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Subject: Pinball
O.k., while reminiscing I had to ask-was anyone else besides me raised on pinball? I've been playing since I was tall enough to see over the game, and even before would pull over something to stand on. The game I learned on was Eight Ball Deluxe. Any other pinball fans out there? :) Favorite games?
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I love to play pinball, but you can't find pinball machines anymore! I've played them since I was a kid, and that was a long time ago--the 1960's, to be exact, when they cost a nickel for five balls!
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I remember playing Xenon at a local arcade in '82. It was the loudest game in the arcade and that female voice sometimes freaked me out (hey, I was only 10 years old)...
Pinball games are about my speed nowadays. The video games today are a little too complicated for me to waste my money on... :-/
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Sadly, it does seem to be a lost game. I've found them most recently at Game Works and Disneyquest, but there are always so few of them at places! There are always more video games than anything.
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Totally, in fact, I was RAISED on Pinball and Racing sims. I held the school pinball record for seven years until last year, when I was beaten by a kid who wasn't even born when I set it. Well, good on them.
I know there's a lot of Pinball sims on consoles, especially the PS1, but, with the exception of Pro Pinball - Fantastic Journey, none of them, I feel, are good enough to hold up to the real thing.
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O.k., while reminiscing I had to ask-was anyone else besides me raised on pinball? I've been playing since I was tall enough to see over the game, and even before would pull over something to stand on. The game I learned on was Eight Ball Deluxe. Any other pinball fans out there? :) Favorite games?
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Subject: Re: Pinball
I love pinball. Last year, my dad and I introduced pinball to my nieces. That is only time I remember playing with my dad. Our computer (a Dell) came with a pinball game. I thought that was soooo cool. It really has the feel of a good old-fashion pinball game. When I was in high school, there was this place I used to hang out that had a bunch of pinball machines. I remember one time, I had 11 games on one quarter. (I think the machine was broke). I remember when it was 5 balls for a quarter and now it is 3 balls for 50 cents. Talk about a rip-off. But still love it.
Cat
Subject: Re: Pinball
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Totally, in fact, I was RAISED on Pinball and Racing sims. I held the school pinball record for seven years until last year, when I was beaten by a kid who wasn't even born when I set it. Well, good on them.End Quote
You were beaten by a 7-year-old? These kids are developing younger and younger. My 7-year-old nephew is actually starting to learn to play chess on the computer.
Anyway, I remember in the late 80s, my grandpa had an "Elton John Pinball Wizard" pinball machine in his living room that he had gotten somewhere. Man, I used to play the heck out of that thing. I think my grandpa had some delusion that people would put money in it, but we would just open the back and restart the games. :)
Subject: Re: Pinball
Five, as it happens. I totally agree with you. If there wasn't such a computer gaming / Compact Disc industry around, maybe we'd get kids involved in playing table-top games like Pinball.
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You were beaten by a 7-year-old?
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Subject: Re: Pinball
I used to have window ME and it came with the coolest pinball game....unfortunately my new OLD computer cannot handle Mellenium :(
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I have that pinball game..I unfortunately have windows ME ;D
I like the pinball game, but Windows ME, well I don't think I could post what I think about that without getting in trouble ;)
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Pinball's awesome!!! I virtually grew up in arcades and pinball machines were my absolute favorite.
A few of my faves:
"Charlie's Angels" (The Original) (70's)
"TRON" (80's)
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (90's).
Now, The closest I ever get to pinball is a pc game called "TimeShock". It is quite good. It's the next best thing to the real thing.
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Windows XP comes with a pinball game. Although I must say the gravity is sometimes a bit perplexing to me.
One of my faves was Bill Budge's "Pinball Construction Set" for the Apple ][.
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I LOVED Tron. I had it for my Intellivision II
I rocked at Q-bert, Burgertime, Tapper..oh those were the days! So I went from juvenile video game junkie to adult computer junkie!
Subject: Re: Pinball
I love pinball myself.I remember years ago back in the arcade days,I used to play it and I would always lose.Sometimes the ball would get stuck and I would move the machine slightly till it forced itself back into the middle of the board.-howard-
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When I was in kindergarten after school my stepdad would always pick me up and we'd go to the local supermarket because they were giving away a pinball machine to the person who managed to get the highest score during a certain period of time.Needless to say he won the pinball and we moved it into our house.It was called AZTEC.I'd also like to say for the purpose of being random, the day it was delivered I was stung by a bee. I cried so I got to be the first one to play it so I'd shut up.: )
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Oh, yeah...
The 5-digit rolling number display, Free replay at 10,000 points (which you had to slave to get back then), the 1st digital display had 5 digits, and of course...5 balls per play at a quarter. And were you ever a victim of "12 and older" signs?
One thing that upsets me about pinball machines is the million-points-a-second attitude nowadays. Free replay at 250,000,000 points or something. All they have to do is remove some zeros, and it would be the same as the 70's. Who really asked the pinball machine companies to give us that many points that easy?
As neat as "Space Shuttle" was with its million-point bonus, in hindsight I'd have to say it was the beginning of the end.
And don't get me started on the old pinball machines with 16 holes. You spend 1 quarter to get 1 ball in a hole, then another to get another ball in another hole, etc. No wonder the guy in that "Pinball Machine" trucking song got broke.
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Reminds me of Pro Pinball: Big Race USA, a PS1 pinball game I can no longer get my hands on, where you got these real big bonuses, and replays at 100,000,000 points on all the demos I ever played. You got three balls, and really hyperactive bonuses at the worst of times. Twas a fine pinball game!
Subject: Re: Pinball
I love pinball. Somewhere close to where my parents live is a little crab restaurant called, originally enough, Crabtown. In a back room they have an arcade full of games of the 70s and 80s. They have my favorite pinball machine, Pinbot but not my second favorite, Taxicab.
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Yep !
Love it ! Used to spend Christmas Holidays at the Sunshine Coast playing pinball at the (unfortunately named) "Pleasure Centre" :P
I grew up with the machines where the most points you could get for hitting a target was 5 (yes, 5 !) ,and the counters used to click over slowly...
To get a replay was only about 500 points.....
Although I also liked the later ones, especially when the introduced the multi-ball idea, that was cool.
I remember 'Flash' the best...
FB :D
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To correct myself here, come to think of it, I think they had 25 holes (5 rows of 5), right?
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I love pinball. Somewhere close to where my parents live is a little crab restaurant called, originally enough, Crabtown. In a back room they have an arcade full of games of the 70s and 80s. They have my favorite pinball machine, Pinbot but not my second favorite, Taxicab.
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Pinbot was great!! I remember you had to get his eyes in, and then he would say "Now I see you" then you'd get the multi-ball. *sigh* I miss all these games!!
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There's only 1 game whose name I remember - as well as the exciting nature of the game itself, though no details - the Black Hole.
It was a multi-level pinball w/various features including plenty of action in the middle. I played it early '80s.
I love pinball overall, that's just the 1 that I'll not forget. Incidentally, the Windows XP Pinball game is excellent.