ideas for a pinball party for noobs

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Quoted from pezpunk:
- getting a bunch of lottery scratchers or small bottles of booze, and award them as prizes to anyone who can reach certain achievements -- start Final Frontier on STTNG, reach 3-ball multiball on Black Hole, complete the mirror on Funhouse, defeat the King of Payne on MM. (probably limiting it to one per guest)

I like your ideas, but not a single one of your guests will reach any of these goals...not even on 5 ball.

I'm wondering if the best idea is to just let people play, but go around and play a game with each of them - showing off a few flipper skills and nudging. That might be a better hook for people who don't know pinball than just rules explaining.

#26 9 years ago

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ryanwanger

I do like the idea of resetting all the high scores and making the defaults really low. Who doesn't like entering their initials into a game? Then later, make the rounds and say a little personal congrats to each person who put up the top score on each machine. Maybe that'll be a little incentive to play more in the future.

#32 9 years ago

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ryanwanger

Quoted from rai:
How do you reset high scores? Is there a way to reset High Scores but keep your other audits?
I only have SAM Stern games
There is an old high score on PotC from when I had on 5 balls.

Util -> Resets

One is called "GC" - which resets just the grand champion score. Another is called "HSTD" - which resets all other high scores.

You can set default high scores and awards for them under: ADJ -> SPI. It's probably around #27-37. Take a look at the manual sometime - lots of cool stuff in there!

#45 9 years ago

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ryanwanger

Quoted from chuckwurt:
What I do is have something else that is going on to get the people over my house like a card game. then once they are in the gambling mood, I have everyone put 5 bucks into an envelope for each game that I have (only have 4). then I reset all the high scores on all the games. then I tell them, whomever has the highest score on each game by 6 am gets the envelope (I am not allowed to participate).

I would be all about this.

#66 9 years ago

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ryanwanger