Quoted from Vengeance

I can't remeber if I've ever played you on it or not, but I don't doubt I lost if we did that game allways kicks my a**.  

See. It ain't so easy.

Never said it was easy, I said the scoring was unbalanced and it's a one trick pony  

Knowing what to do and executing are 2 diffrent things

Quoted from Vengeance

Never said it was easy, I said the scoring was unbalanced and it's a one trick pony  

Knowing what to do and executing are 2 diffrent things

Funny thing is the very highest scoring has occurred through working the jackpots, multiballs and fighting the final battle. I think you need to qualify that you are trying to achieve the safe bet tournament scoring whereas the the stratospheric scores are actually obtained from doing what you would probably never achieve in tournament play. I understand going for the safe bet route, the other is a gamble.

By the way you should look at the rules again. The Fireball if you can make the shot three times and strike the genie is worth a whopping 1 million. The Jackpots start at a million. The the entire lamp bonus rarely gets you into more than a couple million. Each challenge tallies into the bonus. It's not as unbalanced as you may think. Also you are not trying to achieve the extra balls available in the game which you cannot do by striking the lamp alone. Each of those balls significantly effects the final score when played.

I agree with Adam ... it's nice for Guests ... it's the one they like the most but playing it ... yeah sure it's nice, the sounds are great but if you can actually PLAY pinball, it gets boring real quick  

I can't think of a single time playing TOTAN where the Genie has ever started off at 1 mil.  It usually starts between 200,000 - 400,000 and counts down FAST!  Then you need to hit the left ramp to build it up during the event and it will usually take 3 or 4 hits to get it up to 1 mil, and considering the left ramp feeds the left flipper it's not easy to then pass it back to the right and make the shot again.  

You need the lamp + the multipliers, one without the other is going to get you squat.  Also modes are going to be running because as you are building toward the mutiball they are going to start by striking the genie and when your smaking the lamp the ball will ussually bounce around enough to hit a few of the golden symbols.  Then up the ramp to complete the mode.  But again not the primary focus, I'm still going to be beating the lamp any of the other items are just going to be gravy.

Extra Balls??  Come to my place see how many extra balls you get   Almost any tournament you play in extra balls will be off or not playable so working towards an extra ball is usually not a priority on my list, unless it's a Stern because at least in the newer sterns when extra balls are off you get awarded points for colleecting an extra ball which is nice.

Stop cursing. If you say "stern" one more time I am going to ask Ian to ban you.

Quoted from Mrhide

I agree with Adam ... it's nice for Guests ... it's the one they like the most but playing it ... yeah sure it's nice, the sounds are great but if you can actually PLAY pinball, it gets boring real quick  

Yeah, the dead (i.e. BSD) are so much more lively to play with.

Only because it doesn't get through your thick head.

Ignorance is bliss.

Besides Pin 2000 is like the old Wendy's commercial. Where's the playfield? Pinball? More like a clumsy video game. Put it next to your Baby Pac.

Necro,

You off your meds again?  

Duane

Quoted from Mrhide

I agree with Adam ... it's nice for Guests ... it's the one they like the most but playing it ... yeah sure it's nice, the sounds are great but if you can actually PLAY pinball, it gets boring real quick  

That's it, that's it .. keep bringing down the value.  It's a terrible pin, over-priced - just nasty!  

(But perfect for me because I don't actually play pinball. At least not in the league of most of the top scorers here!)