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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RetroBlast" data-source="post: 8776" data-attributes="member: 364">After getting TPA, I became a fan of pinball video games and can not get enough of it.  Since then I bought Zen, Marvel, and Pinballistik with all their down loadable content packs.  I would have bought the Williams Collection, but it is not offered as a down loadable game and it is quite costly, even for a used copy.  The one thing I can say about about TPA is that it has the best rule sheets and that really, really helps and makes the games very enjoyable.  I was not a big pinball player in real life and even with my favorite and most played pinball machine, PIN*BOT, I never learned the rules and there for pinball in real life was just a matter of keeping the ball in play.Having good rule sheets with good pictures and the step by step nature of the rule sheets in TPA has made has made all the difference to me in terms of enjoying pinball.  I think of TPA pinball as the real deal and try to learn the rules bit by bit for each table.  However, when I play Zen or Pinballistik, their rule sheets are pretty horrid, especially zen, so it becomes a trial and error affair with regard to learning the rules.  But because I am not pumping quarters into the machines, I can afford to do trial and error.  I really know nothing about Marvel Characters and purchased the Marvel Pinball Collection for my love of Pinball, not Marvel ... so when I went to read the rule sheets, I had no idea what they were talking about because they might mention a character depicted on the table, and besides the main character of the table, I have no idea who everyone else is.  So when the rule sheet says, if you hit the spot target just below Mister X, I'm lost.I know that Zen is about to release Zen 2 with updated rule sheets and I know if the the new rule sheets are good, they will raise my appreciation of all the tables.It should be noted that I approach TPA differently than all the other pin games.  When I sit down to play TPA, It is an tense experience, I don't want anyone interrupting or disturbing me ... it is a serious affair and I think it is because the tables are "real" and if I get good at a table, I feel like I accomplished something I could not accomplish in real life.  When I play the other pin games, I approach them in a more light hearted, playful way and feel less pressure and less tense.</blockquote>

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