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    Which tables are worth buying

    I got hooked on those 1970s/80s solid-state pins by PHoF: The Williams Collection on the Wii, which didn't have any tables that required emulation (so no DMDs; the most complex tables featured were scripted versions of Funhouse and Whirlwind). I think a player relatively new to pinball might...
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    Truly terrible tables

    The four-flipper version of Paragon had a gap with no wireform to stop the ball between the top and bottom flippers on the right. If you tried to trap the ball on the lower flipper, it'd drain. According to IPDB there was a three-flipper version made specifically because people in the Italian...
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    Bug After Rescue the princess ...the dmd says Player 1 standby...

    Sounds like TotAN, as suggested by the forum title. This sounds like the same kind of "ball missing/stuck and call attendant doesn't work" bug others have complained about in other threads. I don't think it's particularly game-dependent; it just happened to me on Monster Bash (XBox) under very...
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    Which tables are worth buying

    It's really a matter of taste. The IGN reviewer seems to like relatively complex DMD tables; Monster Bash is another one of those, with a design in some ways reminiscent of Medieval Madness, though it's significantly easier. They might like Cirqus Voltaire and Creature from the Black Lagoon as...
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    Taxi and Harley Davidson release date?

    Fortunately DLC pack #3 is going to reemerge in a few days, ahead of the bug fixes; its being pulled apparently had nothing to do with that. Personally, I think that Monster Bash 360 is quite playable and fun even with the Frankenstein jackpot bug, though you obviously wouldn't want to use it...
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    ST:TNG Kickstarter is (now complete)!

    As I said back when the Twilight Zone Kickstarter was in progress and XBox DLC was only a dream, I think the Kickstarter funding model for media licenses with high up-front costs will only work a small number of times. Twice, maybe three times if they can actually negotiate The Addams Family...
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    Request Dear Farsight, Why High Speed II: The Getaway is a Must Have Table

    The rights to a song and the rights to a specific recording of a song are separate things. With one but not the other, I suppose you could do sound-alike vocals with a new artist, but that's more expensive in itself.
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    Why is real pinball so much harder than TPA?

    It's definitely a nostalgia-oriented place with a collection of older pins. But my standard for brokenness is Canobie Lake, where even the new Sterns are broken; Funspot's machines are comparatively in good shape! I'd like to get over to Pelham soon.
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    ST:TNG Kickstarter is (now complete)!

    I actually thought it was really interesting just because it was so different from the way I usually played the game back in the olden days (or would today at my fairly low skill level). Pinball at the highest tournament level can turn into a completely different game with a more abstract appeal.
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    ST:TNG Kickstarter is (now complete)!

    That bit of ST:TNG incidental music used in the Asteroid Threat mode is burned into my brain after almost twenty years away from the machine (unless you count a recent bout with an unplayably broken one). *boom* BAH BAH BAH BADADUM!
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    ST:TNG Kickstarter is (now complete)!

    In connection with the Pro Pinball Kickstarter, it's worth mentioning that Pro Pinball: The Web played an awful lot like a mirror-imaged version of Star Trek: TNG.
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    ST:TNG Kickstarter is (now complete)!

    My affection for this machine is certainly partly to do with the cleverly done theming (which includes a surprising amount of deadpan Trek-fan humor), and partly nostalgia: it was the single table I played the most during the period when I was playing a lot of real-life pinball, and it was the...
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    Lyman's Lament

    Huh, that's an interesting question! Might be worth some research... Slam23 is right about the surprising efficacy of just shooting for the scoop over and over. Last night, I tried going for Lyman's Lament the real way on the Android version. I did a little bit of regular play whenever I got a...
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    ST:TNG Kickstarter is (now complete)!

    I thought this with Twilight Zone as well, but it also seems unfair that Kickstarter backers—the people that should be rewarded for making this happen—have to pay $10 for the table, yet if it’s successful, anyone else will only need to pay half that. That's in the nature of Kickstarter. The...
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    PS3 Black hole chrome

    With the direct illumination out, it's probably just reflecting its ambient lighting, which may be purple.
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    Medieval Madness is TOO HARD

    It's too hard in a good way. Wait 'til you see Twilight Zone.
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    Lyman's Lament

    Just confirmed that you can do it with the flipper code on XBox. Doesn't give you the wizard goal for doing it the easy way, though...
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    Bug GOR and GAR lights?

    Hmm... that may be part of the reason that I couldn't tell if it was working on Android: it could be that the states also get messed up under repeated play.
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    Jack- Bot

    I doubt that the 3D mesh data for a table is the primary consumer of bits. (And is it really identical between the two tables, or just superficially very similar?)
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    MB Tactics and Strategies

    I think this is a sign that the pinball market, such as it is, is more and more geared to collectors as opposed to people who actually want to earn quarters from their guests. Absurdly deep rulesets make more sense if you're trying to convince people to drop thousands of dollars on a table for...

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