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<blockquote data-quote="Sean DonCarlos" data-source="post: 54809" data-attributes="member: 152"><p>I'm fairly certain Jeff was referring to playing on the iPad, in which case it would be his thumbs that ache.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Wait, what? Neither TAF nor TZ guarantees plenty of ball time. Usually quite the opposite. TAF doesn't have a ball saver; TZs generally don't have theirs turned on. TAF has the Power magnets to help players lose the ball faster; TZ has the Pops of Death[sup]TM[/sup]. Both machines will usually punish errant shots without mercy - miss the Electric Chair or Slot Machine shots just a little bit and the resulting center drain will show you exactly what I mean.</p><p></p><p>Twilight Zone gained its notoriety (and, as Richard said, did not earn especially well on location) <em>because</em> it only offered 5-minute games to inexperienced players...and 5 minutes was only if the table was feeling especially generous that day. Sometimes it seems to offer me only 5-minute games...and I've probably put in nearly 1500 games on the machine by now.</p><p></p><p>And I never said Twilight Zone was the hardest machine of its time...it's one of the hardest, but not <em>the</em> hardest. That honor would probably go to Bram Stoker's Dracula, which is even more unforgiving of bad play and requires a delicate stack to achieve the triple multiball and pull off the high scores. The Shadow also would be up there, although I've not played very much of it.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I know that's what FarSight said...but the programmer side of me still rebels and thinks it could be done without a huge amount of effort. I guess I'll find out when the time comes to implement Sin's physics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sean DonCarlos, post: 54809, member: 152"] I'm fairly certain Jeff was referring to playing on the iPad, in which case it would be his thumbs that ache. Wait, what? Neither TAF nor TZ guarantees plenty of ball time. Usually quite the opposite. TAF doesn't have a ball saver; TZs generally don't have theirs turned on. TAF has the Power magnets to help players lose the ball faster; TZ has the Pops of Death[sup]TM[/sup]. Both machines will usually punish errant shots without mercy - miss the Electric Chair or Slot Machine shots just a little bit and the resulting center drain will show you exactly what I mean. Twilight Zone gained its notoriety (and, as Richard said, did not earn especially well on location) [I]because[/I] it only offered 5-minute games to inexperienced players...and 5 minutes was only if the table was feeling especially generous that day. Sometimes it seems to offer me only 5-minute games...and I've probably put in nearly 1500 games on the machine by now. And I never said Twilight Zone was the hardest machine of its time...it's one of the hardest, but not [I]the[/I] hardest. That honor would probably go to Bram Stoker's Dracula, which is even more unforgiving of bad play and requires a delicate stack to achieve the triple multiball and pull off the high scores. The Shadow also would be up there, although I've not played very much of it. I know that's what FarSight said...but the programmer side of me still rebels and thinks it could be done without a huge amount of effort. I guess I'll find out when the time comes to implement Sin's physics. [/QUOTE]
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