Dude 5 ball on electronic games is cheating.

BH 3ball extra ball at 400000 800000
I would say if you get one extra you did fine.

Oh boy not my day for sure no multiball and only close once.
73930 one left drain one right
113190 nothing special all sdtfm
160740 2 balls locked then sdtfm
85740 another chit game
183070 one right drain plus one unusual ball hop over the flipper wtf
204430
103550
139470 just playing quick writing down scores getting pissed
261180 seemed way better one lower ball locked special lit on top then post hit sdtfm
74450 I sure hope this is ten I am sick of getting my ass kicked

My gal seems to like music I had none on.
I don't know what kind of analysis your doing buy it was all for science

F-14 Tomcat
3 balls, full factory settings, L-4 software.....2 part automotive clear coat and no mylar!

541,990
172,760
739,790
773,280
1,089,880
367,520
1,012,800
168,600
1,220,060
427,580

My first ball is very consistent, mostly because if isn't it ends prematurely... So weird.

I was of corse just kidding, speaking my personal taste and "" mr Nate.

I am really surprised with all the " pin clubs" here that people don't post and or have some competitions like this the ten raw games and with certain settings of 3/5 ex ball or none etc.
I brought it up once but no one seemed that interested.
I guess they would rather be posting lawyer talk. Duck

Ok, I too feel my inconsistency is poor so thought Id give it a try. The game is Metallica pro, which for some reason seems to play hardest of any others I play. Here are my results

1. 8,482,890 (Bad start)
2. 5,062,740 (even worse, got screwed with a bad sparky throwback and wicked outlines)
3. 7,548,940
4. 49,022,040 (first game with a multiball, got 1 crank it up started and was 1shot away from Coffin)
5. 21,854,910
6. 31,372,770
7. 2,487,470 (bad first two balls and got thrown a house ball on a ball save)
8. 72,155,750(had a good coffin/electric chair stack. Had crank it up lit but didn't start it)
9. 29,814,130
10. 3,115,603 (damn out lanes got me again)

So basically all over the board. Metallica might not be the best to try though as it can be pretty brutal on the outlines.

Doctor Who. 10 games in a row; 3 balls / game, no extra ball - did not note the last 3 digits:
272,623,000
644,166,000
598,994,000
113,169,000
21,264,000 (ouch)
156,633,000
163,882,000
622,401,000
857,844,000
425,777,000

Why do some people look down on 5 ball?

I say your machine, your rules.

It's no different when one selects a difficulty level on Madden.

Ok one more game to try, I'm usually fairly consistent on TAF other than the whole no ball save thing which can hurt you sometimes really quick. Clearcoated lightning fast play field with Gold roms and replay/extra ball set at 100 million

1. 25,259,390 (slow down thing, you just lost my ball)
2. 248,796,720 (really good game for me but had 1 room left until tour was lit and had the bonus in one more ramp and the chair lit and couldn't hit either for what seemed like an eternity. So close)
3. 237,323,010 (3 double jackpots on thing multiball on ball 3. That's a first for me)
4. 33,609,100 ( the power got me this time)
5. 28,332,960 ( didn't start one room, grrr)
6. 29,178,820 (starting to be consistently bad lol)
7. 200,968,690
8. 10,355,210 (two instant drains after skill shot followed by a almost as bad ball 3)
9. 46,742,160
10. 21,884,520

I actually started track my scores about a month ago. I've been using Loggr on iphone. I highly recommend it and it is free:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/loggr-graph-your-life/id803317594?mt=8

It gives you an easy way to track your scores, graphs the results overtime, and calculates a number of interesting statistics.

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BSD Consistency Test

Factory except no EB, hard wolves, wide outlanes, super bands super posts, white rubbers otherwise, and yellow rubber flippers.

Fiancée and I each played 10 straight. Many reasons to marry her, not sure that 592mil is one of them.

Cary
207,757,910
69,739,790
77,770,150
38,630,660
44,291,410
105,019,280
116,889,680
177,903,250
79,791,050
28,306,420

Nikki
158,080,590
10,909,560
49,427,550
150,319,600
157,809,550
13,645,510
18,714,420
150,363,620
301,211,710
592,201,410 (on the board, score 2)

I don't really look down on it but three ball is what I grew up knowing.
Some titles have different changes so play them both.
Of course 3 ball games can turn into a 5 ball game if you get the extra ball replay score or special.
But 5 ball game turning into a 7 or more that just seems silly and fewer games played in a evening with friends.
It is weird I almost distinctly remember the change with the electronic games and felt a little cheated(as a paying customer). Just like the change from dime to quarter. Or 2/.25
The store near my house had a section with maybe 8-10 machines. As a kid with fifty cents you would try to choice wisely as there were pricing differences. I guess the newer game would cost the most and the others they would give you deals.

4. 126,721,780 (It's amazing that 98% of the time I get to 4th gear, I drain.)

It's nice to know that I'm not the only one this happens to. It awards 4th gear and almost immediately it's SDTM.

Does anyone know of a Loggr equivalent for Android? It would be nice to be able to keep in-depth score data so easily.

10 games on Funhouse, 3 ball.

3325140
3849740
5883940
2028370
2365700
15626710
1191710
3694100
1869120
5092090

So I set a new high score with the 15 mil game. I also got my first "Big Sausage" bonus as well. I had an adrenaline dump after that and didn't focus as well, so my scores varied alot at the end.

Ok last one for today. BSD actually put my highest score ever up on game 4. Not the Grand Champion, but that was put up by a real good player during practice at a tournament I brought the game to which was a golf format and set to 5 ball. So technically GC on 3 ball. Lol

1. 16,481,160
2. 133,357,660
3. 372,927,120
4. 2,073,037,490
5. 14,984,540
6. 79,855,910
7. 13,006,450
8. 148,264,840
9. 169,911,800
10. 33,148,160
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Interesting thread, so I thought see what Centaur had in store for me...(hint: nothing good)

230,630
97,730
340,960
28,090
755,400
797,010
146,080
591,830
130,580
204,130

I'm still baffled at the 28k score, but it's pinball.

High Speed 2: The Getaway.

3 balls, factory settings, with special set to extra ball.

8,801,670
20,203,580
39,219,740
12,464,010
102,413,620
114,795,020
18,818,750
251,275,750
24,619,500
385,687,920

When you start Supercharger mode, just trap up and time it out. It's not worth playing so fast for the amount of points on the table. You're better off just waiting for it to end, then making progress toward Red Line Mania which is far more lucrative.

WHAT?!? No way. Keep launching it at the turbocharger for multiples of 5 million. It's soooo worth it.

Inconsistency is what I love about pinball.

I can go from having my best score ever on a machine, to the next game looking like I've never played pinball before.

I've been keeping a log like this for some time. I'll post some of my games that I've logged in the past. Consistency(or lack thereof) is what really pays off in league and tourneys. You will ALWAYS have that one stinker of a game, and that one blowout game. But those good medium/solid scores are what you strive for.

Tommy:
85,818,000
460,571,000
494,960,000
225,736,000
191,310,000
542,386,000
259,207,000
434,962,000
593,119,000
446,725,000

Tron pro:
16,478,000
83,311,000
13,192,000
18,010,000
17,361,000
17,712,000
2,196,000
14,341,000
12,717,000
69,807,000

I'll post some more games later....

I would say I'm consistently inconsistent.

I was only able to get 3 games in over lunch on MET Pro. I'll try and knock the rest out tonight. It's not as easy as I thought to play 10 games straight. House balls get my head fuming.

There is no way I could play 10 games in a row on the same machine. Sometimes, I get bored after one...

Yeah 10 games is a lot.

OK, here are a couple more from my log book.

AFM
7,147,857,000
9,162,359,000
2,081,176,000
1,951,571,000
9,810,780,000
3,283,094,000
1,307,600,000
18,577,331,000
3,108,109,000
4,595,811,000

TZ
557,265,000
274,090,000
877,041,000
287,605,000
25,910,000
239,909,000
24,028,000
233,344,000
204,829,000
51,296,000

Still working on some scores. Might take a little while longer.

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I gave this a go on my Metallica premium. And wow, was I inconsistent. I mean, I knew there'd be a little variance, as I usually try to set everything up before going for big points. But these results were even more sporadic than anticipated:

1) 2,988,470 (ugh...way to start strong...)
2) 9,478,990
3)126,216,420
4) 6,249,300
5)206,693,480
6) 21,507,440
7) 58,120,580
8) 4,799,880
9) 4,297,740
10) 6,661,780

Looks like I need to practice...

Working on a 10 spot for my Metpro also

Thanks. I watched Bowen's video yesterday and figured out more of the rules. I was putting up scores around 100 mil pretty consistently last night so I came into this little experiment pretty overconfident. Of course I end up with 6 of 10 games not even making into the first multiball.

My best scores on the most recent code have all resulted from patiently setting everything up. Hit the four main targets a ton and get everything ready for multiball. Then start coffin and try to stack into everything else. Get a ball into the snake whenever possible for double scoring. And then do crank it up once you are back to single ball.

Scoring in crank it up modes is so huge. I had a 50 mil shot into the scoop in one of those games and could have gambled for more, as there were around three minutes left on the clock.

This game is great. The only drawback I see is that it's resulting in a lot of dust piling up on my other machines...

Twilight Zone

337,284,770
180,331,060
218,334,770
439,175,440
128,953,860
572,765,150
276,293,970 (206m bonus on third ball)
60,621,030
1,057,101,800 (had LITZ lit but lost ball 3 it going for a lit extra ball first)
139,323,970

So I've done two more runs of ten games on Metallica Premium. I started thinking about 10 games/consistency and it dawned on me to ck one other important element. What is my average score for the ten games? So I've included that as well.

Met Premium
250,086,000
186,004,000
125,307,000
24,767,000
7,323,000
22,535,000
15,352,000
46,323,000
20,240,000
192,314,000

Avg. score = 89,025,000

Met Premium
19,919,000
97,088,000
35,160,000
48,381,000
134,355,000
81,914,000
9,962,000
30,426,000
37,206,000
10,345,000

Avg. score = 50,475,000

Of course, now I have a new goal. Play 10 on Met Pre. and average over 100M!

Oh BSD, what other game has a range from 13M to 2B??

Did your ten game "consistency test" down in my basement over a three day period. All games three balls, no extra balls (basically "tournament settings") aside from Hollywood Heat, which was three ball with the EB on:

Tri-Zone:
1. 360,940
2. 254,900
3. 69,570
4. 186,240
5. 69,700
6. 79,650
7. 362,120
8. 265,250
9. 220,850
10. 80,410

Time Fantasy:
1. 178,100
2. 423,410
3. 91,000
4. 364,740
5. 152,140
6. 152,170
7. 170,190
8. 157,250
9. 226,290
10. 792,420

Hollywood Heat:
1. 460,950
2. 263,450
3. 622,020
4. 253,240
5. 273,360
6. 969,110
7. 434,600
8. 822,540
9. 1,442,050
10. 609,360

Cybernaut:
1. 1,010,390
2. 5,027,130 (all-time 3 ball high score for me)
3. 1,418,270
4. 548,230
5. 491,190
6. 174,170
7. 354,800
8. 798,820
9. 1,547,020
10. 695,400

Mousin' Around:
1. 1,590,240
2. 1,666,130
3. 1,106,620
4. 2,890,840
5. 2,347, 340
6. 1,705,180
7. 1,580,140
8. 1,212,250
9. 3,253,000
10. 2,530,140

Now, do I get a free interpretation of my consistency and abilities or just the complimentary "take home version" of our game?