I really enjoy inline drop targets like on Paragon but havent had a chance to play many pins that have this feature. What other titles have them and does anyone know what the last game made that includes them was?
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I had a quick check on IPDB, which lists Sterns Wheel of Fortune as last in 2007. Before that you have to go back to the late 80's. My favourites to play are Paragon, Eight ball delux, Centaur and Flash Gordon. No room for mistakes on FG or the ball drains
I thought Paragon was the first but on IPDB it seems that Future Spa was first?
IL
Kamloops, BC
Harlem Globe trotters world tour. Actually a really good game and you can find it cheap (250 bucks working)
Quoted from tomdotcom:Shane those games do NOT have inline drops..
Inline are drops that are behind each other, not side by side..
Oh neat! Learn something new every day.
Weert
Thanks everyone for the input. Looks like I have a few pins to track down and play. Im kinda digging Fathom. So green. The outlanes are a real change up for sure. I could probably track down a Wheel of Fortune to play as it isnt that old, although I notice that its not mentioned much on this forum and its ratings arent that great. I dont care. Inlines are cool. I just want to play. You never know what machine you might really, really like unless you try them.
1 year later
Bally's Special Force has in-line drop targets. It has the added feature that you can collect virtual "missiles" and use a second pair of buttons to shoot down the drop targets without hitting them with the ball. It's a pretty good, usually under-rated machine.
Quoted from featuringdave:Bally's Special Force has in-line drop targets. It has the added feature that you can collect virtual "missiles" and use a second pair of buttons to shoot down the drop targets without hitting them with the ball. It's a pretty good, usually under-rated machine.
This game is weird and awesome. Saw it at an auction once.
Quoted from Gov:Black Pyramid is not worth bothering with IMO. Fathom looks sweet though, I have never played it.
I would've bothered with it... one sold here locally that I just missed out on, to another local guy, for 100$, IIRC. 
Quoted from Frax:I would've bothered with it... one sold here locally that I just missed out on, to another local guy, for 100$, IIRC.
For $100 I might make an exception for it 
There is on at 1984 Arcade here locally that has an issue if you hit the moving target in the middle the ball pops up and smacks the glass. Every time. It scares the hell out of me every time I do it. It is a pretty game, I will give it that.
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Sana'a
Quoted from Pac-Fan:Bally Vector has them too. You must drop ALL 6 in order to make the ramp shot to capture a ball in order to prep for multi-ball. (If you don't drop all 6 and make it around them and up the ramp, then it kicks your ball back down)
Those are not in-line drop targets. Cool game, though!
2 weeks later
Hoppstädten-weiersbach
Quoted from Silverballer:I really enjoy inline drop targets like on Paragon but havent had a chance to play many pins that have this feature. What other titles have them and does anyone know what the last game made that includes them was?
Metallica ;P^^
Brisbane
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Oslo
Better late than never
I have always thought that Paragon was the first game to use in-line drop targets and that it came out before Futura Spa. But I see that
IPDB puts Future Spa a few months before it. Strange. (The pinball Compendium has Paragon out first)
Anyway. It was a Bally innovation that brought so much extra fun to the table, and for a while Bally new how to milk that extra feature. Must have been a Bally trademark, since not many other companies did them.
Here's the ones I know about, roughly from when they came out
1979
-Paragon
-Harlem GlobeTrotters
-Dolly Parton
-Future Spa
1980
-Hot Doggin'
-Viking
-Frontier
1981
-Flash Gordon
-Eight Ball Deluxe
-Fathom
-Centaur
-Elektra
1983
-Joust
1984
-Black Pyramid
1986
-Special Force
1987
-Hardbody
-Party Animal
-Dungeons & Dragons
I might be wrong, but Can't think of any games with this feature since 1987, until 2007
2007
-Wheel of Fortune
2013
-Metallica
Edit: Updated with Joust and Dungeons & Dragons
Edit 2: updated with Elektra and Party Animal
Wow no love for dungeons and dragons. Three online drops on top of the right ramp that protect the million point bell tower shot. Very tough shot to make but one of the most rewarding in pinball imo
wow, no mention of joust? two sets of in-line drop targets (both sides of the playfield). dropping both targets and passing the both through afterwards gains you a 4-ball multi-ball and unlimited balls for 15/30 seconds
Party Animal isn't on your list.
Do any of the Zaccarias or Playmatics have in-lines? I think so, though I may be misremembering.
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