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TimK2003:
I can't even remember the last time I played a real pinball machine. I have the Far Sight Pinball Arcade and the Zen Studios Williams Pinball apps on my phone, which have some of the classic games. The apps play like the real thing, except it's all hand-held. Lord knows I dropped enough quarters in the real machines back in the day!
Glad to see pins coming back, albeit with all the newer technology. When we visit the Midwest later this summer, we plan on hitting one of the worlds largest Pinball arcades just outside of Youngstown, OH.
carlisle96:
--- Quote from: TimK2003 on April 26, 2025, 03:38:04 PM ---I can't even remember the last time I played a real pinball machine. I have the Far Sight Pinball Arcade and the Zen Studios Williams Pinball apps on my phone, which have some of the classic games. The apps play like the real thing, except it's all hand-held. Lord knows I dropped enough quarters in the real machines back in the day!
Glad to see pins coming back, albeit with all the newer technology. When we visit the Midwest later this summer, we plan on hitting one of the worlds largest Pinball arcades just outside of Youngstown, OH.
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If anyone visits the Museum of Play in Rochester to check out the game show exhibits, there's a about two dozen traditional pinball machines set up and ready. A fan can play pinball for hours.
Bob Zager:
The new, forthcoming game show, "The Perfect Line," is apparently "based" on a forthcoming board to be called "Figment," from CMYK.
A description of the gameplay goes like this: "Each card features unique art using the same four colors: your goal is to line them up in a row so each card has more of one color than the card before it. Figment is a mindbending game of visual perception." So no surprise of the difference in actual play.
Over the weekend I was in an updated version of Dollar Tree, and among stuff in the toy/game aisle were these small game tin versions of games like Sorry, Guess Who, etc. They were primarily branded "Hasbro," but on the reverse side of box was mention w/logo, Just Play Products! I wonder if this is a prelude to WOF and PCJ! card games, and maybe those, too, will be in tins.
The price on the games mentioned above were $3 each, BTW.
clemon79:
--- Quote from: Neumms on April 18, 2025, 05:50:15 PM ---Hold on…you built a pinball machine? Wow! Do you have photos here or somewhere on the internets?
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Yeah, a little over a year ago I built a virtual cabinet. Lemme see if I can post a couple pictures.
https://i.imgur.com/2SxCocF.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/KOeIoZj.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/MetF67W.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/F6sZzRb.jpeg
clemon79:
--- Quote from: cliffhanger285 on April 26, 2025, 02:51:35 PM ---About 10 years ago I went to a pinball convention that had a couple of these, they were pretty impressive. Included a full-color dot matrix display and a knocker in the backbox. Even had haptic feedback anytime a bumper was hit or the ball was launched.
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Mine doesn't have the knocker (I hate them), but it does have surround-sound feedback (one form of the haptic feedback you're talking about) so I let that handle the knocker effect.
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