Looking to add a new pinball to game room. Anyone have a suggestion for pinball with the best Multiball action.
Looking to add a new pinball to game room. Anyone have a suggestion for pinball with the best Multiball action.
Multiball Rob only cares about multiball!
The answer of course is Apollo 13. 13 balls in play for Multiball Rob!!!
The hobbits smaug is fun and progressive multiball which gives you a kill shot for smaug that kills the flippers with great video behind it.
Quoted from CrazyLevi:The answer of course is Apollo 13. 13 balls in play for Multiball Rob!!!
That sure beats Balls A Poppin!
But I like stacking Mist, Coffin, and Castle on BSD.
Storage facility multiball in Ghostbusters—especially with a shaker motor. It’s kind of hard to get to unless you’re a decent player, though.
Attack From Mars' main multiball is the best of the modern games. Simple, but perfect. Addams Family makes a strong case too. Classic games tend to have way more satisfying multiballs than today's games though. Today multiball is a relatively easy thing to achieve and it's just a "hit the ramps!" parade. Getting multiball in something like Firepower or Flight 2000 really feels like an achievement.
Atari_Daze you do realize that at this point probably every topic that is worth discussing in pinball has already been brought up? It’s not like baseball where something new happens every day to debate. I don’t get people who feel the need to keep rubbing it in people’s faces that something has already been discussed. Just don’t click the thread if bothers you that much.
I like starting the mutiball in Robocop because I love hearing the wrecking crew is here!! The wrecking crew is here!!
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May I suggest a polite PM instead of a shaming? Maybe he doesn’t know how PM’s Work and you could also help with that.
Quoted from Ericc123:Maybe he doesn’t know how PM’s Work and you could also help with that.
Good point, and no intent to shame, however I have seen others post after months of being a pinsider them just finding out the PM function too.
It's all ball bearings these days!
Godzilla. There are no single ball modes in the game they're all multiball modes. Trick is to get all 5 of them qualified before starting them all at once. If you do happen to start Sonar Multiball on it's own, pressing both flipper buttons before multiball starts changes the animation to show the sonar operator get skewered through the head with a spear!
Quoted from schudel5:If you do happen to start Sonar Multiball on it's own, pressing both flipper buttons before multiball starts changes the animation to show the sonar operator get skewered through the head with a spear!
That's right out of Starship Troopers...
Thanks everyone, great suggestions
Going to hit the arcade and try out some of these titles. Apollo 13 with 13 balls that's insane
Quoted from Ericc123:I don’t get people who feel the need to keep rubbing it in people’s faces that something has already been discussed.
It's aboot respect.
Quoted from TheLaw:It's aboot respect.
Respect has already been discussed.
/insert beating a dead horse gif.
O-din, I'm surprised you didn't recommend Bally's Balls-a-Poppin!
Rare, hard to find, and definitely expensive, but man oh man, what a cool game. Centaur is probably the closest thing you'll get for a "modern" game in the same vain.
Quoted from mbaumle:O-din, I'm surprised you didn't recommend Bally's Balls-a-Poppin!
Quoted from o-din:That sure beats Balls A Poppin!
But I like stacking Mist, Coffin, and Castle on BSD.
What can I say! I don't own the game.
Quoted from o-din:What can I say! I don't own the game.
Damn! This is like the 3rd time this week I've done a really bad job at reading all the responses in a thread before making mine I totally missed that. I concede!
I like junkyards multiball because it's only a single shot jackpot that gets harder after the first jackpot. Plus the start to that multiball is great and we'll integrated
Quoted from mbaumle:Damn! This is like the 3rd time this week I've done a really bad job at reading all the responses in a thread before making mine I totally missed that. I concede!
To be fair, I didn't recommend it.
ST:TNG (Borg Mutli-Ball) is one of the best . You start off with the pinball loading in the left cannon . You try to shoot the start mission center shot . You can make the cannon shot a maximum of three times awarding higher point Jackpots for each competed shot with left cannon . Then you go into regular (Borg multi-ball) . Jackpots are then awarded from (center shot) or up the (Left Ramp shot) via the right upper flipper. The Borg ship is firing back at you on DMD . If your shields go down . To get more Jackpots you must shoot the (left orbit/spinner) to regain shields and enable even more Jackpots . Total skill and adrenaline rush.
Quoted from CrazyLevi:Multiball Rob only cares about multiball!
The answer of course is Apollo 13. 13 balls in play for Multiball Rob!!!
Maybe Blackwater 100 would be ideal for Multiball Rob. Every game starts with 3-ball multiball!!
Quoted from tamoore:Honestly, the best multiball's are in System11 games, and Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Back when multiball meant something!
Quoted from jar155:Back when multiball meant something!
You really had to earn those multiballs! That was also back when a jackpot meant something too.
Quoted from mbaumle:You really had to earn those multiballs! That was also back when a jackpot meant something too.
Earn them, and no ball save. A drain was a drain!
Quoted from gliebig:NGG. Takes ball control to get jackpots. Flailing around ain't gonna get you no jp's.
You can also just plunge a ball to get a jackpot. The cheapest jackpot in all of pinball.
Quoted from tamoore:You can also just plunge a ball to get a jackpot. The cheapest jackpot in all of pinball.
CHEATER CHEATER
I like when you start the movie in CFTBL (which starts a simple but brilliantly-designed two-ball multi-ball). It starts with a ball added to the plunger lane. You hear the movie's intro music. Then there's a lot of skill involved. You must "search" (three possible places) for the creature and the girl while carefully keeping both balls in play. If you lose one, you shoot the center hole to get going again. Once you find the creature, he starts moving around in the lagoon as a hologram. Then you shoot the center hole to rescue the girl. If you successfully rescue the girl, you can go for jackpots and super-jackpots. Also, during multiball, you can shoot up into the whirlpool ramp to increase the jackpot multiplier. In my opinion, in terms of multiball fun, it's a masterpiece. I guess I'm not a huge fan of modern multiball modes that are basically out-of-control scoring frenzies.
I was always impressed with Fireball's multiball. I hadn't seen any of the other multiball games when it came out.
"Wow, you mean we can have three balls in play at the same time? Wow, just wow!"
Twister.
It's not a good game, but the multiball is great: 3 balls drop onto a magnetic disk and it spins like crazy until they all launch off
Quoted from Adams:3 balls drop onto a magnetic disk and it spins like crazy until they all launch off
When you get to 5 balls on that spinning disc magnet it is even more impressive.
Quoted from Adams:Twister.
It's not a good game, but the multiball is great: 3 balls drop onto a magnetic disk and it spins like crazy until they all launch off
Same as Lost in Space. Same as X-Men LE.
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