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<blockquote data-quote="Robert Hunt" data-source="post: 63340" data-attributes="member: 1600"><p>It may seem as if every one of these pinballs is my favorite, but the fact is some tables are just fun to play, while others have a genuine hold on me, and Genie is truly one of the latter. It hasn't been getting MORE play on my devices than Firepower or whatever flavor of the month DMD I'm working on, but I do keep going back to it, and of all the pins in TPA, it is the one I can't stop photographing every time I see it. The only pins I have more pictures of in every case feature art by Dave Christensen. So what is it about Genie in particular? I'm honestly not sure I know! I just know I can never leave it without trying to capture something of what makes it so special.</p><p></p><p>The first time I saw it was in the brightly lit Silverball Museum, where it gave me a fairly floaty game that nonetheless played great. All of the flippers were up to their tasks, and yet the flippers in the upper playfield were not so strong that every shot from them risked ejection. When the dust had settled I had no more than 340,000 points or so, but it felt like a good score, and I was pleased to see that I came very near to knocking off the top scorer in the under-13 girls division!</p><p></p><p><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/148928424/TPA/Genie%20SB%20207.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>But the table really comes into its own in a dark room like the one they had set up at the APE for tables from this period of early solid states where it was sitting next to a beautiful Gottlieb Joker Poker. And THIS Genie wasn't playing floaty at all. It was playing pretty brisk! All of the flippers were strong, and yet even when you got the ball into the upper playfield you had the feeling you could stay there and slug it out some. And in fact I earned multiple free balls on that table more than once, something which is still tough to do every time on my tablet!</p><p></p><p><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/148928424/TPA/Genie%20APE%20213.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/148928424/TPA/Genie%20APE%20429.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/148928424/TPA/Genie%20APE%20430.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>In comparison the Genie at Pinballz was a comedown. This one wasn't particularly floaty either, but the flippers were of unequal strength and were too weak in any case. Oh well! Two out of three Genies charmed the heck out of me!</p><p></p><p>(And speaking of charm, this table SOUNDS charming, and TPA nailed it. If you disagree, there is an Avengers out there somewhere that should make you very happy.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robert Hunt, post: 63340, member: 1600"] It may seem as if every one of these pinballs is my favorite, but the fact is some tables are just fun to play, while others have a genuine hold on me, and Genie is truly one of the latter. It hasn't been getting MORE play on my devices than Firepower or whatever flavor of the month DMD I'm working on, but I do keep going back to it, and of all the pins in TPA, it is the one I can't stop photographing every time I see it. The only pins I have more pictures of in every case feature art by Dave Christensen. So what is it about Genie in particular? I'm honestly not sure I know! I just know I can never leave it without trying to capture something of what makes it so special. The first time I saw it was in the brightly lit Silverball Museum, where it gave me a fairly floaty game that nonetheless played great. All of the flippers were up to their tasks, and yet the flippers in the upper playfield were not so strong that every shot from them risked ejection. When the dust had settled I had no more than 340,000 points or so, but it felt like a good score, and I was pleased to see that I came very near to knocking off the top scorer in the under-13 girls division! [IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/148928424/TPA/Genie%20SB%20207.jpg[/IMG] But the table really comes into its own in a dark room like the one they had set up at the APE for tables from this period of early solid states where it was sitting next to a beautiful Gottlieb Joker Poker. And THIS Genie wasn't playing floaty at all. It was playing pretty brisk! All of the flippers were strong, and yet even when you got the ball into the upper playfield you had the feeling you could stay there and slug it out some. And in fact I earned multiple free balls on that table more than once, something which is still tough to do every time on my tablet! [IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/148928424/TPA/Genie%20APE%20213.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/148928424/TPA/Genie%20APE%20429.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/148928424/TPA/Genie%20APE%20430.jpg[/IMG] In comparison the Genie at Pinballz was a comedown. This one wasn't particularly floaty either, but the flippers were of unequal strength and were too weak in any case. Oh well! Two out of three Genies charmed the heck out of me! (And speaking of charm, this table SOUNDS charming, and TPA nailed it. If you disagree, there is an Avengers out there somewhere that should make you very happy.) [/QUOTE]
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