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- From: nin15b0b@merrimack.edu (David E. Sheafer)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
- Subject: Re: Matching
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.221859.2526@merrimack.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:18:59 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.234037.12246@clipper.ingr.com>
- Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA, USA
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- In article <1992Dec21.234037.12246@clipper.ingr.com>, jimmy@clipper.ingr.com (Jimmy Blair) writes:
- >
- >
- > This may be a dumb question, but is matching really random?
- > I ask because I played Dr. Who for a couple of hours one
- > night and matched four times. On the other hand, I've
- > played Fish Tales much more and never matched. Maybe
- > Dr. Who is more generous because (IMHO) it sucks, especially
- > by comparison with Fish Tales.
- > Dr. Who is a good concept
- > game, but it's too repetitive -- wasting time charging
- > the transmat with the long boring shot to the upper left,
- > and then clanking away 15 times at the transmat when it
- > raises. The targets on the transmat deaden the ball
- > too much, and the far right target is in a shadow zone.
- > The playfield is really a throwback to the past when
- > there was usually a row of targets across the top and
- > long rows down both sides. My final complaint is the
- > third flipper, so I guess I can't mention the video mode...
- >
-
- sort of but not really any more, the percentage of matches is operator
- settable, but this doesn't mean it will for example if set at 10% match
- every 10th game. The way I understand it is, the match is random, but if
- say the game has only matched 5% of the time, it will match to bring up
- the match percentage to what is set & vica versa.
-
- feel free to correct me if I'm wrong
-
-
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- David E. Sheafer
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