http://pinball.org/rules/simpsonspinballparty.txt

Couch mb gets harder to achieve each time. You have to hit the locks twice to lock one ball on the second round. Complete the modes and the bonus points add up with victory points. Hit the jackpots during mb, couch is worth a lot. Tons of other ways to score big. Treehouse of horror shot. I'd read through the rules, way too much to type it here.

Cross your arms when doing the mystery spot (backwards flippers)... You will rock it then!

Im the same as you Toasterdog, new owner just got as far as when the flippers change, I actually thought the flippers died till I realized what was going on , what a trip, lucky I had a mate with me to witness the craziness , and lucky my ball timers are a little longer on my game so the multiball didn't go to total waste, I just missed out on alien invasion though, but hope to get there in the near future, but my game was the same, at the end of it all I scored 74,500.000 and some change, it really opened my eyes to how great this game is, so I will keeping an eye on this thread to get as many tips as I can..

Couch will lock balls only when the green LOCK lamp in front of the ramp is lit/flashing.

If unlit, you'll need to bang away on the two green standup targets just below the ramp entrance, which helpfully say LIGHT LOCK.

For the first multiball, the lock is always ready, but for later multiballs, you just have to qualify it by hitting the targets. Each multiball, it gets harder to qualify, basically by requiring more target hits.

In my best game I think I played Couch MB about 7 or 8 times.

Try to keep the timer reset and start (stack) as many TV modes as you can, then start multiball.

Light as many 2x scoring lanes as possible buy hitting auto while keeping the timer going then start any mode your score will double quickly.

As far as TV modes *IF* you want to go balls out all or nothing...

Hit crusty spinner, get to upper PF & start TV mode. Then keep hitting spinner & starting/stacking more TV modes. Begin working on a MB, any of them. Why? Because when you start a MB with like 5 TV modes you can bank on some cool shot getting done. Plus 10 ramp shots lights EB!

REMEMBER: You can put the clock back up to 30 by starting another TV mode or by hitting the "light Otto" target followed by making the Otto loop shot. Also there is a target in the pops area that adds time to the clock well above the 30 seconds. Know when to sandbag an Otto, it's a waste to use Otto when you're at 45.

Add as much shit as you can't into a single ball by whoring out that timer.

That's all I got for TV modes but I must admit the side missions are my main focus for some reason. I just like them more & they far outnumber TV modes. Also I always try to start the first Bart mode right after the skill shot.

That's all I feel like typing now lol

Victory laps (from finishing multiple modes) gets very lucrative, especially with shot doublers. Don't let the timer expire.

Make it a little harder. Default is to re-light tv mode after every ball. Change it so that TV mode only lights by hitting the krusty loop. Completing modes adds to AI time.

That's only first time to AI. After that you have to always relight TV modes via krusty.

The best part about tspp is the strategy is constantly changing depending on where you are at in the game. You will pick up little things as you go such as what modes go well together and where your priority shot is.

One thing I just recently started doing is saving the monorail mode for after the first time I run couch multiball. Sure it's ideal to have all modes going and then start couch multiball but for my skill level it isn't realistic. I'll usually have a few modes going and then start couch MB. The reason I've been running the monorail after couch multiball is because that's when I will relight my locks and am more prone to draining down the monorail by accident anyways.

I've had my TSPP for a couple of months but have not been playing a lot lately...VERY fun game although I think the previous owner will be on the board for a long, long time (possibly forever) as I have a hard time getting 10% of his score of nearly 200million, lol.

d'OH!

anyone here ever seen pretzel mutiball?? it seems a tall order for me, think the most kids I ever got was around 13..

Pretzel is a strange MB and thing to go for, as it's really on it's own, isn't a requirement of anything, and unless you have having a massive game, well, even then, you usually don't stumble upon it. You have to say "I'm going to go for Pretzel now", and you put everything else aside and just build that. Just another tangent in the single greatest ruleset to date.

I have only got it about 6 times I would say, mainly because I'm usually trying to finish the game, and it's only when I went for it specifically and solely. The last game I played I scored the SDMEWM, and even then, after I did that, I thought "what do I do now?". I checked, and I had 25 of 26 kids, so I then hit another and started that, combined with couch and an I&S MB. 70M in a very short 3 min MB (at least that is what it felt like).

My point being even in the best game I have ever had, I didn't load up Pretzel without at some point specifically topping it up to start.

I find Pretzel is really useful deep into a game, when the other multiball opportunities have gotten much harder to start, and I really need an insurance policy to help complete other tasks. For example, I never want to start Scratchy's Revenge without a second MB. Pretzel is often within reach in a long game by that point.

The scoring on its own is not that significant. I can't believe you scored 70M on Pretzel alone in 3 minutes. Supers are only 2.5M+500K<=5M unmultiplied, and I don't think the pretzel values are that large.

It's also a nice touch that Pretzel gives the left orbit some greater significance in the game, more than just lighting nuclear values. I would guess it was one of the later rules to be added.

I didn't, I noted it was stacked with couch and an itchy.

It isn't overly common for me to get pretzel but I do get it once in a while. I seem to collect a lot of kids through failed garage shots.

You need to fix your ramp or you have weak flippers. A direct shot into the garage should send you to the upper playfield close to 100% of the time.

I don't think either is the case. My ramp is still perfect and my flippers are nice and strong. I highly doubt anyone can claim near 100% of their shots to the garage are going to the upper playfield. If they did I would say something is wrong with THEIR machine. The game isn't setup like that and if it was meant to be there would be a solid ramp in the garage and not one that feeds into the orbit. On a 30 - 45 minute game I would be surprised if someone didn't pick up 10 to 12 kids from failed garage shots and another 7 or 8 kids from bounces up from the pops. That will take you up around 20 without even attempting to make a left orbit shot.

There are always shots that hit on an angle or whatever they don't make the "jump", I'd say about 15% for me fall into this, and my machine is fast and powerful, and if they fall after the first ramp ends, it's a left orbit and a cleatus kid. Not real common, but I do agree that most of my kids are from this, as I only shoot the left orbit for the hurry up and to end the wiggim mode, otherwise only if I'm going to pretzel, which again is rare.

Like I said, a direct shot from the flipper into the garage should go to the upper pf, not just any garage shot.