[Tlon]

Is anyone else a pinball fan? I've been getting pretty obsessed with it lately, though not in a collector sense... i'll just dump around $10 on any pinball machine i find, improve my skills, etc. There's something so tactile about it. I spend my days on the computer and go home to my PS2 (via my DS) but pinball is physical and real
there's also the attraction of mastering a sorta arcane skill. i guess you could compare it to schump players, though i'm only moderatly skilled
there are probably lessons that can be learned for game design in pinball, though i'm not sure what they are. its worth noting the game has a seemingly high degree of randomness, though as you get farther into it you realize how much conrol the player has
also: are there any good pinball simulations? i think they defeat the point but i'd love games that expand the pinball concept, like those two with the aliens and the fantasy thing

inspired by one of des' blog post:

[The Blueberry Hill]

I ONLY PLAY NES PINBALL.

[shnozlak]

yeah I regularly pump a Medieval Madness machine at the bowling ally near my house. I had a RedLine machine in my room. Id like to move it out to where ever I'm living in the next few years, great table.

Check out pinmame They have some tables mapped out, it used 3D physics to simulate the play board. Seems kinda wrong to me but its out there.
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[chompers po pable]

you could download alien crush and devil crash to tide you over between forays. seems like the keyboard input would be fine, if not ideal.

[sethsez]

For recreations of real pinball tables the relatively recent Williams Pinball Hall of Fame collection is fantastic. For "expanded" tables my heart will always belong to Pinbot on the NES.

[Tlon]

[Rya.Reisender]

Devil Crash sure is awesome. There's also a Rock 'n Roll version of it called Grue Ball or something like that.

I really loved some pinball games.

There's also Virtual Pinball for Genesis where you can build your own and it also has a secret 'stage mode'.

Also I think there are some pinballs from Sierra which had some kind of story and you could advance in stages.

[chompers po pable]

there's a T2 pinball machine at a local dollar theatre that i like to jam on. same place has a TMNT arcade machine that has busted clips, so you can lift the joystick panel and manually feed it 'credits'

fun times.

[shnozlak]

[Greng]

I♥
PB

Theres a few dotted around locally although most of the classics I remember being about are slowly disappearing. We even have/had an Addams Family table nearby, although I haven't seen it for a while and suspect the bar has been refurbed. That game has so much going on. I always liked to stack multiballs on a flipper although it's almost as hard as tracking them all in play at once. I've been practicing trapping, but that's really only for show boating! I'm not really very good at pinball but I appreciate the klunkiness and that it's physically flashing and throwing pinballs around. It's much more engaging that a videogame.

[Slonie]

I play whenever I can. You may have noticed that it's a little hard to find a decent selection of tables these days. The Boardwalk in Santa Cruz still has plenty of tables, but book a flight to Vegas and hit up the Pinball Hall of Fame. It's worth a trip!
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[firenze]

I'll always hold Twilight Zone as my all-time favorite analog pinball table.

Pokemon Pinball is actually pretty damn fun. Metroid Pinball on DS is nice too, I might have to bring that with me to work tomorrow...

[Judge Ito]

The T2 machine is both godly and legendary. It could be because I've had very little exposure to pinball machines...

When I somehow managed to get Visual PinMAME going a few years ago (which seemed to be an incredibly convoluted process) I played the fuck out of Black Knight 2000. The soundtrack was incredible, and it was the first table I was ever able to master.

[UnitedBiscuits]

I assert my dominance on Pinball FX on a regular basis.

[shnozlak]

[boagman]

[Judge Ito]

[Tlon]

[Mikey]

http://www.pinball.com/games/bash/

[Deets]

This is the raddest place in Colorado.

[Cossix]

If anyone is near the Bay Area they should come with us sometime to Lucky Juju and play a ton of old pinball games. Tables on free play all night! $10 to get in! TOTALLY BITCHIN'.

[Tlon]

[Daphaknee]

all of the pictures ive taken at lucky juju

GORGON, EMBRYON, and ORBITOR 1 are my favorite pinball machines of all time

also i think for hte next gameclub we should play PINBALL QUEST for the nes
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[Cossix]

Embryon is fucking hard.

[boagman]

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[Tlon]

[Greng]

[Judge Ito]

[Chuplayer]

[Tlon]

yeah South Park pinball has easy multiball - Mr Hanky and Kenny. or Chef
i can usually go for an hour on most pinball machines
Austin Powers, South Park, LOTR... all really fun
but man i think pinball would actually benefit from the Nintendo Mascot Fanservice Treatment. its a simple game, so assuming the ball physics are decent it would be hard to screw up....
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[Koji]

I'm not a pinball player, but I freaking loved Galactic Pinball on the Virtual Boy. Any other video pinball I've played since felt kind of stale in comparison.
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[Tlon]

i've got a vision of pinball combined some some sort of isometric Sim City thing where the movement of the pinball triggers random shit like monster attacks
im not sure if it makes sense but i see it as a casual flash game type thing using pinball as the mechanism to interact with sprite art
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[Tlon]

that game is so shit as a pinball game. and as a videgame. and as a sucessor to minsweeper/mousetrap/solitaire
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[CubaLibre]

Totally agreed.
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[wasted potential]

Medieval Madness.


i like the old pinball thread where daphny posted all the sweetass pinbal marquee arts
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[Daphaknee]

i finally saw ORBITOR 1'S surface and there arent any magnets! what the fuck, i thought the bumpers were like reverse magnets that shooty our ball everywhere but htey're just spinning really fast and hte playfield is curved but has holograms on it to make it look like its curved differently

god that game is a mindfuck
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[Greng]

you should try this haley davidson one with some crazy powerful vibrations going on.... timed to the revs of a hog when you insert credit.... wooo!
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[Daphaknee]

also FIREBALL becuase it has that goddamn spinning circle in teh middle that tosses your ball everywhere AND IS NOT FAIR AT ALL


i like mean pinball tables
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