Message #11807

[stuba]

I once provided RGP with a review of this game (which, sadly, I once owned) -

If you manage to find one of these rare machines...

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RUN!!!! As fast as your legs will take you ****in the other direction!*****

I owned one for a while. "Owned" - past tense. The happiest moment of my
pinball life was waving goodbye to it.

If you're a Star Wars buff, well that's different, a curious piece of
history, and the fact that it's the only machine that actually came out
during the original trilogy, I did find that it had genuine nostalgia
surrounding it, and it did remind me of those fun days of the first movies.

There's about one a week on Aussie ebay. Not bad when there were only 350 of
them! So if you want one, pretty easy to get one from here (but with the
dollar value, not good at the moment, although that dollar is making parts
for us Aussies super cheap).

But if you love playing, you will not love this. The main problems - way too
slow and the shots are poorly laid out. There are six targets directly in
front of the flippers in the middle of the playfield. Way too close, get
destroyed right away, and cause the only fast part of this game to occur -
the direct return of the ball to the flippers if you're lucky, but usually
SDTM (and usually accompanied by small pieces of former target). There is a
shot to the right to return to the inlane that cannot be made with skill,
just luck (ie a crap shot bouncing off something - usually a small piece of
former target plastic.... :)

soon as i saw the thread title i remembered this post! rofl