Getting 12-13mill a game is pretty easy, Ive been hitting 30mill+ on average lately plus getting to Jericho every game but not completing it. Love this game! I pitched mine very aggressively, ball really zings through the inlanes, don't blink or its gone.

Dead bounce
Dead bounce
Dead bounce

repeat this 100 times..

Operator must not like money?

Funny,I did the same thing Sat. Took the family out to a pizza place specifically because they had a Simpson's Pinball Party. I was having some long plays and I noticed an early teen girl messing with her phone like she was waiting for me to finish. I could tell my family was ready to go so I passed on my remaining plays to the next generation.

Interesting enough the kids let lose in the mini arcade at the restuarant weren't very interested in Simpsons until they saw me play it. However, hey were feeding quarters in the old William's Base Hit consistently.

I'm about to put an IM on location and I'm going to make damn sure it's dialed in to be as generous as possible. No way I want to scare people off this awesome machine. Theme should draw in kids but it will then beat them mercilessly to death.

That's just mean. Who would do that? It always feels weird getting down on your knees on location and trying to fix the leg levellers though doesn't it?

Iron Man: 5 minutes to learn, a lifetime to master.

If you want to be better at IM......Play better!

I played an IM on location when it first came out and every WM kick out was SDTM. Hated the game just for that and it took a friend getting one set up properly in his garage to really appreciate the simple brutality you face when you hit the start button.

The only reason you got bored of the game is because you THOUGHT you were awesome at it and decided that the artificially low set free credits made you think you had achieved something you had not. The free credits should have inspired you to see if you could accomplish the bigger goals in the game that mattered.. Do or Die plus Jericho.

If you had all the free credits that was the perfect time to work on your skills and see if you could master IM for a lot cheaper than most get to.

Although, if the game is set up sorta crappy it might not be much fun to play, I rarely drop in quarters for more than 1-2games on any route game in my area.

Based on the couple machines I've played, the difficulty of Iron Man varies a ton based mostly on the outlane setup, sensitivity of the slings, and the software settings for both the difficulty of raising the monger and whether or not the outer loop diverter is enabled.

If the monger's on one of the easier settings and the diverter's off, then yeah, 15 million+ all day. A hard plunge with the diverter down and intentional immediate drain/repeat will raise the monger in about ten seconds. I'm (un)lucky enough that they set up the one that was on route near me stupid hard for the PAPA circuit in Austin last year and then never re-adjusted it after the fact, but they did have the diverter off.

As mentioned above, 12-13M is pretty low. Especially if it's fixed at that level. Should reflex higher by default. To qualify in the recent Radio Shack win-an-IM tourney you had to score 50M. Before the month was over 16 people qualified and guys started bumping each other out of the top 16. No ringers from out of the area either. Sounds like you had fun though, and that's all that matters.

I give free games to kids all the time. While playing WCS at the sporstplex tonight, a cute little girl barely taller than the lockdown bar wandered up and started telling me I was doing it wrong. She even reached up over the siderail to tell me (point at) where to shoot. At the time, I had already won a replay and had over 1B points on my current game. Ball 2. I cradled the ball and pointed these things out to her, then asked her if she was sure about her evaluation of my play. She smiled, turned around and wandered away. I left 2 credits on the game when I left. Kids rock.

Next time your coming to Long Island pm me , you can come play my IM. you will notice the difference in gameplay from the one at the ski lodge right away. Sounds like the operator had it set just right for the public to play it.

I love how the title of this thread is how to be awesome at iron man and the scores touted are 12-13 million which aren't awesome at all especially with the machine set pretty easy.

That's what makes it awesome

After reading the post, I'm like WTF I didn't learn anything other than to get higher scores set the machine easier!

12-13 million?
When I sold mine the high score I set was over 200 mil.

Monger set at hard, outlanes wide open, pitch set high, top post disabled. Everything else at factory.
Yeeeehaaaaaaaa.

I've personally never seen a replay score on a newer Stern fixed. The higher your score the higher the replay score goes. I think powering off the game and powering it back on would reset the replay score to the default. I assume you would lose your credits though.

So it might start at 12 mil but if you score a 30 mil the next game it would go to 18 mil etc..

The harder setting means you have to hit the spinners 10 times to get him to come up and then have to hit him seven times once he comes up in order to light the jackpot. I played a game where he came up after three shots to the spinner. The confusing thing is you are spelling out iron monger but there are only lights for monger so I have people asking me if the spinners are not registering. It is easier to follow now that the new code allows you to check your progress.