I seem to be the only person in Portland or like anywhere pinball who doesn\u2019t actively hate this table. Wevs, there are a lot of \u201890s DMDs that only recently got \u201crediscovered\u201d, just wait for the operators to start unloading them, pick one up cheap, and flip it when the time comes.
\n\nI think it\u2019s a cute callback to the late pre-ramp era where so much of the action involved a diamond-shaped upper playfield w/saucer fed by orbit shots (dig those bonus count lights too).
\n\nAlso it\u2019s got interesting tradeoffs between downhill elements that progress towards modes or advance scoring, uphill during a match for those millions, and uphill without a match to advance the bonus and multiplier.
\n\nNot saying it\u2019s perfect - those tradeoffs right now are too weighted in favor of bonus and thus uphill no-match, I don\u2019t really try anything else until I\u2019ve got the multiplier maxed, which is at least what, 12 shots to the upper playfield, and however long bouncing around the ring.
\n\n(It would be nice if outside a match the ring would be some \u201ccut a promo\u201d feature which gave you 2-3 flips to make the saucer or a particular lit target then went dead.)
\n\nThe last code update buffed the matches a bit, with enough hits you can get a pin leaving the upper PF without a saucer, it would be nice if the championship belts actually did something, whether modes like after Champion Pub fights, bonus, maybe a permanent +1X multiplier.
\n\nAnd the central horseshoe/bumpers, fuck only knows why they\u2019re even there.
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