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    Bug Initial Entry Screen

    Just encountered this on Android. It made it nearly impossible to enter initials. It was a relatively high-scoring game for me, in which I'd spent some time in multiball and made one of the wizard goals (if that is at all relevant).
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    Where Do You Play Real World Pinball Tables?

    There's definitely a death spiral that these machines get into. The operator spends less money on maintenance because the pin is seen as a low-earning legacy item, things start breaking, and then it takes in even less money and the operator starts itching to unload it.
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    Tables for the rest of the year?

    I know a guy who has a Theatre of Magic, but finds himself playing the TPA version more often than the real machine, which has a few parts that need replacing...
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    Bug Flipper failures

    On my Sidekick 4G, I've occasionally seen stuck flippers, which behave exactly like a stuck flipper on a real pinball machine. Sometimes you can unstick them by tapping the button, sometimes not (again, just like in reality). I suspect it's a touch driver issue, not a TPA bug per se. When it...
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    Physics of Zen Pinball

    The only time that ever happened to me was in Pinball Hall of Fame, and it was on Space Shuttle! That table can give you a ridiculous number of extra balls.
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    Pinball that has been featured on TV and in movies

    ..onetwothreeFOURfive! SixseveneightNINEten! Eleven tweeeeeeEeelve! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Number_Count ALSO produced in 1976 (though first aired on Sesame Street in '77). The prosecution rests, Your Honor.
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    Pinball that has been featured on TV and in movies

    Further research reveals that all of these strange things happened almost simultaneously in one fairly short time period, 1975-76. I was disappointed to find that Atari's Hercules was from 1979, but then found out it was inspired by Bally's unproduced "Bigfoot" prototype, developed in... 1976...
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    Pinball that has been featured on TV and in movies

    ...That wasn't even the only unsuccessful attempt at the "ginormous pinball machine" theme in the Seventies. The idea seemed to be in the air somehow. There were plans for a Doctor Who feature film called "Doctor Who Meets Scratchman", starring Tom Baker, in which he fought the Devil, who, at...
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    Pinball that has been featured on TV and in movies

    There was an obscure, short-lived game show in the Seventies called "The Magnificent Marble Machine" that involved a giant pinball machine (and I do mean giant: 20 feet high and 12 feet wide, with a contestant working each flipper). The actual pinball gameplay looks sluggish, unsurprisingly...
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    Share your first impressions!

    I get into the Murphy's Law situation in which it seems I can only hit the thing when it's not activated. It's certainly one to play carefully. Two-ball multiballs seem to generally be for players with finesse and nerves of steel.
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    Tables for the rest of the year?

    Firepower was actually one of my favorite tables in PHoF, along with Pin*Bot and Taxi. I seem to be nearly alone in this. Part of it may have been that I was a relatively low-skilled player, and Firepower's relatively simple ruleset removes most of the distractions to concentrating on basic...
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    Canon ball backglass mini game

    Yeah, recent Android versions actually seem to have regressed: the camera used to pan up to the backglass, but it doesn't anymore, for at least some of the camera settings. Actually, come to think of it, I haven't checked the most recent version in a while.
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    Where Do You Play Real World Pinball Tables?

    By the way, though I'd heard warnings here about the condition of the games at Funspot (NH), I found that the vast majority of their old pins were in enjoyably playable shape, and they at least had the decency to turn off the few that weren't. Some had pretty worn playfields. Rudy's head was...
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    What Licenses Would You Most Like to See Made into a Pinball Table?

    Now I want a Sesame Street table.
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    Share your first impressions!

    Anyway, while I'm not familiar with the actual CftBL table so can't speak to its accuracy, I'm loving this table so far; it may be the best pinball sim of the lot. The flipper physics feel like they've had a significant upgrade relative to every other table in TPA. Though trapping on this one...
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    Share your first impressions!

    CftBL and Monster Bash actually are licensed: while some of the monsters in Monster Bash come from public-domain literature, the specific versions pictured are from Universal monster movies. But they're old monster movies; it wasn't a big flavor-of-the-month license.
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    Where Do You Play Real World Pinball Tables?

    Well, today we had an interesting development: my wife had gotten me a gift card for Funspot up in Laconia, a place she remembered from her days around those parts, which she figured we could all enjoy together since they have bowling, skee-ball and a bunch of other carny-type games, and classic...
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    Anyone heard of Magic Girl?

    It seems to be a game he produced in an extremely small quantity (13 units, from what I've been able to find) as an expensive custom job. Probably very, very hard to find...
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    Real Life Pinball Comparisons

    Oh, yeah, I remembered the other thing I was going to say: It may be just the wear on these machines, which are all quite old, but it seemed as if the real plungers weren't anywhere near as powerful as they are in PHoF or TPA when it comes to skill shots. In TPA's Funhouse, getting the ball...
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    Real Life Pinball Comparisons

    One of the first things I noticed when I tried TPA's version of Black Knight on my phone (and posted about earlier in other threads) has to do with how a plunged ball comes off of a held right upper flipper. In PHoF, it'd just roll right up the left side of the upper playfield, and when it...

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