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posted 07-27-2001 11:41 AM            

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A while back, there were two major pinball making companies. Then Williams bought out its competitor...and shortly thereafter shut down its pinball division. Pinball games aren't currently being made.

So what classics will you never get tired of. I'm currently addicted to the Monster Bash game.

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posted 07-27-2001 11:56 AM            

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We used to have our man Fred Richardson around.. I think he still lives around here. He used to do sound for 3 Car Garage, Urge Overkill, etc. He won some big time pinball tourneys in his day.

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posted 07-27-2001 01:27 PM         

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i'm not much of a pinball player,
but watching Pirner play Pinbot is the closest thing to Tommy i have seen.
he'd put in a quad, play for an hour and leave with dozens of games on the machine.
when i commented on the display he replied,
"Pinbot is my love slave."

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posted 07-27-2001 01:57 PM            

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One time Fred and his partner were competing at the World Championships in Chicago (one of many times).. for the final rounds, they'd bring out new models, ones they hadn't had a chance to practice on. They made it into the finals, but for the finals, they brought out some ancient machine, with tons of open space. They wound up losing, though I'm pretty sure they have won the worlds champeenship in the past.

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posted 07-27-2001 03:09 PM            

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My 2 faves are Elvira and Addams Family.

uh, no, I was never GOTH.....

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posted 07-27-2001 03:27 PM            

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I've played the shit out of --
Earthshaker
Addams Family
Terminator 2
Whirlwind

and a bunch of other ones, but Williams machines were always my fav. Sucks they won't make them anymore. Really sucks.

Best pinball moment -- 750,000,000 on Addams Family. Toured the Mansion twice, played maybe 11 or 12 balls on that one game. Murdered the 500 mil high score.

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posted 07-27-2001 04:16 PM            

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I remember one day that the Williams rep
was at First Ave, absolutly the the finest display of pinballery I ever witnessed.

Haunted House is a lot of fun. I found one, a lone pinball machine in a Heathrow airport corridor when I was stuck there for an afternoon and over night. I blew it apart first play. Jamming and popping and slaping
it silly, people were stoping to watch the crazed american in a public display of unabashed pinball fury.

Anybody ever try that flipperless baseball payoff pinball?

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posted 07-27-2001 05:04 PM            

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Black Knight. The first game that had multiball. Drained many a quarter in that game.

Pinball 1973 (Haruki Murakami) is a great book for those who obsess over pinball. After I read it I went to Pop's Arcade so frequently that I was their Business Person of the Year 2000. Top that!!

Also check out (lists *every* pinball machine):
http://www.lysator.liu.se/pinball/

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posted 07-27-2001 07:04 PM            

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When I was a kid my aunt and uncle had a 60's pinball game called Aquarius in their basement, I played the SHIT outta that game.

Monster Bash at the 3x Rock took alot of my $$$. How can you beat famous monsters rocking out?

In about 1986 I had the chance to buy an Elton John Pinball Wizard game for $200. I didn't have the cash or any way of coming up with it. I'm still kicking myself.

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posted 07-27-2001 07:34 PM            

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BAD CATS!
Who remembers the Bad Cats game that used to be at First Ave. years ago? i loved that game.

I also Remember spending many a quarter in the Black Knight game in my youth.

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posted 07-30-2001 02:27 PM         

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"fireball" was a cool game
so was "captain fantastic" (elton john themed game)

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posted 07-30-2001 03:08 PM            

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KISS!
and how can you forget 8 Ball Deluxe?
It was a First Avenue favorite!

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posted 07-30-2001 03:36 PM         

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I've been playing the hell out of NBA Fastbreak at Shorty's, my local pinball arcade. What is Lymon "silk" sheets going to do now that nobody makes pinball anymore? He was behind such newer classics such as Attack from Mars and Medievil Madness.

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posted 07-30-2001 03:39 PM            

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monster bash is one of my all time favorites. lately i've been playing high roller casino, it's ok, but no monster bash.

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posted 07-30-2001 03:46 PM            

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I wanna try monster bash!
http://63.225.136.31/tcpb/machinedetail.cfm?MID=175

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posted 07-30-2001 05:52 PM            

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I've been playing the hell out of NBA Fastbreak at Shorty's, my local pinball arcade.

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I love Shorty's! Good beers, decent prices, and a damn fine coney. I'm daydreaming of a trip out there. they've always had some good machines.

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posted 07-30-2001 10:16 PM            

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Here's the ones I love:

Revenge From Mars
Dram Stoker's Dracula
Monster Bash
Kiss
T2
Roadshow
Fish Tales

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posted 07-30-2001 11:08 PM            

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a friend was playing black knight right after it came out. he's in the midst of multiball when a woman who's never seen this new multiball thing, comes over and says loudly, "look at all patrick's balls".......then he had his first multidrain.

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posted 07-31-2001 02:44 AM            

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Addams Family is my fave. Star Wars is awesome if everything works. Road Show will do in a pinch.

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posted 07-31-2001 11:11 AM            

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All time favorites:
-Adams Family
-Attack from Mars (CLASSIC!)
-Monster Bash (the monster moshpit totally ruuuules!)

-Medieval Madness
-Fish Tales
-Star Wars (the original, not the cheesey Sega version or the Pinball 2000 version)

Total stinkers (these games suck, and the ball drains really easily):
-T2
-Eightball Delux
-SEGA pinball games like South Park

Bad idea:
Pinball 2000
Three-quarter sized games with interchangeable parts and very little substance. The original idea was that instead of getting totally new machines every few years, the pinball customers would simply trade in the old computer program for a new one along with a new placemat to go over the top of the old machine. Only two were ever made: -Revenge from Mars, and Star Wars Episode I. They also has the distinction of being the last pinball machines that Bally-Williams ever made.

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posted 07-31-2001 08:07 PM         

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See, South Park is the ONLY sega game I've ever liked and one of the many tv shows that I don't. Why do I like: You flip about six times on 50 cents. Monster Bash is kind of the same. It's fun but too easy to complete and then what...

shorty's

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posted 12-09-2002 11:59 AM            

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Fuck.

I go to the Triple Rock yesterday evening to play the new Attack From Mars (name?) pinball game, and it's broken. Billy said he'd called the repair guy at 10 am and the jerk still hadn't shown, so I shot darts in the cold, depressing, no-music-having side room to mixed results.
Then I go to Big V's, and their machine is broken too. What the fuck? Who do I have to blow to get a working machine at a goddamn rock and roll bar?
Also, I wish the Turf Club would get Monopoly back. The Playboy game was fun about once.

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posted 12-09-2002 12:06 PM            

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ARgh!
Same thing happened to me yesterday at the TR, so we wound up playing Golf instead. Then shooting aliens at Delano's.

My favorite 3 games: Medieval Madness, Addams Family, Attack from Mars.

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posted 12-09-2002 12:29 PM            

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Originally posted by zomzom:
and how can you forget 8 Ball Deluxe?
It was a First Avenue favorite!

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Because that one was, quite literally, impossible to tilt. Draining? No problem. Pick the machine up.

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posted 12-09-2002 01:04 PM         

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theatre of magic has cost me many many hours of my life. who dun it? is also a good one.

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posted 12-09-2002 01:08 PM         

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PINBOT!! I used to play it at the Tub ('96-97) in Dinkytown while doing my laundry. Love it.
At work or home, you can hone your skills with this little doozy: http://gamerival.com/index.cfm?game=4FD172CA

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posted 12-09-2002 02:45 PM            

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Theatre of Magic!

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posted 12-09-2002 04:15 PM            

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Xenon
Middle Earth
Mata Hari
Eight Ball Deluxe
Junkyard
Theater of Magic
and of course, my very own pinball Firepower!

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posted 12-09-2002 04:28 PM            

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Medieval Madness, Cyclone, Monster Bash, Pinbot, KISS of course and Pub Champion (weird boxing one they used to have @ lyle's)

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posted 12-11-2002 10:19 AM            

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As soon as I heard that Le Triple Rocke had gotten Attack From Mars I made a bee-line for their establishment, only to discover that it was already out-of-order. Grrr...

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posted 12-15-2002 12:09 AM            

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Hey commando, you should go to the Reef with Lefty and I on one of our Theater of Magic nights.

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posted 12-15-2002 12:53 AM            

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As soon as I heard that Le Triple Rocke had gotten Attack From Mars I made a bee-line for their establishment, only to discover that it was already out-of-order. Grrr...

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it lives!

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posted 12-15-2002 09:35 AM            

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I have not played pinball for a long time but last night at the Ave I played Dracula and I really liked it! I did well and got two free games!!

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posted 12-15-2002 09:49 AM            

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Getting a match does not count.

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posted 12-16-2002 03:09 PM         

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Addams Family is definitely the all time fav. I had the Grand Champion score on the machine we had at work - 417 million. "Who says you can't take it with you?!"

We had T2: Judgement Day for awhile. It was ok. Arnold's voice on it was great, "Get the Supah Jackpot!"

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posted 12-16-2002 05:47 PM            

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Originally posted by Vrooman:
Getting a match does not count.

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Wait. How did you know that is how I won free games! That machine seems to be match happy, or I just lucked out! I did get really close to actually earning a free game!

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