From: phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu (Phaedrus)
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Re: Thrice! Well done!
Date: 7 Apr 92 03:13:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Apr7.031322.1956
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


     The maintainer of the voices list is gonna *love* this; I've come across
a couple of ROM-dependent wrinkles.  For machines with older ROMs, the list is
more or less correct (though I did remember one more quote: "Rest in peace,"
when you finally run out of credits and games); for machines with newer ROMs,
the "It, old man!" or "This old man!" (whichever it is; I can't tell) is said
during the replay and special animation, and there's no quote at all for
tilting.  (Perhaps the Williams folks decided that saying "Heh, heh, heh,
you're a funny guy" to a female who just tilted was adding insult to injury.)
Also, as I mentioned earlier, on the new ROM machines the "Who says you can't
take it with you?" quote is said at the end of any ball you score 20M+ bonus
on, whereas on the older machines you have to not score an extra ball on that
ball to hear this.
     A few other differences I noticed between the older and newer ROMs:
     There is a sound and animation sequence of a gravestone whenever you light
all five G-R-A-V-E lights (you also score 2M the first time on a ball, 3M the
second time, etc.; I've never noticed whether or not this scoring is present
on the older ROMs too).  Older ROMs just flash the G-R-A-V-E lights like crazy.
     On the old ROMs, Fester's Tunnel Hunt looks a lot like Seance in terms of
screen display.  On the newer ROMs, there's an animation sequence for this too;
we see a basement or something with a door, a trapdoor and a staircase to look
in, with Fester poking his head in and out, and a moneybag appearing when you
shoot one of the tunnels.
     On the old ROMs, the T-H-I-N-G lights just blink alternately during the
first half of the Thing scoring sequence, and any points you score from stars
appear in your score just before it freezes to start the animation.  On the
new ROMs, the T-H-I-N-G lights do a sort of quick scroll to the right for the
first half of the scoring sequence (then they blink the same way as the old
ROMs do for the second half), and the points for the stars don't appear in your
score until after the animation sequence is over.
     On the old ROMs, the Multiball scoring display (with your score, the
jackpot amount, and "BOOKCASE ADVANCES JACKPOT") just blinks onto the display;
on the new ROMs, there's a nifty sides-to-center wipe effect that brings it in.
     On the old ROMs, during the high score entry sequence, the left and right
flipper buttons don't make any noise; on the new ROMs, they make the Thing
snapping sound.

In article <#01ttw#@rpi.edu> sigma@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Kevin Martin) writes:
>Am I the only one who has heard the following?  If you do really poorly on
>an entire game, like < 5 million, and don't match, Gomez sometimes says
>"Best two out of three?"

     Of course not.  Do you think anyone on this newsgroup would do that? :)

>Is there a special quote for the second Dirty Pool?  Are there third quotes
>for GREED and such?

     I don't know about the second Dirty Pool; I've never scored more than one
during a game.  The third quote for G-R-E-E-D is "Greeeeeed!", the same as the
first quote.  I've never heard the fourth quote.

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