played 24 yesterday

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The new movie theater in my area has a brand new 24 pinball. Me and the wife put a few bucks into it yesterday. I thought it was a very good playing pinball. Play was very fast paced and aggressive. I hardly had time to look at the DMD. The sound system was excellent. The terrorist drop targets on the playfield were cool - I didn't even know they were there until they started popping up.

The only complaints I have are the standard Stern complaints. The coils are all badly underpowered. The toys are all made of pieces of acrylic with inkjet art on them. Seriously, they couldn't source a simple jet toy? You'd think China could hook them up with a million of them cheaper than that plastic thing.

Only minor design complaints. There does not appear to be a skill shot at all. When the ball feeds from the pop bumpers, the ball will always land on the top of the right slingshot. That should have been rectified in design.
I noticed something peculiar in the rules too - normally on a multiplayer game you can steal locked balls. Not so fast on this game. The suitcase keeps track of how many balls you have personally locked. I kept encouraging my wife to steal the multiball, and was kind of disappointed when it locked the third ball and called it her 2nd. It then fed the extra ball out when it got a chance.

Overall a very solid, fun game. We played 4 rounds of 2p action, and would have happily kept playing.
 
Is 24 the most recent Stern release? I have not seen one anywhere around here?


No, the latest release is NBA.

I haven't seen a game allow stealing of locked balls in years. I know that was a common feature of pins in the SS era but I don't play too many multiplayer games anymore. What newer games allow the stealing of locked balls?
 
No, the latest release is NBA.

I haven't seen a game allow stealing of locked balls in years. I know that was a common feature of pins in the SS era but I don't play too many multiplayer games anymore. What newer games allow the stealing of locked balls?

TSPP lets you steal Multiball...but, I think you can change it in the settings if you don't want that to happen.

Is 24 the most recent Stern release? I have not seen one anywhere around here?

The 2008 games were Shrek, Indiana Jones, Batman, and CSI ...the 2009 games so far are 24 and NBA. Seems like the So Cal ops won't touch anything after Batman.
 
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(same reply I gave at BYOAC)

I think it's a fun game. I really like when the terrorist sniper swings out and you have to make that shot to kill him. I didn't notice any issues with flipper power, but maybe it was an adjustment issue.

The software isn't quite finished from what I understand, so rule updates and tweaks are still coming down the line.
 
(same reply I gave at BYOAC)
I didn't notice any issues with flipper power, but maybe it was an adjustment issue.

The Venom ramp on Spider-Man is hard to hit on factory settings...but if you set Coil Pulse to HARD, the game rocks the f'in house. Could be the same issue.

(same reply I gave at BYOAC)
The software isn't quite finished from what I understand, so rule updates and tweaks are still coming down the line.

Or will they? WoF will most likely never be finished....same w/ IJ4. CSI? Gary's probably gonna pull a WoF on that one...didn't sell enough, so who cares.

Unfortunately Gary Stern has created a double edged sword...the fantastic SAM updating system allows him to release unfinished games, since it's so easy to install updates..........however - you may NEVER get the updates! Even if 24 does get finished...will the op update it?
 
No, the latest release is NBA.

I haven't seen a game allow stealing of locked balls in years. I know that was a common feature of pins in the SS era but I don't play too many multiplayer games anymore. What newer games allow the stealing of locked balls?

Elvis allows locked ball theft, which is funny because it is a virtual lock.

I've been in contact with the op that runs these games, and if the current tech who maintains them hits the road I might be able to take over. That would be pretty sweet.
 
i played NBA today. excellent game. fast and fun.
also played WHEEL OF FORTUNE. excellent game too.
also played 24. almost excellent game. i found the play to be not quite as good as the first two but still it was almost excellent.
local business has them for sale. i needed to buy some bulbs and connectors and they have them sitting there for sale, free play mode too.
if i could only buy one, id buy the WHEEL OF FORTUNE because of the complicatedness of game play. if i wanted fast and fun, NBA. if i had a bunch of pinballs and/or had money to burn, 24 then.
 
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