Cool, I thought so as sighted people's never heard of spell switches.
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From: "Bryan Peterson" <b-peter...@hotmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic?
I suspect that's just something Draconis invented.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com>
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Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic?
Can I ask, how did spell switches appear? As letters flashing or is this
just something Draconis invented?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Kitchen" <j...@kitchensinc.net>
To: "Thomas Ward" <Gamers@audyssey.org>
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
Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
j...@kitchensinc.net
http://www.kitchensinc.net
(440) 286-6920
Chardon Ohio USA
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