Thanks for posting your scores on some games you really don't see that often. BTW, I love Time Fantasy! One of my favorite from that time period.

Thanks for the compliment on Time Fantasy! All the others were reasonably priced and fun or just flat out a "really good deal", so I picked 'em up. Time Fantasy, however, I paid over double the price of any of the others. Eventually I would love for my collection to be all games that less than a thousand were made of (so far I gots two!)...

I did another run of 10 games on Tron. I was really pleased to average almost 30M. This Tron is set up really difficult(very steep, super tight tilt, playfield clean and waxed).

Tron Pro:
11,710,000
10,630,000
9,947,000
12,294,000
46,218,000
12,001,000
21,306,000
67,238,000
77,198,000
31,444,000

Average score: 29,998,000

Firepower. 3 Ball

6.5 incline, fast CPR playfield. Okaegi home rom.

81,610
1,032,930
535,330
359,260
1,286,520
33,140 (LOL)
593,450 (had locks lit for mission bonus, but couldn't fill 'em)
112,850
44,350
238,150

Average: 431,759

Stellar Wars

366,830
257,080
602,290
118,290
108,790
85,390
52,120
63,000
169,770
966,280

I'm all over the place.

The Walking Dead Limited Edition

13.930.890
10.312.960
6.520.980
72.059.020
7.694.330
17.148.940
39.605.240
19.614.530
48.076.330
33.028.030

Average 25.546.445

Spinner skill shot:
When the ball leaves the shooter lane, the spinner arrow will flash a short time (10 seconds) or until one of the 1 - 6 standups are hit.
If you hit the spinner during this time, the spinner will score 5,000 points.

Firepower multiball and award sequence:
1) Multiball starts. "Fire 1... Fire 2... Fire 3..." (as normal).
2) Middle stand up target banks are reset (all strobing)
3) Player must hit all 6 standups. Accomplishing this enables all three locks (green "lock" arrows are flashing) and throws in an uncalled sound effect to signal for next step.
4) Player must shoot all 3 balls *back* into the enabled lock holes during multiball to score a 60,000 point award. CPU makes speech call: "Firepower Mission Accomplished".
5) Multiball restarts (back to step #1)

The coin specific settings are removed, you get 1 credit for the left or right coinslot and 4 credits for the center coin slot. The coin counters are also disabled.

No Fear pinball
1) 619.455.490
2) 427.436.200 (3 minutes game)
3) 1.020.095.320
4) 774.116.870
5) 2.354.390.570 (20 minutes game)
6) 733.764.600
7) 1.096.160.060
8) 666.626.380
9) 1.321.525.060
10) 410.156.380 (2 minutes game)
11) 1.857.269.600
12) 511.676.380
13) 1.523.468.680 (12 minutes game)
14) 1.208.188.190
15) 769.503.500
16) 1.916.679.140
17) 3.677.003.800 (15 Minutes game)

Avarage: 1.228.677.425
Minimum: 410.156.380
Maximum: 3.677.003.800

Avarage time: 6 minutes a game...

I wasn't able to play the Meet Your Maker multiball today, so the game 17 was pretty good with some extra balls and plenty of jackpots.

I finally had enough time to start this. I got through WCS. Standard settings, except Special awards an extra ball. I only collected that once, during the game that became my new GC. Here are my results:

3,462,467,250 - HS #4, Goal Champ: 11
712,736,180
338,162,040
1,153,923,750
5,300,158,570 - GC
521,446,900
917,586,550
723,447,090
694,808,650
2,731,685,200

Median: 820,516,820

Very nice scores. My best ever on WCS was 8Bil. But I know if I played ten games on it, I'm bound to have some stinkers like 100-225M.

I'd call your second run slightly better. You were missing the big scores, but your median increased from 165,625 to 177,230. As you stated, it was much more consistent than the first run as the standard deviation went from 230,378 down to 104,340. When going head to head it's just as important to avoid the clunker as it is to put up a huge game.

STTNG: Games 1.- 10. Sucked. Average: Suckey.

I did another run of 10 on Met premium last night. I'm going in the wrong direction. Not consistent and average around 45M.

1. 34,812,000
2. 8,059,000
3.14,356,000
4.23,223,000
5.70,056,000
6.22,603,000
7.100,393,000
8.76,502,000
9.5,837,000
10.95,033,000

Should be pretty plain to see on which scores I got to Crank it Up. #5,7,8,10

Another run in No Fear.

This time I was more consistent, but played worse...
..............Record........Game Time....% for best game
1.......848,947,760....00:03:31 .........43.7
2.......419,315,630....00:02:23..........21.6
3....1,943,204,420....00:10:30.........100.0
4....1,198,784,480....00:06:10........ ..61.7
5.......687,141,280....00:03:54..........35.4
6.......847,655,060....00:03:59..........43.6
7.......415,576,380....00:02:47..........21.4
8.......365,158,650....00:02:20..........18.8
9.......544,734,600....00:04:11..........28.0
10.....477,630,490....00:03:03..........24.6
11.....828,502,760....00:03:19 .........42.6
12.....652,997,330....00:04:10..........33.6

........................First Set..................This Set
Average:......1.228.677.425..........769.137.403
Best:...........3.677.003.800.......1.943.204.420
Worse:...........410.156.380..........365.158.650
Av. Time:...............Xm Xs.................4m 11s

Thanks to this topic I was playing more pinball, thank you Geocab

I haven't told that my machine have no batteries, so it is full factory settings...

I only have the NF pinball machine, so here we go with another run of 1 hour and half (18 games).

. . . . . . . Record . . . . . Game Time . . % for best game
1 . . . . 449.915.830 . . 00:03:05 . . . .8.3
2 . . . . 217.601.840 . . 00:01:48 . . . .4.0
3 . . . . 322.626.380 . . 00:03:01 . . . .6.0
4 . . .2,298,805,520 . . 00:07:08 . . . 42.5
5 . . . . 730,393,220 . . 00:04:13 . . . 13.5
6 . . . . 379,390,850 . . 00:02:21 . . . . 7.0
7 . . ..1,894,067,790 . . 00:05:24 . . . 35.0
8 . . ..1,001,095,060 . . 00:03:55 . . . 18.5
9 . . . . .446,925,460 . . 00:02:12 . . . .8.3
10 . . . .290,988,190 . . 00:02:24 . . . .5.4
11 . . 1,687,016,410 . . 00:03:38 . . . 31.2
12 . . . . 379,653,190 . . 00:02:11 . . . .7.0
13 . . .1,404,210,750 . . 00:04:52 . . . 25.9
14 . . .1,191,732,760 . . 00:05:12 . . . 22.0
15 . . . . 908,935,030 . . 00:03:58 . . . 16.8
16 . . .1,918,314,170 . . 00:07:49 . . . 35.4
17 . . .1,034,271,870 . . 00:05:15 . . . 19.1
18 . . .5,411,735,870 . . 00:20:04 . . 100.0 <= My high score ever. With a Meet Your Maker multiball, very satisfying

. . . . . .. . . . . . . First Set . . . . . . Second Set . . . . . . This Set
Average: . . . 1.228.677.425 . . . . 769.137.403 . . . 1.220.426.677
Best: . . . . . .3.677.003.800 . . . 1.943.204.420 . . ..5.411.735.870
Av. Time: . . . . . . . . .Xm Xs . . . . . . . . .4m 11s . . . . . . . . 4m 55s

Let's see if theres any consistency in ten sets

My biggest high score

I'd like to give this a try this week.

Tried this on one of my drain-monster EMs, a Gottlieb Flying Chariots.

Scores
768
458
1053
592
649
489
557
590
659
640

Average 645.5
Median 616
Standard Deviation 168.23
CV 0.26
High Score 1053
Low Score 458

I'll definitely have to try this on some of the other machines I have access to. I suspect a trend toward inconsistency will appear

Dave

If I did this on LOTR, I would literally be there for like 5 hours.

I decided to have a go ...

AC/DC Premium ... 8 games played over 24 hours (didn't have time for 10...)

All my games are 3 ball factory settings. My AC?DC is exactly as it came out of the box in March 2012.

Actually, it really needs a flipper rebuild and new rubbers.

Wednesday 10am
183,597,550
381,369,500 ... 59m song jackpot, drained a 75m one
87,935,140 ... First two balls were house balls so a good comeback on ball 3
145,542,359 ... Real stink game, multiballs were all clangers
120,770,640 ... Arrggggggggghhh
366,158,880 .... 292m ball one. Nice. Drained with extra ball lit. Bummer
Thursday 1pm
294,776,170
38,039,780 ... First two balls were 7.9m. What a clanger.

At that stage, I had to leave ... plus, I was getting very tired, due to my adrenal fatigue which is a constant curse (but that's a story for another day...)

This was a very interesting process. The first two games were sweet, then on the third game (at circa 5m on the first two balls) I found myself really tightening up, like I do when I play in competitions. Just the stress of "playing naturally" had me mentally freaking out ... very interesting ... maybe a visit to a shrink is in order.

So anyway, on the 8 games:

Average score: 202,271,502

Standard deviation 129695491.69 (came from an online calc https://www.easycalculation.com/statistics/standard-deviation.php)

CV: 0.64

That sound right?

rd

I wouldn't even attempt that ... We ran some average game times last year on my LOTR games and they were like 50 minutes a game.. (without blockbuster games either ...) so bugger that idea.

Plus the flipper coils would literally melt.

rd

Mental toughness is required in rugby and pinball!

How do you quit after 8 games? "Low energy"......

That's a really good average on Ac/dc

Thanks. Ironically, a few weeks ago someone asked me what my average score was on ACDC, and I said "probably 180-200m..." and their eyes popped out of their head and they said "no way..." Lol

Lowest high score on the machine is 600m and high is 790m from memory. I have never got to the wizard mode as that is not how I play the game. But the 790m score was like one shot away from it.

rd

That's why I had to split up the ACDC games ... Those long games are about 30 minutes. Can't just stand around playing ACDC all day lol

Unlike some EMs or even some SS games ... 5 minutes is a good game.

rd

Ten games on The Shadow, factory settings, wide outlanes, playing Vengeance strategy:

1. 414 508 900
2. 199 398 860
3. 250 522 660
4. 1 042 461 650
5. 919 574 290
6. 441 411 650
7. 1 054 860 990
8. 1 925 274 400
9. 2 369 081 760
10. 304 960 660

Median: 680 492 970
Average: 892 205 582
Highest: 2 369 081 760
Lowest: 199 398 860
S.D.: 742 831 007
C.V.: 83%

C.V. is surprisingly low considering half the games were <442M and the other half were >918M. What is obvious is that the longer I played the better my scores got (this was one continuous session without warming up/practicing first. A couple of those early scores were disgraceful). This probably says more about The Shadow than it does about my consistency; once you get those ramps dialled in your scores skyrocket.

10 games on Stern Spider-Man over a 24 hour period.

Again, stock standard 3 ball factory settings.

425829230,
186460550,
320086390,
104145990,
378693280,
175079050,
283423000,
259820610,
270388670,
251901770,

Population size:10

Mean (μ): 265582854
Median: 265104640
Mode: No
Lowest value: 104145990
Highest value: 425829230
Range: 321683240
Standard deviation: 95753378.65028
CV: 0.36

That sound right?

rd

@rd

Did you approach the game the same way each time? Sometimes in SM for example, I just play to see how high I can score just playing the spinner strategy: light the shot multiplier on the spinner and focus there-not trying for Battle Royale or Super hero etc.

Just curious.

Nice run BTW.

Guy's got 121 machines. I would hope so...

On both ACDC and spidy, I played 10 games "in a row" ie I didn't play any other games in between the games. But I played 2 or 3 games at a time, depending what I was doing. I timed a game on Spidy (I think the 4th one) and it was 21 minutes. The last three games were in a row, and they were all very similar.

I meant to mention that. On ACDC and Spidy, I played every game exactly the same.

ACDC I play the same songs every time, play the same multiballs and aim for the song jackpots. The first 3 songs are always the same, then I have a little latitude depending how I am going.

Spider-Man, I play through the modes, and try to stack them with a multiball. Doc Ock is almost always running. That's the only way I know how to play it ... One of the disadvantages of living down here is I don't get to play in tournaments every week to see other people play different strategies.

What I like to do is play exactly the same every time. So that when I play in the World Champs, I can panic and throw all that practice out the window and play every game totally differently to how I practiced it.

Next up, I'll try some more random SS games and see how I go. I think the CV will be much higher.

rd

I just played 10 games on GOT LE in under an hour. And that's all you really need to know about my scores, so there's no need to post them here.

But yeah...they were pretty consistent.

Nice average on SM!!! my problem...always seems to be a stinker in the middle somewhere that kills my average...I live in the 165-200 range, w some better and worse scattered in...

So is this like 10 games in a row over a couple days? About the only game I would be willing to do an actual 10 in a row on would be IM. 10 in row on ST could potentially take 4-5 hours.

I think you're supposed to whack out 10 in a row ... But I broke them up, otherwise as you say your be in front of the machine for hours.

10 games in a row on IM is totally doable. I'll do that next week.

rd

I would say that there could be breaks in between games. Think of a tournament setting where the wait could be an hour in between tries.

I have been using the "Pin Score Saver" App for this. I believe it was created by a Pinsider. I just record my score from the first game of the day. I think this simulates a tournament setting best when you have to walk up and play a game without getting dialed in.

This app is pretty cool. I wish it also charted a 4-point running average to smooth out the inconsistencies.image.pngimage.png