haven't played in a while but after all the new machines, going back to this game.... so it's common and normal that TFTC flippers just feel like they are just blasting away at the balls with incredible power? The flippers just feel so strong in this beast, I forgot how strong it kicks, makes me wonder is it supposed to strike so hard?

Playing lot of godzilla and halloween recently. The flippers just feel like they slap so much harder than those machines, very solid feeling

The Crypt Keeper belongs to HBO from what I recall, but the EC Comics, and Tales from the Crypt brand belongs to someone else. The reboot they were attempting was gonna be without the Crypt Keeper for example cause of this.

So have had a weird problem that happens once in a while while playing my TFTC, it's not all the time, just once in a great while will happen where the game in mid play suddenly says missing ball and it just kind of shuts down, game ends. Not sure what causes it, has started happening once in a long series of plays perhaps in the past month

Huh, guess someone maybe installed one of those on mine, it doesn't click or have the ad.

So is the captive ball just impossible to hit?

I've only hit it by accident, I can't seem to figure out any proper way to regularly hit that target from a flipper, when it's happened it's always been a bounce off another part of the game striking it. So yea I hate skull kracking

Yea it's hard as hell shot and the few times I've landed it, the ball didn't move enough to register. Any time skull cracking comes up, we all just throw our hands up at the waste of a mode as it's never been hit by anyone in our friend group who plays it regularly.

Looking to get a LED kit to update my TFTC which is still using the old incandescent bulbs. Besides swapping to LED, any easy to add on light kits or such for the game out there? I know in lower light it's a dark pin, could use a little brightening up perhaps. Not pinstadiums......

Any specific LED kit for the game out there that folks recommend? I'm not looking for blinding super LEDs or anything, but seen some folks using properly colored LEDs for the inserts also, wondering if anyone offers the premade kit assortments for this that would be recommended, see many out there but not sure what to get. Rather not go through having to pick out every bulb I need individually

Huh, yea mine has the rubber sleeves. I've only ever hit the captive ball once by accident, every other time I've hit it, it didn't move far enough to register so It's become a shot that we actively avoid.

Link to the colorDMD? How easy is the install?

I don't think it has a knocker

These are great

How do you get to the light in the start button to change the bulb? Thing perplexes me

Thank you!

What about one cover showing title, then the next being just the cover art alone, then back to the title. Alternating the layout between pics to create a more spaced out collage?

I was thinking showing more of the cover to see the full word Crypt for example, but then some pure cover art between. Seems the art in this example is kind of hindering the title

The all art also I think is pretty good.

Spirit Halloween is doing a full sized animatronic Crypt Keeper this year. Might be of interest for some fans rooms. Sadly it's not the real Crypt Keeper's voice actor

Keeper is a small guy, and he's also in a sitting position. The big visible feet are kind of odd of course lol

Been having on and off problem with my right flipper. It will sometimes kind of double flap when you press the button, or when holding down the button while it does that will have the flipper give and falls, but then will try to bounce back up. Sometimes a power reset will then eventually fix this and the game will work fine for some time, and every once in a while the flipper starts acting up again.

hah, usually closer to the actual stores opening and thee holiday do we usually see their coupons pop up. Don't think any are out yet

If you never signed up for their online store, it usually will give you a pop up for your email for a single 20% off coupon

unboxing and preview of the voice clips of the spirit Crypt Keeper

The original Keeper spirit did is very similar looking but that one had the real Keeper's voice, but it's now super collectible. As the video notes those go for thousands of dollars now, hasn't been made since the 90s.

And a fraction of the price you can get such bigger animatronics from them that have more movement. They really are pushing it with that price but guess they assume the collectors are gonna be all over it seeing the resale prices.

The cliffy protector for the scoop is often recommended, that gets worn down on most machines.

I got those two machines in my lineup too, love em

So I get like all the game but even reading the rules I'm confused on the ramps and their rats, bats, etc inserts and those modes and how they work. Hitting the ramp increases a number and I keep hitting it once it hits four I don't notice what is going on. Reading the rules, it's written so oddly. Is there a nice english explanation of how the ramps work in the game outside of modes?

Does hitting the double jackpot turn off the regular jackpot on the left ramp? Just wondering when the left ramp jackpot goes away during MB, is it time based or a player triggers this? Some games you can rip that ramp and just keep scoring jackpots, but then it will suddenly no longer award jackpots. Is it the double that turns off the left ramp or a time based limit?

Swear I've gotten the jackpot multiple times in a row and you get the chainsaw cutting a zombie animation multiple times.

The no payem no game only plays if the game is not set to freeplay. Why when the machine boots up on free play the crypt keeper says "nop..." cause its a bug that has always been there that cuts off that sound clip.

Those cards are great! Do you have printable ones you can share by chance?

I think it's the best DE put out

I like BTTF, but it's ruleset is ridiculously simple, which is the problem with most DE games. The game sells on it's theme, but even then it doesn't command an insane price cause of the simplicity of the game, whose main scoring shot is essentially just shooting the same ramp over and over again to get jackpots, there is not much to it.

TFTC has unique shots, different scoring methods, and especially the creature features presents ever changing rules/modes in your game, which BTTF doesn't really have outside of building up to multiball.

Yea that's a good top 5

Whats the green plastic on the right for?

Been getting more frequent random game resets mid game, or the game goes into missing ball reset, launches a bunch of balls over and over then finally settles down. So this is power supply related right?

Is this the right one I should get to replace? : https://xpinpinball.net/product/xp-de5047/

Haven't not any issue when I looked, its really random complete game resets in the middle of games. The other issue is the separate random game losing balls in the middle of play and it will start just launching balls non stop for a few seconds then it reboots again.

From what I read before, folks had said this was related to the power supply

Yea I'll have to dig into that. Though in most cases I would probably just replace the power supply board still, so it's why I'm seeing which is the correct board to get. Seen folks recommend this brand but they have several boards that state they work for Tales, so not sure which is the right one... like this: https://xpinpinball.net/product/xp-de5047/

So seeing folks talk about the lost ball issue on DE games as being a trough switch issue, the switch in the kicker to launch the ball not registering and causing the games to spazz out? I see the replacement switch is no longer offered by anyone, is there a replacement switch?

So the game last week erased all the high scores on it, but is now recording high scores being put on it and it's remembering them still. Is this a dying battery issue or should it not be storing scores at all if the battery is going?

That was it, thanks. So setting this to 0 is how you disable this?

Hmm i'll have to try again, when cycling I didn't see Off as an option

I picked up one of these since Cliffy is so backed up. Seems to work fine, it's a little smaller in coverage than Cliffy's but still provides the protection needed: ebay.com link: itm

So weird issue been having, any time a high score is made, I can't seem to get all three of my initials in anymore, which wasn't a problem in the past.

I can use the flippers to cycle between letters, so I go to E cause my initials are EKS. I go to E, press start to enter the E, then when I hit the flipper to cycle to the next letter, the game just fills out the entire thing with EEE each time. No idea whats going on.