Verizon charges you to check you voicemail- it does not count as an "IN" call.
I know because my wife used to run out of minutes every month and she could constantly check the number of minutes she had left. Whenever she checked her voicemail, that number would go down.
I can think of at least 3 pinballs off the top of my head that use magnets for some sort of feature. Austin Powers, Theatre of Magic, Addams Family, and I'm sure there are lots of others. These games don't call for any special pinballs, so I'm pretty sure all modern pinballs are the same, and therefore magnetic.
Star Wars Trilogy is another... There are countless pins with magnets that control the ball in one way or another. I'd say that for at least the last 15-20 years they have been using this kind of ball control.
Dan - Pinball Technician Marty's Playland, Ocean City, MD
I am a technician at an arcade where we have the largest collection of pinballs of any other arcade in this area (Ocean City, MD). At the moment we have 12 machines, ranging from a prototype for the original Star Trek (1978) to the newest Stern Soprano's pin. When I first started here, we had over 20! But bigger, newer video games bring in more money, so we've had to cut back.
Pinballs are NOT hard to maintain. If the machines you play are constantly broken- find different machines! Broken pinballs are caused by lazy or incompetent service personel. Most arcade technicians are hacks anyway.
I agree with some other posters in that Stern's machines aren't as nice (mechanically or theme-wise) as some older williams/bally games, but they are the only ones making them anymore.
If any of you care to come check out my pinball machines, come to Marty's Playland on the boardwalk in Ocean City, MD ahref=http://www.martysplayland.com/http://www.mar tysplayland.com/> (sorry, our website is horribly out of date) and ask for Dan. Mention the slashdot pinball post and I'll give you a couple free games.
>(Frankly, calling Bill Gates a Nazi is the same way.)
yeah, Billy-boy is way worse than the Nazi's where! He's going for world domination, he has concentration camps (user base), and he has soldiers (MSCE's).
The boxing game you speak of is called Mo-Cap Boxing.
Actually, the original poster spoke of a game where you physically hit targets as they popped up. That game is Fighting Mania. In Mo-Cap Boxing, there is no contact (at least, there's not supposed to be, and I'll kick you out of the arcade if you hit the screen too many times).
Incidently, the horse racing game he mentions is called Final Furlong, and the paddling game mentioned by someone else is called Rapid River.
If you looked at the link, you would see that he specifically states, "The door still functions as it did before". He used an electric striker plate, which releases when power is applied to it. So if the power goes out, he just uses a key.
RTFL
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Maybe it's just a hoax, so MS has someone (other than themselves) to blame for all the bugs in their software. i can hear it now "no, your honor, we didn't knowingly hinder the performance of non-MS software, it must have been those hackers".
You never know
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Verizon charges you to check you voicemail- it does not count as an "IN" call.
I know because my wife used to run out of minutes every month and she could constantly check the number of minutes she had left. Whenever she checked her voicemail, that number would go down.
I can think of at least 3 pinballs off the top of my head that use magnets for some sort of feature. Austin Powers, Theatre of Magic, Addams Family, and I'm sure there are lots of others. These games don't call for any special pinballs, so I'm pretty sure all modern pinballs are the same, and therefore magnetic.
Star Wars Trilogy is another... There are countless pins with magnets that control the ball in one way or another. I'd say that for at least the last 15-20 years they have been using this kind of ball control.
Dan - Pinball Technician
Marty's Playland,
Ocean City, MD
I am a technician at an arcade where we have the largest collection of pinballs of any other arcade in this area (Ocean City, MD). At the moment we have 12 machines, ranging from a prototype for the original Star Trek (1978) to the newest Stern Soprano's pin. When I first started here, we had over 20! But bigger, newer video games bring in more money, so we've had to cut back.
r tysplayland.com/> (sorry, our website is horribly out of date) and ask for Dan. Mention the slashdot pinball post and I'll give you a couple free games.
Pinballs are NOT hard to maintain. If the machines you play are constantly broken- find different machines! Broken pinballs are caused by lazy or incompetent service personel. Most arcade technicians are hacks anyway.
I agree with some other posters in that Stern's machines aren't as nice (mechanically or theme-wise) as some older williams/bally games, but they are the only ones making them anymore.
If any of you care to come check out my pinball machines, come to Marty's Playland on the boardwalk in Ocean City, MD ahref=http://www.martysplayland.com/http://www.ma
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>(Frankly, calling Bill Gates a Nazi is the same way.)
yeah, Billy-boy is way worse than the Nazi's where!
He's going for world domination, he has concentration camps (user base), and he has soldiers (MSCE's).
The boxing game you speak of is called Mo-Cap Boxing.
Actually, the original poster spoke of a game where you physically hit targets as they popped up. That game is Fighting Mania. In Mo-Cap Boxing, there is no contact (at least, there's not supposed to be, and I'll kick you out of the arcade if you hit the screen too many times).
Incidently, the horse racing game he mentions is called Final Furlong, and the paddling game mentioned by someone else is called Rapid River.
If you looked at the link, you would see that he specifically states, "The door still functions as it did before". He used an electric striker plate, which releases when power is applied to it. So if the power goes out, he just uses a key.
RTFL
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Maybe it's just a hoax, so MS has someone (other than themselves) to blame for all the bugs in their software. i can hear it now "no, your honor, we didn't knowingly hinder the performance of non-MS software, it must have been those hackers". You never know