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Old 18-10-2011, 03:01 PM
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Best ever pinball machine

Peter's thread on Pinball artwork inspired this thread.

Your favourite pinball machine this is my absolute favourite

http://www.pinballrebel.com/game/pin...rs_pinball.htm
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Old 18-10-2011, 04:53 PM
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This was my favourite pinball Warren when I was an impressionable young lad.

What makes me laugh now is those young girls are probably all grandmothers.

And it was only 20 cents a game.

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Old 18-10-2011, 05:09 PM
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Oldie but a goodie
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Old 18-10-2011, 05:16 PM
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WOW! I used to love pinball! The reference to Giegers work brings back some memories, too. His Alien artwork was awesome.

I don't have a fave machine, I just like them all. Used to collect bottles as a kid with my younger brother to get the coin to head up to the fish and chip shop to play pinnies.
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Old 18-10-2011, 05:54 PM
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phantom menace !!!! the last bally pinball ever made,with a shorter style but the dot matrix was removed for an inter active moniter.wow
1977 six million dollar man simple but great fun only 6 player machine!!!!
1979 paragon medi evil nature wide body 4 flipper my favour it !!!
late 90's hook dot matrix display and this machine went of on multi ball wooohooo !!!! wish i still had these machines
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Old 18-10-2011, 06:50 PM
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It's the Dr Who machine!!! Bump off a few daleks and there were balls going everywhere. Don't know how I didn't break the glass when three or four collided.
http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=738&picno=14053
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Old 18-10-2011, 07:27 PM
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I have found a free pinball simulator called Future Pinball that allows you to make your own table the programing is in Visual Basic scripting I have found an unfinished Space Invaders pinball table that is mostly done just needs some polishing.

I don't know if anyone remembers but the classic spaceinvaders bomp bomp music that gets faster as you get further in the game well it is missing and I have not been able to script that so if anyone good at Visual Basic scripting can help me I will send the unfinished table for some help.
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Old 18-10-2011, 07:48 PM
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Go over to vpforums.org there are some scripting gurus over there. I build virtual pinball machines that look like the real deal with 46" led TVA
s for the play field and a 30" monitor for the marquee and another monitor for the DMD display. We fit large solenoids to give the various thumps for tactile feedback, and you end up with a very realistic table that can play almost any pinball ever released. It is a lot of fun, and great to revisit those old tables.
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Old 18-10-2011, 07:51 PM
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Like this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRoYs...e_gdata_player
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Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I spent alot of time on this one. I even played it during a ferry crossing of Bass Strait. The roll and pitch of the ship allowed me to get shots I could never normally get


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I have fond memories of the Kiss pinball machine at the Nelson Bay Arcade back in the early 80's.
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Old 19-10-2011, 06:36 PM
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I have found a free pinball simulator called Future Pinball that allows you to make your own table the programing is in Visual Basic scripting I have found an unfinished Space Invaders pinball table that is mostly done just needs some polishing.

I don't know if anyone remembers but the classic spaceinvaders bomp bomp music that gets faster as you get further in the game well it is missing and I have not been able to script that so if anyone good at Visual Basic scripting can help me I will send the unfinished table for some help.
Have you tried the visual pinball version of space invaders?
http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5978
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Old 19-10-2011, 06:43 PM
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Have you tried the visual pinball version of space invaders?
http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5978
I didn't know of it but I will now
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Old 19-10-2011, 07:29 PM
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Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I spent alot of time on this one. I even played it during a ferry crossing of Bass Strait. The roll and pitch of the ship allowed me to get shots I could never normally get


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I bought one of these =)
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Old 19-10-2011, 08:17 PM
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I used to love the 'Playboy' one as above, but I think my favourite was 'Firepower'. It was around in 1980-81, and used to speak! It used to say, "Fire Power" in a deep menacing voice.

I actually prefered the video games of the day:
Spaceys of course
Galaxians
Galaga
Stratovox
but my favourite of all was "Pleiades"

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Old 19-10-2011, 09:56 PM
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I recently bought Pinball HD and it is really good. I would love to have real one in my house, but this will have to wait.
If you love pinball machines LOOK AT THIS
http://toucharcade.com/2011/08/19/da...s-magnificent/
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Old 20-10-2011, 09:32 AM
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Let me know what you think, I'm friends with 'Uncle Willy' who designed that table, and we are always after constructive feedback.
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