Can I ask, how did spell switches appear? As letters flashing or is this
just something Draconis invented?
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From: "Jim Kitchen" <[email protected]>
To: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic?
Hi Thomas,
That was a great description of a classic pinball table. However almost
all of the pinball tables that I played in the sixties, seventies and
eighties did also have shoots on the far left and right hand sides.
Actually twin shoots. The far left and right shoots the ball if it went
down them would end up going down the same hole as if it had come down
between your flippers. The shoots just inside those shoots the ball would
roll down and roll onto your flippers. If you didn't press the button to
flip your flipper the ball would roll off of the flipper and go down the
hole. You could also hold your flipper in the up position and the ball
might instead of bouncing off of the flipper roll up it and up the shoot.
The far right shoot was just inside of the launcher shoot. I'm pretty
sure that way back then we would get 5 balls for a quarter. And then
there were tables with two or more sets of flippers. And into the
eighties there were multi level tables and there could be more than one
ball in play at a time. There were also round bumpers and flat sided
bumpers with bells as well as targets to hit that would retract when your
ball hit them for points. I also liked this one game that had upper
shoots. They had spinner gates and buttons up them. So if you used your
flipper and sent the ball up them real fast, the spinner gate would spin
and spin racking up points and the further the ball went up the shoot the
more buttons it would hit and give you more points. You could send the
ball up so hard that it would come out of the shoot at the top of the
table and be as if you had sent it up the launcher shoot. There were also
little holes that your ball could land in, get spun and shoot out in any
direction. This one table just had a rubber pad in the center of the
table that would change the direction of your ball. There was just an
endless variety of different pinball table configurations.
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Hi Lelia,
Actually, pinball is all about trying to position the ball so you can hit
various bumpers with scores marked on them. Every bumper you hit has a
specific score that adds to your total score. I'm assuming here you have
been blind from birth so have never actually seen a pinball table. So i'll
try to describe it in detail below.
A classic pinball table is a long retangle two maybe three feet long with
a glass top on it which you can look into the machine. On the far right
hand side is a long narrow chamber with a pully thingy on it where you
launch the balls from. In the center of the table is various bumbers
standing up with all kinds of scores on them. The harder a bumper is to
hit with the ball the higher the score marked on it. Similarly the easiest
ones to hit with the ball have low scores marked on them. At the bottom of
the table where you are sitting are two buttons on the table top that move
the flippers. There are two flippers that guard a hole into wich your ball
can get bounced causing you to lose a ball. These flippers serve two
purposes. Besides defending the hole where your ball can get bounced into
you can use them to direct the ball towards the bumpers thus racking up
your score.
How you play the game is you start by launching the ball from the launcher
on the right-hand side of the pinball table. At the beginning of every
pinball game you are given atotal of three balls to start with. Though,
only one ball at a tme can be in play at any given time. You use the
flippers to guard the hole as well as bounce the ball into the bumpers on
the table. Depending on the angle and how hard the flipper hits the ball
you will hopefully send the ball towards one of the bumpers on the table.
When you miss a ball and it falls into the hole at the end of the table
you lose a ball. The object of the game is to get the highest score
possible.
Now, like classic pinball machines games like PBC allows you to play at
various specially themed pinball tables. You can pick tables like Pacman,
Haunted House, the Wild West, etc.
Jim
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