Playing Pinball What's your personal objective/goal?

[spacejam0]

This probably doesn't work for DMD machines that already have heaps of rules/odjectives but I find that with EM/SS machines I always set my own goal for each machine. This really only applies when I'm playing alone and not trying to beat someone else's score.
Here are 3 examples and in each case if I play a game on any of these machines I have to keep playing until my goal has been achieved. When I get on a bad run it has made for many a late night. I have never broken my rule but when it starts getting late I have been known to cheat and start a new game if I get a bad first ball.
1- Flash. Minimum  score of 250,000.
2-Firepower. Multiball.
3-Gorgar. Extra ball.
Anyone else do anything like this and if so let's hear them.

[pinball god]

My only objective is to not get caught playing pinball when I'm supposed to be mowing the lawns etc.

[Retropin]

My 1951 Bingo Bango is a 5 ball game and its imperative you get a good first ball as you have to have achieved a couple of features and then lose a few balls to get the PF to light up with specials etc. You require at least 1 preferably, 2 balls to hit that centre target!

My youngest game is 1980 so its always my aim is always to get the free game or extra ball... ha ha - that's as far as the code goes but its rare I get there!

[Caveoftreasures]

If I can play a game and learn a new cool shot or a new mission or hear a new callout I haven't heard before or see something new on a Dmd animation, then that is really fun & educational.

My main aim when playing a pinball is to relax, enjoy the designers gift of creativity and feel proud of the great pinballs I have bought because of hard work & creativity.
Self employed business people can see the brilliance in companies like Stern.
One creative thought ends up running a whole industry of pinball fun for the world.
The positivity of pinball design and its end results is what I like most about these great looking machines.
Just have fun & positivity with it all. I hate negativity in pinball.
They are polar opposites & don't belong together.

Sharing the fun of pinball with others is also very rewarding.

[oldskool1969]

Clock my Surf Champ or infact any EM
Complete the second lane rollover mode on WNBJM
Get at least one letter on RBION
ALWAYS go for the skillshot on any game.
Score island treasure on GI 50,000,000

[Strangeways]

My aim is escapism and to go back in time. I remember that first game - where was the game first played and what was my first memory.

Every time I play a machine, I don't care for the score, the bonus or the achievement. Of course you want a good score, but I have never played a machine with the sole intention of beating the high score. I play machines to forget about "life issues".

I think sometimes time stands still while playing pinball. It is far more important to me to see the machine as a form of escapism. Nothing else in life provides this pleasure.

[pinnies4me]

I play mostly to enter that little universe under the glass away from the one in my sig line.

[Pop Bumper Pete]

Let off steam

[pinsanity]

Salvation.

[goodolddays]

For me its both an escape back in time and trying to clock my games .. EXCEPT my youngest , CFTBL .

On that one I am still trying to control the ball (ie slow it down LOL) and learn more of the ruleset (its 21 pages !)