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    Share your first impressions!

    The persistence of "Red River Valley" sounds like some kind of machine-state-management thing: it sounds from old literature as if, to get the other songs, the machine may have to be continuously running for days.
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    Bug Android Version 1.4.2 Bugs

    I saw a variant of the "lost ball, call attendant doesn't work" bug in Black Hole: ball locked in the upper-level capture hole, no new ball at the plunger, call attendant doesn't work.
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    Optional Update is online

    The Android version has the other gate rule (pop bumper on the lower playfield does not close the gate), and it really makes it a substantially different game. You end up spending much more time in the lower playfield without the dread of closing an open gate, and the scoring interaction...
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    Tables for the rest of the year?

    The Lola variant was the one that appeared in PHoF. Since it's also the version that mostly appeared in the real world, it makes some sense to stick with it anyway.
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    Raise your hand if...

    Having played some old Gottlieb EMs recently, it appears to me that the "un-light the rollover lanes" behavior in Black Hole is a Gottlieb house convention. Bally/Williams/Midway just did it the other way around, in Gorgar and their other tables. (Though some of the later Bally/Williams games...
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    360 - Bug Funhouse. 464m. Ball one. No balls inplay or by plunger. Call attendant not working.

    Ah, OK. I wasn't sure about Funhouse or Bride of Pin*Bot. (especially since Farsight had already done a pretty good scripted Funhouse for PHoF).
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    360 - Bug Funhouse. 464m. Ball one. No balls inplay or by plunger. Call attendant not working.

    When this kind of thing has happened to me (on Ripley's, I think, which is an emulated table), the table software actually goes into ball-search mode. I think it'd be reasonable for TPA to assume a ball really has gotten stuck or gone missing if the table itself is in ball search: no need for a...
  8. M

    Tomy Astro Shooter Pinball

    For a toy pinball, Astro Shooter/American Pinball actually looks like a fun little layout. The most complicated toy pinball I ever had was a non-electric machine; it was basically a big plastic bagatelle with manually operated flippers at the bottom (and a very light ball). I don't remember...
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    360 - Bug Dragon model blocks view of rollover lanes

    More games should have gone the Theatre of Magic route, and put a mirror up there.
  10. M

    Tables for the rest of the year?

    Based on buzz around here, it's most likely Harley-Davidson (the Stern version).
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    DLC Release Date

    I can confirm that Theatre of Magic doesn't have the captive-ball rendering bug that people were complaining about on PS3. However, the table art is now a little dim and grey for my taste; I preferred the more vibrant colors with the old lighting. The playfield lights certainly look much...
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    Comment by 'Matt McIrvin' in article 'INITIAL Title Update For Xbox 360 Featuring An Updated DMD And Option To Disable The Multi-Ball Camera AVAILABLE NOW!'

    Worked for me. The changes didn't seem to take effect until I quit and re-entered the game, though.
  13. M

    Thoughts on the new TPA MM

    He sure seems to think I need those !*#%& trolls.
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    Optional Update is online

    I tried the update and didn't notice any difference, then my XBox rebooted because of a momentary power hit in my neighborhood, and after I re-entered the game the lighting looked different. I think you just need to exit and restart; it shouldn't be necessary to delete and re-download anything...
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    360 Pack #3 Gameplay Video

    I've been enjoying these on Android, but the Monster Bash table is so busy that my little phone screen doesn't do it justice. Gorgar is an old favorite from PHoF; I recently encountered the real table at Funspot/ACAM's wall of pins, and liked that too.
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    8 tables left, only 3 non-phof

    "You named the car Indianapolis!"
  17. M

    Request Most Wanted Licensed Bally/Williams DMD Tables - Pick Five

    Doctor Who is a weird case. They'd be dealing with the BBC, and something that might complicate it is that the machine is a tie-in to the original series (from near the end of its run), but Doctor Who was revived in 2005 and has had three different actors playing the Doctor in its current form...
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    Why weren't there more playfield level DMD machines made?

    Capcom actually did something similar with Flipper Football in 1996: http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=3945&picno=10744 But, yes, I think the innovation just came too late for Williams/Bally to put it into anything else. Stern, for their part, seem to have gone a very traditionalist route...
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    DLC Release Date

    The reason the updates are divided up like this is related to the long delay getting DLC out. One of the several things that held up the updates through the summer was that Microsoft had a strict upper limit on the size of a required title update. For some reason, they've got a rule that if an...
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    Comment by 'Matt McIrvin' in article 'INITIAL Title Update For Xbox 360 Featuring An Updated DMD And Option To Disable The Multi-Ball Camera AVAILABLE NOW!'

    The title update referred to here was the earlier one that you had to download to remain connected to XBox Live. The main visible effect was that the DMDs look different (more orange and generally more like a physical plasma DMD). It's necessary to play the DLC tables, so if you have any of...

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