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The Pinball Arcade |OT| play them all from Soho to Brighton
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plagiarize
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well, that and...
in Funhouse, it's easier to hit the hot dog hole and just let it dead flipper transfer the ball over to the left flipper when it returns it. i forgot what the hot dog hole is really called.
it's the vagina right?
Parallax Scroll
Banned
Mystery Mirror. And yeah, that's how I send it to the left flipper.
plagiarize
Banned
i always presume that you do ninja things with nudges and banked shots and what have you.
May be true, but I don't think there needs to be an "end" personally. It still has my favorite voice samples and music.
Definitely worth it! Had some great music playing and there's a bar as well. I had limited time so I stuck with pinball but there are some great arcade games too. The first game you see as you walk in is a 4p pacman machine.
Oh and not much of an accomplishment but I got 95 million on Arabian nights on my phone, previous best was 28 haha.
It's a fairly right-flipper heavy table, really. The only spots I ever shoot for on the left are the lock and the Gangway, and I find the Gangway to be too dangerous to aim for most of the time.
That said, I don't notice any difference on post passes for either side. I'm not as MLG as you, though.
I wish I could take a Nudging 101 course from a local college or something. I don't know if I expect too much from it or just haven't gotten the hang of it in PA, but most of the time my nudges never do what I want. Been playing Gorgar for the last hour or two, and I can nudge my way to getting the A rollover up top pretty consistently, probably 95%. But saving myself from the outlanes with nudges, maybe 5%. Just never works.
Also, the 1 and 4 targets are pretty tricky. Not easy shots, or at least, I haven't found the groove yet. I do have 34th on the XBL board right now with 717k, but I'm sure by tomorrow that'll be 234th. Love this table, great sound, art, and clear cut goals of reasonable difficulty.
Also, the 1 and 4 targets are pretty tricky. Not easy shots, or at least, I haven't found the groove yet. I do have 34th on the XBL board right now with 717k, but I'm sure by tomorrow that'll be 234th. Love this table, great sound, art, and clear cut goals of reasonable difficulty.
awesome. thanks for the tips.
yeah im probably just being too heavy on the analog stick. just a rookie mistake i assume.
nudging to to prevent bouncing from slingshots huh? now thats tech. no idea you could do that. crazy.
so yeah, hit the mystery mirror/wind tunnel and the ball pops back out from the little return hole on the right, then it hits the right flipper and automatically transfers to the left, correct? i started to figure this out after plagarize said something this morning about the return switching to the left flipper automatically.
i thought it would just drain down the center, but i let it drop and it just popped over. sweet! for some reason i wasnt having much trouble doing a post pass from the right to left flippers this morning after i learned it. probably just beginners luck though. seems like it makes sense just to go for the mirror and grab some more points while transferring the ball though.
im still psyched that i learned a new move today though. cool shit! it can only be a good thing for my overall pinball skills. i had fun playing this morning. finally got the standard goals cleared for ToM. looking forward to playing some more tomorrow.
thanks again for the tips guys.
Third ever game of Medieval Madness (not counting once or twice in the arcades many years ago), 70m on my first ball, ended up with 83m. Oof. Total wipeout.
I'm sure a lot of you guys know about this already, but for those who don't, the Pinball Archive Videos & Tutorials: http://pinball.org/videos/
Tons of great vids of pinball competitions, tutorials, basic gameplay. The tournament play vids with commentary are far more entertaining than they have any right to be. My wife (mild interest in pinball at best) even got sucked into watching one for a half an hour over my shoulder this morning.
I'm sure a lot of you guys know about this already, but for those who don't, the Pinball Archive Videos & Tutorials: http://pinball.org/videos/
Tons of great vids of pinball competitions, tutorials, basic gameplay. The tournament play vids with commentary are far more entertaining than they have any right to be. My wife (mild interest in pinball at best) even got sucked into watching one for a half an hour over my shoulder this morning.
plagiarize
Banned
Third ever game of Medieval Madness (not counting once or twice in the arcades many years ago), 70m on my first ball, ended up with 83m. Oof. Total wipeout.
I'm sure a lot of you guys know about this already, but for those who don't, the Pinball Archive Videos & Tutorials: http://pinball.org/videos/
Tons of great vids of pinball competitions, tutorials, basic gameplay. The tournament play vids with commentary are far more entertaining than they have any right to be. My wife (mild interest in pinball at best) even got sucked into watching one for a half an hour over my shoulder this morning.
my most frustrating game came on wednesday. I was playing Monster Bash and things were looking great. I had all but two instruments, and I was currently active in the last two modes to award me the final two instruments. I had just lit Mosh Multiball, and lost track of the spirit flip. It flipped before i wanted to, and the ball ricocheted right down the drain denying me monsters of rock. GODDAMN SPIRIT FLIP! if i'd hit that multiball i'd have definately cleared the last two modes and got those remaining instruments.
added_time
Member
Thank you!
Phantom flip
plagiarize
Banned
thanks. i'm still annoyed about it!Phantom flip
Fingers crossed, either of those would be great (see avatar). Both would be even better.
Speaking of 80s Williams classics, would love it if they did the amusement park series some day, too (Comet, Cyclone, Hurricane).
HEY YOU WITH THE FACE!
Got 290M in Monster Bash and I am still second to last on friends list...had 4 or 5 balls at around 250M and lost my groove somehow, probably could have kept going but I started getting drains one after the other
I see Parallax Scroll kicking butt in many of the table global scores...
Monster Bash is nice because the real thing is in a famous retro arcade in Tokyo so I can go play it after I feel confident about my virtual skills.
I see Parallax Scroll kicking butt in many of the table global scores...
Monster Bash is nice because the real thing is in a famous retro arcade in Tokyo so I can go play it after I feel confident about my virtual skills.
Parallax Scroll
Banned
I'd say this version of Gorgar is harder than the PHoF version due to different physics, but it's also more fun.
added_time
Member
me gorgar! me got you!
Gillian Seed
Banned
Yeah i agree. Incredible score btw! I can not wait to see what you put up on Whirlwind when it drops. LOL
plagiarize
Banned
I LOVE Gorgar. I really really do. I love the sound of the ball rolling. I love the heartbeat. I love the speech. I love the way scoring works. Old school pinball doesn't normally do it for me, but Gorgar seems to be something special. I think it's the 'mood' of the table.
I wish I could repeat my 500 something million in monster bash now leader boards are up... but I can't break into the 300s. Maybe I should stop trying to light as many modes at once and then start a multiball, because usually I get a bunch of modes lit and end up draining when I shoot for frankenstein or mosh pit multiball and end up losing out on a bunch of instruments all at once. damn you Shameus with your score on the leaderboards that I know I should be able to beat but can't. DAMN YOU.
If you're really desperate, the Frankenstein tilt bug is still in. But then it would only be superficial.
It's such a shame... when the game was "leaked", without the bug I managed over 500mil, now I can barely get 300 :/
Parallax Scroll
Banned
One of the things I really like about Gorgar is that you really have to plan ahead. Not only do you have to carefully aim where your shots are going, but you've got to think about where it's going to bounce after that as well. Or when the ball is in play, you often need multiple nudges of the table and multiple bounces off surfaces to bring the ball back under your control.
What makes Gorgar so addictive for me is it's a game I constantly feel like I'm almost in control of but never quite. It's pretty easy to trap, dead flipper pass and post pass, but the outlanes are murder and your 500K start could go down the drain in seconds. And even though the eject hole, snake pit and spinner are kinda easy shots, they're not that easy. It's not like hitting ramps and lanes in Medieval Madness, for instance, which is almost automatic. I still miss these shots enough to make me yell at myself constantly.
I started playing Gorgar an hour ago after waking up and my knee is bouncing and I'm all wired. That table does this to me.
I started playing Gorgar an hour ago after waking up and my knee is bouncing and I'm all wired. That table does this to me.
Parallax Scroll
Banned
I think another way to put it is that in Gorgar you give up control of the ball each time you send it up into the playfield, and then it's a fight to regain control of it again.
plagiarize
Banned
this game of monster bash is going to be the one... prepare to get out scored Shaneus!!!
Ahhh. Nice 1.2m game in Gorgar, my best yet. Could've taken it farther, too, I just had the G (leftmost) of the GOR drop targets left to light another free ball and couldn't nail it after 5 minutes of close calls. I'm sure there's some right flipper angle to it but I couldn't find it, and rebounds off the jets kept missing. Still, I'm satisfied. Time to obsess over another table for a while.
edit: Ooh, and I see I leap frogged Plagiarize with that score. Ha.
edit: Ooh, and I see I leap frogged Plagiarize with that score. Ha.
plagiarize
Banned
Ahhh. Nice 1.2m game in Gorgar, my best yet. Could've taken it farther, too, I just had the G (leftmost) of the GOR drop targets left to light another free ball and couldn't nail it after 5 minutes of close calls. I'm sure there's some right flipper angle to it but I couldn't find it, and rebounds off the jets kept missing. Still, I'm satisfied. Time to obsess over another table for a while.
edit: Ooh, and I see I leap frogged Plagiarize with that score. Ha.
you were already ahead of me on gorgar
Parallax Scroll
Banned
Tilt still kicks my ass on Gorgar. I only had 5 balls on my best game (Protop: don't go for extra balls), and 3 of those ended in tilt.
:O
That's pretty much all I've been doing, concentrating on GOR and GAR for the extra ball. Nice to know.
I read on the PA forum someone saying just light the top rollovers and then go for the spinner. *shrug*
Parallax Scroll
Banned
I think there are other strategies that can work that involve getting extra balls, but mine doesn't. If you spell GOR and GAR twice you can get good points from the left eject hole, but if you earn an extra ball you have to spell them again.
plagiarize
Banned
recognising that i'm behind you both on scoring, i usually go for lighting up the jet bumpers and the spinner, aim for a 3x and then go for extra balls. i'm pretty good at nudging the ball where i want to light the multipliers once i get it up there. still haven't broken a million though.
added_time
Member
How do you do the 1 billion point shot on Bride of Pinbot?
Parallax Scroll
Banned
Keep making left ramp shots until you get multiball. Send both balls back up the left ramp to get metamorphasis, then send them both up again to spin the big wheel. If the wheel lands on Billionaire's Club, shoot the center ramp before the time expires to collect the billion.
plagiarize
Banned
finally got a good game of Voltaire in. i've been garbage all day, but finally started to get it together there at the end.
Parallax Scroll
Banned
Did you join the circus?
plagiarize
Banned
no
i was on step 2. i spelled circus with little trouble. got about three hits on the ring master before i drained after a bad miss when shooting for the ramp.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Patch for Vita is up
It says four tables, not two, are now available for today's update:
Monster Bash
Gorgar
and
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Black Knight
Version 1.03 110 megs
It says four tables, not two, are now available for today's update:
Monster Bash
Gorgar
and
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Black Knight
Version 1.03 110 megs
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Gillian Seed
Banned
There was a patch on PS3 but it didn't add any tables as far as I could tell. :/ If this is true I'll be ecstatic.
Minsc
Gold Member
Now you've done it! Boom, boom, boom! Zaaap, zaaap! SHOW-TIME!
Never gets old.
Helps that as far as I can remember most multiballs from TAF last me around 20-30 seconds thanks in part to the balls being thrown out of their path right down the center of the table or out the sides. I guess if you're really good and get like 30 multi-balls a turn you probably get sick of them though, but i tend to only get 1-2 for an entire game (unless it's a table with many types of multiball).Parallax Scroll
Banned
I like multiball. Keeping several balls under control at once is a good challenge.
plagiarize
Banned
yeah. that's what I liked about Bride of Pinbot. keeping both balls in play to keep spinning that big wheel (when I was trying to get the billion point shot) was pretty damn tense and a good change of pace.