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No Skill shot...?!...list here

By Breaking_Dad

9 years ago

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Quoted from Shoot_Again:
Flash Gordon is the oldest machine I can think of with a skill shot. Maybe start with 1979 forward.

It wasn't advertised as a skill shot, but Fireball had one almost 10 years earlier. It was very strategic (valuable) and not easy to do without practice. If you have to play Fireball in a tournament, by all means try to get in some practice time first to practice the skill shot.

Fireball also had multiball, zipper flippers and a spinning disk. If ever there was an LE EM, Fireball was it. It ruled the arcade around here for years.

Quoted from calvin12:
Fireballs original documentation refer to the opening shot as the "top ramp skill shot feature"

Interesting. The shot is mentioned prominently on the flier, but isn't referred to as a skill shot. The flier looks like it was thrown together pretty quickly though, so probably not a big surprise. No mention on the instruction card either. When you played one on location, you figured out how valuable it was quick.

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