If you spell out BALL on the left side of the table and hit the spinner you'll get an award. I wasn't able to get the Rescue Multiball but I found out that even now you can stack multiball modes. Not as much as Red & Ted where it would hurt your hands but a deep enough rumble that you can feel it two games away. Jon set up up to high and it has a good shake to it. Some people were bugged about the "Winky Guard" drop target hitting too hard so you can tone it down as well as adjusting the shaker motor. I watched him set the machine up when I got there. (Considering how much the game cost I can see why he doesn't have it giving out free games) He's also got the match set extra high so I didn't see one match the whole time I was there. I'm not sure if it's the way the owner Jon has the game set but it's set for 30,000 gets an extra ball, no replay score. Even with the newest code the game doesn't have a high score table! Why? We figured 300,000 is a high score since it scores low. Jon got it delivered by Jack not even two weeks ago and he installed the newest code. Why!? It's a one shot game! Granted the machine was very nice, but still that was way too much. At the Allentown Pinfest somebody got 2,200 for a Back to The Future machine. Even games that shouldn't go for much are somehow getting insane prices. As you said, people keep hording games and the ones that are out there fetch a pretty penny. Getting into it now is going to be a slog. I like it a lot once I figured out what to do. Most people I've seen are low balling one dollar donations. I read somewhere they had to do this now to get the license before the release of the new movies their planning, but when you don't give people what they paid for with the past two it's hard to give them more money on the hopes they'll get it done. It's sad when Pinball Arcade Fans has more information then their official site. I notice the image isn't real, looking at the button and the shadows I can tell it's a render not a photo, do you have a working unit? If you can get a video on the kickstarter of a working unit in action that will really help sell it.Farsight should have gotten their shit together before starting another Kickstarter. It needs a start, and up down left right for selecting things, since it's going to be an android without a touch screen (says to use your own pc monitor). Something people will want to know is what makes this special are there any features that couldn't be copied by taping an android tablet to a cereal box with buttons installed on it? The tablet taped to a box would nudge when shaken just like shaking the tablet without it being taped to a box, will the monitor connected to the computing unit tilt when shaken? Does it have sensors to let it know? It's going to need more buttons, all I see is left/right flipper and plunge. a higher end android tinker board is about 50-70 than it's like 10 for the usb encoder and buttons, so not counting monitor (as this doesn't come with one anyway) $80 and a cereal box and you could just build this now with a not so great looking case. or maybe just a simple standard USB joystick encoder. I'm guessing the "special controller with buttons" is an arduino bluetooth module with some momentary arcade buttons plugged into it. It's hard to trust a homemade computer and that could red flag allot of suspicion in people not trusting it. I think people will highly question just what this android "computing unit" is, how powerful it is, and so on. So I'm very skeptical an independent person could make a cheap one with decent enough power VS getting a store bought one for cheap. Reading your site it sounds like you have developed your own rasberry pi like android board and wow that is amazingly talented if so, but there are a ton of affordable android tinker boards on the market and for an independent person to have one made it would cost a heck of allot more than a big brand like ASUS who can have thousands made at a discount. None of those android games have the camera angle to look perfect for a virtual cabinet, is it even possible to mod them to work with your device camera angle wise or will they just run as they run normally without your device? First Your going to need to make it work with the existing big digital pinball games, I'm not sure what the rules are about showing other people's game running on it but unless you can let people know it works with Zen or TPB it will just be considered crap. So I'll just get you ready for all that byīeing your first skeptic so you can figure out how to present this better. now adays people crap all over kickstarters if there is even a hint of suckyness. but pulling this off and making it good is tough. A working affordable bartop pin would be great.
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