/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7987593
we have them pretty frequently, there doesn't need to be one on the board at all times. That's how you generate cancerous communities with incestuous discords.

Anyway, digital pinball is the tits too. Check out Flipnic. Japan Studio developed, Capcom published (in the US)

>>7987607
My first pinball video games were Epic Pinball and Sonic Spinball. Space Cadet was much less appealing than Epic.
I've been playing some more recent ones again on PC and phone, after going to some arcades for the first time since 2019. Friends think I'm a wizard just because I can destroy one or two castles.

>>7987593
>sticker collectors
what did he mean by this

Simply didn't grow up with it is all. Couldn't find them in public, family friendly places when I was a child, only seedy pubs and gambling halls. Same went for arcade cabinets actually because some dickhead in the federal government in the late '70s or so decided that putting a coin into a gaming machine is the same as gambling and therefore needs to be limited to adults.

>>7987648
>arcades are banned for kids
what country

>>7987651
Three guesses but you'll probably be right the first time.

Germany

>>7987593
Pinball tables are not easy to coomlect, so all there is to do is actually play the game, and "'retro' 'gamers'" hate doing that, and it also requires going somewhere, which most don't like to do.

Maybe if you shilled the standalone digitals, which coomlectors can afford, they'd be interested.

>>7987593
Fuck you i love pinball

>>7987746
Do you have a favorite table?

>>7987593
Threads used to last longer up to two weeks before the rule change

Can I be gud without nudging?

>>7987593
They happen on occasion, but pinball isn't that widely accessible these days, so I guess people aren't as exposed to it or interested in it (and then you have fag countries like mine, where they're borderline banned). There is emulation of pinball, but I don't think there's a lot of awareness of it. It's a shame, but I think a greater interest in it isn't out of the question, a lot of people remember Space Cadet Pinball pretty fondly.

Possibly old carnival/arcade stuff like airhockey and what not could be tucked into a pinball thread like a kind of Electromechanical Game General, though I'm not sure it could keep itself sustained regularly. Come to think of it though, on some boards you do have some generals which just kind of show up occasionally, and usually they're far nicer than the ones which beat themselves to death.

>>7987607
>That's how you generate cancerous communities with incestuous discords.
On fast boards like /vg/, maybe, where people post just for the sake of posting, not because they have anything left to talk about.

>>7987651
Sweden regulates pinball tables and arcade machines like it's gambling, so when I was growing up, it was very rare to find them in public. There's a lot of really gay countries out there.

WTFrick I wouldn't have started this thread had I known there would be so much homophobia

>>7987756
Liar.

>>7987756
Not from what I recall, maybe during really slow periods.

>>7987756
Is it exceptionally easy to lose balls in that game? Three balls last me 20 minutes on most tables.

>>7987593
Pinball 2000 owner here, both tables and prism card, dedicated Revenge from Mars and partial cabinet art for Star Wars Ep 1. I don't play it because the steel ball wrecks the plastics on the playfield. Regretfully sold the Indiana Jones years ago.

Preservation effort: 10/10

>>7987593
See >>7987756, I used to make threads that would last for weeks, but then the rules changed and the board became too fast for pinball threads to survive.

>>7987858
Well it's a widebody, the gap between the flippers is slightly larger.

>>7987593
theres a regular pinball thread you tard.

Pinball is all luck. It's why no-skill shitters like it so much.

>>7987756
>$5 = 3 Games
>$2 = 1 Game
Fellow Ausbro?
Sydney lockdown, can't even go in a pub for a beer let alone play some pinball...

>>7987858
Twilight Zone can be a difficult table if you're not used to the layout and the shots, and compared to modern Sterns there's no ball saver so if you drain the ball within your first minute there's no getting it back.

>>7988037
4ailchan is actually more strict than reddit. On r/retrogaming, this unapproved opinion would only result in the loss of a few worthless points.

>>7987858
all of the shots you need to make (both ramps, piano, lock, right orbit) are pretty safe. the camera makes a great bail-out shot. as long as you aren't missing your shots, you aren't in a lot of danger. on the other hand, the bottom lanes are shallow and slope outwards, making it very easy to lose a ball that goes towards an outlane, and the bumpers are more often than not responsible for that behavior. try to avoid them

also yeah the audience for pinball is a lot smaller than the audience for nu-/vr/ games. it takes a while for people to find these threads and reply; threads in the months before the rules change would usually survive until the 2-week bump limit because /vr/ was dead as shit but they get pushed off by new threads pretty frequently these days. enjoy them if you see them

What if pinball but good?

>>7987756
> $5 for 3 games
this is why businesses are dead and dying in australia. people are tired of being jewed by fucking jews.
>>7988104
>Sydney lockdown, can't even go in a pub for a beer let alone play some pinball...
your state government is run by fucking retards. you'll never leave lockdown. greetings from south australia.

>>7987593
>Why does this board almost never have pinball threads?
pinball should have been on /asp/

>>7987593
Because no one gives a fuck..? You want us to make treads about thing which no one cares about for the sake of it?

>>7988729
>>7988741
>>7988751
Why even bother posting at all

>>7988758
autism

>>7988758
Because we are trapped using this website and posting about things which interest us gives us slight enjoyment? Are you mentally handicapped?

>>7988769
>interest us
>slight enjoyment
The 3 posts highlighted aren't on topic and low effort shitposting. Neck yourself.

>>7988778
I was first answering OP's question about why there are few threads about this topic; then answering you. Kill yourself.

>the bar I often go to is going to rotate flipper
>try to bully the local operator to put Indiana Jones as a replacement (he has it)
>replaced by Rollercoaster Tycoon
>mfw

Don't know shit about real pinball but always liked the nintendo game. Still play it sometimes on my phone.

>>7988998
all of lawlor's games from the 00's stern era are so close to being good but fall short in places that would've been so easy to fix. still, even though it isn't indiana jones, rollercoaster tycoon isn't terrible for on-location play

I'm a zoomer but I found a torrent of Pinball FX3 with all the tables and I'm hooked now. My favorite so far has been pic related.

anybody played Mandalorian yet? my pinball place just got it. it has a bunch of extra modes including co-op which i've never seen on another table

>>7989608
I played it a little. The pinball bar here has a pair of them. I didn't do well because I forgot to read the rules again before playing some Williams tables.

>>7989608
I think jurassic park may have had some of those. I'm expecting them to be standard with each new game they make

>>7989620
mandalorian is pretty simple rules-wise which makes it pretty closely comparable to a 90's williams game ironically, except it still has the patented modern stern "stack everything in the game or else you don't get any points" so it kind of sucks. shoot center ramp repeatedly to start multiballs, shoot l+r ramps to light missions at the scoop, shoot left ramp to light mini playfield encounters. do all 3 enough times to complete the inserts in the middle of the playfield for wizard modes. orange (hunter?) targets give you money that you can spend on dumb shit at the foundry. playfield multipliers come from completing a hunt, the boba fett targets, and scope shot (targets next to right ramp). that's basically it. it's a better effort than stranger things was so good going brian eddy you're not as washed up as previously thought

>>7989543
won my first money match on cirqus so it forever has a special place in my heart

>>7987593
People here complain about the price of <$100 games so there’s no way they could afford pinball machines hence the lack of threads

>he needs to stop the ball completely before every shot

>>7987756
First table I ever got wizard mode in, granted that was in Pinball Arcade on my fucking phone, but I'll take it.

>>7990412
>not adding dramatic tension before a high risk, big reward shot
>not showing off your steel nerves to your flabbergasted friends

>>7987593
>Why does this board almost never have pinball threads?
there were plenty of pinball-threads before /vr/ was ruined last year.

>Bar I used to frequent is now a 1.5 hour drive away from me
Didnt know what I had until I lost it

>>7990794
Find a new one?

https://pinballmap.com/

Nudging is cheating. You are bad at pinball and sexually frustrated if you need to nudge.

>>7990873
b8

>>7990873
i slam tilted a machine the other day. it was a little embarrassing

>>7990873
>he doesn't playfully slap his GF during sex
Do you identify as a lesbian?

>>7990873
>an essential skill in being good at pinball is cheating
Casual.

>>7991451
My bf slaps me when I fuck his vagina

>>7991392
I slam tilted your mom the other day
IN MY EMULATOR
God help us

It's not cheating to bring your own neodymium magnets to manipulate the game.

>>7987646
I've never heard that term before, but I think I know what it means. The only rare thing about a cartridge is the sticker, so people who collect carts are actually collecting stickers.

>>7987835
I would say you can be good or good-ish. I don't nudge that much and sometimes do okay.

With that said, slap saves are not hard to learn.
Slap the left side of the machine, catch the ball on the tip of the left flipper.

How to find pinball and pinball tournaments in your area:
US, Canada, Australia, Japan, Finland, London
https://pinballmap.com/
Worldwide:
https://pinside.com/pinball/map
Europe:
https://findapinball.com/en/

Tournaments:
Depending on where you live, there may be a facebook group for players in your area.
You can also find tournaments near you here:
https://www.ifpapinball.com/calendar/

Pinball Simulators that will give you a free virtual pin or two as a sample:
Pinball Fx 3 (Sorcerer's Lair, Fish Tales)
Zaccaria (Time Machine)
Pinball Arcade (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)
Stern Pinball Arcade (Also Frankenstein)
There's also Visual Pinball, which is a freeware pinball simulator.

How to become Good at Pinball (wholly optional):
https://www.deadflip.com/tutorials/ (techniques in gif form)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-WQLGFMr97DnxeE1Rmi-wAwa-Vm7D-7i

>>7987593
Maybe, maaaayyybe because THEY'RE NOT FUCKING VIDEO GAMES!

>>7993012
Many have video components.

>>7992959
glad you're still here pastebin bro

>*blocks your path*

Pinball is not fucking video games whoever reported me is a fucking queer and whoever warned me needs to quit their JOB BECAUSE PINBALL IS NOT A FUCKING VIDEO GAME!

>>7993073
For me it's the gofers.

>>7993073
I hate these fuckers like you wouldn't believe

>>7993503
Just don't aim directly for them

>>7993056
I really dislike that 4chan removed the ability to search every board at once. Now you can only search one board per search. I used to search "pinball" and find pinball threads and such. Fucking sucks.

>>7994792
What other boards would be talking about it

>>7994792
Neato! I lost at that one recently and then destroyed some castles instead of dropping another whole dollar on it

>>7994801
Many different boards.
But there are a lot of pinball machines based on movies, so /tv/.
And also /v/.

>>7987593
I once walked into an arcade where they had like 10 of these bad boys lined up for tournament play. It was badass.

El Dorado is a great EM. It's not just about long ball times, you have hit lit drop targets above all else. The inserts really matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=204&v=nirysONu22A&feature=emb_title

>>7994849
I can do that every day at some places here :-)

VARKON. Familiarize yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyOq1ngehHM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HPn3CEyRVE

>>7994837
That's an impressive haircut, even for an attention whore.

>>7995379
Looks great.

>>7994949
I just don't "get" the EM pinballs, it's just so void and boring to me... but hey I'm the modeman.

>>7995661
A modern pinball machine has many ideas in it. An EM only has one or sometimes two. Often times an EM is bad because the idea is bad, but if the idea is good, then the single-mindedness of the game can be appealing.
Sometimes the idea behind an EM is something that probably wouldn’t be found in a modern game, because it’s an idea that doesn’t leave room for other ideas. For instance, the big kick out holes on Sing Along/Melody.

In some cases, like El Dorado, the simple idea leads to a complex and sophisticated variety of possibilities.

But yeah, there are a lot of EMs with mediocre gameplay out there.

>>7989279
play the Vs. version, it's a nice upgrade. Hell that's even the version you can get on Switch too.

>>7995756
Interesting take.

Some fucking boomer tried asking me 1500$ for this piece of shit. It wasn't even fully working.

>>7994949
Wasn't El Dorado reskinned a few times?

>>7994837
>Primus pinball
Is this legit?

>>7995837
>using boomer as a pejorative in a pinball thread
Have some respect you little faggot

>>7995857
I don't respect fat and bald pieces of shit that sell extremely overpriced non-working pinballs.

>>7995857
Boomers are why pinball is banned in some countries.

>>7995928
Are we going to pretend those ridiculous places matter?

>>7995928
>pinball is banned in some countries
Like fucking where? Cuba? North Korea?

>>7995837
That seems to be higher than they usually go for.
https://pinside.com/pinball/market/classifieds/archive?s=1&radius_latitude=&radius_longitude=&keywords=&ad_machine_key=364&ad_condition=0&machine_type=&ad_machine_manuf=&year_from=&year_to=&radius_distancekm=0&sort_by=ad_end_date&sort_order=DESC#results
With that said, Prospector is one of my favorite EMs.
>>7995853
Yeah, they made 108 units or so.
The story:
They made Whoa Nellie: Big Juicy Melons, which was a modern game with an EM layout. The problem is that the layout is a bad EM design, not a good EM design. And for some reason it's a small-flipper EM. And puritans clucked their tongues at the risque theme.
Then they remade it as Pabst Blue Ribbon: Can Crusher. Maybe because Woah Nellie didn't sell enough and they had leftover parts. PBR had music from a band called Red Fang. Then they remade it as Primus. It has good art, but the layout is still bad.

>>7997183
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msibDC8dUME

>>7996043
Germany and Sweden for one, technically the Philippines (even if not enforced), various US states/cities, some only lifting it until very recently.

>>7995975
Matters to us people here.

>>7997331
I don't think the German or Swedish bans are enforced either.

>>7997541
Never seen a pinball table in Sweden outside of a bar or ferry with a gambling license.

Jesus, I had no idea the Switch port of Vs. Pinball was so well done. Online leaderboards have had me playing most of my day off.

>>7987593
Maybe if I was filthy rich I might collect these

>>7997183
Oh OK I got to play a Whoa Nelly a few years back and although I did enjoy it old EMs are rare as rocking horse shit where I live.

>>7997331
Those 1940s US bans on pinball weren't actively enforced after a time and most people weren't even aware of them. Although Roger Sharpe famously helped lifting the ban in NY in the late 1970s pinball was still to be found in the big apple.

>>7998007
1/2 aint bad

This is my favorite machine of all-time.

>>7998784
>of all time

>>7998784
Have you played Simpsons Pinball Party?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU4lpB-VGEQ

>>7998007
Nice get. Are the James Bond pinball tables good?

How do y'all avoid getting bored when each ball can last an hour or more?

>>8000091
https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/goldeneye/ratings
#120 ranked
The other bond pin has only had a few ratings.
>>8000634
You're thinking of Pinball FX 3's microscopic flipper gap.

Going somewhere with freeplay and want to make a troll video. How to be bad at pinball?

>>8000091
the older gottlieb james bond is rarer and moreso a novelty. sega's goldeneye is solid; nothing super remarkable about it but it's not bad

>>8000634
open up the game and take some rubber bands and posts, make software adjustments

>>8000806
always pull shooter rod all the way back, flip both flippers at the same time, always flip when the pinball gets near the flippers, never trap

>>8000806
Use both flippers simultaneously

>>8000634
Nice flexing, but according most games last between 1,5 and 5 minutes*.

*in bars

>>8000820
I play a game of Among Us on my phone every time I trap the ball.

I'm listening to the soundtrack now because of this thread. Thanks for reminding me about pinball!

>>8000815
>>8000818
Noob here, that's bad?

>>8000820
only if youre shit, on real machines in my arcade my avg is around 10 mins, longest has been 30+ on fish tales and the getaway.

>>8000987
Whatever mr flexhard

>>8000820
Most players are shit and just flail the flippers at the ball as it arrives as if they're playing tennis with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me2xd7BCcmY

Has anyone recreated Space Cadet pinball as a real table?

>>8001009
Why would anyone do that? Space Cadet is extremely plain and boring, it looks like a 1982 alphanum.

>>8001009
>>8001031
Besides being boring for a new table, the design is impossible with standard parts. The ball couldn't go directly under the pop bumpers on the left. Their bases are long.

>>7987593
I spent 10 minutes getting some shitty high score and my retard brother spent 3 hours trying to break it.

Is there a catalogue of pinball tables anywhere? I've always wondered if there was like a "goodset" or whatever of Pinballs?

>>8001454
pinside.com ?

>>7987593
Pinball guys are present on /vr/

>>8001846
more

>>7997541
>no music from the games
why even bother?

>>8000672
Fuck. I want one of these...

Anybody ever own of of these?

Pinball machines got fucking expensive. I remember getting mine for $600.

>>8001846
>>8001847
Cool pins but it reeks of disgusting manchild.

>>8001978
Not mine. I was with a buddy in So Cal and he was buying a pin. The guy was super weird about pictures for some reason. I had to snag these on the low.

>>8002070
What did he end up buying?

My uncle has Jokerz and it's fun how straightforward it is. It's not the most involved table, but I think the theme is really fun and better than the endless torrent of licensed tables.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lUL6KwDQ4Q

>>8002158
Twilight Zone with custom topper. I guess the topper is almost the same price as the pin. It didn't come stock from what I understand. I think it originally belonged to a twilight zone slot machine.

>>7987734
I had an electromechanical bingo game; pinball cabinet, 25 hole playfield, a bingo card in the top cabinet ... what made it special were the four buttons that each rotated one of the four 2x2 corners of the bingo card.

Oh! And that with the top cabinet back door open the front legs came off the floor - the whole back door was covered in stepper wheels.

Fun factor? Close to zero. Music? None. Oddness factor 100.

Got it as a gift from a neighbour who moved away, gave it to a neighbour when I moved away. Because the damn thing was insanely heavy and impossible to transport as the top cabinet did not come off.

(Always wanted a pinball table, never got one.)

>>8001926
Bunch of such things, there have been many.

>>8002197
Jokerz is pretty fun, I nearly bought a beat-down one just because the music is so good.

>>8002207
I don't like this table but I respect the choice, it's objectively a good table. I hope your friend likes repairing his pinball because this one is extremely prone to troubles.

>>7996043
The chance to win a free game (you know, on the two last score digits) was an issue in some countries. The opportunity to get free games for reaching a highscore or making some combo, meaning you could win multiple free games per game, also something of an issue in some places. The argument that pinball is a game of SKILL, not GAMBLING, was usually ignored.

Ergo; BAN!

>>8002276
Wasn't that basically avoided when they added the infamous "for amusement only" label?

>>8002279
I dunno ... never noticed those. There are some tables I could always get free games on and usually just told some (other) kid "there's a few credits on this one, have fun." I played those tables to 'warm up' basically, then move to a different game (in a small arcade in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland they had a verion of QIX with stages where you uncovered manga girls; I'd play a pinball, qix, other pinball, qix ... ahhh, fond mammaries. Uhm ... memories.)

In the Netherlands the places that had pinball tables and videogames and slots on the other side suddenly all went slots only :( the big pinball drought began and never ended.

>>8002414
>a small arcade in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland they had a verion of QIX with stages where you uncovered manga girls
based

>>8001009
Deeproot pinball planned to do that but they're not doing so hot so it might never happen.

>>8002207
I doubt that any custom TZ topper would be worth as much as the pin. There are some valuable toppers for some games, but all of those are official ones.

indiana jones gun pinball is best pinball. man you guys must be rich to collect and have space for this shit.

>>7997183
Someone show me a coomer game that's older than that.

>>8002848
There's some where you put in a penny and win every time :3

>>8002820
I guess if it's from a slot machine it's possible.

>>8002848
That game's from 2012. Stern Playboy is from 2002.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNj9IjjfA2g

Also check this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAfVUHro3sQ

>>8002235
Yeah. I had one of those. I got it second hand off my cousin. If memory serves me correctly, it ran on something like 4 C cell batteries. But you could play it without the batteries. Of course, the score board or none of the targets would work because of no batteries in it. But it was still pretty cool to play around with just for practice. Kinda wish I still had it...

>>8002910
I think this is the topper in question. Definitely not even close to the pin price. I seem to remember it being very expensive just for the topper. Perhaps I misunderstood.

I like the look of older pinball machines.

>>8004929
How older do you mean?

News:
Legendary designer Steve Ritchie left Stern Pinball and joined Jersey Jack Pinball.
Lyman Sheats is leaving Stern Pinball. No one knows if he's retiring or joining another company.

Imagine how sick a Smiths pinball machine would be.

>>8005952
who cares? only Williams tables are good

>>8001847
Is that the data east Star Wars from around 2002?

>>8005975
Jurassic Park (Stern)
Deadpool
Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast
Metallica
Lord of the Rings
etc
Please tell me what you don't like about these games. I'm not going to disagree with you because it's subjective, I just honestly want to know.

>>8006008
You mean 1992. And yes.

>>8006015
They're not Medieval Madness, the only good pinball table.

>>8005952
>Steve Ritchie
Meh, I never liked this guy's tables, he's so overrated.
I'm a Lawlor respecter.

>>8005070
Stuff from the 80's mostly. I never really played a lot of pinball back in the day. But I'd see them around either at the arcade or at the mall. The artwork of the cabinets from that era always seemed to be a lot more colorful and eye catching to me than machines from other eras..

>>8001952
Like everything else, really....

>>8007054
https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1895&picno=63793
I wish I could find high quality png files of Doug Watson's art, not just photos of it. If that's even possible.

Bump

I was wondering, anyone else uses pinball simulators with VR glasses? I've been using both Visual Pinball VR and Zaccaria and I have to say they are pretty amazing. VPVR is a bit of a bitch to set up the first time, but once you have it running, there are a lot of tables adapted to VR that look and play awesome.

>>8005952
>Imagine how sick a Smiths pinball machine would be
Smiths as in the band? A pinball table based around The Smiths?
That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard.

>>8002276
See the one thing, the BIG thing that you're forgetting, or unaware of, was that there were places that bought back the free games earned by the player. And some older EM games you could really get the free games cranking over once you hit a certain score, making back your investment up to tenfold if you were good enough. So it may be a game of skill, but one that rewards the player with money = gambling.
But you know that most of those pinball bans from the 1930s and 1940s no one gave a shit about (at least in the US anyway) after a while. There was a town in bumfuck Indiana that only lifted its ban on pinball in 2016, I doubt that the pigs were out checking the bars and arcades for illegal pinball at any time when there's real crooks to arrest and minorities to beat the shit out of.

>>8009406
Only bingo machines were used for gambling, not pinball machines with flippers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwaS16HxGJw

>>8010346
Gambling is the wagering something of value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the intent of winning something of value. Gambling thus requires three elements to be present: consideration, risk, and a prize.

If you have the prospect of winning a prize with a pinball machine (the operator buying back free games) then it is technically gambling. As it was seen by many authorities in the last century.
Those "bingo machines" are just a type of pinball machine. Early pinball tables didn't have flippers.

>>7993137
>>7993550
I aim directly for them every time. Fuck em

>>8009372
I know, right? A KISS pinball table makes sense, a Guns n Roses Table makes sense, a Metallica table makes sense. And hell, a Ted Nugent themed pinball machine would work. But a Smiths table? Naah.. I don't see the most Die hard Smiths fan getting into that too much. It would be like scraping the bottom of the barrel.

>>7987593
I like Centaur, TX Sector, and Judge Dredd. As for pinball on consoles, I like Devil's Crush/Crash.

>>8010878
Based naggers destroyer.

>>8011821
>Judge Dredd
Impeccable taste, anon.

>>8011029
Bands that would make for an interesting themed table?
I think it's time for Pink Floyd and Ramones to get tables.

>>8012373
I think it's time for Pink Floyd to disappear.

>>8012373
Yeah. that would be pretty cool. Either them or The Misfits, White Zombie or Cannibal Corpse just to name a few....

>>8011821
Devil's Crush is the GOAT when it comes to pinball video games..

>>8013767
White Zombie is a great idea in my opinion.

>>8012373
Def Leppard

>>7992959
>Pinball FX3
Currently the best pinball game, and the PC version doesn't have the censorship crap in classic mode. You want the Williams Pack #6 version. Torrent of the year for me.
>Pinball Arcade
Now a piracy exclusive. If you want to play something that's not on Pinball FX3 it's worth it, but the physics aren't as good.
>Visual Pinball
Lots of tables but they're amateur made and the program can be pure autism to set up. VPX is the only version worth playing, physics seem better than Pinball Arcade. Download the full installer from the forum, it will set everything up.
It will automatically install and activate pinmame, run the setup program and set the roms folder path to your full set of mame roms. All those garbage roms you can't play in mame now have a purpose. It's too hard to find a specific pinmame roms set, this works fine.
The forums are autistic shit that limit downloads so avoid them if you can. You can bunch of tables on archive here:
https://archive.org/details/Visual_Pinball_2020-06-20
Probably only the VPX tables are worth playing. If you want to see some real shit take a look at the visual pinball 1 tables. You'll see why people might have tried this program a long time ago to emulate with pinmame, then gave up on it because it was so shitty.

>>8014553
Yeah. They should make one based on the Astro Creep 2000 album and use the artwork that Rob Zombie himself drew in the liner notes for the cabinet, scoreboard and the play field. I think that would be pretty sick.

>>8010541
When did they start using flippers?

Halloween/Ultraman gameplay footage is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg-JkAs3e7A
>>8016442
1947, Humpty Dumpty.

>>7987593
maybe because pinball is fucking pinball and there's no real reason to discuss it beyond
>GUYS WHICH PINBALL STICKER IS YOUR FAVORITE
although on topic, I personally like the Jurrasic Park sticker but most pinball stickers look hood on a machine

>>8017051
It's actually a lot more complex than you think.
Watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYrWy1TOmS0

>>8018180
True. Every pinball table has it's little nuances that you have to master in order to get good at said table..

How do I dirty pool?

>>8018921
On what table? Attack from Mars?

>>8016440
My thoughts exactly.

>>8019649
It's actually a little surprising that such a table hasn't been built yet. After al, White Zombie were a pretty popular band in the 90's, so you'd think that somebody out there would have decided to capitalize on that popularity any way they could....

>>8006019
Where's the scoreboard?

One of the strangest tables I've seen in person, Orbitor 1. Do any other ones do the warped surface?

>>8022253
Not to my knowledge. But it definitely looks pretty cool. What year did that one come out?

>>8022220
It's just a prototype, unfortunately.
>>8022253
Unfortunately no. Orbitor 1 was highly experimental. You can read about it here:
https://www.flippers.be/stern_orbitor_one_history.html

>>8022253
most new stern games have deformed, dimpled playfields, yeah. it's kind of an industry standard

>>8022837
Dangerously based.

I got tired of Metallica. Anyone else mod their tables? Wish I could add a color DMD

>>8022930
I hate modding with because it's usually manchildren adding useless toys and glaring leds on the playfield.
A color DMD is okay. IMO it doesn't add anything so I prefer the default orange DMD.

Bumpers

Halloween:
No warning when balls are coming to the upper playfield. Highly idiosyncratic. Dubious game design. May be fixable with code.
Orbits weren't registering at one point.

anyone else play this kino as a kid?