Sheridan, WY
Quoted from roffels:Iron Man - Iron Monger is too easy to activate and disrupts the flow early on.
That's adjustable in the settings if you weren't aware.
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Quoted from PapaJohn:RAMPS!! including under play field ramps. Waist of time waiting for the ball to return to game play. Then they usually deliver the ball nice and slowly to the flippers.........
Unlike the ball lock scenario on flight 2000. 
Quoted from superJackpot:You can fix or drastically reduced this by bending the flap found inside around the corner from the lock entrance. It's positioned above the ball path just before the lock's final resting place. Bending it up or down as required will cause balls that are rejected to bounce down (and still lock) instead of bouncing out and back out the lock asentrance.
Must be adjustable because mine never bounces out.
Lauwe
Avatar stealing locked balls? --> software keeps track of this so you're not really stealing it.
Twilight zone right ramp diverter rollback --> no issue on the most I played
TZ skill shot to avoid --> not if you install the home rom with ball saver.
TZ lock bounce out --> with proper tweaking this can be solved almost completely
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Quoted from rai:unless you change the settings to only start on center shot.
I play on location.
Quoted from DavidPinballWizz:TZ skill shot to avoid --> not if you install the home rom with ball saver.
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Good to know, thanks.
Will home roms also put on a ball saver after hitting the Hitchhiker?
Quoted from Jvspin:Must be adjustable because mine never bounces out.
Its not really adjustable persay but it can be bent different ways to help with the bounce out issues . I have messed with mine and like I said it has good days and bad days depending on the weather apparently lol.its all good and part of pinball lol
Quoted from twenty84:Cirqus Voltaire: Pointless video modes (the Amazing Roonie, Copy Cat)
You said it brother. The video modes on CV is the most disgusting aspect tacked on to the game. And firing the cannon gets pretty old pretty fast as well. To me video modes in general blow balls on any game and one of the lame features on 90's BW games.
The Addams Family - The terrible sound quality. If there is one game that is in serious need of a DCS sound upgrade its this game.
Monster Bash - The creature shot on bottom left of playfield. It just ruins the flow too much on the game.
Class of 1812 - Shitty rules all around. Sucks. This game isn't revered as much as it should because of the shitty rules.
I love Metallica. BUT, the left outlane configuration causing cheap drains that are undeserved are starting to wear on my nerves. 
Quoted from superJackpot:You can fix or drastically reduced this by bending the flap found inside around the corner from the lock entrance. It's positioned above the ball path just before the lock's final resting place. Bending it up or down as required will cause balls that are rejected to bounce down (and still lock) instead of bouncing out and back out the lock entrance.
You can also fix this by putting spacers under the back legs of that same assembly. I used two of those wafer thin washers (that are supposed to sit between the playfield and ball guides) on each leg, and bounce outs went from like 40% to 5%.
Quoted from ryanwanger:You can also fix this by putting spacers under the back legs of that same assembly. I used two of those wafer thin washers (that are supposed to sit between the playfield and ball guides) on each leg, and bounce outs went from like 40% to 5%.
Interesting I may have to try that could I just use some small washers also?
Quoted from joekiss:STTNG outlanes. They completely ruin the game.
This has been discussed before... sttng outlanes do not ruin the game at all, you just have to learn to nudge at the right time, there's a lot of rubber on the top of that slingshot!
Quoted from joekiss:STTNG outlanes. They completely ruin the game.
The pop bumper configuration on TZ.
Easily lose over half of my balls over there coming out of the pops, plus, it prevents you from going for the skill shot unless you've got the ball save turned on.
Amazing game-terrible design with the pops though...
I love Tommy, but the mode start/Union Jack shot is frustrating as hell. A perfect shot will get rejected at least half the time.
Quoted from twenty84:Monster Bash: The phantom flip
Cirqus Voltaire: Pointless video modes (the Amazing Roonie, Copy Cat)
Stern Star Trek Premium: Ugly translight (thanks to Aurich for making a better one)
Ugly translite, maybe, but best looking cab art of the three models.
Batman Dark Knight's gadget upper right playfield. I know its adjustable to make easier to complete, but I've never played one that doesn't require 85 hits to complete. Still love the game though.
Quoted from Jvspin:Good to know, thanks.
Will home roms also put on a ball saver after hitting the Hitchhiker?
I think the ball save on TZ is only for the first ball. You can change (in seconds) how long it is active in adjustments.
Quoted from Astropin:The ball trickling out of the pops on JP and going SDTM......consecutive times!
Holy crap. This. We just finished making the t-rex work after about 9 month of being on a diet, getting the shaker motor to work after it blew up when the power supply caught on fire, and getting everything working so that we could actually play it and enjoy it. Cleaned it, got the LEDs working just right, everything is perfect. Play a game... 3 balls in a row jump around the pops just long enough for ball save to turn off then straight between the flippers for a 30 second game. Sometimes I hate that machine. 
Quoted from mab487:I think the ball save on TZ is only for the first ball. You can change (in seconds) how long it is active in adjustments.
By default it's only on the first ball. You can turn it on for the other balls as well.
Quoted from bigd1979:Interesting I may have to try that could I just use some small washers also?
Yeah, washers will work. (That's essentially what I'm using).
There is some discussion and pics of it here: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/a-newbie-restores-twilight-zone
Gorgar and Black Hole:
- you can't move the lit rollover lane with the flippers.
- no meaningful skill shot.
Attack from Mars:
- absurd score inflation results in like 6 meaningless zeroes on the end of your score.
Theatre of Magic:
- "video pinball" is easily the worst video mode ever.
TOTAN:
- after you rescue the princess, you get to watch a super long and boring DMD animation of you and her slowly flying across the screen on a carpet. it takes forever and is not skippable. on location, people probably wrongly assume the game is over at that point!
Monstar Bash:
- Phantom Flipper: neat trick, but serves no useful purpose. good players will just be annoyed by the loss of control.
Quoted from vid1900:The Shadow would be the perfect game if Tim Curry did not play up a silly gay character on the pin (he played a straight character in the movie).
Why make him act gay?? It does not fit the pin or the movie.
This is what i was going to say
Quoted from rai:Iron Man, no skill shot. And it has a post blocker like Tron, so in theory it could implement similar skill shot like Tron.
Disable the post in the settings and it becomes a serious skill shot.....not worth a lot but still makes it difficult.
Quoted from roffels:Iron Man - Iron Monger is too easy to activate and disrupts the flow early on.
Set it to "hard".
Quoted from guarda:AUTO PLUNGE!
that can be turned off
Quoted from rcbrown316:that can be turned off
They'd probably kick me out if I jimmied their games.
1) Cirqus Voltaire. Video modes suck, and you get them all the time. Neon multiball is awesome, and you almost never see it.
2) Starship Troopers. That screech the one bug makes, but the giant brain bug bash toy that is really too dangerous to shoot for, for so few points.
3) Creature. Losing one of the multiballs and immediately shooting the snack-bar for a restart - only to shoot it just a second too early and it not count.
4) WCS94. That horrible left orbit into the left sling.
5) EATPM. Right ramp to VUK. That ramp needed to flow like the other, not stop.
6) Pinball Magic. Linear rule-set made otherwise fun layout a chore to play.
7) Whrilwind. Nothing. It's perfect.
Quoted from tamoore:Whirlwind:
1. "pops to nowhere" -- upper pops don't randomize ball movement, score for you (barely), or drain on you. They are completely a waste of time. One of the worst pop pens in pinball.
Fixed!
-mof
Quoted from pezpunk:Gorgar and Black Hole:
- you can't move the lit rollover lane with the flippers.
- no meaningful skill shot.
Gorgar.. sign of the times. If you dial back to when Gorgar was released, the game is brilliant.
I get it... you like the game as the thread content is "things that suck on great games". Being old enough to have played Gorgar on location when it was released, it is what it is and in that era totally was great.
But all that being said, you mentioning Gorgar on a "great games thread with..." I understand. I salute you for mentioning Gorgar as a great game.
Gorgar is a great game. I understand pinball evolved over time and the lane rollover thing wasn't always standard operating procedure. I don't exactly hold it against it, but when I play it or Black Hole today, rotating the lit lane is always something I end up unconsciously trying to do, ya know?
Quoted from TheLaw:Not when there isn't a plunger to manually do it
Quoted from rcbrown316:guess i'd need to know what game. my bsd had autoplunge on and it blew. turned it off and its my favorite game.
Bsd dont have a plunger tho?
Pinbot: the upper left kickout hole. It's about a 5 second stall for bonus announcement and spit out. Would have been better if just a target, kickback, or something that keeps the ball moving. Pinbot is not know for being a very fast flowing game to begin with.
Quoted from mof:Fixed!
-mof
The upper pops are a punishment for not making a clean shot to your intended orbit or target. I rarely ever get into them. I see you must have a shot accuracy problem..... 
Regina, SK
Quoted from 320Gigabytes:The coffin on BSD. Specifically the back portion. I removed the back part on mine because it looks so god-awful garish.
Pics?
Quoted from beelzeboob:The "launch ball" button on MM. I hate games that have a fire button that's not even themed with the rest of the game. Give me a gun like IJ or a handle like A13 or something. A button is such a cop out and eliminates any chance of a skill shot.
What was the first game that had launcher that would auto-plunge, when in multiball, and allow self plunging? Scared Stiff?
Edit: I guess Twilight Zone kind of had this, but it was a separate shooter lane. So I'm asking which was the first with both combined.
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