When I finally switched mine over to 3 ball I thought okay now multiball is going to be near impossible, but it's not nearly as rare as I expected. Especially with the yellow targets' status now being kept between balls, and if you make that your main objective above everything else from ball 1.

Black Knight... on the 'easy' setting it is WAY too damn easy, shoot the three balls into the lock and that's it, possibly without even having to leave the upper pf. You gotta have it on the hard setting where you at least have to shoot the turnaround to enable it, which is not exactly a cinch shot.

Even when it was 5 balls for a nickel like my Gtb. Poker Face you could start your own multiball, just keep pushing the ball lift rod and shoot, shoot, shoot. If you have 10 or 15 credits on the wheel, why not live a little?

Must've been a shock back in the 50s when they changed scoring from millions down to only 1000s. Talk about a pay cut!!

Surprised somebody hasn't made a game which actually serves two balls to the shooter every time, or after you shoot it shoots a second ball out automatically from a subway kicker or something. Just give the player multiball at the start and see what he can do with it. First ball drains and then it just reverts to one ball scoring.

Gotta figure games with multiball are the hardest on the balls too, smackin' into each other all day, getting chipped, especially high-flipper-power modern games. A machine with only one ball in it? Hell the ball must think it has it cushy just bouncing off rubber rings and plastic targets and maybe getting thrown by a steel saucer kicker arm once in a while.

'Jackpot' is sort of like what 'Wow' or 'Special' or 'award bonus' was in the older days. 'Jackpot' is getting long in the tooth. Maybe they need to come up with a fresh term that still implies winning an accumulated amount of points but I can't think of a good one. 'Jackpot' generally means the ultimate 'biggie' award like on a slot machine, so when there's a half dozen different ones to win in a game, the term loses it's meaning and they gotta keep sticking super or mega in front of it.

<<Gottlieb Punk, if you drain prior to multiball any locked balls also drain. You then start over...>>

>>Black Hole is a mean SOB that way. >>

It isn't quite that bad, it only drains the upper saucer lock and on the next ball it will still be lit and is a very easy shot.

And then there's the BAD multiball where you can't complete either of the lower drop target banks and you're forced to watch both balls down there get shot up the tube and flushed right down the drain!