/vr/ - Retro Games

This is the only pinball machine I can remember playing, most memorable thing was the music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0ifZv940Io

There are literally only a handful of pinball machines where I've lived for the last 25 years so I haven't really played anything recent. I guess Black Knight. The magnet thing was cool.

My personal favorite is X-Files, with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein coming in a close second.

Yet, I've never played these games on an actual machine, and I'm still pissed about that. The one shot I had was to play a Frankenstein at PAPA, but when I was there, the game was in the shop for maintenance.

You only have to ask yourself one question:
Do you feel lucky?
Well do you, punk?

>>1200402
Had to stop watching because he kept moaning about the loss of the first ball.

There's this one pinball machine they have at this local restaurant that just basically shits out continues. I put a quarter in it and an hour later I had 13 continues still on that same quarter. I eventually just gave up and left it since it would not let me lose.

Never got such a value out of one of them before, damn.

Austin has Pinballz, and holy shit I am spoiled rotten.

Lord Of The Rings
Dracula
Cyclone

Sup /vr/. What is the best way to play Duke Nukem 3D? The two most common answers I hear are EDuke32 or DOSbox. WHat do you guys think?

>>1201556
motherfuck, I hate when this shit happens. Deleting soon.

>>1201505

Honestly, I couldn't get beyond him saying focusing on multiball is the better strategy compared to the Mansion. That's just hogwash. When I'm having a good game, I can Tour The Mansion once every two games, and get two extra balls from the process. In my best game, I toured five times and scored two billion. Trying to get something like that from multiball is very risky and often doesn't work out due to innate risk factors such as the Power.

I live in Miami and Arcade Odyssey is the only real arcade left besides Final Round and Final Round is ass.

Anyways, they rotate pinball machines every now and then barring a few mainstays like Terminator 2, South Park and Star Wars pinball/The Simpsons. Sometimes they'll bring in new ones like Tron, Transformers and stuff and the machines are all set to five balls for two tokens. Shit's rad, man. I love it.

A reminder that the Timeshock! remake looks gorgeous.

>>1201376
I remember X-Files pinball machines were being advertised in a Neiman Marcus christmas catalog several years ago for like 1200. Still kinda kicking myself for not nabbing one at that price.

>>1202508
I had an X-Files pinball machine for a few years, bought it for a couple hundred around 2003. I only ever reached wizard mode a couple of times.

Pin*Bot is still GOAT.

>>1202576

>I only ever reached wizard mode a couple of times.

For a few years of ownership, that sounds pretty low. I'd wager you'd have a game like X-Files mastered after about a year - but then again, the only rulesheet on the IPDB gets several things about the game just dead wrong, so maybe it's a lot tougher IRL than it is in Visual Pinball. I believe it took me about 10 hours of playing in VP until I reached Blood for the first time, and from then on, I was able to make it about once every five games, although never twice in one game.

Also, Blood ranks up there with the Ultimate Challenge of Champion Pub, Lost In The Zone of Twilight Zone and the World Cup Finals of World Cup Soccer as one of the best wizard modes of all time. A frantic multi-ball mode with loads of scoring is the best wizard mode IMO.

>>1202595
I'm not really that great at pinball to begin with. X-Files is fairly generous, it's hard to lose your ball, but I found the ramps to be very tight and it was difficult to light FBI and start multiple cases. Also my table's filing cabinet didn't work properly, it would raise and lower whenever it was scripted to but hitting it with the ball didn't register anything, so I was missing out on the primary table mechanic.

I've played the VP version of X-Files, I can attest it is extremely accurate, hitting the ramps feels identical to the real thing. Blood also has an awesome theme.
http://youtu.be/X--6muJSoPA

KILL EM ALL

>>1200402

I loved how the flippers would sometimes automatically flip by themselves in time to the finger snaps of the theme song.

Favorite game of all time is funhouse. I am lucky enough to own 7 pins, and babysitting 2 for a friend right now.

Pic related, 4 of my 7.

Sadly there is no pinball machines in my small town, except for a half-dead High Speed 2 in a creepy bar.

So I must content myself with Pinball Arcade (its pretty good, though of course, no where near as fun as the real thing) while wistfully planning a trip to a nearby pinball museum a few hours away once in a while.

>>1202620

>tfw my Youtube channel has become the #1 stop for pinball music

I really have to get around to updating that again some day.

Anyway, yeah, the big thing with X-Files is the two ramps. Right starts cases, which leads to Blood, left lights an extra ball, which is of course the best thing ever in any pinball. If you can't master those shots, you're not getting anywhere.

>>1202869

I know your pain. The closest thing I have is a bowling alley about 30 minutes out with a Terminator 2 - well, the closest thing I used to have, anyway, ever since the fucking thing completely broke down and they just seem to completely refuse to repair it, the lazy cunts. Haven't played a real pinball in months now.

>>1202869

Is there a way to pirate this? I don't wanna pay that much money to play this but I really really like it! it beats the shit out of pinball fx2!

>>1203115

Probably not easily, you need to have an account to purchase the tables.

And hey, $30 for 21 tables (most some of the best on the user-voted top 100) is a heck of a deal IMO. Thats like a buck fifty a table, or how much it'd cost for 2-3 plays on a real version of that table.

Wait for a steam sale if you're gonna be a cheap bastard.

Whirlwind was in my local bowling alley for the longest time, i fell in love with that table when i was younger. The only other pinball table i played a lot was the Street Fighter 2 table that is currently still in great condition at a local laundromat.

i know is not strictly /vr/ related but what do you guys think about Zen Pinball/Pinball FX ?

>>1203115
check the pb for the android version, it comes complete

Been finding pinball all over now that I actively look. Too many garbage Stern pins about though.

I used to play quite a bit when I was younger, but arcades have gone the way of the dinosaur around here so all I get is video game pinball, which sucks.

>>1203813

the metallica cab is amazing. but that one is the cheapest one i think. at least i don't see the hammer in the center of the table due to the reflections

So what do you prefer? Targetted shots onto specific areas or LOOPS, RAMPS AND SPEED?

>>1204626

I prefer a good mixture really.

The most boring though are "SHOOT THIS SAME RAMP REPEATEDLY" which is why some of the Pinball FX tables just frustrate me.

>>1205506

But what about real tables that you've played in real life or in VP or The Pinball Arcade?

>>1206609

I meant real life tables too. Though I do admit I'm quite terrible at "shoot this target/ramp only hittable by an upper playfield flipper". Doesn't mean I don't like seeing them though.

>play Medieval Madness on Pinball Arcade
>activate 3 multiballs at once

JOUST. CATAPULT. DAMSEL. MULTIBALL MADNESS

Well i'll say it, this table is aptly named.

Hell yeah I play pinball when given the chance. Have all the content for pinball arcade and am lucky enough to have an actual arcade within walking distance from my apartment.

http://www.msamuse.com/

My current favorite at the arcade is Viper Night Driven'

Shoot for the magic trunk!!

I want one of these in my house

>>1209397

That is not even all the multiballs you can have running at once.

JOUST. CATAPULT. DAMSEL. PEASANT. TROLL. MULTIBALL MADNESS!

I might even be forgetting one.

>>1200384
I love pinball but its hard to find ones in places that aren't just left to rot and fall apart. I honestly don't mind Stern stuff.

>pic related
>used to spend $10 a week on elvis.

When I have a gaming room setup, I really want a few old pinball machines and arcade machines that I used to play as a kid.

>>1210829
picture could help

>>1210756
Getting 'em all at once is FUCKING CRAZY. Madness indeed. I love it.