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Favourite pinball moments?
- Thread starter PinballNoobie
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I'm borrowing a BSD at the moment and still chasing that triple stack. "A few games" on it last night turned into hours of resetting trying to get all three going, getting so close, and having "one more game". One game I was really nailing the left ramp and getting it all ready ball 1, before realising the right ramp switch had stopped working and I couldn't get any coffin locks 
For something I've actually achieved: destroying the ring on LOTR is hype!
For something I've actually achieved: destroying the ring on LOTR is hype!
My favourite pinball moments are usually related to seeing something novel or different for the first time.
Playing F14, having previously had Ballys Harley Davison in the Uni Halls games room. The sound, the lights, beacons, kickback were all immense. Still a great game today.
Playing T2. Seeing a DMD for the first time ever and then playing the video mode was fantastic, add on to that the gun handle, timed skull lock and hitting the Super Jackpot - brilliant, although the game does feel extremely dated today.
Playing TZ and getting to the upper playfield to Battle the Zone, how does the ball move without flippers - was crazy to think that it was just magnets able to move the ball, but still 30 odd years on I've no idea how to aim while up there.
Completing the scared stiff when the flippers and lights go crazy - I genuinely thought I'd broken something.
From a personal point of view, memories that really stick out are:
Getting 1 billion on ANY machine for the first time - I did it on Indiana Jones.
Winning the League in my first full year and realising that I was actually quite decent and measured up to other people's standards.
Winning a National comp for the first time, against all the top UK players
Winning the UK Open Classic against all the top UK players, as well as some of the best players from across Europe and the US.
Being inducted into the UK Pinball Hall of Fame - actually realising that there was some recognition for the amount of time and effort I'd put in to try and better the pinball scene in the UK.
Playing F14, having previously had Ballys Harley Davison in the Uni Halls games room. The sound, the lights, beacons, kickback were all immense. Still a great game today.
Playing T2. Seeing a DMD for the first time ever and then playing the video mode was fantastic, add on to that the gun handle, timed skull lock and hitting the Super Jackpot - brilliant, although the game does feel extremely dated today.
Playing TZ and getting to the upper playfield to Battle the Zone, how does the ball move without flippers - was crazy to think that it was just magnets able to move the ball, but still 30 odd years on I've no idea how to aim while up there.
Completing the scared stiff when the flippers and lights go crazy - I genuinely thought I'd broken something.
From a personal point of view, memories that really stick out are:
Getting 1 billion on ANY machine for the first time - I did it on Indiana Jones.
Winning the League in my first full year and realising that I was actually quite decent and measured up to other people's standards.
Winning a National comp for the first time, against all the top UK players
Winning the UK Open Classic against all the top UK players, as well as some of the best players from across Europe and the US.
Being inducted into the UK Pinball Hall of Fame - actually realising that there was some recognition for the amount of time and effort I'd put in to try and better the pinball scene in the UK.
It’s different on every TZ but I have a good feel for mine now after owning it many years. Controlled and precise use of the magnet(s) is key. The trick is when the ball is in the right position ….just above the magnet ….a quick jab of the magnet will send the ball on to the lower rubber , bouncing off and up towards the sinkhole. I find off the right magnet seems to work more often on mine but from either side is possible.
The worst thing to do is just flail on the magnets , you might fluke it but more than likely not.
gnarled112
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Yes sir!
That spinning pizza grabbing the balls and getting FAST is amazing.
A personal one, but hitting Big Bang and Purple Rain starting to play on Bally Partyzone is cool.
Also the first time TAF did Thing Flips and put the ball in the swamp for me. I thought it was a random flip that got lucky but then it did it again! Amazing that we haven’t seen that on many more machines over the years.
It would have been nice for the SIM card shot on my DI!
It would have been nice for the SIM card shot on my DI!
My first 'wow' moment was the first time I played BK2000 and got the RANSOM award.
Favourite has to be Demolition Time on DM. Also love Ambush multiball on Alien - "They Cut the Power!"
Favourite has to be Demolition Time on DM. Also love Ambush multiball on Alien - "They Cut the Power!"
Condition Green multiball on Space Station is a great moment / the entire playfield suddenly bathed in green light !
Stranger Things pulls the same stunt when the Upside Down kicks in , albeit with the UV extra artwork angle.
Stranger Things pulls the same stunt when the Upside Down kicks in , albeit with the UV extra artwork angle.
Ashbo
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Of the pins I've played, which isn't many...
The chimes during Time Machine, ace
Pop bumpers bombing huts on Special Force
The music on BK2000, so addictive
And I know it's cheesy, watching someone new to pinball get it.
The chimes during Time Machine, ace
Pop bumpers bombing huts on Special Force
The music on BK2000, so addictive
And I know it's cheesy, watching someone new to pinball get it.
metamorphosis on Bride of Pinbot, awesome speech / display and lighting effect
I always thought the ‘juggling’ of the locked balls on rollergames was cool,for some reason.
The reason is simple ….Rollergames *IS* cool
For me it’s Spinning the ball around the cup on diner and getting max points ! And doing my first proper pinball repair on my Victor ,which was to unsoldering a saucer coil wire and scraping off the insulation to bare wire and solder back together again.
Pinball moments:-
- The sequence and lead up to the ball being thrown into the trunk with all the flashing lights etc on Houdini.
- Multiball on Red and Ted....not a country and western music fan as a rule but that's a tune and get me in the mood for some Multiball action!!
- All the toys in WOZ.
Personal moment,:-
My first competition at Pinball Republic.
Got a lift down from @MajesticPinball expecting to do nothing as I am famously a poor player.
First game, smashed it and came and easy first against some high ranked players on (I think) Infinity Quest.....may be wrong...it was all a big of a blur.
Got a huge round of applause and had some members of the club thinking 'who is handsome stranger'.......he seems like a bit of a threat
Went on to lose almost every game after that and came something like 46th out of about 50.... and the balance of the universe was restored
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- The sequence and lead up to the ball being thrown into the trunk with all the flashing lights etc on Houdini.
- Multiball on Red and Ted....not a country and western music fan as a rule but that's a tune and get me in the mood for some Multiball action!!
- All the toys in WOZ.
Personal moment,:-
My first competition at Pinball Republic.
Got a lift down from @MajesticPinball expecting to do nothing as I am famously a poor player.
First game, smashed it and came and easy first against some high ranked players on (I think) Infinity Quest.....may be wrong...it was all a big of a blur.
Got a huge round of applause and had some members of the club thinking 'who is handsome stranger'.......he seems like a bit of a threat
Went on to lose almost every game after that and came something like 46th out of about 50.... and the balance of the universe was restored
.
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See Ivan, you just can’t make your mind upThe reason is simple ….Rollergames *IS* cool