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Twilight Zone with Williams Flippers

By crazycatguy42

2 years ago



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#1 2 years ago

Hi all! I've had this Twilight Zone in my local arcade for years and it's always looked and played great, but every time I played ones in other places
it felt totally different to play and I couldn't do as well on them. I realised the other day that the machine had Williams flippers installed, while the other
machines I've played had different ones. Is this a problem at all? I've always felt the game played better with the Williams flippers, the ones with the others I found were very awkward to aim and control the ball with. Does this count as a form of cheating, or mean anything at all?

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#2 2 years ago

Those are the flipper bats called for in the manual. Im not sure if there were specific ones without the Williams logo that they would have put on their "Bally"-branded games or not.

Either way, Bally and Williams games were functionally the same in the 90s as Williams had bought Bally/Midway in the late 80s. So the difference in the feel of the flippers probably comes down to adjustment and wear on the flipper mechs themselves.

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