The Top 5 Secret Skills of Pinball (How To Play Pinball)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มี.ค. 2016
- The Top 5 Tips, from nudging to simply playing to make you an expert at pinball. Special thanks to diehardpinball.ca.
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I'm the number one pinball player in my bedroom. There might be a couple more people in Alberta.
To coin a phrase.. ‘hit whats lit’. It generally works 😀 (and a well timed nudge never hurts 😉)
Are we still talking about pinball ?
I've been meaning to get a pinball machine and then rig it with no gutters. I just want to experience actually playing through all the missions in a pinball game once in my life.
Did ya get one? If not just do it. I got one about 6 months ago and best thing I ever did. You'll get good enough to not need to block up the out lanes. But yeah, out lanes friggin suck. 😂
I think some machines have pins that pop up in front of the gutters as a reward for some missions
Dunno which machines but i'm sure there's at least on of em
@@RobotronSage Theatre of Magic and Tales of the Arabian Nights have spikes or magnets that keep the ball from draining
@@expfighter5112 the new Foo Fighters machine has a build in mechanism that lets you save your ball on a left outlane drain if you have the "Overdrive" lit. Super cool feature that's saved my game dozens of times
@@RobotronSage What you're talking about is what's called a kickback. It's a device that shoots the ball back into play if it goes into an outlane. You can activate them by shooting specific shots. They're actually really important not just because they save your ball but because a lot of games have lanes including outlanes where it's necessary for the ball to go into said lane to start a mode, get a reward, etc. A lot of times it's something like a letter that lights up when the ball goes into the lane. The kickback let's you light up letters or bonuses attached to. an outlane without losing your ball.
The #2 rule you mentioned with the ball resting on the edge of the flipper to slow it down allowing for greater control is my favorite. There is this one trick I can only pull off if I have been practicing lately and am on my game. I call it the Pinky Flip. If the ball falls into the very middle which is usually a loss for me you can sometimes hit both flippers at the same time and just barely launch the ball to safety. I am sure you use that trick on occasion and know it's proper name. I have been anywhere from terrible to a decently strong Pinball player. Never one who was good enough to compete though.
My favorite thing about pinball machines is the sounds it makes the bouncing back and clanging of each different mechanical piece or point given the part.
I mastered everything you just said when I was 13. I'm 56 now. Back in the70's they had the real machines. Brings back memories. Just the art ofnudging as you call it, that was a science. Ball control with your flipper,took years to master. Just like playing pool. Pinball was more intoxicating.I remember when they went digital scoring. I didn't like it. I love thesound of the numbers rolling. Lost art.
Check pinballmap you can still find them for public play!
could someone tell me a name of a machine that have the roling numbers just so i can check? pinball is not something i grew up with as im a bit yong but im searching about and i started liking it a bit =)
@@gabrielandy9272 Just in case you still don't have an answer: You can google for "EM" machines (= electro-mechanical or mechanical). Those have quite a recognizable sound. Although the tables generally have less depth than some newer tables, I can totally get it that their sound is a real deal. Newer tables are electronical (SS = solid state) and there are tables that have only numbers for highscore (alphanumerical) and there are tables with a dot matrix display, which are capable of displaying text, images or even minigames on them. If you want an example name for an EM table: Aztec. But there are numerous different tables. For all Pinball pros reading this: I hope I got it right, I am no expert.
I was my college's pool and pinball champ in 1977. My dad wasn't as proud of that as I was! lol
@@stefansunnick4690 They should make a modern machine with EM machine qualities
I mean i'm really excited to see how these machines evolve and i feel like we should definitely preserve the history of the .... sport?
Thanks for the videos. It's very well made
I literally just spent 6 hours straight on the same pinball machine !
I remember picking a machine, then next thing I know my mom is saying it’s time to go and I’m upset because I didn’t get to play House of the Dead yet. Come to think of it, I saved my mom money by using less than a dollar that day
Here’s nothing like watching someone really good play pinball. 👏😃👍🔥
Lol that shit is so fun. Its like the feeling of getting hit markers in a video game
ghost-busters? cuz that's my favorite
Own 2 virtual pinball tables that run vpx and future pinball. Play them every single day for a few hours. Have little over 1600 tables. Sometimes hit the arcade to play the real thing, wish they had tournaments or more players near me
Nothing like the sound of an old electromechanical pinball machine going through its startup reset routine...
That angle thing is really the key. I really didn't get as a kid how that worked. Really fundamentally more important than "learn the angles" is learn what the flipper will do, like: shoot from the base of the flipper: straight up, toward the middle: 45 degrees out, shoot from the tip: way off to the side of the machine. Obvious to pinball lovers but not the average person. Also the "dead bounce" is something I only recently mastered and it saves you a lot of time. Knowing when you don't have to or SHOULDN'T touch anything at all and just trust the ball will bounce to the other flipper or just lose momentum is such a valuable skill. Man I love pinball.
That was awesome. Now I know where to play pinball in Edmonton.
Grat video... muy bueno!
I've worked on Arcade pieces since '79,suppose it kinda cramped my playing style because rather than just play it I play them to look for defects to fix.
Definitely rules to keep in mind. Been playing for less than a year and I'm already in the top 5K internationally and 350th in my state.
It helps that this is my new hyperfixation that I also have great passion for now lol. This year I've been playing 3 or 4 times a week on average. It's so much fun.
Cool video!
TIP #6 Donkey Kick machine when ball Drains!
Death save... do it at tournaments. I hear they love that.
Yo jugaría con una máquina de pinball, si hubieran acá en Argentina, si quedan quedan muy pocas y no hay tanta variedad. Por ahora tendré que conformarme con los pinballs de Williams para android
What do you think makes a good pinball table?
YeS
good tips :)
Dead bounce also helps allot.......
Absolutely, probably my most used flipper technique.
Quando uscirà un flipper che si può giocare senza internet per xbox360
great tips. How does one go about getting a world wide ranking?
Fast Daddy Boy Gotta play some tournaments that are IFPA (International Flipper Pinball Association) points sanctioned. And then you're well on your way to a ranking! :)
Play in local tournaments....Find a spot that has games....They will usually have a weekly event. Sorry it took 3 years buddy! hope your out competing!?!?!?!
For a list of the all of the IFPA sanctioned tournament visit here: www.ifpapinball.com/calendar/
got all flipper tricks down..its nudging thats hardest part 25 cents lol more like 2 dollars
deinzien hall ratio kinda set pretty high not alot free plays either
it's so sad it's $2 a game no way you can really stand to play a ton of games with a price that high! i'd be much more comfortable spending $5 on 10 games they would loose nothing and at least you can feel like you're getting a good deal
This is why I built Arkadium Retro Arcade in Sherwood Park, one price admission, play all day and don't be a slave to the loonie or toonie. Remember these new machines can be anywhere from $8K - $20K now so there is a reason why operators are charging $1 or $2 a play.
My family has a arcade in our garage and we have a pinball machine there and my life goal is to be better at pinball than my mean cousin lol
he looks calm in a way the guy from office space the movie did .
Not the eyes of a pinball player. Even at my age 59 and a half I still see individual frames on television shows.
parkerbohnn that was deep.. and I think people with fast heart beats such as yourself invest in a tv that runs 240hz
Tip number 5 all day any day lmao
I'm curious to know if these tips also work for digital pinball as well?
absolutely
Of course, my recommendation on it is the williams classics app with many different tables each
Of them so playable as te real ones
Digital pinball is a total bs.
@@Packgammon don't be hating. besides, I love virtual pinball.
@@Smoothie_The_Gamecat
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Two pinball machines I want in my game room are Super Mario and WWF Royal Rumble
so you haven't played midevil madness
I've never heard of it.
Wow
just start out with a williams system 11 or newer.. learn to play .. rest will come
Ummm, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in tomorrow.
I ❤ Pinball 😍
I already know all of these secrets, and I'm still terrible at pinball. i get better scores just mashing the flippers like an angry child.
Denzien Hall
You can try a quarter on a string but they won't work anymore so you have to be a wizard to keep getting free games when the score go's up every time you win one, I call these flags you have to pass!
You just break the high score to date then tilt the remaining balls and get free games that way.
this tought me nothing on how to beat kids!1!!1!!1!!
Secret??
Come on...who reads the instructions? I just want to get after it!
My dad is the pinball wisard
I wonder if any of this works for digital pinball...
Yes it all does if you have good software and analog nudge
@@anonony9081 Hmm...good point.
Number 1 in Alberta, but number 750 at reading. It's denizen. DEN - I - ZEN!
Good intentions but no talent. I was 2 years old when I played my first pinball machine standing up on a stool and got a free game on the second ball. I always believed either you were born a player or you weren't. I remember the good old days. Every place I ever went there were pinball machines. Mostly all I did was play pinball when I got out of bed until I got to the race track then played pinball for 90 minutes during the warmups at the track then after the races played pinball at the Orchard Park Tavern across the street from Greenwood race track until they closed every night. I also bowled professionally but put in more time playing pinball machines than bowling.
@@parkerbohnn same, i became top player in my zone almost instantly when i stepped foot onto the arcade. all talent and skills from birth thats how its done.
@@randommz60 I played pinball for 12 hours a day for 30 years straight. I snapped my watch (broke it) at age 4 in the air saving the pinball not hitting the machine that's what they call true hand speed. From that age on I never wore a watch. I sure miss all the machines on Yonge Street in Toronto. I was well known in the city as someone you never want to play in pinball. I used to play one ball against 5 back in those days and one ball against 3 later on. I'm 60 years old now but I took apart Adam Becker on his own pinball machines up in Keswick recently.
@@randommz60 Look up the name Tommy Tutalidge the pictures match the parkerbohnn picture. I ruled rec.games.pinball since inception. The pictures are from 2003.
facebook.com/people/Tommy-Tutalidge/100013104288565
I still own one townhouse in Edmonton, I used to own 4. Bought all 4 back in 1990. The one I have left I'd be lucky to double my money on after 29 years at 173 Roseland Village which is sitting empty with no renters. If I'm reading the real estate market prices will finally go higher for resale apartments and resale townhouses. I live in Markham, Ontario.
did anyone notice how slow his ball was coming down .. cheat
1st tip buy a pinball machine.. shit I have no money guess that dreams out of the ???
get good
Tip #6 Watch other players play.
That is great advise! If only I had a sixth one I was allowed to say lol...
This was about as helpful as car driving instructions: put the key in the ignition. Hold the steering wheel. Generally look out the front window. If something gets in your way, turn.
Good general video.
NUDGING TIP: Physically speaking, when nudging, you are moving the table, you are not moving the ball. The ball stays where it is. So there is a certain amount of “opposite day” involved in how you nudge the table in order to get the ball to bend to your will.
General complaint which has nothing to do with this video:
I am quite tired of watching videos of pinball “wizards” who have obviously setup the table to never tilt, with almost zero table angle to slow drains and bats misaligned to make easy shots running up billions of points endlessly and calling themselves “Tommy”.
Pinball is supposed to be a challenge.
The table he's playing is so slow, no speed to it. Geriatric mode enabled!
As a collector/operator I hate people that "nudge" the machine. I watched a guy in an arcade in the mall absolutely thrash a Stern Star Wars recently. Full on slamming it into the wall and machine next to it. There is no reason to "nudge" it at all. I hate when I come in to service and clean my machines and the machine has been obviously moved out of position by an overly zealous player. These machines are pushing 7K and up new. Please don't abuse the machines guys.
i pretty much beat the shit out of every pinball machine i play. its how you get good
I think nudging and abuse is whole other thing. I operate a number of machines as well and you need to ensure they are setup probably so if people abuse the machines they pay the consequences of a tilt. Many locations I visit the machines are setup too easy with little to no tilt setting and give good players excuses to take liberties to give their ball alive. If a machine is setup right then in reality you will have way less abuse of machines unless a person is just being a dick about it.
That metallica looks really slow
"Read the instructions" wow...wouldn't have figured that one out without BEING TOLD...basically all these tips are intuitive...no explanation needed...so...good video eh...!
Knowing where the multipliers and quest modes are.... thats huge.
This guy is not giving advice on getting better. Getting better beings with a deep understanding of the rules, knowing what leads to multipliers is more important sometimes then going for multiball. This also has to do with the code version the machine has installed. Pinball code is now an evolving thing. The machine you should practice on, should be on the code version of the tournament you are entering. Your strategy might also depend on consistency of right handed shots vs left. Some of the best players play slow and only go for the shots they know they can hit every time. I have seen some of the best in Texas, and online.
Man been a long time since I have seen that video lol... The video was meant for an amateur player and was made 6 years ago much of the strategies apply for those that just want to get a little better at keeping the ball alive. I am sure if I made a video with advanced tips there would have been other tips I would have shared about how to score better as a competitive player. Advanced flipper techniques like drop catching, shatzing in-lanes, alley passes, etc. Or strategies such as stacking modes with multi-balls, risk/reward strategies depending on the ball you are and the machine you are playing. Playing only the safe shots on a playfield when you are in a close game. There are so many types of tips out there is you want to become one of the best players in the world. Unfortunately, I was never asked to do another video or else I could have incorporated those advance competitive strategies for those who are inspiring to compete on a world stage. :)
How I hate sharing a hobby with such an arrogant guy... pinball is supposed to be fun
Been playing Pinball for 49 years since i was 7, and the ONLY thing i do NOT like about the so called best in the world and their pinball play is when they physically pick up the machine and move it side to side to save the ball. That is cheating and ALWAYS will be, i don't care if it's legal to do or not, that is a skill of people who have no clue how to play the actual game!
Real pinball machines have a type of a pendulum rod that hangs down surrounded by metal. The pendulum will hit the metal and shut down if the machine is bumped too hard. But it allows a slight nudge. Those people you talk about have the tilt turned off.
1st
So tips everyone knows already
Well none of that helped me
Lol agree
Yeah ok
A quarter.......now you need about 8 to get 5 games in. Yet another nail in the coffin of pinball. Don't get me wrong, I love the game, but $2 for 5 games..........your killing its chances to stay competitive
WOW 2$ for 5 games...here in switzerland it's around 5$ for 6 games if you pay 5 directly or 1$/game normally.
Damn that cheap where I live. It is $2 for 3 plays where I am at for the newer games
its chances to stay competitive ended when Stern became the only pinball manufacturer. This was early 2000's It wasn't until recently that more manufacturers came around and it's starting to be an actual industry again.
$2 for 3 here as well
When I grew up it was 5 cents or 3 plays for a dime. I was the best in Canada around age 9 and the best in the province of Ontario when I was 7 years old. I used to play those stupid baseball machines blindfolded and could still beat anyone alive blindfolded. The old games from the 60 's and 70's you could just lock limit the thing on the first ball and just about every machine had 3 free games every time you came around the zeros so I'd just run the thing up to 09 games years later 50 or 99 games all on the first ball. I was always known as the fastest player alive. I always tried to cut my times down on how long it took to run up 99 games on the first ball.
If these are you top 5 tip I would OWN YOU lol ;-).
No tips about dead stops or anything...
Stop by the arcade, up for a game anytime, bring cash ;)
I'm sorry but I have to lol!
#1 in Alberta, Canada!... #750 worldwide bahaha
Not that I should be laughing, I suck at this
Ryan Penrod I'm number 1 in South Carolina. 1200 in the world =)
This is Tommy Tutalidge the man that still rules the world of pinball. Sightings all over the world of me playing pinball documented on rec.games.pinball. Take a real good look at my t-shirt on facebook under the name Tommy Tutalidge. The fine line between mortality and immortality a the real Tommy a the world champion. Note the pictures are from May 2001. Ya LEARN ya LEARN about the real Tommy.
You don't have the eyes of a pinball player. First tip, don't keep your fingers more than one-quarter of an inch off of the flippers at all times. Look up the Bruce Lee one inch punch for how to explode at one quarter inch distance to save the ball. Not legal in tournament play you can also death save the ball with swivel hips.
I was up to 46 in the world, now sit at 116 in the world, not too shabby considering there are around 70,000 competitive players :)
this guy looks like peter griffin
120,000 views. Less than 1000 likes lol. Videos like this are why TH-cam took away the dislike button.
Why?
Wow tough crowd, lol
I literally started playing pinball a few days ago and have loved the game since those last few games 🥹