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    Indiana Jones/Lethal Weapon 3/Space Invaders/Golden Arrow

    Some of them are just probably smaller and require less hassle. Many of the recent licenses are not buried in the largest of scale entertainment muck, and I'm sure were easier to negotiate (probably a *LOT* less lawyer / agent muck). Examples would Frank Thomas, Indianapolis 500 and the voices...
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    Any news on sound improvement?

    One issue here is that this *is* how most pinballs were back in the day... especially for PCM type stuff. Williams DCS was one of the better of the lots, with mono 32kHz compressed sounds. Yet that's still not very "hi fi". Data East was done in stereo, but with notably worse fidelity in samples...
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    Sorcerer Twitchstream...

    It really depends on whether they want a pinball from the 1950s in the collection or not. As far as I can tell, Ace High is pretty representative of 1950s Gottlieb pins. I'm not sure if there's a big demand for pinballs from this era though. Older pins like this are "simpler", even more so than...
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    Twelve days of Christmas Bah hum bug!

    They've been burnt a bit on that sort of news before. (Example: There is no "Pinball After Dark" and probably never will be; platforms like Wii U were announced in a 12 days a few years before they were actually released (we won't even go into how console support overall lately has been kind of...
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    The Pinball Arcade table ratings

    For me, GB's rules are too unbalanced and cluttered (this applies to the IRL table too). There is a lot going on with this table, with huge amounts of modes and super jackpots and loud animations with various shots etc. But in the end, a few things (skill shots, PKE frenzy, bonus multipliers)...
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    What's Your Best All-Time Score/Highest Ranking...

    My current best score is on No Fear (#23) at around 18 billion. But yes, something is wrong with some of the leaderboards. In the master data I'm #24 on Centigrade 37 with a weird score (2,489,029,150). My actual high score is around 310K. I don't even want to know what a 2 billion scoring...
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    Table Pack #67 Speculation

    Mmm, it's probably the reskin of Haunted House they did a while back. I don't think that was ever released outside of mobile.
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    When are we supposed to be getting Ghostbusters?

    Please don't bring Infowars-style bull**** into this forum. Modern pinball companies aren't terribly large (elite? hardly) and I've never heard a pinball company declare their political preference, personally. Pinball companies are pretty small these days, and there are plenty of "star...
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    1930s - 1950s Pinball Tables for Season 8 and onwards

    Yeah, Farsight did Gottlieb's Play-boy for the Gottlieb Pinball Hall of Fame collection a long time ago (that's a 1930s era flipperless one)... it wasn't anything worthwhile. Ace High (1950s) also was in Gottlieb Pinball Hall of Fame. It was okay, but in TPA the reel-less scoring might cause...
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    First Table

    First I recall was a Gottlieb EM that my uncle owned. I *think* it was Spirit of 76 but memory is a bit fuzzy.
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    Table Pack #63 Speculation

    I think that is from the American obstacle-course game show / Takeshi's Castle ripoff Wipeout actually. So Gottlieb's Wipeout it is. Fits with the laughter in the clue as well.
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    Latest update flagged as virus by Norton Antivirus!

    I would say more like mail Norton (maybe mail them both). A quick Google search seems to indicate that Norton has been a lot of false positive problems with this "trojan" lately. This "trojan" is more or less a "generic" detection routine, meaning it's not a specifically defined threat, it's...
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    Request Vintage pinballs (1930s to 1950s)

    Pre-flipper pinball is really more of a game of chance. Farsight *did* do one of those (Gottlieb's "Play-Boy") in the Gottlieb collection as a kind of a "bonus" table, but it's not something you play often. The play style for many 1950s-1960s games is just... well, different. Ball times are a...
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    Table Pack #60 Speculation Thread

    Er, actually... As of now, Rescue 911 is #97, Class of 1812 is #111, Big Hurt is #133, Tee'd Off is #169, Lights Camera Action is #181, Cue Ball Wizard is #196, TX Sector is #207, Bone Busters is #211, and Gladiators is #250. I think TPA has only done a few solid state pinball games outside...
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    The LEAST popular table you want to come to The Pinball Arcade

    I'll echo that Orbiter is a novelty that is worth playing once and that's about it. There just isn't much to do on that table. Orbiter would've been a much better concept as a half-playfield or upper-level playfield or something along those lines. If we need something that would challenge...
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    [SPA] Not playable due to performance issues

    I do fine with just a GTX 560 (i7 2600 CPU). I don't think you need top line computing to run TPA in DX11 mode. (Not sure about SPA, I haven't tried that one.)
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    Very torn about Farsight as a company (sort of rant but also a question, confused)

    Right. Ultimately, though, there ends up being a difference between products like The Pinball Arcade (which has some bugs and quirks but a fair number of people can accept them) and what I see from Stern Pinball Arcade, which appears to have been a rather disastrous product launch. You can...
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    Very torn about Farsight as a company (sort of rant but also a question, confused)

    Heh, I *am* a software developer. :p The ultimate problem in software development is that the needs of business (monetary stream or project etc.) usually is too tight of a deadline to achieve any sort of software quality. I will add that realistically what business observes is true in a sense...
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    Very torn about Farsight as a company (sort of rant but also a question, confused)

    For one environment, your statement is correct. For *lots* of environments, your statement is not necessarily correct. :) Basically I do think Farsight spreads themselves too thin, ultimately one or two programmers for all platforms doesn't sound like a lot. It is true that the dev tools for...
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    hidden/new/buggy table? + funny bug

    The "Pinball Construction Kit" (pink elephant one) also crashes the game if you actually try to play it. :)

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