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    Tables that will never get licensed

    Here's one that will never be licensed: Bally's Space Invaders. The artwork is a blatant ripoff of H. R. Giger's concepts for Alien (especially the critter on the backglass, who is basically a Xenomorph with red eyes), and I think there was actually a lawsuit over it that stopped production of...
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    Tables that will never get licensed

    Yeah, Disney has their price. The question is just how high that price is.
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    Portrait vs Landscape - pros and cons

    I play the Android version on a pretty small screen, and visually I prefer portrait, but it's uncomfortable for me to hold the phone that way and flip with my thumbs for too long; sometimes I actually miss the screen entirely and drain the ball because I was trying to press the bezel. Landscape...
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    Tables that will never get licensed

    I've often wondered how the BBC would respond to the possibility of licensing Doctor Who. On the one hand, the fact that Doctor Who is a live property actually complicates things: the table is a Sylvester McCoy-era tie-in to the classic series, and presumably the BBC would prefer a licensed...
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    ROM emulation, why is it so important?

    Farsight already did EM tables, presumably with scripting, for Pinball Hall of Fame (especially the Gottlieb collection). I'd assumed that the scripted early solid-state tables in PA were all PHoF repeats that were just using the PHoF scripting, or something derived from it. It's conceivable...
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    Alien Crush and other early video pinball games

    At least one online source claims that 2600 Midnight Magic was originally made by Broderbund (the makers of the actual David's Midnight Magic for various personal computers) and that the Atari release was part of a post-crash wave of Atari re-releases of third-party games. That would make some...
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    Alien Crush and other early video pinball games

    Most of the control you could exert was actually through nudging; the tilt was very generous and you could move the ball all over the place. In that sense it was a little like an easier version of a pinball from the pre-flipper era. I thought it was fun, but it wasn't much like pinball.
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    Alien Crush and other early video pinball games

    As stated in the "origins of your love of pinball" thread, I played a lot of Atari 2600 Video Pinball in its time, and got peculiar ideas about what pinball was like as a result of that. It had tiny drains, tiny flippers and no slope at the bottom of the playfield, so much of the game was just...
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    Release of the PHOF 3D in germany / waiting for PA

    For some reason, the PHoF: TWC tables I got the most addicted to were Firepower, Pinbot and Taxi. With Pinbot, the left outlane is murder, and I've heard that the "advance planet" target is harder there than it is on the real machine; but I liked that wide-open target-bashing action and the...
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    Clarification on Xbox submissions

    They've got enough trouble dealing with varying assets; this strategy would mean that they'd also have to support two different versions of the executable running the new DLC. They may not think the specific changes that led to the TU rejection are critical to the new tables, but there are...
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    Clarification on Xbox submissions

    While I don't know the details of how these downloads work, I could understand this policy as a guard against vendors pulling certain kinds of higher-order shenanigans. E.g. offer a free update to a game but have it break the game unless you then buy a non-free download. Even short of vendor...
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    Latest NEWS And INFORMATION On FarSight Studios' The Pinball Arcade

    Well, one of the reasons. The case I was thinking of was one I learned about in a long-ago stint as a journalist for a campus magazine, which was actually even weirder than that: it was a paleontological dig for mastodon remains in Virginia. The College of William and Mary had a couple of...
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    Real flipperbutton options on xbox 360.

    What frustrates me is the tradeoff between responsiveness and ergonomics: the triggers are much better placed for frequent flipping, but the bumpers get me the fastest response. Since the triggers are analog, the amount of travel allowed before they register a flip is presumably adjustable in...
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    Why don't players like Gorgar?

    Gorgar has a relatively simple, uncluttered layout, but, on the other hand, the graphics on the playfield are incredibly busy and the detail can be distracting. When I was first playing it in PHoF on the Wii, I had to learn to filter that out. One thing that helped in PHoF was that when you...
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    Why don't players like Gorgar?

    The audio on some pinball tables can actually do a lot to unnerve me. Gorgar and Funhouse are both cases where I can get higher scores with the sound off. But it's not quite the same...
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    Why don't players like Gorgar?

    My daughter won't even let me play Funhouse in PHOF any more. Strangely, Gorgar doesn't bother her. I guess Rudy is creepier than Gorgar.
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    Heartbeat and voice problems

    I mentioned this over on the Android 1.0.7 bug thread. I noticed it when his "ME GOT YOU" was strangely absent, an omission that's hard to miss. But it doesn't happen all the time.
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    Why don't players like Gorgar?

    I think it's hilarious, myself. It's so Seventies over-the-top, like something you'd have seen painted on the side of a van, with the mostly-naked barbarians facing the big goofy devil guy with the seven-word vocabulary. Reminds me of unsavory aspects of the world of my childhood. But I do...
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    Android - Bug Android VER 1.0.8 Bugs

    The first time I purchased DLC, it was with the version before save to external SD card was implemented, and the app was so unstable for me then that it's hard to say what the behavior was. I had to reboot my phone a lot. The second time was with 1.0.7, and I do think I saw the same behavior...
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    Android - Bug Android VER 1.0.8 Bugs

    Yeah, like the earlier poster, I also saw (or heard, or rather didn't hear) that on Monster Bash. It occurs to me that the Gorgar issue I was posting about earlier could conceivably be another manifestation of this.

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