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Copy editing nitpick: When you click the token to add more, the dialog text reads: Superfluous "quotes" are a personal "pet peeve" because when you "see them" it feels like the message you're reading is "disingenuous." See what I "mean?" Drop the quotes! Nobody is talking, it's not dialog.

I do *not* see any choppiness or lag on my 2012 Nexus 7, KitKat 4.4.4 (non-rooted.) I should be running the latest table, but I'll drop & re-install it to verify. Turned off the camera locks, turned on the multiball and event cams: still plays fine. EDIT: and after a drop and reload, it's...

One better -- she comes with her own EB light... and maybe there's still some goodwill from Paramount?

I'd be surprised if it was aimed specifically at FarSight/TPA. "My client's fee is $(X)." Add me to the virtual beer club. I think we'll be funded anyhow, but I'm loving the cushion. Looking forward to seeing the final total.

I think the PAPA folks are planning to talk about it in their next Twitch.tv stream: https://twitter.com/bowenkerins/status/517757227298742272 A little boost can't hurt, right?

I think FarSight does demos at shows, so I'd think they must have some kind of setup for this... unless it's just an employee standing by to reset the machine after shenanigans. :-) Find room in your budget for a good-sized Android tablet and you can be the demo machine. "Honest, I need to buy...

Just added: $150 gets you five copies of gold. :-D Edit: Too slow!

I think RBION has/had a "museum mode" like you're describing, see this topic. Sounds like this pretty much locks down the machine, though. "Kiosk mode" is what it's typically called for PCs, I think. You may be able to find software to force kiosk mode, and then run TPA through that, if you're...

True. And there's at least one callout in TZ as well (Cousin Itt, I believe.) It's not the same thing, of course!

All the same, a strong weekend would make everyone sleep a lot better, I'm sure. I want the Mamushka in my pocket! ... uh, so to speak.

It was the first machine that I really remember playing: a massive thing with two (!) sets of flipper buttons, the multiple levels... just plain cool. Virtual isn't quite the same (and it's fast in TPA) but Gottleibs of the era all appear to be pretty brutal. Interestingly, I was hoping for BH...

You've never met my siblings. "24/7 Haunted House? Bye, bro. Nice knowin' ya."

I happen to live close enough to the Pacific Pinball Museum (PPM) which is just about as excellent as life can get for a pinhead: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pacific-Pinball-Museum/163737757012960 Grew up bumming around in arcades (and haunting the back, where the pins were kept, of course.)...

We call this "planned obsolescence" these days, and it's not a new concept. Pins were reflecting pop culture for decades before TAF. Home consoles pretty much killed the arcade, and pins with them. Any product that, by design, bashes itself to play has a built-in lifespan. It's why I'm so...

This is a general problem, and not a new one. When the TPA game is suspended and sent to the background and then resumed, not all graphic assets are reloaded when the game resumes. It's noticeable in a lot of places, like the various LCD score displays. As soon as the game refreshes that part...

Explicitly stated? I don't recall it ever been publicly stated, but my search-fu is not strong. From a coding point of view, I would expect FS to just release these as two tables -- standard and gold -- with similar but not identical assets. Tune the physics and the mesh on the base machine...

[douses keyboard in sacred oils, arranges lit candles in mystic circle, places Bobby King voodoo doll in exact center] [chanting at doll] Seawitch! Seawitch! Seawitch! Seawitch! [knocks over candle onto keyboard, horror as keys alight] Seaw... oh hell! [beats out flames with Bobby King...

Rights for Lloyd mean costs go up for everyone else, yes? I'll "settle" for another table announcement. [mutters "Seawitch" to himself]

Unless Mr. Lloyd/his agent have changed their tune, I don't think it sounds like that at all. I read that as "maybe there's another cheap property we can pick up with any surplus cash." I'd love to be wrong, but I think the TAF port will be sporting a Generic Fester at best.

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