Do you have a line on one, or are you just thinking out loud?

Yes. You should absolutely add it to the lineup. I play it constantly and it is always a challenge. I would be interested to hear your high score that satiated you, because I find it to be one of my more difficult machines.

Who doesn't love the Tom Baker years?

+1

Dr Who is easily in my top 10 games ive ever played and the game i go to most at home. Just the perfect amount of fun shots,difficulty and great game rules.

Also love the features like being the who loop champion etc

+1 to that, i have to work my but off to get high scores

Yeah what is a high score out there??? Im at 780million for high score and a 42 loop champion

A good DW score is over 2B IMO. You should be able to beat 780 million by just getting the bonus multipier up and nabbing a few Daleks. Throw a video mode or two on top of that and you'll pass 1B in no time. Once you get to Davros jackpots the game gets much more difficult and big points become harder to achieve. I usually just try to complete sonic booms or video modes at that point and see how far I can go but a 4X Davros jackpot is worth 400M, a second 800M and each additional 1.2B IIRC. I've personally never collected a third wave Davros jackpot and I don't think I'd ever bother trying.

I got this game in a lot of 3 games I bought about a year ago as the "throw in". Can't get rid of it now and always find myself coming back to it and that is with 10 other games around it. I honestly don't think I'd ever get rid of it, just a cool game!

Wow 2 billion..ive got work to do! I do see the potential in a bigger score than my 780 mill as i got this without shooting the time expander as it can be a SDTM monster.I hope to raise the expander by accident off the missed shots on the who circuits

I suppose my 1.2B is pretty weak. Well, it's good for me anyway.

Dr. Who is the bomb!

Awesome machine, loud in your face sounds and music, super fast play, a nice mix from mode based WPCs, likely the best "toy" ever in the Time Expander, video modes that are fun, kick ass new mod for the dalek topper - just a wicked machine.

I love DW. Gets played all the time, even next to FT, Tron LE, and IJ. Mine's been freshly waxed and plays so fast it's like a new game.

yeah, 1.2Bil is average. I mean, that's only like 2 or 3 good multiplied Jackpots, not to mention loop and doctor points.

Man, how do you guys get so much. Ever since I completely shopped mine, my highest is juuuuust under 2B, but most games around 400-800M. It is such a quick drainer. I keep the multiplier up as much as I can, but I think the timer has changed due to high scores going up, so I may need to change that.

I could probably increase my score by lowering the pitch on mine. I have it at 7.5 degrees, I'm sure that effects my scores.

Question, what episodes actually involve Davros and the daleks? I started watching the TV series and need some direction.

I am a real looser, my normal scores are 100-500m and high is 1b.

Dang I have to start practicing more!

Are you kidding? There are only 40+ years of this show, longest running TV show of all time I believe - sci fi at least.

1.6B and 59 loops.

DW is the one pin I won't get rid of unless it's to buy a better one.

Lastability is better than any machine I've ever owned, including TZ (which I am now tired of) and AFM (which I am growing tired of).

Scores on DW depend a lot on how it's set up as well. If loops are hard to repeat it's going to be a lot harder to bag a big score and repeatable loops depend a lot on how strong the upper flipper is and how consistently the ball feeds it. I rebuilt the flippers on mine shortly after I got it and wound up putting the old coil back on the upper because it was so strong the ball was flying into the plastic protector to prevent air balls, rattling around and falling back out the way it came. My personal best for loops is in the 80s on my second of two DW plays at Cal Extreme. On my own DW it's in the 70s with hundreds of games played. I just can't loop as consistently on mine since the ball tends to drop with less precision—sometimes further from the flipper and sometimes faster/slower the normal.

lmk how many pms that comment generates.

Please correct me if I am wrong, this is from memory:

Premise of the show is that the Time Lord race (The Doctor) was in a huge war with the Daleks. Davros created the Daleks and is the leader. The Doctor won the war with the Daleks by closing the time vortex on both the Time Lords and the Daleks and supposedly killed all Time Lords and Daleks. The Doctor is not the only Time lords to have escaped and some Daleks did as well. Davros was also somehow able to escape the closure and is constantly trying to rebuild the Daleks and is recurring throughout every season of the television show.

I just got one 2 days ago so far im liking it alot

Dr. 1 spots an extra escape letter for each target hit so 3 hits to any unlit target light video mode.
Dr. 6 spots an extra bonus multiplier per loop. So 3 loops gain a full 4x instead of 6.
Dr. 7 spots a time expander light for any hit instead of requiring the correct row be hit.

Those are the most important ones, the following are pretty much take what you get in my experience. I would tend to try and get Dr 3 here first but YMMV.

Dr. 2 adds more time for Hang On (H shot in W-H-O).
Dr. 3 adds more time for W-H-O combo shots.
Dr. 4 spots an extra repair letter for Unlimited Millions.
Dr. 5 increases how fast you build the Transmat (via the pops) to add a doctor by hitting the target just south of the O ramp.

Just played this last night for the first time, and enjoyed it quite a bit.

Is it just me, or does the Doctor remind anyone else of a featured-up Pin*Bot??

Later,
EV

Yes, same designers. It is part of the reason that the DW has so much staying power.

yep, that's definitely what's going on. I'm a big Barry Oursler fan. I have yet to play this machine but i am dying to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davros

This link explains Davros pretty well. I remember seeing this episode...100 years ago

BTW- Love DR Who... play it daily.

Hmm... Looks like my history was a little off. 1975 was not the first season.

WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!! I just thrashed my old DW GC score! The funny thing is, I was just screwing around on the first ball because I wanted to show my kids the wobble head kit that I just installed so I was just trying to get to multiball as fast as possible without jacking up the playfield multiplier or anything. The second ball was epic. I'm a little mad that I just barely missed 3B. I got nervous and screwed up a video mode wave and then promptly drained. Oh well, more incentive to beat this new GC score!

Oh, my DW has the outlanes on the middle setting and awards EB's for replays and specials. I got the replay score (obviously) and special, plus an EB each for doing WHO loops and video mode for a total of 7 balls. Still no Davros jackpots though.

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I just played a really nice one over the weekend at my tech's house. He demolished me in two player but I really enjoyed it. Might be looking to add one at some point.

Amen! and my Top Ten! (11)

1. Genesis Of The Daleks
2. Talons Of Weng-Chiang
3. Ark In Space
4. Pyramids of Mars
5. The Pirate Planet
Masque of Mandragora (tie)
6. Terror Of The Zygons
7. Robots Of Death
8. Keeper Of Traken
9. City Of Death
10.Brain Of Morbius

Wow, that is a heck of a score.

I think it is a great game. I am looking for one myself. Going to pick one up as soon as I find a decent one not tooooo far from me.

I liked the Pin myself,, It's the Dalek Sound's that got on my Nerves ,,,,,,, Man Alive !!

Even at Lost Ark Arcade , If someone is play-n DW, You Will Know it..

I sold DW to the Banker, He sold it to ChadH , Chad sold it to someone on the other Forum !!

No Love ......