More fun and annoyance with Pinball Arcade

Sep 05, 2012 23:57

Having gotten the cash to license Twilight Zone for their pinball-emulation game The Pinball Arcade, Farsight has almost fully funded their second Kickstarter to fund the license for Star Trek: The Next GenerationIt's gone a little slower than the first one, I think in part because it's held in slightly less reverence by pinball fans (though it's ( Read more... )

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jwgh September 6 2012, 19:10:10 UTC
Last night I went ahead and backed the ST:TNG kickstarter and I also finally bought and downloaded Pinball Arcade for the iPad ( ... )

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mmcirvin September 6 2012, 19:21:15 UTC
Yeah, the bundling varies from platform to platform.

On XBox Live Arcade, you pay for the four-table core pack when you buy the game.

On Android, the game is a free download, and all games are sold individually as well as in packs; it doesn't come with any fully unlocked, but there's one rotating "Table of the Month" that you can play for free with ads.

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mmcirvin September 7 2012, 14:34:00 UTC
As for differences from real pinball, the main things people complain about have to do with advanced flipper and nudging techniques ( ... )

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moof September 7 2012, 22:59:10 UTC
I always giggled at "Thank You Mr Data Bonus".

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mmcirvin September 8 2012, 01:23:29 UTC
One evil thing about Star Trek: TNG was that it was one of the few pinball games to have buy-in to continue ("I'm sensing you want to continue!") I didn't even realize this at the time, but apparently you had to buy in twice before it even put you on a separate high-score list.

Anyway, that's something that might be lost in the Pinball Arcade version, because, unlike its predecessor Pinball Hall of Fame, TPA doesn't have any actual concept of credits. The tables are all set to free play, and the replays and specials are set to award extra balls (real pinball machines usually have this last option as an operator setting, but you rarely see it in reality unless you're in some jurisdiction where the gambling laws forbid awarding free games). So I wonder if they're going to do anything with the buy-in feature, and, if so, what.

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mmcirvin September 8 2012, 01:28:42 UTC
..."Thank You Mr. Data" was great, but for some reason the line I always found hilarious was Jonathan Frakes saying "Q! We don't have TIME for your GAMES!" in the most Jonathan Frakesian manner imaginable.

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mmcirvin September 8 2012, 12:23:01 UTC
They just announced that they've got the rights to do both of the Elvira pinballs, "Elvira and the Party Monsters" and "Scared Stiff". Cassandra Peterson is apparently enthusiastic about the project, which made it relatively easy to negotiate.

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ikkyu2 September 11 2012, 17:08:28 UTC
Bride of Pinbot! I really need to get this for my ps3.

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