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ndiniz:
(As Lt. Cmdr Data) "I am curious..... have any of you here on Rogue gone though a length of time where you've played a particular pinball machine, decide to take a rest, say, a month or two, and when you come back to the machine, and on your very first try, you get a replay during the game, or a match at the end? The reason why I am asking this, is because I had just experienced this nearly half a day ago"

Pintrepid:

--- Quote from: ndiniz on August 21, 2013, 12:31:16 AM ---(As Lt. Cmdr Data) "I am curious..... have any of you here on Rogue gone though a length of time where you've played a particular pinball machine, decide to take a rest, say, a month or two, and when you come back to the machine, and on your very first try, you get a replay during the game, or a match at the end? The reason why I am asking this, is because I had just experienced this nearly half a day ago"

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Why, yes, my Dear Mr. Data, I used to have that all the time.

I remember when Atari's Middle Earth came to our local game room. It had some very nice electronic sounds to the gameplay in that strange Atari way. But the really weird part about this table was that the flippers were not level. The right flipper was below the left flipper and to the side a bit. At first it looked like that would be an advantage that might potentially save balls from draining. But as it turned out, this had the opposite effect, making the game very frustrating to play. WAY too many THROATkills, as I called it, straight between the flippers!

But then, after several weeks without playing this table, I came back to check it out because I remembered that it had some really cool and unusual sounds to it. This time around, I had a run on the game that lasted for quite some time. As the gameplay kept on going, I expected to lose the ball at any moment, but it kept going on and on. I actually scored enough points to earn a replay on the very first ball!

Oh yes, it's quite interesting, indeed, isn't it, my Dear Mr. Data? One might think these machines have their own personality. They give you freebies and replays like this so you'll fall in love with them all over again and you'll start playing them over and over again, just like before ... but in no time at all they start giving you less and less until they just won't give you anything anymore, no, nothing at all! Sadistic bastards, these tables! Sometimes I think I can hear an electronic snigger or laugh behind the backglass there, really, I do!!

The greatest aggravation I've ever had on a pinball machine was actually on Atari's Middle Earth. I had three balls in a row which all drained in the outlanes without ever giving me a single shot with the flippers! Such a WASTE of a quarter!!! And it was my LAST quarter of the day that day! That was it, that was the last straw ... I never played that table again ...

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ndiniz:
(again, as Lt. Cmdr Data) I completely agree with you Mr. Pintrepid. Some pins are easier to play physically, and on Visual Pinball than others. I must admit that there are some games I'm extremely good at, while there are also others that tend to snarl at me as if they know what my main mission in life is, and they do all they can to prevent it from happening!

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