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Offline Caveoftreasures

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WHATS THE ANSWER ?
« on: April 01, 2010, 02:21:28 AM »
  !@#   If you had 100 people in a room who had never ever played a pinball machine before, and you wanted them to experience the full experience of what playing a pinball machine was all about, what 3 x machines would you place inside to get them involved so that they might go out and look for a machine to buy, or at least walk away having felt the fun of our hobby.  !@# (lets just assume all machines were accessible for the purposes of purchasing)

What 3 machines would you let 100 virgin players have a go at, so as to provide the very best of what pinball is about and why ?  !@#

my choices are -

teenage mutant ninja turtles - bright colours-eye candy, fun game, not too hard or too easy, fun audio, fun shots, well known theme/characters

indianna jones (original) - great looker, fun to play, lots of depth, great audio and great dot matrix - well known theme

black knight 2000 - best light show on earth, very challenging, fast game, great colours, makes u work to fight the machine- best audio cranked

(fishtales, star trek next gen, simpsons-stern all just missed the cut by inches)  @.@


 
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Re: WHATS THE ANSWER ?
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2010, 08:08:12 AM »
Eight Ball Deluxe
Getaway: High Speed II
Pirates of the Caribbean

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Re: WHATS THE ANSWER ?
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2010, 08:10:04 AM »
start them on Volley, move to Fishtales, then end on LOTR

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Re: WHATS THE ANSWER ?
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2010, 09:59:19 AM »

Spirit of 76
Paragon
Circus Voltaire

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Re: WHATS THE ANSWER ?
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2010, 11:21:41 AM »
Any single level game where the ball doesn't disappear.

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Re: WHATS THE ANSWER ?
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2010, 12:43:57 AM »


AFM

Guns N Roses

Judge Dredd


now start laughing ....  i will take names

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Re: WHATS THE ANSWER ?
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2010, 04:01:54 AM »
A licensed theme
No subway
Automatic shooter lane launcher

Spiderman
Cirqus Voltaire
Batman TDK
Scared Stiff
Fish Tales

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Re: WHATS THE ANSWER ?
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2010, 01:12:40 PM »
Any single level game where the ball doesn't disappear.

X2 I'm with Rod on this one.

Number 1 for me would be Gorgar, great lighting, colours, art, simple, but will cause just enough frustration to make a newbie pissed off enough to push that start button over and over and over again.
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Re: WHATS THE ANSWER ?
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2010, 02:19:05 PM »
Guns N Roses

Monster Bash

& Corvette - Why becuase I'm a petrol head!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: WHATS THE ANSWER ?
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2010, 06:56:21 PM »
I would have to say a High Speed, Black knight 2000 & Adams Family.
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Re: WHATS THE ANSWER ?
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2010, 08:58:25 PM »
EM - KLONDIKE (Hands down
SS - KISS or STRIKES & SPARES or Black Knight or Gorgar or FIREPOWER
DMD - FISH TALES or LOST IN SPACE
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Re: WHATS THE ANSWER ?
« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2010, 11:16:22 PM »
FT has to feature in all circumstances. I do not know a machine that fullfils its objective better than this pin. FT is the bees knees!

Playing it today, and thinking how bloody lucky I am to own such a sweet player  ()

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Re: WHATS THE ANSWER ?
« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2010, 08:29:47 AM »
I'd say give them something familiar with first
SM
IJ
TAF

 

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Re: WHATS THE ANSWER ?
« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2010, 11:39:12 AM »
you will loose their interest with IJ

I so would like to love that pin, but it must be an acquired taste.

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Re: WHATS THE ANSWER ?
« Reply #14 on: April 03, 2010, 10:59:56 PM »
would be nice for more members to add their 3 x pin choices !  *%*    ^^^ ^^^ ^^^
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Beware of Stalkers & Walkers when playing The Walking Dead

My 7yr old son Hunter is my best mate in the world !