From: dhembrow@eoe.co.uk (David Hembrow)
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Re: Weak flipper cures?
Date: 9 Sep 92 11:58:07 GMT
Organization: EO Europe Limited, Cambridge, UK
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michael@uk.ac.oxford.robots (& Stevens) writes:
: In article <715983847snx@klaatu.demon.co.uk> Steve@klaatu.demon.co.uk (Steve Loft) writes:
:    I'd still be interested in hearing anything anyone has to say about
:    Zaccaria pintables, though!
: 
: Hopefully I won't get linched for what I am about to say but here goes
: anyway.
: 	I LIKE ZACCARIA GAMES ...
: 
: Ok they don't have the best art work and look a bit cheap.
: They also tend to rely on one gimic per game. But who cares they were
: still great fun to play.
: 
: Here goes for my personal Zac machine review. I may get a few things
: wrong but put that down to old age.
: 
: 
: Soccer Kings: First Zac game I ever knowingly came across. All I can
: remember was that it had a two level playfield. The top "pitch" was
: perspex and had a flipper to shot at the goal with. The speach was a
: bit naff and kept on repeating the same silly phrase. Anyone remember
: what it said?
: 
: Magic Castle: Ah now this is definately my favourite. Lots of drop
: targets, orange and red specials, and a glorious ramp shot. 
: I remember shoting for "Zaculla" after getting "Zancinstein" etc, to
: open the doors in the back box to reviel what was inside.
: Great gimic, great look.
: 
: Clown: Not bad art work for a Zaccaria, I liked it anyway. Mainly you
: had a clown which was pulled from side to side, everything else I forget.
: 
: Robot: Good game. Five robots (cyclinders with metal man faces painted
: on) poped up out of the playfield. You had to knock them back down
: again to score anything.
: 
: Black belt: This must have been on of the last Zacarria's. I big
: cylindrical roto target it the middle of the playfield was the center
: of most of the action. Just keep on hiting it and a few other karatee
: themed features.
: 
: Aerobatics: I afraid I've never seen it. What does it play like? and whats
: the gimic :-)

Michael, What about the one with the "motor bike spinning in the back
glass" gimick ? That's the only other one I can remember. It used to say
( in a funny voice ) "Faster, faster".
 
: On the technical side, I always found Zacarria machines were very
: reliable on site. They seemed to suffer less from dirt, weakness and
: nigling faults then the Bally's and William's.
: 
: Does Aerobatics have the funny perspex flippers in a colour to match
: the game. I quite liked to look of them until one fateful day one
: exploded on me durring a game of magic castle. Certainly makes the
: game harder when one flipper is just a stub, and bits of perspex fill
: the playfield.
: 
: 
: Finally, on holiday I played a Data East "Laser War". Quite a good
: machine for their first attempt. It all still worked although was
: poorly maintained. Since this is the first one I've ever seen I guess
: they are not too common. Did anyone play it when it first came out?
: 
: Finally (again), I just saw and played my first TAF. They seem very
: had to find here in the UK. So keep all the postings about new machine
: in the US comming, at least that way we can read about them if not
: play.

Still haven't found any machines in Cambridge :-(
 
: --
: Michael Stevens, Robotics Research Group,Dept of Engineering Science,Oxford,UK
: INTERNET: michael@robots.oxford.ac.uk
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