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Re: Capcom Flipper Football (Perth)
« on: March 24, 2009, 09:32:29 AM »
Fun game, it has its place but is not a game for a small collection though. Scoring is just goals, so the switches and drops etc around the playfield control the graphics rather than goals. In adult mode it swears like no other, including the "F" word, which is pretty funny especially in a group of dudes after a few sherbets! Few other games encourage you to burn the goalie, and it's fun watching the referee get beaten up as the game progresses. I bought it not working for spares for BBB, but got it going for fun, and ended up not minding it at all. My mother (almost 80 years young) loved it when i had it finished, so when space ran short and I wanted to store it, she volunteered her spare room where it gets played by her almost every day. Novices can get a lot out of it because the games are timed (loosing a ball is a goal for the other side) so they can get a full game even if pretty weak at playing. I still recall how proud mum was after a couple of weeks when she got to the point of beating the machine more often than not!

The graphics are amazing, without doubt the best DMD there is. The DMD itself is much larger than normal, and the dots much smaller, so the resolution is much higher, and used to very good effect. Because it is at the back of the playfield under the glass (as copied by Circus Voltaire) you get to see the display during the game so those awesome graphics don't go to waste. It plays pretty fast too when cleaned and polished, the outer loop shots coming back very quickly.

It wasn't a success for Capcom, and probably was the last nail for the pinball division, which otherwise would have produced BBB, so has an interesting place in history too.
“If you wanna escape, go up to a pinball machine. There’s a magic button on the front that takes you to a world under the glass and makes the the rest of the universe disappear.”