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Oh yeah :) Finally. So stoked, cant wait to get home. My first pin, and from everything I have seen/heard about this, she's ready to plug and play. I'll post about everything as soon as I get home and get settled.

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Woah dude, I doubt anything will be wrong, but that has been unpacked and repackaged, I think. Either that or the corner protectors were removed at some point. Maybe when they removed the blanket wrap for delivery they also took off the rest of the cardboard corner protectors.
 
Woah dude, I doubt anything will be wrong, but that has been unpacked and repackaged, I think. Either that or the corner protectors were removed at some point. Maybe when they removed the blanket wrap for delivery they also took off the rest of the cardboard corner protectors.

Yeah, I looked over everything, and it all looks fine. We'll see when I get home :)
 
Thanks dudes for the kind words. I had to pry myself away from this thing last night so I could get some sleep. Huge thanks to jar155 for hooking me up with it. So, yeah I had it shipped to me from Utah, and all went well w/ the shipping. The cab is in good shape, and the playfield is nice too, with some wear up by the pop bumpers, CAB lanes, a little by Santa Claus, and where the ball drops from the ramps (not sure what that's called, heh). There are some broken plastics too, which I will replace down the road, but this thing is a great player, for sure. Makes for a great first pin (IMO).

My laptop, and camera decided to both up and die last night, so I stole some pics that Jeff sent me before he shipped it. One thing I will say is that real pinball is much harder than virtual pinball. I'm great at this game on XBOX360, but can barely crack 1,000,000 on the real deal. :D

Pics attached. I'll post some more when I get my computer/camera issues worked out.
 

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Taxi is all about pumping up the jackpot and hitting it when it's at 4 million.

Yeah, I had the jackpot to about 2.5M last night, but could never get it. I had all 5 passengers carried, but could never hit the money shot. This shit is awesome!

Is it bad that I am already trying to figure out my next pin? Hahaha.
 
Yeah, I had the jackpot to about 2.5M last night, but could never get it. I had all 5 passengers carried, but could never hit the money shot. This shit is awesome!

Is it bad that I am already trying to figure out my next pin? Hahaha.

haha. nice.

The jackpot accumulates from game to game. I like to let my wife play until it gets up to 4 million and try to swoop in and grab it. I might feel bad about that if she didn't have the high score on every freaking game I own ;)
 
haha. nice.

The jackpot accumulates from game to game. I like to let my wife play until it gets up to 4 million and try to swoop in and grab it. I might feel bad about that if she didn't have the high score on every freaking game I own ;)

Ahh, good to know. I kind of wondered how I would have gotten it up so high in the one game. Knowing that it accumulates makes sense now. So, it never goes over 4M?

Do you know what the "special" does on the joyride? I got it last night, and there was a cool light show, and the bell rang really loud, but I didn't notice what exactly it did?
 
Here's your rule sheet: http://www.ipdb.org/rulesheets/2505/TAXI.HTM

Isn't special a setting? I think you can set it to be a replay or an extra ball or something...but I'm not 100% sure right now. Obviously if you're set to free play, the replay is no big deal, but for consistency in scoring it's best to have it award replays rather than extra balls.

That bell is freaking awesome!
 
I'm not totally sure about special either but I would suspect it's configurable to extra ball, replay, score, etc...

That bell IS freaking awesome! It always scares the hell out of people.

As far as I know the jackpot only goes up to 4 million but it might be configurable. I haven't really played with the settings much on that game.
 
Sweet, thanks for the info guys.

I think I'll set it to extra ball. You don't get specials all too often (I think I got 1 in 3+ hours of play yesterday), so it seems like that would be best for home use.
 
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