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<blockquote data-quote="Captain B. Zarre" data-source="post: 144761" data-attributes="member: 2355"><p>Multiball was actually used in early ROMs of Lethal Weapon 3 before the trademark issue, it was replaced with Tri-Ball in later ROMs. The last game with the Tri-Ball mention was Jurassic Park, it was then referred to as multiball in every Data East / SEGA / Stern game prior starting with I think Tales From the Crypt. Also pretty sure that M-Ball was only used in Last Action Hero.</p><p></p><p>Also, Data East changed the names of other items integrated into pinball. I don't think they were changed to due to copyright but here goes:</p><p></p><p>Kickback = Laser Kick (or Super Laser Kick for unlimited kickback)</p><p>Hurry-Up = Runaway (ex. point runaways in Jurassic Park, SW's R2-D2 runaway, crane runaway in LAH, others?)</p><p>Frenzy = Fast Scoring (started in Checkpoint, Hook, some others; made a recent comeback in TRON and Rolling Stones)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Captain B. Zarre, post: 144761, member: 2355"] Multiball was actually used in early ROMs of Lethal Weapon 3 before the trademark issue, it was replaced with Tri-Ball in later ROMs. The last game with the Tri-Ball mention was Jurassic Park, it was then referred to as multiball in every Data East / SEGA / Stern game prior starting with I think Tales From the Crypt. Also pretty sure that M-Ball was only used in Last Action Hero. Also, Data East changed the names of other items integrated into pinball. I don't think they were changed to due to copyright but here goes: Kickback = Laser Kick (or Super Laser Kick for unlimited kickback) Hurry-Up = Runaway (ex. point runaways in Jurassic Park, SW's R2-D2 runaway, crane runaway in LAH, others?) Frenzy = Fast Scoring (started in Checkpoint, Hook, some others; made a recent comeback in TRON and Rolling Stones) [/QUOTE]
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