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    Request We need 2-stage or analog flipper control on games with upper flippers

    Hmm. I've been using the bumpers for faster response, but this might be worth giving the triggers a try, if only to satisfy my curiosity.
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    DLC Release Date

    Ah yes, the grand push for telegraph-enabled centralized bagatelle scoring during the U. S. Grant administration, culminating in the 1873 driving of the Golden Pin at Plunger Hill, Utah. Unfortunately, in the bagatelle dens that sprung up in gold-prospecting boomtowns of the Wild West it was...
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    Best Backglasses on Real Machines

    I love those shiny infinity-mirror backboxes: The Empire Strikes Back, Space Invaders, the real-life Black Hole. Probably just because it's a rapidly dated design aesthetic of an era I remember well.
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    Bug Monster Bash XBox 360 Multiball Bug

    Exploiting it to a game-breaking degree would be painfully boring anyway.
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    Why is real pinball so much harder than TPA?

    This is an unusual thing about Funspot in Laconia, NH: their pins are all set to one token a play (the token being approximately a quarter, less in large quantities). Most of them are older machines from the 1980s and earlier, but downstairs they've got a few 1990s tables.
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    Comment by 'Matt McIrvin' in article 'iOS Version 1.1.6 Featuring Various Bug Fixes AVAILABLE NOW!'

    The lower pop bumper still closes the gate on XBox 360. It doesn't on Android.
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    Bug Monster Bash XBox 360 Multiball Bug

    That's a familiar story, no doubt about it. It's always the last-minute "one more thing" changes that screw everything up, because they don't get as much testing (especially in smaller organizations without very rigid release processes). I can say personally that I missed this bug until I read...
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    Request Extern beta testing please

    Provided you're good enough at Monster Bash to (1) get as far as multiball, and (2) get control of the balls instead of just knocking them around haphazardly, which would tend to obscure the problem. Anyone who's competent at pinball can do this without much trouble, but most human beings aren't...
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    Is The Pinball Arcade Too "Demanding" on some devices?

    I just heard that the latest Mac point release upped its OS requirements out of the blue.
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    Bug Monster Bash XBox 360 Multiball Bug

    I'm guessing here, but to me it feels like a debugging convenience that was left in the released code by mistake.
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    360 - Bug Gorgar Ball Glitch - Xbox 360

    What it actually looks like is a very brightly lit metal ball with sort of a matte texture, like brushed metal. Or like it's just Phong-shaded with blown-out lighting.
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    360 - Bug Gorgar Ball Glitch - Xbox 360

    Ah, I noticed that one too but didn't figure out the conditions under which it occurred. On PHoF (Wii), I actually play Gorgar with a white custom ball to make it easier to see against all the busy playfield graphics. It's not as much of a problem in HD, but it's amusing that this bug makes it...
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    360 - Bug Leaderboard issue

    For the broken DLC pack, at least. Seems overkill to take them all down for that whole time.
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    Bug Monster Bash XBox 360 Multiball Bug

    Just confirmed that I can replicate this in Frankenstein multiball on the XBox 360. It'd be interesting to test other platforms; I don't think I could do this on Android but I'm not sure. I wonder how this happened. Debug code left in by mistake? That's sure what it feels like to me.
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    360 - Bug Gorgar got mute.

    The mute-Gorgar bug was happening on Android for a while. I think it got fixed fairly recently, long after DLC #3 was submitted for XBLA.
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    Most Wanted by Manufacturer and Year

    Grand Lizard, because I've played it recently and it was a heck of a lot of fun, though I couldn't get the magnasave to work. Fathom and Centaur just because of their strikingly weird aesthetics.
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    Licensed or Non-licensed?

    ...Anyway, licenses can be good or bad, and some of my favorite tables are licensed, but I think I come down on the unlicensed side on the whole. I heard somewhere that Theatre of Magic was intended to be a licensed David Copperfield table; I can't imagine that being anything other than worse...
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    Licensed or Non-licensed?

    I get the impression that Dennis Ritchie had to push hard for them to get as much creative freedom with Star Trek: TNG as they did. Paramount was originally going to forbid them from depicting any violent acts, which Ritchie pointed out would have been untrue to the show itself.
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    360 - Bug Funhouse. 464m. Ball one. No balls inplay or by plunger. Call attendant not working.

    Or like a Phil Dick horror story.
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    Tables for the rest of the year?

    Yeah, that's as unlikely as Space Invaders, where the whole real table was killed by a (lack of) licensing problem with the very, very Alien-like artwork.

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