Pinball General: Double Broadside Edition

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I'm assuming video pinball and stuff like Visual PinMAME is included in the discussion?

Any /toronto/ here? I need to know where I can find and play a pin in the downtown/midtown area.... I know there's some games at the Playdium in missasauga, but that's such an annoying trip for me, and I heard its closing down soon to be replaced with a more standard 'arcade' filled with redemption games.

>>4085986
it always is.
>>4085946
>What pinball have you been playing recently?
real tables wise fish tales and jokerz. That simpsons game is super comfy i played one recently it's almost to easy. Simulation wise Pro pinball timeshock ultra as always, best pinball game of all time easily.

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Played Mary Shelley's Frankenstein a couple days ago. Seemed like it had weak flippers, I couldnt get up the ramp.

The party zone a couple weeks ago at pocketeer billiards in buffalo. Pic related.

>>4085946
Been playing a lot of Earthshaker. Trying to beat the grand champ score of 20 million, but I always seem to cap around 14.5 million. I keep getting second place in scores.

Got to play a lot of Dialed In and Aerosmith last night. Dialed in was a lot of fun. Decent shots, fun modes. Aerosmith was way too open for me, but the art looks great

>>4085986
Fuck that fucking cunt. Credit dot on every single machine, sells all the good machines, jacks the price up to 75 cents on machies from the 70s, $1 on anything from the 90s or newer, and $1.25 on anything from recent years.

Takes all the money and runs, shuts down forever. Employees know they're about to lose their job and start sexually harassing customers. Piece of shit fake arcade. Doesn't even exist anymore since she took everyone's money and ran. Closed forever.

>>4088215
Anything would feel open after playing a Lawlor game, with every single shot blocked.

>>4088215
This Saturday I'm going to a place where I can finally try out Batman '66 and Aerosmith. I played Dialed In about a month ago, but not enough to get a solid grasp on the rules. Seems really cool, though. Good variety of shots, and it's great to see an original theme, even it's a kinda goofy theme.

The Jersey Jack game I've been the most impressed with so far is Hobbit. Feels like a fusion between the LotR table and Medieval Madness. The target banks and pop-up creatures encourage some great precision shooting, and it seems like a deep game overall.

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I want one of these so bad but as an Australian I think my chances are non-existent

Not sure if anyone around here is from RVA, but if so, Richmond Pinball Collective just opened up a few weeks ago. They've got about 20 games. Easily the best pinball spot in the area.

>>4088282
Dude, more info about this?

>>4088154
Just shoot the centre ramp over and over; it's not worth it to shoot anything else:
https://youtu.be/7_w-W1Fvhyc

>>4088536
It's closed forever. Got shitty toward the end when they knew they were going to close. Sold off all the good stuff at top dollar to suckers who wanted their first pinball machine. Jacked up prices for credits Then closed forever. Had some sort of final sale but only the dilapidated stuff in the back was for sale.

>>4088536
Oh also it was all over some sort of intransigence regarding the landlord. He wanted 3× the money per month for rent.

Rather than moving the arcade she seems to have handled things in the manner in which she was accustomed—pure autism.

>>4088332
Just get one imported from Europe or something. Or from America. They cost $5000 US dollars though so they will cost more Australian dollars. Shit's not a cheap machine, you could get a New In Box Stern for the same.

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>>4089324
Plus I dread to think what the cost of shipping it would be. I've only ever played it using Pinball Arcade but I instantly fell in love with it and I don't know why.

>>4088282
what does this have to do with pinmame

>>4089395
>posts picture of Pinball Wizard Arcade
>the truth about the place comes out
>poster of image acts innocent like he didn't post a picture of Pinball Wizard Arcade

End yourself.

Not being that serious about the Pinball Wizard arcade closing, blowing things out of proportion. Sad it's gone Symbolizes the massive butthurt at losing the place. No good huge pinball to go to now.

>>4085946
Game of thrones / Iron Man / Adams family everyday at my local bar . Game of thrones is a cruel beast .

>>4089552
I didn't post the image

>>4090943
Nor look at it apparently

Going to play a Williams Disco Fever soon. Curved banana flippers. Jealous?

>>4091365
this is my first time on this board, I have no clue what you're going on about

>>4091381
What does that have to do with pinmame?

>>4091441
clam down

>>4089552
>poster wants to talk about virtual pinball
>uses a picture of real pinball machines

Yeah, dude, there's absolutely no possible way that he just randomly grabbed a picture he thought was cool looking from a Google images search.

Were you one of the people who got sexually harassed? Did the picture trigger your PTSD? This seems to be a personal boogeyman for you.

>>4091714
Stay mad faggit, place is closed forever and you can't do shit about it.

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Radical

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>>4092503
Not as radical as Radical!

>>4092519
I have to travel 2.5 hours for that game.

>insert dollar
>pull shooter
>ball rolls straight between flippers while I mash frantically
halp

>>4094045
http://www.ipdb.org/playing/skills.html

>>4092503
>RIP THE CRUD
What does that even mean?

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>>4094703
Best guess would be todays 'Killing it'

>when you're shredding the gnar in the 80s but your stuck in the no-curse 90s ripping the crud.

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Totally bitchin'

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VPX AC/DC Premium Luci though

>>4096417
I thought people wanted to talk about VPinMAME here? Now I find the best pinball ever that's been eluding us all this time and no one's into it. These shits are dank. 4 versions, Premium / Luci / Back in Black / Let There Be Rock.

Using javier15's table as a base, this guy hiding out at the third Visual Pinball locale has the goods. Talking about Metallica Premium also, coffin lock slamming your ball down into the table and shit. These are high quality tables.

The physics is tight. Even the viewing angles have been perfectly honed to let you see everything, much better than the PM5 AC/DC Pro angles. Can see everything, accomplish everything. Like a real table. Can't recommend this table enough. Lyman's mango opus.

Only thing is it's so good that VPX 10.3 crashes when loading it sometimes.

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I will see the new Stern Star Wars table in a couple of days. It will be the first unveiling. The race to get the first video is on.

>>4096417
>>4097883
http://vpinball.com/VPBdownloads/acdc-premium-le-luci/

"This is one of my favourites tables, one of the best tables Stern ever produced. You will find several versions of this table: Premium, Back In Black LE, Let There Be Rock LE and Luci. You need VPX 10.2, the latest vpm and the latest db2s, you will find them here: http://vpuniverse.com/forums/topic/2687-code-change-to-enable-sam-le-driver-board-support/
For the complete rule set go here: http://pinballarcadefans.com/showthread.php/4761-For-Those-About-to-Rock-AC-DC-Premium-LE-v1-65-Ruleset Or here to download the “condensed” pdf version: https://images.pinside.com/5/04/69/50469eb84c28a30f904c314b49fe256862734f5c.pdf
I would like to thank javier for let me continue this table, which is based on his PRO version. Big thanks also to DJRobX: without him, this table wouldn’t exist. I also would like to thank: -dark for the bell base model; -zany for the flasher domes; -tom tower for the LE apron; -knorr for the laser mod; -rysr, Peter J and javier (again ) for the help with the pics. -rom and zedonius from some resources I used from their FP version; -the VPDevTeam for the freaking amazing VPX"

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>[Freedoms Internally]

This thread will not be slid. Going to try me some virtual Doctor Who pinball.

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>>4085946
>what pinball have you been playing recently
fucking nothing

theres a bar about an hour away from me with an EM pin, Fishtales, jackbot, Spiderman VE, Avengers LE, and ghost busters Pro
i wanna go down there but i'm in a penny pinching situation right now

also trying to save up money for a pin

But i'm interested in high roller casino, Simpsons pinball party, iron man, every post 2012 stern aside from x men, avengers, and mustang, and WWE, less interested in kiss.
all of Jersey Jacks pins, and heighways Aliens

>>4100708
>every post 2012 stern

I've been thinking about when the turning point was, and I think you're right. 2007-2012 was when Stern games were pretty crap, and the stuff before and after that period was generally good. AC/DC was the first one I played that got me thinking, "Oh shit, this is actually great!"

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Casualfag here, always loved pinball but actually finding a table was always hard so I never played except every once in a while. Can I get suggestions on the best retro pinball videogames?

>>4100728
For simulations of real tables, there's Visual Pinball, which requires a fair amount of setup but is overall excellent. There's also Pinball Arcade which offers convenience and uniform table quality at the cost of significantly poorer physics.

For video games with original tables that are still realistic, there's:

>Pro Pinball series
>Slam Tilt
>Pinball Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions
>Addiction Pinball
>Super Pinball 1 and 2
>Digital Pinball Last Gladiators/Necronomicon
>Balls of Steel

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>>4100737
Thanks anon, sorry I didn't specify. I'm cool with either, just looking to get more into pinball honestly. It seems like a really cool hobby, Im happy to see it still has a active community.

>>4100741
pro pinball timeshock ultra on steam is the closest to real life physics out there and is amazingly deep.

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I know it's a shit use of the license, but a friend of mine had this at his home when I was young, and I played it for weeks.

Do want.

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>>4102840
After playing a bunch of them at a big arcade show, I've really come to love those late 70s - early 80s Bally games. The focus on building up the bonus so it will carry over to the next ball with the "super bonus" is a lot of fun. My local place used to have Xenon for a while, but Silverball Mania is probably my favorite.

>>4102835
Nope, Visual Pinball is the closest to real life physics and deep tables you can get because it simulates real tables with 1000 physics calculation updates per second. Did Keith P. Johnson code for your babby's first video pinball? Did Lyman F. Sheats Jr.? NOPE.

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>>4098812
Such a kickass game. Lots of awesome precision shooting like the Flybys and Hot Streak targets. Also it's nice to know that Hitman found a job as a DJ in Earthshaker after the war.

>"Stay LOCKED ON with all the hits!"

>>4102948
Best multiball music, Steve Ritchie riffs

>>4102948
>dat feeling when you start multi ball
Sure better pins are out there but the adrenaline rush playing this table is like no other. Absolutely love my F14. The speed, theme, music, light show, etc are top notch.

>>4102972
>Best multiball music
Yes, yes, well done F14, well done. However.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ8iIGHp6Zs

>>4085946
>What pinball have you been playing recently?
Tried "Taxi" for the first time last weekend. Had a blast playing it even with a weak right flipper.

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Anyone ever play pic related? How was it? Never played it myself but I want to try one out so bad.

>>4104807
I hope to, one day.
I only know it has top tier music: https://youtu.be/jxSK7Z95ZiY

>>4102906
Wrong, you can't name a single fucking rl table with a ruleset as deep as timeshocks not even fucking close and the physics are definitely better than ever in VP but better than timeshock ultra? i don't think so at all and i play real tables all the time. You're guaranteed just a mouthy cunt who hasn't even played timeshock and probably suck off some table re creator on vpforums so fuck up you low tier player gay cunt.

>MUH NAME DROPS
>MUH REAL TABULZ
>MUH BABBYS PINBALL THAT I CAN'T EVEN PLAY WORTH A PISS

I sincerely hope you die of cancer in front of your family for being such a meat headed waste of oxygen.

>>4102840
I adore this era of pinball, the best for me.

has anyone here played Bram Stoker's Dracula? what would you rate it?

if I had the money that would be my dream machine.

>>4104843
The music, theme, and upper playfield all have me wanting to give it a go. Closet place to me that has one is about 3 hours away. Going to try to go for my birthday.

>>4104807
I've played it. It's an interesting novelty that you'll only want to play a few times. The main playfield is pretty mediocre.

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>>4105446
Awesome game. More so than even the other early DMD games, it feels like a "lost" System 11 game that came out of hiding in the early 90s. The "multi-multiball" is great, the more started at the same time multiplies the jackpot. Even the video mode is one of the better ones. Overall my favorite horror themed game along with Haunted House and Monster Bash.

>>4105985
I don't know about that. It's got a lot more going on than an average System 11 game.

>>4105349
I'm going to show this post to Lyman tomorrow

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Bumping to save the only pinball thread on /vr from the onslaught of Castlevania shit posting.

Anywho... discovered Big Guns on pinside the other day. I really want to try this out. Looks like it might be worth dropping a couple bucks in. Love the look of it.

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Surprise tenderfoot!

>>4108001
It's a very underappreciated game. It plays a lot like F-14, with its near symmetrical playfield. The ball locks are cannons that shoot the balls across the playfield. It also has a bagatelle game in the (massive) backbox. Used to be one near me, but the place that had it closed down.

>>4110552
This is another underappreciated game. Very easy game to learn and you can get multiball pretty much right away.

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It's a shitty feeling when a local arcade suddenly closes without warning.
RIP one of the few places to play pinball.

>>4113172
2084?

>>4114640
Yes.

>>4114698
Yeah, that really blows, especially since there's not gonna be a last event. Mission Control and Pinball Land aren't too far from there, have you been to either of them?

>>4089360
shipping from USA to australia would cost about $800 if you bought from an arcade machine vendor who sells a lot of machines, try tnt amusements if you're serious

>>4105985
has my favourite multiballs, coffin + mist + castle multiball going all at the same time is the shizz dem 300million jackpots feelsgood

>>4114997
Mission Control is good shit, though I feel their games are set up pretty hard and I blow through quarters. Haven't heard of Pinball Land, though. Are they like 2084 where they only open on select days?

>>4115125
Yes, look on their Facebook page for days that they're open. Mostly Wednesdays, and occasionally Tuesdays and Thursdays.

>>4115195
Cool, I'll have to keep an eye out. How do they operate? Paid entry? Quarters?

>>4115240
$15 for entry, from I think six to midnight.

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Single favorite pinball table?

>>4117380
Extremely difficult question. I can give you five.
>Taxi
>Swords of Fury
>Attack From Mars
>No Fear
>Monster Bash

>>4097890
It's no Data East
But it will do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjSOVfZwke0

Pocket billiards just got dialed in this week. I will bring going tomorrow evening to play.

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the most casual of pinballs

>>4118628
This is actually pretty hard to beat.

Anyone else not a fan of those back display mini-games like you see in T2, Indiana Jones, The Getaway, etc? I'm sure they were neat back in the day but I would rather just keep playing pinball.

>>4119968
I don't think anyone gets excited about video modes, although some are kinda cool, like the werewolf shooting in Dracula or the saucer attack in Attack From Mars. Certainly no one has ever been upset that a game didn't have a video mode, though.

>>4119968
>>4120060
I love em' they're mostly a guaranteed extra ball if you're not a retard.

>>4119968
They're all either boring or control like shit. The worst offenders are games like Junkyard or Doctor Who where you can spend more time in video mode than actually playing pinball. There's only so much you can do with two buttons and a 128x32 display. Dracula is probably the one game where it's actually fun while being nice and quick.

>>4097890
Looks cool (maybe [hopefully]).

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Full-Time Pinball / Arcade Repairman in Alabama here. Any questions?

>>4123680
>Full-Time Pinball / Arcade Repairman in Alabama here. Any questions?

Going to attempt a playfield swap for the first time this upcoming winter. Any tips?

Favorite table to play?

How well does being an pinball/arcade repairman pay? Would you recommend it as a career path?

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>>4124449
Playfield Swap: Take more pictures than you think you need, use a rotisserie. Label everything. Take more pictures than even that.

Favorite Table: Gorgar, Metallica Pro, AC/DC Premium, Spectrum, and Cirqus Voltaire.

Pay / Career Path: I work through a company, but I'm the head of my department. I get paid $18 an hour, but I started out at $10, went to $12, then went to work for another company and was convinced to come back to this company for $18/h, full health benefits, paid time off, and a whole host of other things. I hit the fucking jackpot.

Otherwise, you'll be working for a fucking operator who doesn't care about you or the games. It's not great, but it usually pays about $10/h, and up.

Just be good with electronics, have a strong back, common sense, and street smarts as it is a classic "cash business", so things can be sketchy sometimes. You'll be dealing with laundromat owners to millionaires.