What is a "ripoff?"

[Trackball]

No, I don't mean buying a pinball machine for way too much money.

I first heard the term on No Good Gofers, so I thought it was just a golf term I didn't know about.

However, I just realized that the word is also on the playfield for F-14 Tomcat, at the Yagov Kicker.

Google fails me here. All it does is bring up people who got swindled into buying broken machines.

 

[MontanaFrank]

No, I don't mean buying a pinball machine for way too much money.

I first heard the term on No Good Gofers, so I thought it was just a golf term I didn't know about.

However, I just realized that the word is also on the playfield for F-14 Tomcat, at the Yagov Kicker.

Google fails me here. All it does is bring up people who got swindled into buying broken machines.

I found this on the freedictionary.com. I googled rippoff and slang together.


rip-off (rĭp′ôf′, -ŏf′)
n. Slang
1. A product or service that is overpriced or of poor quality.
2. Something, such as a film or story, that is clearly imitative of or based on something else.
3. A theft.
4. An act of exploitation.

Does that help? F-14 could be called a ripoff off Top Gun? IMO

 

[Trackball]

I guess I wasn't clear enough.

I meant the word "ripoff" in a pinball context.

Doing what you just did didn't exactly help me, which is why I ask here.

 

[MontanaFrank]

I guess I wasn't clear enough.

I meant the word "ripoff" in a pinball context.

Doing what you just did didn't exactly help me, which is why I ask here.

No you were specific enough [MENTION=5924]Trackball[/MENTION], I just searched wrong.

Try this Steam discussions http://steamcommunity.com/app/238260/discussions/0/540734423626779542/

I think this may help. There is a discussion going on now about ripoff in various pins. Hope I that helped and welcome to the forum.

 

[Trackball]

Well, that does help a little. Thanks.

I knew "The Power" was a running Pat Lawlor joke, but I'd never heard anything about this one.

Still, thanks for the help.

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

Well, email Stern and ask them to ask Steve Ritchie what it means, and why Pat Lawlor decided to resurrect it ten years later

 

[Captain B. Zarre]

Also, it's in Monopoly and RBION

 

[stevevt]

Pat Lawlor referred to 2-ball multiballs in the games he designed (e.g., Whirlwind and Addams Family) as ripoff multiballs because they generally don't last that long and the point values are lower than a 3-ball multiball. He used the actual name Ripoff Multiball in No Good Gofers, Ripley's, and Monopoloy as a nod to this earlier inside joke.

 

[wizard33]

my guess is its when you shoot a fixed ball; exactly like Tiger Saw in ToM. not sure, just a thought.

 

[ZREXMike]

I say look at The Instructions for reference to it Trackball. There should be something that mentions how to get it started & how to achieve the goal or jackpot it scores.

 

[Flipperdeflip]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/238260/discussions/0/540734423626779542