Fort Dodge, IA
The end of ball scoreing...
When you have a great ball, multiple bonus advances, and you finish. you get to hear the sound of your score adding up, sometimes its long enough to have a couple drinks of a beer. Rewarding. 
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Played KISS for the first time in a league yesterday and we were cracking up about the near endless after-ball bonus for no apparent reason. I need to get in to more of that era of pins. Any other especially good'uns besides Firepower?
Agree! Love the em and even the solid state 70's counting.
BUT Earthshaker has that when you get the ramp miles. It can go on forever when you max the miles. So it still lives in the late 80's. Wow saying late 80's sounds so far away. Man Im getting old.
Space Shuttle, Black Knight and 90s pin TOTAN are my favorites that I can think of for this effect.
Quoted from toyotaboy:Space Shuttle, giant countdown in the center, and the counting raises pitch higher and higher as it's counting, quite possibly my favorite part of it (ending match is pretty good too)
Totally agree on SS and also love the low bit sound.
Many of the Gottlieb System 1 games (maybe all) have the 5X x 20 Countdown.
In fact my favorite Sys 1 Pin is Count-Down!
Quoted from mojozone:The end of ball scoreing...
When you have a great ball, multiple bonus advances, and you finish. you get to hear the sound of your score adding up, sometimes its long enough to have a couple drinks of a beer. Rewarding.
great thread! i concur.i would love to see a modern pin use this feature.
I love the 5x bonus countdown on Paragon--especially when it leads to a loud crack from the real knocker!
Quoted from pdman:Many of the Gottlieb System 1 games (maybe all) have the 5X x 20 Countdown.
In fact my favorite Sys 1 Pin is Count-Down!
I second that, I freaking love my Countdown! Mata Hari's countdown is pretty sweet too and still has the chimes instead of the beeps.
Crazy long bonus countdown on Fathom.2 "trees" that both go to 55 plus 5X on each.Silverball Mania gets honorable mention as well.Scott
Whitby, ON
Quoted from mojozone:The end of ball scoreing...
SuperSonic has a nice, long bonus countdown. I love it. Bleep ... bleep...bleep... bleep...bleep... bleep...bleep...and so on.
I may be in the minority here, but I like that the score does not need scientific notation to display it (>10 bazillions)...I just don't get the millions and billions that the DMD games score. Is it to make me think I'm really doing well, when in fact, I'm sucking?
Quoted from KenH:SuperSonic has a nice, long bonus countdown. I love it. Bleep ... bleep...bleep... bleep...bleep... bleep...bleep...and so on.
+1.
There is something to say about having that EM pin in your gameroom.....it's like art!
Bally Playboy: The count played a tune. The more bonus lights you had lit, the more complete the tune.
Solar Fire: Neat rev-up sound that, If I recall correctly, was unique to that machine.
Flight 2000: Sure the bonus maxed out at 10k, but there was a 15X multiplier!
METEOR: Get all three missile lit up, max out the bonus multiplier, get acceding tones that go to almost above the range of hearing
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