Inspiration - Who has purchased a real pinball machine based on TPA?

[joseph5185]

I'm just curious more than anything and I apologize if a thread has already been started.

I haven't yet, but I'm considering Gorgar and Bride of Pin*Bot.

I don't know if its coincidence or not, but many of the popular tables such as TotAN and ToM seem to be exceptionally hard to find or impossible at the moment and I think this game has a lot to do with it.

 

[warh0g]

I bought a real pinball table (Jack*Bot) after playing TPA. But it is not in it so I don't know if it counts

 

[joseph5185]

Yea, sure it counts! It's still a real pinball machine that you purchased after playing TPA.. hence inspiration - at least I think so.

Thanks for contributing to my curiosity..

I wonder what percentage of households actually own a pinball machine. I'm thinking something like 0.0001 .. maybe less

 

[Mayuh]

Guilty, your honor

I started with Taxi. Was a hell of a job to get it set up correctly, so the flow works...
A few months later Bride of Pinbot. With an eye onto the Bride 2.0 project by Dutch pinball, which I preordered minutes after they launched it.
Just recently I got a Ripley's. Hard to get here, it seems it wasn't really popular in middle Europe.
I'm desperately looking for a Space Shuttle, but can not find any...

So, yes, guilty as charged

 

[joseph5185]

That's pretty awesome and I'm sure it's completely different from the game as far as how it feels.

I actually used to play a pinball table someone owned a lot when I was little, but I can't remember the name of it. I can't remember much of anything about it except for it was EXTREMELY fun, unique (no one else I knew or ever came to know has owned one sense) and I would play for hours.

I want to play in the dark as well and I heard this mode is coming to the PS4. I hope STEAM gets it as well in the near future!

=)

 

[Espy]

I am planning to get my own table, and it is definitely thanks to TPA and ZP that my interest has got so huge. Tables from TPA will be my first choice, as, well, I know what I'm getting!

Pinball is actually getting popular here in Glasgow again - all the HMVs in the country have between 2 and 7 installed - but for a long time ZP was all I had. TPA came out on PS3 about the same time pins started appearing on site here.

 

[Kevlar]

Try 5! ...and I couldn't give a **** about pinball before TPA! Farsight have cost me a fortune!

 

[Shaneus]

I'm somewhat similar. It wasn't solely TPA (having a friend that owns 30+ machines doesn't help matters!) but I went through the process of (in recent years):
1. Occasional playing at the arcades
2. TPA
3. More frequent playing at arcade
4. Almost accidentally/surprisingly qualifying for state finals in a Metallica comp
5. Buying High Speed.

If (when!) I buy another, I'm going to try to get one that's not currently in TPA. But that hasn't stopped me being on the lookout for someone's long-forgotten Taxi that they want to sell to me cheaply

 

[Sean DonCarlos]

While I'm not going to pin this one 100% on FarSight, the Twilight Zone that sits in my living room owes at least some fraction of its presence there to its counterpart in TPA.

I wonder what percentage of households actually own a pinball machine. I'm thinking something like 0.0001 .. maybe less

I would venture an educated guess, but I'm afraid the statistics police would come down on me again...

 

[Deltaechoe]

I plan on buying all 3 of the pinbot trio because of TPA

 

[Mayuh]

I plan on buying all 3 of the pinbot trio because of TPA

3 and a half. Taxi features Pinbot

 

[danivempire]

Having a real pinball is a dream of mine, maybe one day!!! But for what I read pinball do break pretty often...

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[Mayuh]

If it's working, it isn't pinball

Everything mechanical and electrical is easy to learn. Electronics is a different story.

 

[Kevlar]

Having a real pinball is a dream of mine, maybe one day!!! But for what I read pinball do break pretty often...

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They sure do, if you are going to own a machine you have to be willing to either learn how to maintain and fix it yourself or pay someone else to do it.

 

[Shaneus]

Having a real pinball is a dream of mine, maybe one day!!! But for what I read pinball do break pretty often...

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They're more fun to fix and muck around with than you imagine. Even if you're not that technically minded, you will find yourself wanting to be (and actually BEING it) if you owned a pin

 

[joseph5185]

Try 5! ...and I couldn't give a **** about pinball before TPA! Farsight have cost me a fortune!

WOW!

That's...amazing!! (jealous)

 

[Mayuh]

Ah, a tread to brag I happend to get a playroom almost for free... Two of my machines missing, but 8 guests

The walls were completely f*cked, so I decided to go with bordeaux-red velvet... Who cares - I only stare at the plafield anyway

https://www.icloud.com/photostream/#A2J0DiRHGNTbp4

Fun fact: I'm maintaining all those pinball machines, while they are my guests... And they need a lot of loving

 

[shutyertrap]

I have always wanted a real table. Pinball Arcade stoked the fire for REALLY wanting one, but I still didn't think I'd be able to afford one anytime soon. Then luck struck, and on the same day some 'mad money' came my way, I found a table for that exact amount. I now own Firepower and am (slowly) restoring it.

 

[karl]

If not for TPA, my living room would have looked a lot different. Even though I have always loved pinball, I had not been thinking about it for a long time before I got Pinball Hall Of Fame on Xbox by accident. I really enjoyed that and decided to check out this Farsight company on the web. Lo and behold, they have just released another product called The Pinball Arcade and it's been downhill ever since for me.

half a year later I get my first pinball machine and one year after that, I have bought 11 of them, sold one, so now it's 10. A nice and round number I reckon. (only 4 of those 11 is in TPA so far, though)

Part of the reason is probably because they release two new tables every month, so you never have any real time to get to bored. There is always something new on the horizon to look forward to, even now 1 1/2 year later. Of course I play more real pinball now than TPA but it is still a big part of my life and I am still waiting with anticipation for the new monthly packs.

And every time there is talk of other add-ons to the game, like enhanced graphics or physics improvements etc, I get the same kick out of it that I got when I first started playing this game.

Now, should I thank Farsight for all this or should I damn them for taking over almost all of my free time Kidding of course! Big round of applause goes out to all of them, that lovely crew that call themselves Farsight.

Thanks!

 

[Bowflex]

I was planning on getting at least a few of them. However living in a crammed apartment in Boston with most of my junk in storage already would not allow for that. Plus the way prices keep going up I don't know how feasible that is. Maybe after my next move I can do a JJP table if they do a theme/license I like. The new Medieval Madness would have been perfect. Hoping I can still get one in another year and a half!