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EMs are the new hipster thing
ChadTower:
There is something to be said for flipping the ball and having time to reach over and take a sip before it hits anything.
Gray_Area:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 16, 2012, 01:33:44 pm ---
It's one thing to throw the hipster EM in there. It's something else to have the sack to charge $1/play. Yow.
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I don't see a dollar being that much, given that pins in the 80s were fifty cents.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on October 06, 2012, 01:52:41 am ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 16, 2012, 01:33:44 pm ---
It's one thing to throw the hipster EM in there. It's something else to have the sack to charge $1/play. Yow.
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I don't see a dollar being that much, given that pins in the 80s were fifty cents.
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Not many pins take in a dollar now. I was at a very high end pinball gameroom on wednesday, all immaculate Stern LEs along with some fully restored Williams games, and even there the only games at 4 tokens were X-Men and AC-DC.
Xiaou2:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 03, 2012, 03:26:11 pm ---There is something to be said for flipping the ball and having time to reach over and take a sip before it hits anything.
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You mean, hitting a Flipper? Or getting a Drain? Cause most EMs, no matter how slow you feel the ball is... is not going to allow more than a second.. or two at most, before its hitting something.
If you are waiting for the ball to come to your flippers... then in reality, ...your not really playing Pinball the way it was intended to be played. Especially on the EM machines. You should be 'Working' the machines with bumps/nudges, so as to Make the ball hit all the targets, ..and or to get the ball in the correct vectors so that it wont drain. And usually this is a lot more challenging than newer games, because the Flippers are often much further apart.
It took me some time before I realized the value as well as the appeal of these machines. And certainly, there are EMs that either are not the best players... As well as machines that are so worn (worn field = slower ball travel) ,unadjusted, and electronically out of whack (IE: Weak Coil action) ...that they are not playing the way they should play.
If you really think about it... there are a lot of physical games and sports, which are not Rocket-Ship fast... yet are challenging and fun to play.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on October 08, 2012, 09:40:25 pm --- You mean, hitting a Flipper? Or getting a Drain? Cause most EMs, no matter how slow you feel the ball is... is not going to allow more than a second.. or two at most, before its hitting something.
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You took my sarcasm a little too seriously. :)
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