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Quoted from toasterman04:Don't you think it should be up to the owner of the machines.... I have played some collections where the owner prefers no nudging of the machines.... you need to respect thier wishes ....
If they don't want their machines nudged all they have to do is set the tilt tight to prevent it.
I consider it fair game, was taught to me in my local arcade on Frontier from some college students. Tilt was set fairly and you could save quite a few balls this way. Game was on carpet but the kind that you would find in a casino. Game could slide fairly easily on it but you had to do it slow and steady and ease into and out of the slide or you were sure to Tilt. Good move, I say fair game...how do tournaments rule the maneuver?
Quoted from GregCon:Um....those who fail to learn from Devo are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. Santana said that years ago, and it holds true today. Not to mention those who fail to learn from the very words of Pinball Wizard wherein (and I quoteth) "He stands like a statue/becomes part of the machine/Felling all the bumpers/ALWAYS PLAYING CLEAN". Now, if that isn't proof positive I don't know what is.
So, as we have all seen in pretty much any Ninja movie (and 'Ninja' is capitalized, thank you), there is always the brash youngster who shows up full of piss and vinegar who gets his ass kicked by the aged, feeble-looking bald Ninja master and must learn to rethink his ways before becoming a true Ninja warrior.
A true Ninja (or Tommy) would never need to manhandle the machine because he would always be in complete command of the ball.
Shoving the machine around is like putting Vaseline on the baseball or deflating the football a tad. It's dirty pool, old man. You might get away with it, but .....
Show me two players with equal scores and the one who didn't need to jostle the machine is the better player.
And as for the old 'pinball machines are meant to be shoved around argument' ... that's ludicrous. It's more like 'Pinball makers know that the machines will be abused by mooks in public settings so they account for that in their design'. Those are two different things.
Wrong.
Quoted from Fixie:I'm going to put casters on the legs. That way everyone can be happy.
Funny you should say this, the Lost World I bought had them on it. Sure made it easy to get it to my van. 
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