Last Action Hero
Data East, 1993The reason I was wondering this is because in Last Action Hero (maybe also Jurassic Park) there is a display that promotes PAPA 4 in the attract mode. Apparently TOMMY had this promotion going on where the cast of the Broadway musical attended PAPA and played the game in a tournament. What exactly did they do besides these?
All of the pinball manufacturers were sponsors of PAPA and IFPA tournaments in the early 90s.
I don't know the details of the arrangement with the Tommy cast, but it seems like most of that happened locally in NYC with Steve Epstein.
Quoted from snyper2099:I do know that TFTC has tournament setting modes for IFPA style and PAPA style rules. I would be interested to know if these tournament settings exist for other DE pins.
Yes, for example:
R&B: Adjustment 45 Tournament Style can be set to None, Home, PAPA, EXPO, or IFPA
LAH: Adjustment 51 Tournament Style can also be set to None, Home, PAPA, EXPO, or IFPA
I know with R&B you can also use an IFPA or PAPA logo in your custom attract mode message. Edit: Also in LAH.
Quoted from snyper2099:I do know that TFTC has tournament setting modes for IFPA style and PAPA style rules. I would be interested to know if these tournament settings exist for other DE pins.
They exist in SEGA games too (carried over from DE), at least Lost World. IFPA, PAPA, EXPO and Home tournament modes. I used to know the difference; I think it's in the manual but I don't have that handy...
I also like the old feature of having 6 players or automatically adding players 1-3 and 2-4 in 4-player games.
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