High Speed Screenshots

[Shaneus]

I was looking for a void to fill in my constant request for this table to get released. Now it's confirmed, I can redirect my energies into nagging about release dates. Woo!

Anyone else thinking that this table is essentially confirmation that we'll see The Getaway next season?

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

I was looking for a void to fill in my constant request for this table to get released. Now it's confirmed, I can redirect my energies into nagging about release dates. Woo!

Anyone else thinking that this table is essentially confirmation that we'll see The Getaway next season?

Probably. Season 3 will contain (maybe) 3 more Bally games and 2 more Williams (Junk Yard and poll winner).

 

[Shaneus]

Ah, so there's 5 left. Safe to say that the other two tables up for voting will get in next season.

Love that FS lifted their game something severe in creating the S3 tables. Love even more that HS happened to be in the season where they hit their stride

 

[danivempire]

My guess is yes.

My guess is no ^^

I wish it was yes... but it isn't...
^^

 

[Kratos3]

Well it is "high" sp....Oh, wait.

 

[night]

Screenshots look definitely better on my calibrated monitor, less dark than the iPad.

 

[Shaneus]

Wheeennnnnnnn

 

[Espy]

I have never played this table, and I was watching the livestream but... what exactly is the appeal behind this table? The layout nor the rules don't seem particularly interesting.

Perfectly happy to be proved wrong when I play it, but from a spectator's point of view, I didn't see what the fuss was about.

 

[Naildriver74]

My guess is no ^^

I wish it was yes... but it isn't...
^^

There you go with the negative vibes.
Quote from Donald Surtherland "Kelly's Hero's funnyass movie

 

[soundwave106]

I have never played this table, and I was watching the livestream but... what exactly is the appeal behind this table? The layout nor the rules don't seem particularly interesting.

It's a simple, fast flow type of game. The layout of the real pin is fun (well, to me the real one was at least).

If you need deep pinball rules, you can look elsewhere. (This is a 1986 pinball machine after all; honestly the rules were a step up in several ways from the previous Williams hits (Comet and Space Shuttle)).

 

[canuck]

I agree it looks boring, but will try the demo.

 

[Kolchak357]

Plays anything but boring in my opinion. Fast adrenalin rush action. Hard to get a breather on the pin. Also great lights and the cool police radio call outs. Here is a Link to a Bowen tutorial so you all can check it out.

http://papa.org/2012/06/07/high-speed-tutorial/

 

[superballs]

It's not boring but it's not the getaway either. But then again most tables aren't the getaway simply because they are something else entirely.

 

[LanceBoyle]

Lookin' good! Can't wait, so that I finally have an excuse to not play the NES one anymore. lol

...and yeah, it sure is "High" Speed if those points are anything to go by!

 

[vikingerik]

I have never played this table, and I was watching the livestream but... what exactly is the appeal behind this table? The layout nor the rules don't seem particularly interesting.

Perfectly happy to be proved wrong when I play it, but from a spectator's point of view, I didn't see what the fuss was about.

For its time, High Speed was mindblowing. First game with a progressive jackpot, first game with real flow between multiple flippers, first game with a real music soundtrack, and Williams' first alphanumeric game. It was also ported to an NES cartridge version that exposed it to a much wider audience.

It still predates the deeper rules of games like BK2000 or Funhouse so it doesn't hold up as well for modern play. And of course Getaway eclipses it. But it's absolutely a historical landmark that deserves to be in TPA.

 

[PC.Doctor]

Looks like a decent table, but not a kind I would like to play. I'm just waiting for the end results of the poll for the next table pack for this season (I hope its Williams Diner because that's what I voted for).

 

[Shaneus]

I have never played this table, and I was watching the livestream but... what exactly is the appeal behind this table? The layout nor the rules don't seem particularly interesting.

Perfectly happy to be proved wrong when I play it, but from a spectator's point of view, I didn't see what the fuss was about.

It's like Space Invaders or Pacman, but instead of the game speeding up on you, the game relies on the players inability to keep their **** together for that

On any other table that might be considered a bad thing, but on a machine that's been designed to make parking balls as hard as possible, all you have to overcome to get the jackpot is mental. IMO it's the ultimate pinball version of man vs machine.

Pinball machine is all "Hey, all you have to do is hit these 9 targets, then this ramp a few times and the jackpot is yours. Easy!". Enjoy that false sense of security while you can. This game will turn you on yourself damn quickly.

 

[Rudy Yagov]

It's like Space Invaders or Pacman, but instead of the game speeding up on you, the game relies on the players inability to keep their **** together for that

On any other table that might be considered a bad thing, but on a machine that's been designed to make parking balls as hard as possible, all you have to overcome to get the jackpot is mental. IMO it's the ultimate pinball version of man vs machine.

Pinball machine is all "Hey, all you have to do is hit these 9 targets, then this ramp a few times and the jackpot is yours. Easy!". Enjoy that false sense of security while you can. This game will turn you on yourself damn quickly.

HS is a good example of " man vs. machine", but I still think F-14 is the best example.

There's a reason the marketing slogan was "It's fast, it's furious, and it fights back!"

 

[Zaphod77]

F-14 is considerably easier then this game.

Also it's only on the getaway that the kickback is supposed to send the ball into the eject hole. it's never happened on high speed.

This is because the left outlane is so evil on getaway they need to make the kickback extra kind when it does go off. A great game can end in one minute if you start having trouble with that giant gaping outlane that you cannot nudge balls out of very easily.

 

[Rudy Yagov]

I don't see how F-14 is in ANY WAY easier than HS. I've had a lot of plays on both games (even owned them for a while) and I've managed to get jackpots on HS a lot more frequently. HS also doesn't have as many instant death shots. The kickback is easier to relight on F-14, but the target to relight it can (and probably will) send it down the middle, so it's not even worth going for it. When I had them set up next to each other, everyone who came over went for HS because it wasn't as "unfair".