Terror dog champ bug is widely documented. Your other score one...not so much. Stick it in the bugs and wishlist thread and I'll add it to the known bugs list for Stern.

Their game price increases are paying off for us.

That lighted speaker panel looks sweet.

What’s the price? Don’t see it on your site.

This is one aspect of that. Prices have gone up very fast recently, but they are addressing the code issue way better than in past years.

Yeah but prices shouldn't have had to go up for them to sell us games with complete code or for code updates to get to us better and faster. Good code is to be expected regardless of the prices they are selling new games for.

Didn't they just add 3 new programmers?

I think they did. TBH, the ST code update was so strange I wonder if the new guys were given it as a project to cut their teeth.

For a long time I have thought that they release games too often. With their staff of even two years ago, we saw that they could get designs out at the pace they wanted, but the programmers couldn't keep up. I would love to know what things would have been like if they released a game every 5-6 months instead of every 4 months or had one more programmer/programming team. I think that would have kept things in balance and the "Where's the code?" thing might not have ever happened. I think their catalog of games within a current production license would allow for the pace to slow down a little.

That almost doesn't matter at this point though because they have staffed up. So now they are chipping away at titles that are in need of some love. I don't like the wait on GB, but what can I do but wait? I operate GB and don't want to sell. I don't want to even consider it until it gets to 100% gross ROI because that would bug me every time I looked at my earnings spreadsheet. It'll get there, but I bet with a rocking 1.20 update it'll get there a heck of a lot faster.

The center panel appears to be the same print I have hanging in my game room by Vance Kelly. Great poster.

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Joining the club tomorrow.

The license on that art couldn't have been cheap...

Yes they did. What does that have to do with anything?

Couple left: airball protectors

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/sale-ghostbusters-airball-air-ball-right-orbit-protectors#post-4584048

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I just blew up my Ghostbusters Prem! I've been focusing on the Gozer standup when I get to StayPuft. Tonight it paid off. I put the ball in the pops four times before taking the "Choose and Perish" shot. It's risky as there's no telling where the ball will go coming out of that center exit. I had X1, X3, X3 and X6 (I don't know how it assigns the multipliers). I hit the right loop for the X6 and started at 300M per shot! I completed StayPuft and drained after bricking my first shot for WCWS.

On the next plunge, I hit the "K" for light multipliers, and went into WCWS with multipliers lit. That was another points free-for-all. I wrapped up the game with We Got One, and finished with 11 Billion!!

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Amazing how this happens - you at least had a plan and stuck to it!

My best is 16 bill and I really don't understand how I got there, but the score seemed to go up by hundreds of millions every few seconds.

That one game, where I scored billions more than any games before or since, was enough to solidify GB in my collection. Once day I hope to do it again...

Amazing! My highest is 7.6 billion and i have no idea how i did it lol.

Not bad, I got to 5B on my first ball and then it's a points fest I was hitting pke for 463M and with 6x playfield. I finished on 16Billion.

These scores are crazy. Interesting that some comments state that they do not know how they got there. My high score is something in the 10B and the following is about 5B.

To be honest this shows that the scoring urgently needs some polish. The huge scores depend on the playfield multipliers to be available in the right moment. And thus you need luck to hit the K lane. It is not fun for me to have such a dependency of the scoring from the skill shoot in K.

I hope that the code update adjusts the scoring back to the basics: good shots/long play leads to high scoring.

light them at the captive ball. It deffo needs looking at when you're at 10B and the 10% of your score is lit at the skillshot...

Well the money to pay them has to come from somewhere.

I think they are making plenty of money to hire a few coders without raising the prices every single release. Thats their business though and they can do whatever they choose to do.

I can't argue with you about huge points requiring getting multipliers at the right time. However, I don't think that the "k" shot and scoring code need to be adjusted (there are bigger priorities). I think it creates an interesting dynamic for the home game. Very high risk / very huge reward. I can't imagine that tournament players even mess with the multipliers in this game. It's too unreliable (either way you try), and they would be forfeiting a for sure 10% of their scores on each plunge by not taking an easy skill shot.

Being able to pull off one of these outrageous scores on demand would be unlikely. But they sure are fun when everything lines up and you get one!! Finishing the game is still my ultimate goal. Points are nice bragging rights, but I'm more impressed by someone who can complete a game. I've yet to do that on any of my games.

Wouhou !!!

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Nice work. Now practice making the "K" skillshot (select with the left flipper) reliably and you will at least quadruple that with no additional effort.

I'll just be happy when we get a much less buggy ROM. Having "We got one" running at the same time as "Spook Central" is annoying (other modes mix, too, all are equally annoying and unpredictable). I also hate that if the ramp is your last shot to finish a right ladder mode, you end up triggering the lit left ramp mode.

I don't want any change to this at all. Plan your shots ahead. I don't want to have all of the modes lit after I finish a mode. That's one more shot I have to make. If you want to get into a certain mode and you are in a mode, make sure that shot is the last one you have to make.

I agree and hope they don't change this in the rules. I like the challenge of planning the mode completion shots. Makes sense to have it a game option to auto start the next mode.

*However* I absolutely think there is a problem when the last slimer hit is in the ecto goggles and collecting it forces the start of the next mode on the right ladder. This is random behavior and is extra frustrating when there is only one mode left in one of the other two sets.

Planning and accuracy are rewarded richly in this game. The fact that completing a mode and starting the next mode can occur on the same shot is a bonus for good shooting. It can also be a penalty, as PinMonk stated when the left ramp is the last shot for a right ladder mode. Even then, you aren't really in jail, as you have another mode started that can be very lucrative. I much prefer this to a single "mode start shot" that allows me to pick any mode I want, but forces me to go to one place every time.

You always have the option of not taking the final shot and going thru the "ghost standup" method of relighting the modes. You can then take the one you want. I can't say that I would advise that, but it's available. I think the coding of this game is done really well. It's very different from other mode based games. With planning and good shooting, you can be in a mini-wizard mode with just 10 shots. It's damn-near impossible, but it is possible!! I find that very creative.

I do agree with PinMonk that the bugs in the code need to be fixed. Hopefully we'll see an update that is worthy of this game's potential and really puts it over the top.

I don't think you understand the scenario I mean. If you complete some number of modes and your current one times out, you will need to hit the ghost target to bring down slimer and bash him in order to start the next mode. There are times when on the last slimer hit, the bash toy swings up and he moves to the ecto goggles. At this point there is nochoice on how to complete slimer, you must shoot the ecto goggles. The problem is, clearing slimer on the ecto shot will immediately start the next mode in the right ladder. That, I think is a problem. Of course this is only a Prem/LE issue.

Now that I have this annoyance at the tip of my brain, I will send a note to Stern while they are (supposedly) working on the GB code update. If anybody has Dwight's direct email, please send a PM.

I was playing (my) GB in a tournament last night at a location we only play at once a month. It was so fun and since it's a little more casual, my friend and I were chatting about all of the things we like about the game and what could be improved. The game has a lot to offer experienced players. I don't know that the layout will be something newer players can mange well, but my buddy was having a blast nailing PKE 3 times in a row for 256 million a pop.

Good discussion. I always thought that "auto starting" the next mode felt "unexpected" as opposed to "intuitive", and made this brutal game seem a little more brutal. However, I decided to keep an open mind and play a couple games trying to use auto mode start to my advantage. Sure enough, if you concentrate on making sure your mode-ending shot goes to the ladder you want to advance, it's noticeably easier to complete ladders. So, I guess it's "OK", but I'm still not crazy about that aspect of the design.

On a side note, one thing did go wrong. I made the left ramp shot after starting Spook Central, and We Got One started, so both modes ran concurrently. When that happens, it's hard to know where to shoot! This weird issue has been reported before in the issues thread.

Yeah, it's still got some bugs that need squashed. The pending update should take care of them.

Now I understand. I don't think that I've ever had that exact scenario play out on mine.

Maybe I am just the only one who can't finish modes on time It's more common to see this behavior on the first ball if you miss the skill shot to start the first mode. Slimer jumping to the goggles is not a frequent occurrence. It is less of an annoyance on the first ball as most of the time people are aiming for the ecto skill shot and are resigned to starting the game with WBTD anyway.

What does it look like when the power is off?

Is it interactive with the game?

Looks cool... not seeing $200. Cool though

Looks good but just more stuff reflecting on the glass. I hate glass reflections. I have modified a few of my older games to shut off the backbox when the flippers are active. I am hoping in the new code update that they will put the adjustment for backbox brightness during gameplay in the adjustments menu like BM66.

Agreed, that is one of the best adjustments ever. Cant wait for the new update, im gonna start playing the hell out of mine again.

I have owned a prem for a few months now,the honeymoon is well and truly over and it is still the game I play and enjoy the most.
Just over 6 billion is my best score.
Here's hoping the next update is soon, I love this game.

No but it has a bunch of different colors and effects via remote.

Maybe you could post a picture with a Bent Plastic shield on it to show how it cuts down the reflection on the pf glass.

Why don't the spammers go advertise their stuff in the right place and leave the forum for actual conversations....it really is irritating to have a thread bumped by another ad......

We get it....everything needs to be lit up by LEDs....sheesh

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