Which table won the poll?

[Espy]

Let's face it, there are three tables remaining to be announced in Season 3. Farsight surely know for certain what will be in the remainder of the season, either that or they don't plan well. So reading through the PR jargon, I would take "probably not"s as no, and anything else as a yes

 

[lapaille]

They usually just give a flat out "No", "Not at this time", "Maybe" to questions like these.

I think this response is a pretty good sign.

Watching the tutorial http://papa.org/2012/12/03/bram-stokers-dracula-tutorial/ makes me want this badly now. I like the combo ramp + something to get the jackpot (just like Fish Tales)

 

[DokkenRokken]

Watching the tutorial http://papa.org/2012/12/03/bram-stokers-dracula-tutorial/ makes me want this badly now. I like the combo ramp + something to get the jackpot (just like Fish Tales)

Just playing this table in the dark is enough to make anyone want it. It's a fantastic looking and sounding table.

 

[Zombie Aladdin]

...and boy does "Viper Night Drivin'" look terrible.

It was meant to be played in the dark, with the UV lights and UV-illuminated Glo-Balls. It makes for a rather unique experience, really. Viper Night Drivin' plays substantially different when you use normal pinballs, as the Glo-Balls are lighter, and the table was designed with that in mind.

P.S. I do hope this one makes it in, eventually. One of the goals of The Pinball Arcade is to preserve pinball, right? Viper Night Drivin' is one of the games most threatened at the moment due to the limited quantity of Glo-Balls and the deterioration of existing ones getting battered by everything. A set of good condition Glo-Balls costs more than some pinball machines.

 

[Captain B. Zarre]

It was meant to be played in the dark, with the UV lights and UV-illuminated Glo-Balls. It makes for a rather unique experience, really. Viper Night Drivin' plays substantially different when you use normal pinballs, as the Glo-Balls are lighter, and the table was designed with that in mind.

I remember someone mentioned at Texas Pinball Fest that a FS employee was playing Viper Night Drivin'... is that the Stern? If so I'm interested to see how it plays, love the ramp shots and blacklight.

 

[netizen]

It was meant to be played in the dark, with the UV lights and UV-illuminated Glo-Balls. It makes for a rather unique experience, really. Viper Night Drivin' plays substantially different when you use normal pinballs, as the Glo-Balls are lighter, and the table was designed with that in mind.

P.S. I do hope this one makes it in, eventually. One of the goals of The Pinball Arcade is to preserve pinball, right? Viper Night Drivin' is one of the games most threatened at the moment due to the limited quantity of Glo-Balls and the deterioration of existing ones getting battered by everything. A set of good condition Glo-Balls costs more than some pinball machines.

The glo-balls are just coated regular old pin-balls, yanno big ass ball bearings. The lighter balls in pinball are the ceramic Power Ball in Twilight Zone

ETA: a set of 4 Glo Balls is $60 US, if you know where they sell Pinball machines for less than that I want in.

 

[Zombie Aladdin]

Really? I read somewhere else that Glo-Balls were $100 each. Hmm, I suppose that must be their maximum price sold somewhere and wouldn't really be representative of its normal price.

I thought Glo-Balls had a thick ceramic coating and a metallic inside. If course, I never cracked one open, so I wouldn't know.

 

[Zaphod77]

THe GLo Balls would probably not translate well to TPA physics. they rattle around like superballs as I recall.

 

[rob3d]

tease

 

[Captain B. Zarre]

Now ask them about Tales from the Crypt

 

[Bowflex]

Now ask them about Tales from the Crypt

Yes! That, monopoly and roller coaster tycoon just to get some stern action in there! I'd also like to see rocky and bull winkle.

 

[Naildriver74]

Hey Rocky watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat

 

[DokkenRokken]

Yes! That, monopoly and roller coaster tycoon just to get some stern action in there!

Indeed!

"Monopoly" is such a hard table, but I'd love to see it get made.

 

[Espy]

tease

I reckon it will be the first or second Season 4 table then. In time for Halloween. Not a bad choice, previous Halloween tables have been comedy-macabre. This is more classy horror.

Indeed!

"Monopoly" is such a hard table, but I'd love to see it get made.

The one at my arcade is actually very easy. The ball is quite safe in play. Very rarely do the slingshots, or any of the return lanes, lead to a drain.

 

[Zombie Aladdin]

Do other Monopoly tables, once you shoot the railroad ramp, send the ball at a high speed down the left flipper? The first few times it did that for me, it caught me off guard and drained my ball.

 

[Espy]

Do other Monopoly tables, once you shoot the railroad ramp, send the ball at a high speed down the left flipper? The first few times it did that for me, it caught me off guard and drained my ball.

Yeah, that is a tricky shot, will probably catch everyone off guard the first time they play it. But holding the left flipper up generally makes the shot a heck of a lot safer and leads to a cradle. It's actually quite easy to backhand that shot ad infinitum, but not a huge amount to gain from doing so.

 

[DokkenRokken]

The one at my arcade is actually very easy. The ball is quite safe in play. Very rarely do the slingshots, or any of the return lanes, lead to a drain.

The one at MY arcade usually kills your 3 chances in a matter of 2 minutes. lol

 

[Zombie Aladdin]

All right. So it's a standard thing in Monopoly then. I expected the ball to slow down, as is usually the case with these wireframe ramps.

The Monopoly I played on has a broken safe door in that it will swing open at random times and block some of the ramp entrances. This makes it a lot harder than it ought to be.

And as far as rights go, Hasbro seems incredibly generous with Monopoly. Heck, Hasbro seems incredibly generous with near everything. You can see it in the incredibly loose movie adaptation of Clue, how it allows those quasi-legal Autobots/Decepticons vinyl car stickers, and how the Hub executives gave Lauren Faust pretty much carte blanche for her show. (You know which one it is.)

 

[Bowflex]

All right. So it's a standard thing in Monopoly then. I expected the ball to slow down, as is usually the case with these wireframe ramps.

The Monopoly I played on has a broken safe door in that it will swing open at random times and block some of the ramp entrances. This makes it a lot harder than it ought to be.

And as far as rights go, Hasbro seems incredibly generous with Monopoly. Heck, Hasbro seems incredibly generous with near everything. You can see it in the incredibly loose movie adaptation of Clue, how it allows those quasi-legal Autobots/Decepticons vinyl car stickers, and how the Hub executives gave Lauren Faust pretty much carte blanche for her show. (You know which one it is.)

Supposedly there is a rumor of Disney buying Hasbro so they better get this one done before it becomes yet another untouchable license.

 

[DokkenRokken]

Supposedly there is a rumor of Disney buying Hasbro so they better get this one done before it becomes yet another untouchable license.

I use to like Disney...until they started buying everything and everyone.