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    DLC Release Date

    I'm not sure it's that simple; to me, BoP seems to have better physics than MM, and Funhouse is better than CV. CftBL is good but may actually be not bouncy enough; somebody else opined that the level of bounce in Monster Bash, which is harder to manage than CftBL, is actually pretty realistic...
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    Request New DMD color and lighting

    My one complaint about the Cirqus Voltaire DMD is that on some phones in landscape, it's just too small to read, and the HUD setting won't stick. But that is not a problem with the DMD color/filter itself.
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    360 - Bug Slowdown on head changes

    It might be related to the camera pan associated with the head turn. I've noticed that on Android, Black Knight's framerate slows down quite a bit when the camera pans to the upper playfield. Mind you, given modern 3D hardware, I'm not entirely sure why this would be a problem; camera moves...
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    How can I improve my Pinball skills?

    Two-ball multiballs, like in the Pin*Bot family or Creature from the Black Lagoon, are great for practicing this skill. There aren't any additional balls to freak you out, but you really, really have to deliberately manage those balls to get the big scores, because draining one will end...
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    How can I improve my Pinball skills?

    In PHoF, I thought of Firepower as a kind of training ground, just because it was very close to being the minimal table with all the gameplay features we think of a modern pinball machine as having: some targets and orbits to hit, rollover lanes at the top with lane-change, and a simple main...
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    The replay solenoid?

    Tradition! Is it not awesome? Though I think a few later games actually faked the knocker sound with software.
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    Comment by 'Matt McIrvin' in article 'DLC Table Packs #1 and #2 Arrive On The Xbox 360...Optional Update Is AVAILABLE NOW!'

    Well, we can always complain about table bugs.
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    DLC Release Date

    It is a little bouncy, but not as bouncy as Cirqus Voltaire, where the ball seems to be filled with helium. Of the DLC #1 and #2 tables, I think Funhouse has the best flipper physics. Bride of Pinbot isn't bad. The TPA physics champ thus far is probably Creature from the Black Lagoon, but I...
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    Monster Bash needs graphic update

    You may be thinking of Bobby "Boris" Pickett's old song "Monster Mash", which almost certainly provided partial inspiration for this game, but was not licensed for it.
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    The DLC is on XBox live!

    Cirqus Voltaire is definitely the table that benefits the most from the big screen; the neon aside, on my little phone screen I couldn't really make out much of what was going on on that busy, chaotic playfield. Same thing, to some extent, with Medieval Madness. I'm looking forward to seeing...
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    Black Knight first impression

    Well, there was Black Knight 2000, which added an awesome cheese-rock soundtrack, for some value of "awesome": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUTgj90iB7M The playfield wasn't quite the same as Black Knight, though.
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    DLC Release Date

    Yeah, I don't think that works for anyone.
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    DLC Release Date

    Haven't tried it yet on the XBox, but on Android, I know that it'll only play the music for a specific table once that table has actually been downloaded. Otherwise, it plays whatever music was playing last, I think.
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    DLC Release Date

    The required update that appeared last week, I believe, contains the necessary assets to show the new tables in the menu when they are available.
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    DLC Release Date

    I suppose so, it's cutting diagonally across the matrix of possibilities...
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    Pinball that has been featured on TV and in movies

    I think the Captain Fantastic machine, the second "Tommy" tie-in, was one of the several that rotated through my local pizza joint in that era. Evel Knievel was another. (I didn't play them at all; I was a little kid and kind of baffled by the whole thing, but fascinated too.)
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    Bug Ball gets stuck under right flipper

    Yeah, this seems like something that could really happen. So it ought to be possible in the sim.
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    DLC Release Date

    I've become sufficiently fond of Creature from the Black Lagoon on my phone that now I'm going to be waiting anxiously for pack #4. But it'll be nice to be able to see those busy playfields on Medieval Madness and Cirqus Voltaire a lot more clearly, and it'll be interesting to do the...
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    Pinball that has been featured on TV and in movies

    I've had it pointed out to me that this strange flurry of interest in pinball in 1975-76 probably comes from one of the biggest pinball references of all: the 1975 movie of "Tommy".
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    Share your first impressions!

    I'm starting to get the hang of the multiball. Between the relatively easy trapping and passing, the need to play through multiball without losing a ball, and the fact that multiball has its own internal "plot", this is really one for developing your ball-control skills. It may not be the...

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