You are correct in my book (which isn't a good book).

edit: now that i think about it, your friend is right.

Hope this helps

No doubt. The rollover when there's a 100,000 point lamp is 200,000

Yes, to me to turn it over means to exceed it's scoring capacity. 200,000 points in my opinion

haha, technically the pinball gods would agree with you, 199,990 is rollover. A lot of my 60's games have a light for "1000", their rollover is 1,999.

What I really like is my Neptune, reels for 99,990 and lights for 100K, 200K etc to 1M. Rollover there is 1,999,990.

Ken

Yes. Let your friends have fun and enjoy their accomplishment. They aren't pinheads and don't really care about the particulars.

Just be glad your friends enjoy pinball!

But technically speaking...rolling over (score reels all ROLLED over). Hmmm I might need to let that soak for awhile.

rolled=turned?

rolling ove the machine, to me, implies that the score displayed is not accurate since you have gone past what it can handle.

the novelty mode is how my Neptune is set, it would of been cool if gottlieb put that mode on other machines
I can only think of a few late 70's AAB that have it

Yea, nothing like those 5 knocks for hitting a rollover. We used it for tourney play one year at TPF and all across the floor you could hear the distinctive knock, knock, knock, knock, knock. Never leaving the collection!

Rolling the game would be defined as exceeding the games ability to display the correct score.

Give your friend the benefit of rolling the game.
Looking at high scores for Jet Spin here on Pinside these are the top three, 189,160; 177,890; & 162,003. With the game on "5 Ball", and also set to "award an extra ball" with each ball in play, the possibility of 10 balls per game, and high scores are possible. Now that would require some time to learn the game to earn the extra balls the quickest way possible. These scores would certainly not reflect an average game.

I tend to agree that "rolling" the score on an EM is going past it's ability to correctly score. In other words, after 199,990 there's no way to tell if it's a score of 199,990 or 899,990.

I do seem to remember that someone was working on a mod to allow for keeping "high scores" on EM games. If I recall correctly, that mod also allowed for much higher scoring. I haven't seen that thread in a while and don't know if that mod ever made it to production.

Dave

Ken,

How do you get those novelty lights to work in "novelty" mode what pin do you move ? Lucky Hand Also has the 200,000-900,000 lights in the glass

BP

This is Neptune but HH may have the same thing... Similar to the 3 ball 5 ball, there's a Jones plug for "novelty" mode. My Neptune is at a buddies so I cant shoot a pic. Maybe Boilerman can take a pic of his Neptune. But yea, once in NM, score more than 99,990 and the 100K light comes on. Usually have to be in Wow mode where you are getting 50K for a rollover. (Boilerman my best Neptune score was 1.7M 3 Ball )

50,000 for a rollover that really is a WOW ! I've got a really nice example and love the game . I'm phasing out the 3" flipper games but Neptune will be in the lineup for years to come .

Not a historian but I see one thing on the 100,000 light on AAB's . They didn't start them until 1973 and 3" flippers . ProPool and Jungle King have the light. Pop a Card , 1972 had 2" flippers and no 100K light.

Got another one too on that transition from webbing to spatter . An exception is Melody in 1967 has spatter. By the Mid 70's they're all spatter .

On Hokus Pokus when you hit 100,000, a lite comes on that says "over the top" and a loud buzzer goes off. But I think it will do that each time you roll it from there as well.