Dude, who even knows.
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WWE WrestleMania pinball: review
I seem to be the only person in Portland or like anywhere pinball who doesn’t actively hate this table. Wevs, there are a lot of ‘90s DMDs that only recently got “rediscovered”, just wait for the operators to start unloading them, pick one up cheap, and flip it when the time comes.
I think it’s 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).
Also it’s 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.
Not saying it’s perfect - those tradeoffs right now are too weighted in favor of bonus and thus uphill no-match, I don’t really try anything else until I’ve got the multiplier maxed, which is at least what, 12 shots to the upper playfield, and however long bouncing around the ring.
(It would be nice if outside a match the ring would be some “cut a promo” feature which gave you 2-3 flips to make the saucer or a particular lit target then went dead.)
The 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.
And the central horseshoe/bumpers, fuck only knows why they’re even there.