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I'm no wizard, but looking at where you want the ball to go and not looking at the ball helps for me when I remember to do it
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The Voice of Labor posted:I'm no wizard, but looking at where you want the ball to go and not looking at the ball helps for me when I remember to do it look at the flippers when you flip
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Feb 4, 2024 22:43
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To reach true mastery close your eyes completely.
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Feb 5, 2024 01:13
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Isn't that a mode in the who's Tommy Pinball Wizard?
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boar guy posted:look at the flippers when you flip Yep, this is what I do, or try to. Keeping eye on the ball and not where I'm shooting is still something I'm adjusting to after 2-3 years. It's also sort of mental fatigue? I'm better early in the session but gradually lose the discipline to keep my eye on the ball/flipper all the time. It's rare I use table art to know when to flip. I have the flipper divided into 5-6 "sections" which correspond to where I want it to go. Using the left flipper as an example:
I try to think "early" or "late" depending on how the miss happens. But it's frustrating, because I'll often shoot it wrong the exact same way next shot. Maybe it will all come together. All of a sudden, catches started working this summer and it wasn't something I was deliberately trying to learn. Might just be  reflexes.edit: I've also just started to adjust for ball momentum, also. Gotta shoot a little earlier as the ball goes faster. But I don't have a clear framework for how to adjust for shots on the fly. I also probably watch too many really good players on YouTube who just do it every friggin time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCxgUPfVsjc bort fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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Feb 5, 2024 03:14
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not gonna lie most players flip too much and you will learn a lot by playing five dollars worth of one-handed games.
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eh, I think I'm past that stage. I deadflip a lot and most of my "moves" are to dampen momentum. I've had to play a fair amount one-handed in tournaments, and played tons of split flipper. Good point, though.
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unknown posted:Isn't that a mode in the who's Tommy Pinball Wizard? Yes and it's surprisingly difficult.
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biznatchio posted:Yes and it's surprisingly difficult. It puts a fan shaped shield over the flipper area and, yes, it’s a right pain. I believe there was an Easter egg that let you play the whole game that way if you were masochistic and/or rich.
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I have a foo fighters pro at my house right now. The game is fun, but I can't hit the ramps to save my loving life. The sweet spot seem to be so far at the end of the flipper I feel like I'm going for orbits, but still somehow am early every time. AHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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I have the same issue with the ones on location here. (Right ramp at least). The van ramp is a manageable backhand at least. Backhands are usually a lot safer. Snacksmaniac fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Feb 6, 2024 |
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Feb 6, 2024 20:19
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Snacksmaniac posted:I have the same issue with the ones on location here. (Right ramp at least). yeah, back hand is the only sure thing for me with the left ramp. trying to hit it from the right flipper leads to me banging it against the post and straight down the middle more often than not. same with the captive locked ball shot
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hyphz posted:It puts a fan shaped shield over the flipper area and, yes, it’s a right pain. I believe there was an Easter egg that let you play the whole game that way if you were masochistic and/or rich. There is. If you hold down the Extra Ball button when starting a game, the shroud will be out for the entire game. It doesn't boost your scoring like it does during the mode when the shroud normally comes out, so it's purely an "I like pain" thing. I've owned Tommy for 26 years, and in all that time I think I've only been tempted to play a game like that once; not too long after I got it.
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Cool. I used to love that machine. Played the heck out of it when it was in the Norfolk arcades and it was what told me that there was actually cool music in Tommy other than Pinball Wizard. Never got the whole “hey let’s put the modes on a Union Jack” thing though. (I also remember at that age being haunted by the freaky endgame animation that looks like Tommy being trapped inside a spinning pinball while a weird low version of Listening To You plays.) hyphz fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Feb 9, 2024 |
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I wonder who the hell has the IP rights to RollerGames now. Surely can't be ST:TNG money.
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xarph posted:I wonder who the hell has the IP rights to RollerGames now. Surely can't be ST:TNG money. Would they also need the rights to all the brands that were sponsors? I think A&W Root Beer is one of them. edit: Mug, Pepsi, Slice, GamePlan, Thermos, and some logo I can't recognize AzureFlame fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Feb 9, 2024 |
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/\ /\ /\ edit: ShareData (manufacturers of fine video game cartridges) BOP bort fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Feb 9, 2024 |
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I swear even though I feel like I've seen every pinball machine that exists, every couple of weeks I discover one I've never heard of
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AzureFlame posted:Would they also need the rights to all the brands that were sponsors? I think A&W Root Beer is one of them. If Pinball Arcade was able to change the dog from World Cup Soccer for licensing reasons, Zen could easily substitute in some off-brand graphics for Rollergames. It's not like Pepsi//Thermos/etc has any callouts or anything if I recall correctly.
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They also stripped some secondary sponsors out of no fear.
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Pinball Arcade should just make wierd 80s tables like Hadbody and stuff. Just go full odd tables.
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the weird stuff is most of what i play in pb arcade, anyway, i would absolutely buy more weird mid-range 80s tables if the game was still some kind of going concern
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The entire PFX catalog is on sale right now on Steam. If you already have the Williams titles from PFX3, you can pick a bundle discount and its pretty cheap.
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Clouseau posted:The entire PFX catalog is on sale right now on Steam. If you already have the Williams titles from PFX3, you can pick a bundle discount and its pretty cheap. I might have to finally pick up the indianna jones table
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Clouseau posted:The entire PFX catalog is on sale right now on Steam. If you already have the Williams titles from PFX3, you can pick a bundle discount and its pretty cheap. Thanks! That’s the price point that brought me back. Shame there are tables that aren’t in “legacy packs” that I own.
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Love when a bulb you need to change is under a flipper plate.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/CateMartel/status/1760711946741916000
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That’s the ugliest vpin setup I’ve seen in a while
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Snacksmaniac posted:That’s the ugliest vpin setup I’ve seen in a while Good news, you can make it and several others your own! https://freedomdawg.com/ https://freedomdawg.com/j6insurrection_pinball.html quote:RULES
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Thank you and curse you for posting the links. I’m going to have to try it now.
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Snacksmaniac posted:Thank you and curse you for posting the links. I’m going to have to try it now. WWG1WGA!
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This is so cursed. Is there a grand wizard mode? What about the secret antifa multi ball?
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I think under reported here is that its a straight theft of the Dirty Harry table. EDIT: in "fairness" he admits it on his website. Clouseau fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Feb 23, 2024 |
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I downloaded and played it and its somehow worse than i expected it to be
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Snacksmaniac posted:I downloaded and played it and its somehow worse than i expected it to be I'm on my way over.
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man if you are gonna rip off a pinball table you might as well copy one that's actually decent lol. Dirty Harry is a pretty mediocre one to emulate. though in terms of worst machine I've ever played, I ventured out to a new pinball place in Long Island and they had the WWE game---genuinely loving abysmal, just amazingly bad.
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That 1/6 table has the laziest playfield design I've ever seen. With the wealth of weird Trump/MAGA memes they decided to just slap 5 random pictures from google image search onto a plain grey background.
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It’s so bad. The callouts and dmd graphics are incoherent. I had a Dirty Harry and liked it but I was still lost.
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I played the 90’s The Shadow movie tie-in for the first time this weekend, fun table, very much like the two gems I never see anymore, Johnny Mnomic, and Dracula. The bouncy thing at the top is an entirely different game, not a smaller table, which is cool.
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Nudge magazine, a pinball lifestyle magazine  , has a 3 part article about Python Anghelo. It's crazy. Part 1: https://www.nudgepinball.com/articles/the-unauthorized-hagiography-of-python-anghelo Part 2: https://www.nudgepinball.com/articles/cocaine-cats-pinball-sex-and-big-guns-part-ii-of-the-unauthorized-hagiography-of-python-anghelonbsp Part 3: https://www.nudgepinball.com/articles/part-iii-of-the-unauthorized-hagiography-of-python-anghelo-yes-the-part-with-the-pinball-sex and it links to Pythons World video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up03zouCIvI That man was out there.
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