Batman pinball machine (new one)

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Does anybody have a Batman (the newer one) pinball machine? I was at a pizza place today and they had one. I didn't have any quarters so I never got to play thing but man it looks Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!
 
I have played one that was fully updated to the newest code and I really enjoyed it. A lot of people that have played the updated rom versions seem to really like it also.
 
Heh...looking good is about all it has going on for it.

If you play it w/ the new code and take some time to understand the rules, it's a very compelling game....very chess-like. You really have to think about 2 or 3 shots in advance and decide to take risks to get the most points. I recently got the game - and for the first batch of games, I wasn't quite getting it ...but once someone on RGP cleared up some of the rules, it's like the sun was shining on the game! Totally changed how I perceived it.
 
If you play it w/ the new code and take some time to understand the rules, it's a very compelling game....very chess-like. You really have to think about 2 or 3 shots in advance and decide to take risks to get the most points. I recently got the game - and for the first batch of games, I wasn't quite getting it ...but once someone on RGP cleared up some of the rules, it's like the sun was shining on the game! Totally changed how I perceived it.

You own it, so you don't count! :D
I have no doubt I would enjoy it in a home environent. As a route game though, it is a massive fail.
 
You own it, so you don't count! :D
I have no doubt I would enjoy it in a home environent. As a route game though, it is a massive fail.

I disagree. Actually, at first I thought it was a better route game due to the incomplete software. I really enjoyed hitting the crane & stacking multiballs on route. Once the new software hit, I took a shot at it as a home game....and, to be honest with you - even though I was enjoying it, it wasn't quite clicking w/ me and I was already thinking "eh, I could see myself selling this down the road" ...but once I understood it more, how the multipliers worked, and how hitting "this" lights "that" and "that" causes "this" - bam, hooked.
 
Sounds like you need to add some old school EM's and/or Solid State games to your collection.

Why? EMs bore the everliving fuck out of me...and so do the early SS games. For my collection, I wouldn't own anything pre-F-14 Tomcat. I'm still a video-gamer at heart, so I need the music, lightshows, voices ...and I like toys, ramps and good rulesets. I can't stand the old EM clinks and chimes....just bores me to tears.
 
Some of the best times I've had laying pinball is spending time with older games and learning the rules, then tearing the hell out of the game. I only mention it because the description of your experience with Batman is my exact experience with alot of older games.
They are awesome in their own right.
 
Some of the best times I've had laying pinball is spending time with older games and learning the rules, then tearing the hell out of the game. I only mention it because the description of your experience with Batman is my exact experience with alot of older games.
They are awesome in their own right.

Different strokes....Batman's still got lights, a ramp, music, divertors, a moving crane ...you can't really compared that to the silence, slow pace, and weak flippers of an EM....sorry, old pins just aren't for me. I'd rather play Pac-Man. :)
 
sorry, old pins just aren't for me. I'd rather play Donkey Kong. :)

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Greg I'm with you on the EM view point. EM's for me are mind numbingly boring and irritating. Lights, audio and ramps. Smacking bumpers and drop targets ... woohoo yay alright wtfbbqwootbrbbff
*sarcasm meant and applied*
 
i think em's have a some charm but , ill stick with a dmd pins anyday, hell i havent even plugged in my atlas its just looking pretty
 
Why? EMs bore the everliving fuck out of me...and so do the early SS games. For my collection, I wouldn't own anything pre-F-14 Tomcat. I'm still a video-gamer at heart, so I need the music, lightshows, voices ...and I like toys, ramps and good rulesets. I can't stand the old EM clinks and chimes....just bores me to tears.

This goes for me as well.

I remember loving the machines I played during the late 70's (with Gorgar being the last pin I was crazy about before going hardcore into the new video game explosion), but every revisit to those types of machines is completely disappointing. Even my beloved Gorgar, which I thought I had to have in my collection until I played it again.

Too quiet, too slow, and simply too dull.
 
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