What do you know about pinball?

[Casper Alabaster]

The real stand-up games that ate up your whole allowance?
If you know about pinball, what's your favorite game?

[Nicole]

1. I know Pinball Wizard

:rofl:

[Casper Alabaster]

4. But have you ever put a quarter into the 1975 game? n/t

:hi:

[alphafemale]

2. One old one had big fan at the front would turn on and blow on you.

That was a '70's game, I think. Tornado or hurricane was the theme.

That was one of the fun ones. I still like finding a good pinball machine standing off in a corner somewhere. The ones where you hear all the relays resetting as it starts up are the best.

[Casper Alabaster]

3. A bunch of games had the fan,

then in the '90s came Earthshaker!! Cool game. It had lots of ramp and bonus, then it's got a crazy kick-ass magnet just out to drain ya.
The '90s Twister game w/ Helen Hunt is probably the last of commercial pinball, and it had the fan and everything.
You're probably thinking of Whirlwind, the game w/ 4 fans on the cabinet?

[alphafemale]

5. Whirlwind. That sounds right.

:hi:

Some of the 90's pinball games were really imaginative, too.

I remember the Jurassic Park one having a T-Rex head that would reach down and "swallow" your ball. It would them for multi-ball play later, if you got to that level.

After awhile though, many of those later games overloaded on the gimmicks and let them get in the way of just being able to play the game.

[Hugin]

6. Black Knight was cool.

I blew my home equity loan on that one. :rofl:

Hmm... Who knew they had an Internet -PINBALL- Database. :shrug:

http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=310

[hfojvt]

12. Does that mean you never heard

"I cannot play you. You have defeated. The. Black. Knight."

Also liked the fact that the machine would laugh at you when you blew the magna save.

[Hugin]

13. I heard it many times...

But, he always came back for more. (NOTE: The preceding is an obscure Monty Python reference.) :D

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. I know I suck at the game.

But I suck at video games and I'm not the best driver in the world either. I suspect there might be a hand-eye issue here.

[Hugin]

9. Cross Dominance?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_dominance

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. Hmmm...never had an optometrist or opthamologist mention it.

I've always chalked it up to being a bit of a klutz. I'm the type that tends to take out my hip rounding the kitchen counter and slam my shoulders into door frames too.

[Cabcere]

8. That deaf, dumb and blind kid's pretty damn good...

Or so I hear. :shrug:

(Yeah, OK, lame & overused. Sorry. :spank: )

[hfojvt]

10. I am a pinball beast

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=5241260

but my picture of the game where I score 1,666,000 is gone :cry:

I used to get a bunch of free games on Taxi, and later I got pretty good at Stargate, Jurassic Park, and "Haunted House" (or something involving skeletons and axes). They were 50 cent machines or 3 games for a dollar. One problem is that they had a sliding scale. The better you got, the more points it would take for a free game. On the last machine, somebody mastered it before I did, so it got too expensive. I like to get 5 or six games for my dollar because I get a few free ones. Although Taxi was more fun sometimes. When you can put in a quarter, play five or six games and walk away with three credits on the machine (or better yet, sell them for a quarter) then you have had a good day. The free game on the computer lacks the thrill of victory.