Missing Sports Themes & Suggested Tables

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HotHamBoy

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Just about every sport has been used as a pinball theme. TPA has many representations but it's still missing quite a few and, among those few, there's some great tables.

First, let's see what we have:

Pool/Billiards:
Big Shot
Eight Ball Deluxe
Cue Ball Wizard

Baseball:
FT's Big Hurt

Soccer/Football:
World Cup Soccer

Golf:
No Good Gofers
Tee'd Off

Auto Racing:
Indianapolis 500
Victory

Skiing:
Wipe Out

Xtreme Sports/Motorcross
No Fear

Cards/Casino Games:
High Roller Casino
Jack's Open
Jack*Bot

Fishing:
Fish Tales

Boxing:
Champion Pub


These are omissions I'd love to have addressed:

Hockey:
Bobby Orr's Power Play

Basketball
NBA Fastbreak
Harlem Globetrotters

Bowling:
Strikes n Spares

American Football:
Monday Night Football
Pro-Football

Tennis:
Volley

Skateboarding:
Radical!

Rollerblading/Skating:
Rollergames ;-)
 
Kolchak357

Kolchak357

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May 31, 2012
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Love the suggestions. Hit most of what I would want as well. There are so many good bowling pins. You can add Triple Strike and 300 to that list. I’d also like Grand Slam as a baseball theme. Bobby Orr was sneaky tough back in the day. Lost many quarters in that one. Would be great to see many of these make it into TPA.
 
Blkthorne

Blkthorne

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I know there is a lot of EM's that sort of cover the sports' theme

Baseball-EM's Big Hit or World Series
Bowling-Top Score/300 or Kingpin for EM's while Strikes and Spares by Bally for SS
Hockey-Gottlieb Premier's Ice Fever
Skiing-EM's Snow Derby/Snow Queen or ss widebody table Hotdoggin' by Bally
Skateboarding-Skateball by Bally
Fishing-EM's Hot Line or Nip-It(this table was in the Happy Days show)
Boxing-EM Knockout by Bally
Cards/Casino-5000 card table EM's by Gottlieb :p Card Whiz/Royal Flush or SS' Alien Poker and Riverboat Gambler by Williams or Joker Poker and Monte Carlo by Gottlieb
Auto Racing-EM Grand Prix
Pool-EM Bank Shot(the table Roger Sharpe played to show pinball was about skill) or Eight Ball by Bally(table with the "Fonz" from Happy Days and "Frenchy" from Grease on BG)
Surfing-EM's Surfer/Surf Champ
Football-Gottlieb's Premier Touchdown
 
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wolfson

wolfson

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thanks Jeff , played this table s... loads , I forgot about it !!!:cool: and Blkthorne , great bunch there , thanks !!!:cool:
 
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Crawley

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They have a BMX at VFW. It has a similar gameplay element as Dungeons and Dragons where you have to hit a second flipper button to temporarily turn the outlane in to an inlane. But unlike D&D you have unlimited uses of it and have to manage it on both sides of the table. I recall really liking that element once I got a handle on it. But could not figure out the scoring of the game.

Some additional missing:

Banzai Run (dirt bike racing) - TPA needs this
Blackwater 100 (dirt bike racing)
Eight Ball original (pool) - don't want
Pool Sharks (pool)
Laser Cue (more pool)
Pinball Pool (even more pool) - an updated version of Hot Shot which has annoying audio
Breakshot (the only other pool game TPA needs)
Skateball (skateboarding) - deserving a second mention since I've really taken to it
Laser War (futuristic laser tag) - taken to this game too. SPA maybe someday.
Vector (futuristic football) - kinda fun
Strikes and Spares (bowling) - different than Strikes 'N Spares
Big Lebowski (bowling themed enough(?)
Fast Track (car racing) - only seen broken or turned off versions of it
Full Throttle (motorcycle racing) - pretty fun
Olympic Games (track and field) - terrible game
AG Football (soccer) - don't need
Flipper Football (soccer) - don't need
Space Jam (basketball)
 

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