...just play the one at the Whiteface Lodge at Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid, NY. Has anyone else here played that machine?

I've only played IM a few times and failed miserably. It's a hard game. So on a break from skiing, I saw they had one in the lodge and pumped two bucks in to get three games.

Five games later, I had won two free games by matching numbers and four free games by hitting the replay threshold, which was set to between 12 and 13 million (and didn't go up every time I hit it).

I finally got tired of the game and gave my four remaining credits to some kids who were nearby. (I'd been playing for a good half hour already!)

The morals of the story:

1. If you want to feel like a pinball wizard, go skiing at Whiteface.
2. Always give unused credits to a kid. You just might be creating a future pinhead.
3. IM isn't always tough if you just make the robot rise up, then beat the shit out of him repeatedly until you get multiball...then beat the shit out of him again. (Am I missing something with this game, or is it actually that easy?) War Machine kickout still sucks though, no matter where you play it.

That was my point. I suck and kept getting free games. I think they set it up that way to keep you off the ski lift.

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That's what I was repeating every time I hit War Machine. The pitch must've been off...

No...you missed my point. I knew it was set too easy. As I said, I'd had problems with it before (most notably at PAPA), so I know it's a hard game. And while the free credits may have inspired me to play more, the $100 lift tickets inspired me to do some skiing and save the pinball for another time.

Yes...it was a tongue-in-cheek title. You didn't really think you were going to get playing advice from a suck-ass player like me, did you?

Well, I got it up to over 30 million when I was playing. I was just saying they set the replay score at between 12 and 13 million. I may suck...but I'm not completely pathetic!

Trust me...I was surprised, too. But if the replay score moved, it wasn't by any noticeable amount and I was able to get multiple free games with limited skill.

Just wondering how the monger difficulty setting effects the game when you set it harder. This was really ridiculously easy. The robot would come up, you bash it until you spell monger, then multiball would start and you bash it until you spell monger again. That's how I got most of my points (along with whiplash multiball). What does the harder setting effect?