I can imagine the folks at FarSight getting sick of the table within a week and getting rid of it. All the while thinking "why did we buy this?"
Yeah, that would be a bad choice for a digital table. The novelty of that table is playing it in real life and even then the novelty wears off pretty quick. So if its included in a pack hopefully its just as an extra freebie along with something else.
They can make it seem bigger; simply zoom in so you see less of the table.Yeah, it will be exactly the same size as every other table on your TV screen...
Do you play in landscape or portrait?I'm not sure that would work. Even the wide body tables already look weird on my tab.
the tracking cam helps but i can see it being a problem for some. I feel like I'm six inches off the playfield (think little kid who can't see over the table) but if I use the zoomed out views I can't see the playfield elements well. I see 20-20 but I use a 23" PC monitor for low lag and sit far back in the room. Still bigger display than those 13" TVs kids used to use with back in the day with NES. Not everyone has a 55 inch HDTV you know.portrait. I know, it's better in landscape but I really don't like when i don't see the upper playfield.
Do you play in landscape or portrait?
Hmm, Centaur is a slow table? My impression was it was a pretty fast table IRL but I've never played one.
Isn't there a recommended banking angle for each specific table? I saw a table at TPF that had the back legs jacked up. Balls drained very quickly. IMO, if a table has it's back end jacked up, the flippers at a minimum will need more powerful solenoids to reach the same height. Even then ramps if they exist will be way too steep. IMO, tables should have used a third tilt sensor (in addition to tilt and slam tilt) to detect the pitch of the table and prevent it from operated if the back end was jacked up, so greedy operators couldn't rob patrons of their quarters.
This is good to know, thanks!Nearly all modern pinball machines have a level next to the plunger, either to the right or the left, depending on the machine. (It's a bright yellow liquid in a plastic tube with a bubble in it and markers, just like what architects use.) It'll be visible to anyone playing. If the machine is not entirely level, either lengthwise or widthwise, the level will let you, as the player, know. If the level itself is missing, and you see a roughly 1.5-inch slot next to the plunger, that's a red flag that the operator has messed with the levelness of the machine.
One thing I would like to add; I went to the Texas Pinball Festival Friday night and played a pristine Bride of Pinbot with LED lighting. Anyway, BoP is the only table I completed all Wizard Goals in TPA. The ramp shots felt perfect, only I had to let the Pinball roll slightly farther down the Flipper, likely due to the absense of screen lag on real hardware. Even the flipper action felt exactly the same. When I shot the ball up the heart ramp, I held the right flipper high, and when the ball hit the bottom of the flipper, it bounced and hit the 3/4 mark on the flipper before sliding down and cradling at the bottom. And as my two balls balls rolled smoothly across her face she started singing! Heartbeat was like thump, thump-thump, thump-thump-thump... Didn't quite make the "billion" point money shot, maybe next year. Either way, BoP is one sexy table, both IRL and in TPA!
Puns aside, I spoke to the TPA representative and I have a nice jiucy leak for you guys: He asked me if I played the massive Hercules table; and I replied, "yes, it's huge." He told me they recently aquired a Hercules table; I inquired if they were planning on digitising it; he stuttered a bit and told me, "It's going in the lobby for visitors to play and enjoy..." I call bull crap. Guy stuffed his foot in his mouth and I read him like a book, so for better or worse Hercules may or may not be coming to TPA. Honestly the novelty wears off as you start playing it since due to the extreme size it takes the giant cue ball some time to roll across the playfield, and there's less elements that actualy fit acoss the table, so it plays more like a slow EM than a fast modern table. I'm calling Hercules for table pack #31. Random guess...
I know what you mean. I was chatting with some dude once and I told him that I went to an all boys boarding school during high school (I had some issues as a teenager so my parents thought it was best to ship me out of state - long story but I'm all the better because of it). So he flat out asked me, "Are you gay?" I stopped in my tracks and hesitated a bit, an said, "um, no." Then he asked me why I took so long to respond; I told him, "well, that's not the type of question a person normally asks." So yeah, anything shocking or unusual statement can catch a person off guard. Besides, even if the registration was in your dad's name, assuming your name was on the insurance papers as a driver, everything would be good.I recently hit a pothole and got a flat on the highway. Cop pulls over as I was changing it, asked me a few questions then goes "Is this your car??" My heart dropped and I had that 'gulp' and voice crack when I said "yes", even though, IT IS MY CAR and I DO OWN IT lol. Basically like it was the way he asked me the question or whatever that caused the reaction from me. That's why I personally would never trust a lie detector test, human beings can have malfunctions ! Lol.
How hard would it be to get the Evel Kinevel license? Would a kickstarter be required? I've heard it is one of the nicer and more popular EMs.this is the easter bonnet you all wanted
How hard would it be to get the Evel Kinevel license? Would a kickstarter be required? I've heard it is one of the nicer and more popular EMs.
IMO, The modern Atari brand is sh**. Not their old stuff mind you but most anything released in the past 20 or so years. Last I heard in 2013, Atari was filing bankrupcy (again). It seems they've been bought, sold, swapped around a million times and it seems Atari hasn't really released much of anything worth playing since the late 70s to early 80s. The original company no longer exists but various companies have attempted to buy up the Atari brand and associated IP over the years to milk the franchise for what it was worth and most companies that touched it eventually went bankrupt as well. Problem is all most people associate the Atari brand name with is the video game crash of '83. Outside of your usual Flashback TV consoles and Atari compilations, there's not much of anything worth buying. Nintendo, Sega, Namco, Balley, Williams, Gottlieb all have far better brand recognition in today's market.