Attack From Mars (Bally, 1995)
added to
Sunshine Laundromat
in Brooklyn
by
dantastic
Oct 08, 2024
"One super charger magnet is out and makes ball fall out of the supercharger occasionally.
Playing nicely otherwise." The Getaway: High Speed II (Williams, 1992)
"Ball feels a little erratic. It jumped over the playfield more often than I expected. It also got dispensed twice during the lock sequence when all the lights were off, so I think there's a glitch in the game." Venom (Pro) (Stern, 2023)
"It's the Pro edition, so the playfield doesn't change between characters. Peter's ramp/Gwen's tunnel is just an orbit around the mystery scoop." Venom (Pro) (Stern, 2023)
"In absolutely beautiful condition. Very easy to earn replays. Currently located in the front right corner, on the opposite side of the wall from where Fast & Furious is on the main arcade floor, next to a bunch of mini claw machines and in front of the window. LE #811." JAWS (LE) (Stern, 2024)
Line-up confirmed at
Barcade
in New York
by
chambertin
Sep 25, 2024
Line-up confirmed at
Pioneers Bar NYC
in New York
by
sausageburglar
Sep 25, 2024
"The game plays totally great, where great is defined as "an idealized version of your memory of any sopranos you've ever played before". Which is to say: still kind of fucked up, right? It's basically mandatory that you do teeny little microflips or weird proto-ski-passes every four seconds to keep the ball alive. You'll have shitty bad-luck rebounds from
the left bit of the safe or whatever. The flipper buttons might cut up your hands a little bit. This is a good thing. It's The Sopranos. It's perfect. If the operators ever actually make it play like the person who designed the game's platonic ideal personal copy, all neat and clean, I will riot.
The rest of this comment is a review of The Sopranos pinball in general. The rules are a totally flat and textureless surface. This is also a good thing. Critically, it is a flat and textureless surface *of pleasure*. Other games come with requirements. NBA Fastbreak asks you, as a pinball player, to memorize which team got the most points during the 1994-95 season (it's the Orlando Magic). AC/DC expects you to know the chronological release order of their songs (fuck that). Other games ask you to memorize complex strategies (which house on Game of Thrones, etc.) The Sopranos asks you to know nothing and be nothing. Can you stack a mode on a different mode? Yeah. Which ones? Basically all of them. Do you gotta know anything? I don't know dude just shut the fuck up and turn your brain off and do your microflips." The Sopranos (Stern, 2005)