From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Re: Ramblings...and a question....
Date: 10 Nov 1992 18:36:17 GMT
Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
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In article <1992Nov6.211736.1@oread.cc.ukans.edu> matthew@oread.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>	Well, I've had a good day!  The residence hall across the
>street from where I live just got in a Bride of Pinbot...and the

Just a personal opinion... This game is rather disappointing.
Specifics follow...

>things that they've done to it!  
>	1. Changing the faces is totally easy; once you get to making
>the Bride "see," all it does is release one ball, so by just sending

just a gimmick. All of the faces did not fit on the playfield, so
they let them rotate... (no good this is for.)

>the ball up the ramp automatically nets you the Metamorphosis, and
>then just releases one ball again!  Makes getting the Big Wheel to
>spin a lot easier (and I got the Billionaire's Club twice and a
>special once...in three individual games).

And this Billion thing is *totally* ridiculous and serves *no*
practical purpose. (Once upon a time scores were be used to compare
the skill of players...)

>	2. Jackpots pile up rather quickly--aren't they built via the pop
>bumpers?  If that's so, then I don't know what's building the jackpot,
>because the pop bumpers on this pin are dead!  I shoot up to them and
>I'm lucky if I get one to fire....

The bumpers located in a box where you can shoot into, listen to them
bumping around for 10-20 secs and wait for the ball to come out... of
course you can not look into that box...  Blechhh...
could have been left out entirely, or (better) relaced by *real* pop
bumpers. (It really doesn't matter if they work on a BoP, or does it??)

>	In addition, does anybody know when Data East is bringing out
>Tales From the Crypt?  I'm wondering what kind of nasty surprises it

Even weaker flippers? :-/

>...
>	Finally, here's a question that I meant to ask a long time
>ago: If one of the big pinball companies announced that they were
>willing to "update" a favorite pin (pre-dot-matrix display, only
>alphanumerics or before), which one would you choose?  I myself,

If they just want to upgrade the display for a dot-matrix, I would
tell them to NOT DO IT in the first place...

Reviving an old theme may be worth the effort (Black Knight 2000) or
may not (Bride of Pinbot) - depending on the outcome ;-)

>loving one pin in the world over all others (though having a deep
>respect for the pins of the '90s), would have to choose Rollergames.
>I can just imagine seeing the team names blazing across the dot-matrix
>display...and what they could do when you shoot a ball up the Jetway

Oh NO! This wonderful game being spoiled by optical gimmicks? I'm
playing PINBALL and looking at the *ball* rather than those fancy
images at the display, as I'm not watching the TV in the arcade too ;-)

>of the Wall of Death!  Makes me get chills....

Just turn the game LOUD, that should suffice even for the Wall...

"GO TO THE WAAAALLL!!!"

olaf
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