From: ung@felix.filenet.com (Bill Ung)
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Re: Some Questions and Comments
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:58:32 GMT
Reply-To: ung@fritz.filenet.com (Bill Ung)
Distribution: usa
Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA

In article <1_9m7#+.juggler@netcom.com> juggler@netcom.com (Chris Calande) writes:
|
|Hi, as a recently created pinball addict I wanted to greet this most excellent
|newsgroup.  I was a video maniac but there really hasn't been anything all
|that exciting from videos lately.  Pinball is very fresh to me.  Every ball,
|every  moment, is fun gameplay.  I'm sick to death of script based videos
|where you scroll to the left and dispatch the baddie you just KNOW is going to
|pop out by the door.  I havn't given up on vids, but pinball is so refreshing.

"That's good, you've taken your first step into a larger world." 
					- Obiwan Kenobi, "Star Wars"

|Anyway, as neophyte trying to get my flipping fingers to be "crazy flippin'
|fingers" I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to send me a rule
|sheet for FunHouse and T2.  Those and TAF are my favorites.

I send FunHouse and possibly T2 in the mail.  I'm not sure if I have a T2
rule sheet or not.

|It's weird but I started really playing when I was on the east coast a few
|weeks ago and there the machines were set up to give replays on multiple
|scores.  What I mean was that you would get your first replay at 100 mil, then
|another at 120 mil and another at xxx, etc. Now i'm back on the west coast
|(Moutain View, CA) and I was playing TAF here and got 375 mil (my high game)
|but only got one sticking replay.  Well actually I got 2 because I got to be a
|family member :).  Are most of the games out here set up for only a single
|score achieved replay?

Yep, some places don't give replays at all (rare), like Disneyland.  It's
been like this for a long time, I can't remember a time when I got more than
one replay for score on a pinball game.  On the other hand, vids only give
out free men, no free games (to my knowledge).

|Oh, I read the threads on arcade rugrats and had my first brush with one last
|night.  This kid was truly evil.  I should have known he was going to be
|trouble when I walked into the arcade and saw him lying on the glass of
|Phantom of The Opera and squirming around.

The management should have removed this kid by now.  Most people wouldn't
bother playing a pinball game if they had to remove a kid first.

|Anyway, I begin playing FunHouse
|and this kid (must have only been 5 or 6) drags a little stool up to the side
|of the FunHouse and hops on so that he can reach over the glass.  As I play
|the little bastard starts trying to make me lose the ball by covering the
|glass so that I can't see- all this with an evil grin.

Time to, um, "accidentally", kick the stool out from under him.  Evil grin
optional.

|Meanwhile, he's
|yelling at me as I'm flipping trying to break my concentration.  I was too
|amazed to do much more than tell him to get lost.  I mean you can't
|rationalize with the anti-christ, right?

No, but you can call the management over and tell them to remove the little
pest or they'll never see another quarter from you.  Where the hell was
the management anyway???

|So, he goes away and I heave a sigh of relief.  Then a few moments later I'm
|thinking about that guy that said he has to protect the start button from
|little kids.  My heart skips a beat I look down sure enough my nemesis has his
|hand on the start button.  I reach down like lightning to grab his hand away,

You're forgetting that your legs are stronger and quicker and best of all,
he probably won't see it coming.  Kicking would have been my preferred
move here.

|to no avail he hits it and wastes my game.  Again, I get the evil grin.  I
|just walked away feeling violated.

Time to pick that kid up and walk him over to the counter.  Explain to the
management what has occured and ask them what they plan on doing about it.
I certainly wouldn't stand for it.  If they don't do anything about it,
maybe put the kid on the counter and let him play with their cash register
for a little while.

|Oh, well
|
|Happy flippin'
|
|Scott C. DeFreitas

Welcome to the board!  By the way, include an Email address along with
your post.  It makes it easier to mail you.  From what I can tell, your
address is: juggler@netcom.com ... hope I'm right!

Bill Ung
  ung@filenet.com