Regina, SK
Quoted from chubtoad13:Playing FT with regular flippers is weak sauce.
When the designer of the game has normal flippers installed on his personal game, because....it was designed that way, you know it's not "weak sauce".
IIRC, the pod cast interview with Mark Ritchie confirms that. It also mentioned the reason why. A French distributor pressured the company into creating shorter flipper bats to reduce ball time. It also goes on to describe why other games have lightning bats. It was because of surplus stock that needed to be consumed.
Fish Tales with lightening flippers is the "French Edition", as far as I'm concerned. 
Akron, OH
