a shot in the arm. It's a genuinely great table, maybe the first rock-music-themed pinball to make really good use of the source material; and it's a hit. They need to innovate a bit more, but I don't think they're going away. Meanwhile, Wizard of Oz's playfield is so...
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    TZ: Too easy = fail

    In fact, I did so several hours after your post. Nice wizard mode. (I do think the claims that newbies are LITZ-ing immediately after encountering the game are exaggerated: they may be newbies to Twilight Zone but they're probably pretty experienced at pinball, or at least video pinball...

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