So? Do you do it?
You start a game and ball 1 dies a fast death.
Do you press Start, and begin a new game?
What about your 2nd Ball......realize its hopeless and start again?
I, myself, am guilty of both.
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Fish Tales + shocking pinball skills = expert game re-starter.....
......actually I always play through 'cause with my skills I'd never get to ball 3 otherwise 
Unknown City
I always see it as a practice run if the first ball drains fast, even the second. That's for real pins. On the pinball arcade app it's another thing 
Cypress, TX
I will occasionally intentionally drain the 3rd ball if the first 2 went miserable on CV. Unless it's my first or second game....got to get warmed-up
Essex, ON
Always re-start a game if my first ball is useless....frustration, anger....I may as well enjoy playing! Although, I don't think that frustration/anger/disappointment is anything compared to what I feel on a terrible third ball!!!
it really depends upon the game to me. i.e.. if I have a bad first ball on NGG or WCS94, i keep playing but if i have a bad one on LOTR or WPT, I do a restart many of the times. (deeper the game the more likely i will do a restart).
but owning these things , I think, should give us the liberty to restart without guilt! lol
No. I have had some of my highest scores on games where ball 1 (or 1 and 2) sucked ass.
The only time I have gotten Destroy The Ring on LOTR was just such a game.
Chris
Leicester
Berlin
I have mild OCD
Part of my self induced therapy (booze, bacon & not letting shit get to me) includes going into the software menu & removing the ability to restart a pinball game... That & enabling auto plunge (I lose my mind hearing the ball waiting).
Sometimes though I end up power cycling it anyway lol
Dogh!
Quoted from wellarmed:I never restart a game and almost never tilt a game.
Never tilt? You are doing it wrong haha...
I used to restart games all the time, now I shut that feature off so you can't do it 
Can't restart in tournament play, so I do not. Try and get used to developing short game (1 Ball) strategies.
Quoted from TheRingMaster:I always see it as a practice run if the first ball drains fast, even the second. That's for real pins. On the pinball arcade app it's another thing
Oh man. I'm the Pinball Arcade rage-restart champion. Glad I'm not the only one that does that.
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:So? Do you do it?
You start a game and ball 1 dies a fast death.
Do you press Start, and begin a new game?
Nope, I play through.....because many of my best games happen on ball 3 
Quoted from wellarmed:I never restart a game and almost never tilt a game.
well i cant go that far, every once in a while i will get carried away and i wonder how the machine did not tip over i tilted so bad. oops
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:So? Do you do it?
You start a game and ball 1 dies a fast death.
Do you press Start, and begin a new game?
What about your 2nd Ball......realize its hopeless and start again?
I, myself, am guilty of both.
I used to on occassion, but then I found myself having some monster games when I played them out. It always sucks to have a bad ball, but if you can follow it up with some stellar ones, get a couple of EBs, it doesn't mean the entire game has to suck. Plus, I like not starting new games because I play competitively alot and you can't do that in competition. Obviously, things don't always go perfectly in tournaments, so you need to have experience on how to deal with those situations too.
On ACDC in particular, I have a personal threshold that if I miss on ball 1, will get a quick restart...
That game can be frustrating enough without getting off to a slow start
ESPECIALLY if, in my completely objective estimation, it was a bullshit drain!
When I'm playing alone I tend to play two player games and compete against myself. Sometimes I'll play a mini tournament between player one and player two across several pins.
So I don't restart on bad balls. Fun to try to recover.
Like TAM said above, you never know, ball 3 might be epic. However once in a while where I will do nothing in the second 2 balls but practice my pathetic flipper skills. Lots of missed bounce passes and fumbled drop catches normally happen in those.
And of course, shutting off the "buy in" buttons. On my Demo Man when I got it I kept hitting it, and the scores were really lopsided because that buy in gives you all the locks with multiball ready. So all of a sudden a pathetic game turns into a billion points.
It took me a long time to realize that if you hold the "start" button in on most Stern games, it starts over.
Quoted from PismoArcade:It took me a long time to realize that if you hold the "start" button in on most Stern games, it starts over.
Bally/Wiliiams/DE/etc too...not only Sterns...
Quoted from tomdotcom:Bally/Wiliiams/DE/etc too...not only Sterns...
Didn't know this.... thanks!
Quoted from wayout440:If you say you never restart you're most likely a liar.
I'm a second bad ball restarter ...when nobody is looking of course.
This is why you turn that quick restart feature off. Then you can't restart, even if you want too
Quoted from wayout440:If you say you never restart you're most likely a liar.
I'm a second bad ball restarter ...when nobody is looking of course.
I've never restarted, and I am not lying. Almost all of my best scores have been put up on the 2nd or 3rd ball. It only takes one or two good balls sometimes, and it isn't always The first one.
Besides, if you give up after 1 bad ball, you are most likely a quitter.
Quoted from jgreene:Never restart. All it takes is one epic ball to make or break a game.
Right on, restarts are just a bad practice if you want to be a serious player. However, if you just play pinball for fun, I don't really see restarting as a problem. Just keep in mind that it takes a massive amount of patience to be a good player.
I'd be lying if I said I never do it. I try not to, but sometimes I can't help myself. Like so many others have already said, I've had some of my best games ever on ball three.
I agree that the best ball can be the last with two crappy balls in a row. But, if I plunge the ball and it goes STDM with one flip, I will restart. Not much different than ball save on more modern machines....
Quoted from SilverUnicorn:No. I have had some of my highest scores on games where ball 1 (or 1 and 2) sucked ass.
Chris
Afterwards do you go through the range of emotions, first the god like rush of achieving a good score after busting 1 or 2 balls followed by the "what might have been score" if all the balls were golden downer. Such an emotional roller coaster hobby eh.....deep. 
What's the point of restarting after your first or second ball you never know your third could be a good ball
It's always better the play without restarting
That's just my opinion
Quoted from flecom:I don't even press the start button! I just look at it and get GC every time!
Youd have to get GC when the powers off to really impress me 
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