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<blockquote data-quote="Mick Morry" data-source="post: 139564" data-attributes="member: 2924"><p>I am not sure about the culture on it in the very early years of pinball, but I do know that from very early on in the 1970's and right through the 1980's and early 90's-- all of us that were kids back then pretty much nudged tables. Basically it had the same persona of how professional online gaming works today. If you didn't nudge most of the really skilled players would consider you an amateur. The word noob wasn't invented or used yet back then, but that is how pretty much all the pinheads thought of players that had no skill at nudging. </p><p></p><p>Nudging became a high level play skill and those that learned it and did it well seemed to get along with all the other pinheads and electronic gamers too. It was a skill that took practice to get really good at and once you were good at it you could expect to see a line up of people behind you that would watch. Back in the day there was a lot of watching other players to see how they managed a particular part of the table, and to learn tricks etc. I never had a single arcade owner or attendant ever say cut it out with nudging. I never heard of a single case from any of my friends either in my city. So it was pretty much widely accepted by the 70's. </p><p></p><p>Some of us old timers will say nudging was the highest skill one could learn in pinball. It takes time to learn how to make a ball move in the desired direction and also how fast or slow you guide the ball, just by using brute force. So people that were awesome at it developed an entourage of people that would follow them from table to table and watch them play. There were several wizards in our local arcades that could play all day and night on a single quarter. You would never get to play on the table they were on until they decided to take off to get a bite to eat or got tired. I remember one guy I used to know that I would go in to the arcade early in the morning. I had a spare class for 1st period. So I would go in and play a few games. At about 3:40 Pm I would hit the arcade again for a few hours. Many times I came back only to find Ted was still playing the same machine on the same quarter like 7 or 8 hours later. I got bored to death playing that long, but that guy Ted could play a single machine all day. It was all about the free ride he was getting. Pretty good when you think about it. A quarter to entertain you all day. Can't do that nowadays.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mick Morry, post: 139564, member: 2924"] I am not sure about the culture on it in the very early years of pinball, but I do know that from very early on in the 1970's and right through the 1980's and early 90's-- all of us that were kids back then pretty much nudged tables. Basically it had the same persona of how professional online gaming works today. If you didn't nudge most of the really skilled players would consider you an amateur. The word noob wasn't invented or used yet back then, but that is how pretty much all the pinheads thought of players that had no skill at nudging. Nudging became a high level play skill and those that learned it and did it well seemed to get along with all the other pinheads and electronic gamers too. It was a skill that took practice to get really good at and once you were good at it you could expect to see a line up of people behind you that would watch. Back in the day there was a lot of watching other players to see how they managed a particular part of the table, and to learn tricks etc. I never had a single arcade owner or attendant ever say cut it out with nudging. I never heard of a single case from any of my friends either in my city. So it was pretty much widely accepted by the 70's. Some of us old timers will say nudging was the highest skill one could learn in pinball. It takes time to learn how to make a ball move in the desired direction and also how fast or slow you guide the ball, just by using brute force. So people that were awesome at it developed an entourage of people that would follow them from table to table and watch them play. There were several wizards in our local arcades that could play all day and night on a single quarter. You would never get to play on the table they were on until they decided to take off to get a bite to eat or got tired. I remember one guy I used to know that I would go in to the arcade early in the morning. I had a spare class for 1st period. So I would go in and play a few games. At about 3:40 Pm I would hit the arcade again for a few hours. Many times I came back only to find Ted was still playing the same machine on the same quarter like 7 or 8 hours later. I got bored to death playing that long, but that guy Ted could play a single machine all day. It was all about the free ride he was getting. Pretty good when you think about it. A quarter to entertain you all day. Can't do that nowadays. [/QUOTE]
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