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<blockquote data-quote="norbert26" data-source="post: 110015" data-attributes="member: 2493"><p>I copied this over from real pinball where it got lost:</p><p></p><p>We all have a bad day. In fishing world theres the one that got away. In Pinball world we have the one that got away / drained at the worse moment. I'll start. </p><p></p><p>The time is spring 1984 place college game room table EBD . EBD had a special back glass feature which i will try to explain. </p><p>Game play / basic object of game was to first hit the drop targets down on the right hand side. Each drop target represented a ball on a pool table. Once you knocked those drop targets down you had to get the ball in the saucer in the upper right called the eight ball corner pocket. Once you got the ball in there the deluxe targets that were behind the drop targets you knocked down would light for special (3 ball game). Completing the D-E-L-U-X-E target bank would score 1 replay if lit for red special OR 50,000 points if lit for blue 50,000 points. The red special lit first on the 3 ball game. In either case completing that deluxe bank lit a DELUXE letter on the BACKGLASS. Completing deluxe on the BACKGLASS scored 3 replays . This did not happen often many quarters would be pumped in . </p><p></p><p>On this day the D-E-L-U-X were all lit on the backglass. The "E" was needed to complete the DELUXE on the backglass. In went my quarter has it had gone in many times before. Game started going good. Dropped all the ball drop targets and got the eight ball corner pocket. Deluxe lights for special and out comes that famous voice "one more for deluxe" "one more for deluxe" !!! I hit all the targets EXCEPT the "E" is remaining. The ball hits it but not hard enough i need to get control of the ball and hit it again harder. The ball starts heading down towards the flippers. "one more for deluxe" booms the machine. I was getting ready to cradle the ball in the left flipper but i slip and bobble the ball of the darn tip of the flipper and it DRAINS !!!!! Once in a lifetime opportunity lost forever as targets reset upon drain and it was last ball.</p><p></p><p>At that point i gracefully slammed the machine down which activates the kill switch and blows the game away and blows away the match. Shortly afterwards the college term ended and that was it for the college game room. EBD disappeared from the arcades so i never got another chance at the deluxe. Well this one that got away has been a secret i kept for 29 years when i hit post it won't be a secret anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="norbert26, post: 110015, member: 2493"] I copied this over from real pinball where it got lost: We all have a bad day. In fishing world theres the one that got away. In Pinball world we have the one that got away / drained at the worse moment. I'll start. The time is spring 1984 place college game room table EBD . EBD had a special back glass feature which i will try to explain. Game play / basic object of game was to first hit the drop targets down on the right hand side. Each drop target represented a ball on a pool table. Once you knocked those drop targets down you had to get the ball in the saucer in the upper right called the eight ball corner pocket. Once you got the ball in there the deluxe targets that were behind the drop targets you knocked down would light for special (3 ball game). Completing the D-E-L-U-X-E target bank would score 1 replay if lit for red special OR 50,000 points if lit for blue 50,000 points. The red special lit first on the 3 ball game. In either case completing that deluxe bank lit a DELUXE letter on the BACKGLASS. Completing deluxe on the BACKGLASS scored 3 replays . This did not happen often many quarters would be pumped in . On this day the D-E-L-U-X were all lit on the backglass. The "E" was needed to complete the DELUXE on the backglass. In went my quarter has it had gone in many times before. Game started going good. Dropped all the ball drop targets and got the eight ball corner pocket. Deluxe lights for special and out comes that famous voice "one more for deluxe" "one more for deluxe" !!! I hit all the targets EXCEPT the "E" is remaining. The ball hits it but not hard enough i need to get control of the ball and hit it again harder. The ball starts heading down towards the flippers. "one more for deluxe" booms the machine. I was getting ready to cradle the ball in the left flipper but i slip and bobble the ball of the darn tip of the flipper and it DRAINS !!!!! Once in a lifetime opportunity lost forever as targets reset upon drain and it was last ball. At that point i gracefully slammed the machine down which activates the kill switch and blows the game away and blows away the match. Shortly afterwards the college term ended and that was it for the college game room. EBD disappeared from the arcades so i never got another chance at the deluxe. Well this one that got away has been a secret i kept for 29 years when i hit post it won't be a secret anymore. [/QUOTE]
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