I HATE Lightening Flippers! Who Else Agrees?

[Richard B]

I've got a whole lot more center drains on BSD than I should, all because of those LFs. It seems their use was purely to shorten games. Was BSD and FT the only tables that used those stupid things?

 

[Sean DonCarlos]

I've got a whole lot more center drains on BSD than I should, all because of those LFs. It seems their use was purely to shorten games. Was BSD and FT the only tables that used those stupid things?

Doctor Who and Popeye have them as well.

 

[DanBradford]

i prefer the normal sized flippers

 

[jrolson]

Wish there was an option to change them in the settings...

 

[Kratos3]

Wish there was an option to change them in the settings...

+1

 

[Bowflex]

It would be nice to be selectable for games that were designed with standard flippers in mind like fish tale. Would definitely be cool as a beginner mode to have standards selectable and zippers for tables with standard flippers as an advanced mode

 

[Fungi]

It would be nice to be selectable for games that were designed with standard flippers in mind like fish tale. Would definitely be cool as a beginner mode to have standards selectable and zippers for tables with standard flippers as an advanced mode

You're not getting "zippers" confused with "lightning" are you?

 

[dtown8532]

Well..a rich European distributor wanted shorter ball times so...tough.

 

[Bowflex]

You're not getting "zippers" confused with "lightning" are you?

Yeah I meant lightning. Mind was not working right after a few pints today. I did mean lightning.

 

[danivempire]

I don't notice them as mush in bsd than in fishtales.
I think they are much punitive in fishtales.
Would like an option to put regular ones as well.
Hell why not an option to put lightning flippers in the pinball you want? ^^

 

[switch3flip]

Love them, makes the table play feel more realistic for me somehow. And games don't go on forever. Fish tales and BSD are my top two favourite TPA tables and great fun to pick up and play a quick game or two.

 

[Dedpop]

You're right.
A quick game.

 

[Espy]

Their sole purpose is to make things more difficult. That said, it's far more noticeable in FT than BSD. I haven't played the TPA version of BSD yet, though.

 

[Baramos]

I've played BSD quite a bit in real life, it's even harder than the Pinball Arcade one.

I'm not a big fan but it's only one table of many, so...

 

[David T. Melnick]

I've got a whole lot more center drains on BSD than I should, all because of those LFs. It seems their use was purely to shorten games. Was BSD and FT the only tables that used those stupid things?

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Given, it's much harder. However, I believe if one simply times it right (as it gets to the flippers), one can hit the balls a lot more. That is, it is simply a matter of timing. Just like "Diner".

 

[canuck]

lightingflippers are hardcore.

Can't handle it? Play Central Park.

 

[Fungi]

lightingflippers are hardcore.

Can't handle it? Play Central Park.

Whoa, now that you put it in that perspective, I love lightning flippers.

 

[Richard B]

Wish there was an option to change them in the settings...

They'd have to extensively rework the physics for most of the table to do that. Would be nice though.

 

[Richard B]

I've played BSD quite a bit in real life, it's even harder than the Pinball Arcade one.

I'm not a big fan but it's only one table of many, so...

The one I played IRL was about the same difficulty as this one, but it might have had regular flippers (a lot of owners do that). I'm not sure, since I didn't know any tables other than FT used it.

I guess that's also another good reason not to ever see DW and Popeye (as if the latter needed another reason) in TPA!

 

[wizard33]

a big no
start and plunger, big yes