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<blockquote data-quote="Crawley" data-source="post: 237488" data-attributes="member: 2300"><p>So this happened this weekend. I've gone to this the last four years. While each year has been fantastic this year was way up there. There's always new stuff on hand each year but this year there seemed to be a lot of new pins and video games and other fun stuff I hadn't seen in the past. Plus it wasn't quite as crowded as it had been the last few years which meant less waiting on machines. </p><p></p><p>So lets get this started.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202016/IMG_0812.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202016/IMG_0812.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Thanks to Macro Specialties two Ghostbusters were on hand. This helped so much on cutting down on the wait times to play. </p><p></p><p>I got to play 1 1/4 games of it. Was playing with a group of 3 others and 2 of them had to leave on the third ball. So me and the other guy got to play an extra ball - nice! The table is so fast. You have the pretty large open center area allowing the ball to pick up lots of speed coming off the flippers. The only breathers I could find were a second or two shooting the ramps or multiball - which I think was a 4-ball mutliball. The lightshow on the table is really nice too. The only part I don't like is the red DMD that Stern is using with their tables. </p><p></p><p>One really nice surprise was that there were headphones plugged in to the machine. I put those on at the suggestion of one of the people I was playing with and wow! You not only hear the regular table sounds/callouts but new music that does not play over the table speakers. It actually added quite a bit to the experience so kudos for Macro Specialties to supplying headphones. </p><p></p><p>You can see the new Spiderman table next to one of the GB's. This is the revision that has the comic graphics. The table does look fantastic. I hadn't played Spiderman in quite awhile so unfortunately my game was over pretty quickly. So I didn't get any good sense of the new modes nor could I hear the new callouts over the arcade halls noise. But like I said that table looks fantastic.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202016/IMG_0778.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202016/IMG_0778.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Oh yeah Game of Thrones - Premium Edition. When the arcade hall opened on Saturday I made a beeline right to this machine. No one was playing it yet, think everyone went straight to Ghost Busters, so that worked out great. Got in two games before anyone was waiting. </p><p></p><p>This table is great. It's quick, lots of nice toys, real nice DMD animations. I had a blast playing it. I really hope this is one of the tables to make it to the Stern Pinball Arcade app first. </p><p></p><p>Also in that row is a Checkpoint. I've never gotten to play that one before. It took me awhile to figure out how to start the game. Usually you press a button on the coin door but I couldn't find one. Finally my hand hit something while mauling the coin door and it was a key. So I turned it, heard a revving noise, and was playing. </p><p></p><p>The Data East tables really have a different flipper feel to them and it takes a bit getting use to. I played the machine a few times but could not for the life of me hit anything I was aiming for. The ramps seemed super right and I would be off enough to hit the post next to the ramp each time. And when I went for the drop down targets on the left my aim would totally be off. So it just wasn't happening with this table and after two tries I walked away defeated.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202016/IMG_0784.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202016/IMG_0784.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Also got to play The Hobbit for the first time. Not sure which company brought the 2 Hobbits and WoZ but the bringing at least two popular machines really helps so much on the wait. </p><p></p><p>The scoring on the JPP machines are odd. Most tables you'll get a million for doing anything. But the JPP machines point awards are pretty low. So while I did get to play for awhile my score was like 6 million and something I think - which seems low but think was ok for initial time playing. The table is pretty neat but no idea what I was doing. The table has targets that pop out of the table (ala Cactus Canyon) which I love - Ghost Busters also has this too BTW. I managed to start the multiball which went on for awhile. Then after it ended another one started up - no idea how but it was a nice 3-4 minutes of multiball play which a nice lightshow. </p><p></p><p>The problem with the backglass being a monitor is that I can never find the time to look up to see what's going on while playing. So I know there were cues to hit a button that's above the apron but I just can't take my eyes away long enough to see the prompts.</p><p></p><p>But yeah I had fun with the table. It seems pretty solid.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202016/IMG_0863.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202016/IMG_0863.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Tucked in one of the side rooms was a Full Throttle. This is from another newish pinball manufacturer Heighway Pinball. I've had the opportunity to see and play this table as they were developing it as they've been making a stop of the Chicago Pinball Expo each year. I don't think this is still 100% complete code but pretty damn close.</p><p></p><p>Like the JPP tables the backglass is an LCD screen showing the game info. But they also have an LCD screen built into the table itself. It looks like it shows the same information more convent for playing and not having to look up. And this is another fast table where you don't want to take your eyes off the table. </p><p></p><p>There is a crazy amount of ramps/habit trails on this table. You can pretty much shoot anywhere and you'll be heading up a ramp or going around a loop. </p><p></p><p>For a new pinball company the quality of the machine is really nice and has been since the get go. Flippers feel great and the only new thing I've seen added that looks kinda cheap is the Francisco Valentino toy. Other than that though this company has really done a great job creating a table. I look forward to seeing what they do with the Alien franchise. </p><p></p><p>At the show the table was there for charity so $1 a play. I got to play two games and came away with a pretty positive impression.</p><p></p><p>More pics to come later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crawley, post: 237488, member: 2300"] So this happened this weekend. I've gone to this the last four years. While each year has been fantastic this year was way up there. There's always new stuff on hand each year but this year there seemed to be a lot of new pins and video games and other fun stuff I hadn't seen in the past. Plus it wasn't quite as crowded as it had been the last few years which meant less waiting on machines. So lets get this started. [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202016/IMG_0812.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202016/IMG_0812.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Thanks to Macro Specialties two Ghostbusters were on hand. This helped so much on cutting down on the wait times to play. I got to play 1 1/4 games of it. Was playing with a group of 3 others and 2 of them had to leave on the third ball. So me and the other guy got to play an extra ball - nice! The table is so fast. You have the pretty large open center area allowing the ball to pick up lots of speed coming off the flippers. The only breathers I could find were a second or two shooting the ramps or multiball - which I think was a 4-ball mutliball. The lightshow on the table is really nice too. The only part I don't like is the red DMD that Stern is using with their tables. One really nice surprise was that there were headphones plugged in to the machine. I put those on at the suggestion of one of the people I was playing with and wow! You not only hear the regular table sounds/callouts but new music that does not play over the table speakers. It actually added quite a bit to the experience so kudos for Macro Specialties to supplying headphones. You can see the new Spiderman table next to one of the GB's. This is the revision that has the comic graphics. The table does look fantastic. I hadn't played Spiderman in quite awhile so unfortunately my game was over pretty quickly. So I didn't get any good sense of the new modes nor could I hear the new callouts over the arcade halls noise. But like I said that table looks fantastic. [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202016/IMG_0778.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202016/IMG_0778.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Oh yeah Game of Thrones - Premium Edition. When the arcade hall opened on Saturday I made a beeline right to this machine. No one was playing it yet, think everyone went straight to Ghost Busters, so that worked out great. Got in two games before anyone was waiting. This table is great. It's quick, lots of nice toys, real nice DMD animations. I had a blast playing it. I really hope this is one of the tables to make it to the Stern Pinball Arcade app first. Also in that row is a Checkpoint. I've never gotten to play that one before. It took me awhile to figure out how to start the game. Usually you press a button on the coin door but I couldn't find one. Finally my hand hit something while mauling the coin door and it was a key. So I turned it, heard a revving noise, and was playing. The Data East tables really have a different flipper feel to them and it takes a bit getting use to. I played the machine a few times but could not for the life of me hit anything I was aiming for. The ramps seemed super right and I would be off enough to hit the post next to the ramp each time. And when I went for the drop down targets on the left my aim would totally be off. So it just wasn't happening with this table and after two tries I walked away defeated. [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202016/IMG_0784.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202016/IMG_0784.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Also got to play The Hobbit for the first time. Not sure which company brought the 2 Hobbits and WoZ but the bringing at least two popular machines really helps so much on the wait. The scoring on the JPP machines are odd. Most tables you'll get a million for doing anything. But the JPP machines point awards are pretty low. So while I did get to play for awhile my score was like 6 million and something I think - which seems low but think was ok for initial time playing. The table is pretty neat but no idea what I was doing. The table has targets that pop out of the table (ala Cactus Canyon) which I love - Ghost Busters also has this too BTW. I managed to start the multiball which went on for awhile. Then after it ended another one started up - no idea how but it was a nice 3-4 minutes of multiball play which a nice lightshow. The problem with the backglass being a monitor is that I can never find the time to look up to see what's going on while playing. So I know there were cues to hit a button that's above the apron but I just can't take my eyes away long enough to see the prompts. But yeah I had fun with the table. It seems pretty solid. [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202016/IMG_0863.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202016/IMG_0863.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Tucked in one of the side rooms was a Full Throttle. This is from another newish pinball manufacturer Heighway Pinball. I've had the opportunity to see and play this table as they were developing it as they've been making a stop of the Chicago Pinball Expo each year. I don't think this is still 100% complete code but pretty damn close. Like the JPP tables the backglass is an LCD screen showing the game info. But they also have an LCD screen built into the table itself. It looks like it shows the same information more convent for playing and not having to look up. And this is another fast table where you don't want to take your eyes off the table. There is a crazy amount of ramps/habit trails on this table. You can pretty much shoot anywhere and you'll be heading up a ramp or going around a loop. For a new pinball company the quality of the machine is really nice and has been since the get go. Flippers feel great and the only new thing I've seen added that looks kinda cheap is the Francisco Valentino toy. Other than that though this company has really done a great job creating a table. I look forward to seeing what they do with the Alien franchise. At the show the table was there for charity so $1 a play. I got to play two games and came away with a pretty positive impression. More pics to come later. [/QUOTE]
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