The new movie theater in my area has a brand new 24 pinball. Me and the wife put a few bucks into it yesterday. I thought it was a very good playing pinball. Play was very fast paced and aggressive. I hardly had time to look at the DMD. The sound system was excellent. The terrorist drop targets on the playfield were cool - I didn't even know they were there until they started popping up.
The only complaints I have are the standard Stern complaints. The coils are all badly underpowered. The toys are all made of pieces of acrylic with inkjet art on them. Seriously, they couldn't source a simple jet toy? You'd think China could hook them up with a million of them cheaper than that plastic thing.
Only minor design complaints. There does not appear to be a skill shot at all. When the ball feeds from the pop bumpers, the ball will always land on the top of the right slingshot. That should have been rectified in design.
I noticed something peculiar in the rules too - normally on a multiplayer game you can steal locked balls. Not so fast on this game. The suitcase keeps track of how many balls you have personally locked. I kept encouraging my wife to steal the multiball, and was kind of disappointed when it locked the third ball and called it her 2nd. It then fed the extra ball out when it got a chance.
Overall a very solid, fun game. We played 4 rounds of 2p action, and would have happily kept playing.
Quite ironic, but I was a month too late in becoming the tech who maintained the games at this location. I might still, if the guy who has it now quits or something.
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Topic: Stern 24 - played it yesterday. (Read 2714 times)
