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    bug android version.

    Sounds like another instance of the irritating bug people have seen in Ripley's, Funhouse, Black Hole, etc. The developers seem to have trouble reproducing it at will. I think it's usually associated with getting the ball into some sort of lock, often but not always during a multiball mode. TPA...
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    3 things that irritate me a lot

    More generally, TPA tends not to save your preferred settings for a table, or saves them only haphazardly. This is a problem that goes all the way back to Pinball Hall of Fame, and I've never understood it. I think that all of the user settings for a table should be persistent. How hard can it...
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    3 things that irritate me a lot

    The thing that makes nudging hard, in real life or in TPA, is that if you're nudging to prevent a drain, you have to do it long before it's obvious that you have to do it. So the key thing is learning the table well enough to know that the ball's going to head for the drain when it's still at...
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    Check out this sweet Dr. Who pinball video

    It'd probably be difficult to get, but this table was a favorite of mine back in the 1990s, before I was even really a Doctor Who fan. In terms of gameplay the game it most closely resembles is Pin*Bot, which Barry Oursler also designed. The Time Expander toy is sort of an elaboration on...
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    so is this table especially high scoring/easy?

    People who are better than me seem to find Monster Bash really easy. I think it's certainly easier than, say, Medieval Madness. The table that strikes me as super-easy is Harley-Davidson, at least with regard to throwing candy to newbies. On the first ball of my first game, having no clue about...
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    DLC Pack 6?

    Process of elimination. Of all the sentient beings who have ever starred in a pinball machine, who is (a) still alive and (b) most fond of appearing on video? Cassandra Peterson.
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    DLC Pack 6?

    Anyway, if a video announcement by a starring friend is involved, I'd say that increases the probability of it being an Elvira table over anything else. Seems like the kind of thing she'd do as a matter of course.
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    DLC Pack 6?

    The people who made the table claim the timing with the Mars Attacks movie was coincidental. The reason the visual style looks so similar is probably common inspiration: Mars Attacks! was based on the campy 1960s Topps bubblegum cards by that name, and Attack from Mars probably took unlicensed...
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    How's The Pinball Scene By You?

    Northern Massachusetts/southern New Hampshire (especially the latter) seems like surprisingly fertile pinball territory, in general. Not everyone's machines are well-maintained, but they exist, and Pinball Wizard in Pelham, NH is legendary (I hope to visit the place soon).
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    That first ball sucked. Yeah, restart.

    I restart Angry Birds levels. I usually don't do it in pinball because it doesn't feel like pinball.
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    Black Knight bugs

    This is still not fixed in version 1.5.0.
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    Truly terrible tables

    The tables I've hated the most, I don't necessarily know if the problem is a design problem or if it's just that the particular one I'm playing is in poor shape. For instance, one of the tables at Funspot is a 1970s Gottlieb EM called Sky Kings, which has a big saucer at the top you can plunge...
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    Where Do You Play Real World Pinball Tables?

    The other day I checked out the candlepin bowling alley down the street, Academy Lanes in Haverhill, Mass., and saw that they had a Stern Iron Man. It wasn't powered up at the time, though (it was a Friday morning, when the place caters to a mostly retiree crowd; I was there with my daughter...
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    ST:TNG Kickstarter is (now complete)!

    I think the closeness of the goal is exerting an attractive force at this point; people are getting confident it's going to succeed and want to help put it over.
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    Bug Ball gets stuck easily off the plunger

    Don't know if this is a bug in the simulation or a physical bug in Taxi, but it seems to be pretty easy to get the ball stuck if you plunge it just hard enough to reach the gate midway up the plunger lane. Fortunately, call attendant does work in this case.
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    Latest NEWS And INFORMATION On FarSight Studios' The Pinball Arcade

    I had some trouble actually buying the new pack in-game. I don't think it was anything to do with TPA, it was more that Google Play Store was acting up and not letting me perform the transaction for some reason. First the button wouldn't activate (even after I checked the terms-and-conditions...
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    Is there some trick to the Ringmaster Hideout wizard goal?

    There actually is a plunger skill shot on Cirqus Voltaire, but it's a different shot. It's very hard to get in TPA.
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    Is there some trick to the Ringmaster Hideout wizard goal?

    Yeah, sometimes the ball just ricochets into the Ringmaster's neck after he drops it. I think that was how I discovered that the Hideout score existed.
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    Bug Android Version 1.5.0 Bugs and Feedback

    Oh, yes, and thanks very much to Farsight for repositioning the magnasave and launch buttons.
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    Bug Android Version 1.5.0 Bugs and Feedback

    The camera still isn't panning up to the backbox animation on Cirqus Voltaire. Flipper physics seems generally improved on the various tables that re-downloaded, though this could be my imagination.

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