Still play pinball??  Kool!!!!   
What so yu think about he old ones, or the new ones?

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I just got to play "ProPinball: The Web" a few days ago. I liked it. It's a
3D PinBall game. Unually, I don't really like PinBall games. I've always
thought they'd cheat me. But this one is fair, I guess ..

Check out the company's web site: (I just thought i'd tell ya)

http://www.empire.co.uk/

It's made by Empire Interactive, by the way.
(800) 216-9706

Okay, one more detail. It costs 29.95 dollars......

Sounds like a computer game, at that price!  ;)

I do like pinball, but you really have to cultivate a machine to get decent
scores, and I don't have the opportunity to do that any more.  :(  Being
a student usually makes that a lot easier, since that's when I played the
most.

It's still fun to run into an old familiar table, though, especially in a
corner of a mall where nobody plays it.  That way, the scores for replay end
up *really* low, and you can look like a serious wizard.  

I guess my all-time fave was Black Knight (1980?), which was one of the first
tables with multiball and voices.  Fantastic game, really fast, but I could
never win because all the real wizards loved it too and the replay scores were
set too high for me.

i remeber Black Knight Scott...Yes I think it was about 1980, I rember
thinking how cool to have more that one ball on the table at a time..

 I remember one from the Mid-80's called Kings of Steel. Great game, lotsa
drop targets and everything. It was even a 5 baller.

Black Knight was the game that really got me started on pinball,
and marked my first step away from video games.  Black Knight 2000
(released 1987 or thereabouts) was good too, except for the music,
which sounded like it came straight out of "He-Man and the Masters
of the Universe".

I ran into a Black Knight 2000 in a big mall about a year or two ago.  Not
a very great game, but it was fun because the replay was set really low.
I think that somewhere in that period they started making self-adjusting
games, and this one hadn't been played by anyone serious in quite a while.

The original Black Night had great feel, though.  Really fast action, but you
could control it.  And of course, there was Magna-Save, and the Black Knight
laughed at you if you hit it too late.

"ONE...CANNOT...PLAY...THE...BLACK...KNIGHT...AGAIN...WILL...YOU...PLAY...THE.
..BLACK..KNIGHT...AGAIN"


In general, the Williams tables were much better than any other company's,
and I usually won't bother with anything else (esp. DataEast... Yuck!).

That's true, most of the tables I like are by Williams.

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I used to find that the Williams games had chronically wimpy
flippers.  Which was annoying, because the games themselves were 
pretty interesting.

True, the flippers tended to be a bit weak on the ramp shots that started
appearing.  Usually there was a way to finesse it, though.  Sometimes you'd
have a loop shot that drained back into the same flipper, and if you got the
timing right you could repeat it 5 or 10 times.

Williams games *do* need to be set up right, otherwise those flippers can't
quite make the tall ramps.  I hadn't thought of it before, but I certainly
remember the feeling of annoyance.  ;)

You know what I miss about the old tables though?...The way you could shake
and shimmy them to get your ball going where you wanted it.  Seems today that
you just barely tap the glass on a new table and it tilts...

Some tables have a "warning" before you tilt.  That's a nice gauge of where
you are in the body English zone.

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