I wonder, what spell and number switches did they use? Maybe Draconis could
use number switches in their future titles?
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From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic?
Actually, spell and number switches were fairly common in graphical
pinball games such as pinball dreams and pinball fantasies for the
Amigar, ---- not to mention of course Sonic spinball on the Mega drive
(easily my favourite pinball game ever!).
Not that it matters though, obviously a computer either using audio or
graphics is able to do a lot more, ---- and a lot more easily than an
actual mechanical phinball table.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com>
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Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic?
Cool, I thought so as sighted people's never heard of spell switches.
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From: "Bryan Peterson" <b-peter...@hotmail.com>
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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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