Neat.. Looks real cool.
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That is a super cool mech!
Implementation will be interesting. How often will this be used during the game?
Conyers, GA
Quoted from RobT:That is a super cool mech!
Implementation will be interesting. How often will this be used during the game?
Hopefully will be a sweet mode where you have to bowl and play multiball at the same time lol.
Cool video - thanks for posting! Based on this, it seems pretty easy to score a strike if you have the time to simply aim and release the ball. I'm wondering if the aiming device will continuously move back and forth (similar to the turret on Bally's 1958 All Star Deluxe Bowler) for more of a challenge.
Southbourne
Very cool toy. I kinda hope there will be some delay between pushing the button and releasing the ball - maybe button press > an animation on the DMD of someone rolling the ball > ball release. Could make it harder to master.
Was thinking that also.
I'm gonna guess and say that the 'ball return' will move..and you have to time the release of the ball...and probably moving faster as you progress through frames
Quoted from Tuna_Delight:Cool video - thanks for posting! Based on this, it seems pretty easy to score a strike if you have the time to simply aim and release the ball. I'm wondering if the aiming device will continuously move back and forth (similar to the turret on Bally's 1958 All Star Deluxe Bowler) for more of a challenge.
Quoted from RobT:That is a super cool mech!
Implementation will be interesting. How often will this be used during the game?
Looks like you can spell BOWLING somehow on the upper playfield, and then there's an insert that says "Let's Go Bowling" ...so, it seems like you'd have to work for it to some extent.
Very cool. It does seem easy to score strikes since the scale of the pinball is so much larger than the pins. I'm guessing things can be done to mix it up a bit like:
-Have the left/right swing move at different speeds, speed up, slow down, etc, trying to trip you up.
-Possibly make a strike not the goal, but perhaps shots to get the side pins.
Looking forward to seeing more of it.
Quoted from Rarehero:Looks like you can spell BOWLING somehow on the upper playfield, and then there's an insert that says "Let's Go Bowling" ...so, it seems like you'd have to work for it to some extent.
Perfect!
It's a cool mech and all, but I wouldn't want to spend too much time on it during a game. I'm sure that they will make it so it isn't too easy to master a strike every time as well.
Quoted from fumbleflippers:Hopefully we can roll our way into the Semi's.
LOL
Quoted from Tuna_Delight:Cool video - thanks for posting! Based on this, it seems pretty easy to score a strike if you have the time to simply aim and release the ball. I'm wondering if the aiming device will continuously move back and forth (similar to the turret on Bally's 1958 All Star Deluxe Bowler) for more of a challenge.
This is why the idea of having to do it during multiball would be amazing.
Quoted from Rarehero:Looks like you can spell BOWLING somehow on the upper playfield, and then there's an insert that says "Let's Go Bowling" ...so, it seems like you'd have to work for it to some extent.
It better callout, "Fuck it dude. Let's go bowling"
Crap. It was a public video. Maybe wasn't meant to be seen? I was searching youtube for game videos as a bunch of popped up and this showed up.
Quoted from Pinchroma:Crap. It was a public video. Maybe wasn't meant to be seen? I was searching youtube for game videos as a bunch of popped up and this showed up.
Be prepared to be served with a C&D Order!
Quoted from chuckwurt:This is why the idea of having to do it during multiball would be amazing.
That would definitely make for more of a challenge! 
Quoted from frolic:It does seem easy to score strikes since the scale of the pinball is so much larger than the pins.
This was a concern I brought up when they first announced the mech. It seems like it would be more of a challenge if they used smaller balls. This could be achieved by isolating the mech from the rest of the game. Just lock the pinball somewhere when the bowling mode is active and feed balls from its own pool.
Throwing this idea out there...
If there's a multiball how cool would it be to have a bonus for holding both flipper buttons on the cabinet and using your crotch for launching the bowling ball trigger and hitting a strike for hidden bonus scoring?
Then a great bonus callout happens like
"Fucking pederass" Walter
Or
"Nobody fucks with the Jesus" Jesus
New Westminster, BC
i want to see it.
Quoted from RobT:Be prepared to be served with a C&D Order!
LOL it wasn't my youtube. It was the developers Koen. It was on his public Youtube page.
Quoted from Pinchroma:LOL it wasn't my youtube. It was the developers Koen. It was on his public Youtube page.
Yeah, but you were the one who had the balls to post it on Pinside!
Quoted from Pinchroma:LOL it wasn't my youtube. It was the developers Koen. It was on his public Youtube page.
Quoted from RobT:Yeah, but you were the one who had the balls to post it on Pinside!
It was PUBLIC 
Any one of us folks could have seen it. I thought it looked cool as hell.
Weert
Quoted from Pinchroma:LOL it wasn't my youtube. It was the developers Koen. It was on his public Youtube page.
This is correct. Video was meant for internal evaluation and somehow ended up public.
Sorry guys!
- Koen
Quoted from Pinchroma:It was PUBLIC Any one of us folks could have seen it. I thought it looked cool as hell.
I hope you realize that I am just joking!
I'm glad as hell that you posted it. Even more glad that I got to see it before it was pulled!
Quoted from KoenHeltzel:This is correct. Video was meant for internal evaluation and somehow ended up public.
Sorry guys!
- Koen
Keep up the great work. Looked very cool! 
Quoted from KoenHeltzel:This is correct. Video was meant for internal evaluation and somehow ended up public.
Sorry guys!- Koen
I figured that! No worries! You want to give us a translation of what was said...
Quoted from KoenHeltzel:This is correct. Video was meant for internal evaluation and somehow ended up public.
Sorry guys!
- Koen
Koen for what it's worth the video was awesome Good work.
Quoted from spfxted:You want to give us a translation of what was said...
I think I heard him say "The Walking Dead can suck it". Don't quote me though, my Dutch is a little rusty.
Quoted from jazzmaster:This was a concern I brought up when they first announced the mech. It seems like it would be more of a challenge if they used smaller balls. This could be achieved by isolating the mech from the rest of the game. Just lock the pinball somewhere when the bowling mode is active and feed balls from its own pool.
I'm certain the ball it loads is isolated to the lower playfield, just like ACDC. Not sure how old that video was, and how much has changed since.
I have faith in DP though, they've done everything right so far.
Quoted from frolic:I'm certain the ball it loads is isolated to the lower playfield, just like ACDC.
This is correct to my knowledge. Based on the 'stolen balls' thread, it looks like the lower playfield ball could even be colored like a bowling ball
Quoted from frolic:I have faith in DP though, they've done everything right so far.
Agreed!
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