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  1. trunchbull

    First Impressions

    This table is hauntingly bad.
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    Request Time Machine: Love it or leave it?

    Yesss Time Machine is EXCELLENT
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    Request Bad Cats: Love it or leave it?

    MEOW MEOW-MEOW MEOW I love this table! Would be a great showcase for a physics update, if they were to do one, like with Xenon.
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    You say no more Gottlieb, I say no more Data East/Sega

    Time Machine is really fun (gag me with a spoon!), though I'd imagine the thrill of activating the chime box would be a little stunted by the fact that it's digital.
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    Shaking the table - is it really helping that much?

    I don't totally buy nudging in the bumpers (really, the force of the bumpers is way, way stronger than any force you could exert on the table without tilting) but heck yeah, nudging is amazingly helpful and learning how to do it is an art in its own right.
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    Why are most, if not all, Gottliebs mediocre at best?

    Early Gottlieb tables are fine, but everything after the acquisition by Premier (or establishment of Premier) is super cheesy and cheap. There's something about Bally/Williams tables that have a certain finesse (smooth orbits, nice ramps, clean art, well-thought-out humor and theme) that's...
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    Pinball in Real Life Questions

    If you've tried the TPA tables with the new physics you'll find that they're much closer to real pinball, particularly with the ball that feels heavier and almost bigger (though all pinballs are the same size). The tables with older physics are quicker, lighter, and way too easy, for sure, but...
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    First impression

    Which is really strange because I was puttering along at like 300k or something and suddenly I had an extra billion points, so something must have happened but I still don't know what. I think it happened when I shot the volcano but it was also during one of my first games when I was just...
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    First impression

    General question: how is the billion point shot achieved? I got it on accident once and I don't remember at all how I did it.
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    Happiness is....

    Happiness is turning the tilt off and making the ball do absurd things:
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    Your Dream-Themes For Tables That Don't Exist

    Hah, I've spent way too much down-time at work thinking about fantasy pinball tables. I think a Willy Wonka table would be cool and obviously there's a billion things you could do with that - count down the clock to get into the factory, then send off the four kids before taking a ride in the...
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    Thread for irrational dislikes

    There are some tables where I just straight up don't do things that it wants me to do because it inevitably leads to a ball drain. Eight times out of ten, the Twilight Zone skill shot is just a kamikaze death plunge. Probably not! Tho this forum seems a way less wacko than Pinside. My first...
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    Thread for irrational dislikes

    I kind of love the ugly font, it makes me laugh. It'd be cool to see a machine with redone graphics, though, I'm sure someone with programming and design skills could knock that out. The only real damage done by radical feminists was that people latched onto the idea and used it to demonize...
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    Thread for irrational dislikes

    Which is part of the trend I'm talking about - pinball by guys, for guys. They seem to be made with the assumption that the players will be tipsy, horny, and ready to objectify. It's not as widespread as "schadenfreude" but I know enough who do that I don't feel weird saying it!
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    Thread for irrational dislikes

    The 70s machines are definitely the worst for it but there's a lean towards it in the art in general (Bride of Pinbot, the busty damsels in AFM, half-naked biker chick at the end of Harley Davidson, the entirety of Woah Nellie, etc). WRT the average pinball owner it's just that it kind of...
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    Thread for irrational dislikes

    Every time I play Medieval Madness I think, at some point, man, my dad would love this. I grew up with all that stuff so I find it charming but I'd love to see a table with more modern humor that isn't Family Guy (ugh). Speaking of dads, something that drives me nuts/kinda actually really irks...
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    Thread for irrational dislikes

    Multiball in cramped playfields. White Water is the worst for this, but Twilight Zone is a real pain in the neck as well (AFM, on the other hand, is terrific). It's zero percent irrational to hate anything about Tee'd Off, though I do find it kind of fascinating to play. The layout is pretty...
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    Top 5-10 Pinballs every made - Pro talk

    Not being snarky or anything, but I'd love to hear why people go bananas over TZ. Maybe I'm just not good enough or it's not my game but I've never had much fun playing it. Feels like a waste of a license.
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    "First" impressions

    "High energy" is definitely what I associate Addams Family pinball with. I think a lot of that has to do with Raul Julia's voice acting, but the great layout and superb player direction really help - once you kind of figure out where everything is, you really feel like you're in tune with the...
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    What do you feel is the most overrated table in Pinball Arcade?

    Agreeing with Twilight Zone, which has a lot to do, and that's kind of fun, but it lacks a good, singular direction. I feel like I'm doing things just for the sake of doing things, not for any compelling theme or unifying emotional arc, which sucks because the theme is so good. Addams Family is...

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