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BATMAN the DARK KNIGHT is now at SMOKEY'S REPLAY
« on: August 31, 2008, 02:41:24 PM »
...as of today the outlanes are not blocked.

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Re: BATMAN the DARK KNIGHT is now at SMOKEY'S REPLAY
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2008, 06:06:25 PM »
Spence

I thought you alway blocked the outlanes on your pinballs, because you suck at the game.  ;D ::)

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Re: BATMAN the DARK KNIGHT is now at SMOKEY'S REPLAY
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2008, 08:47:44 PM »
KISH MA BUTT POPS!!!

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Re: BATMAN the DARK KNIGHT is now at SMOKEY'S REPLAY
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2008, 01:30:03 AM »
I'll go tomorrow (Monday) or Tues to play, anybody around here want to join me?  It depends how my back is doing when I wake up, but was 10 times better today, walking around pretty good now, so should be OK tomorrow.  I called them just to make sure Spencer wasn't lying. :)  No., actually because I wanted to make sure they'd be open Monday if I decide to go, they are.

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Re: BATMAN the DARK KNIGHT is now at SMOKEY'S REPLAY
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2008, 09:32:31 AM »
Hope your doing better Jeff. I will be back in town tonight, if you can wait.......
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Re: BATMAN the DARK KNIGHT is now at SMOKEY'S REPLAY
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2008, 04:16:51 AM »
OK,

so we had a call to arms and got the OMFG contingency together to go up to Rocky's to check out BDK.  OK, well 4 of us anyway...me, Spencer, Art, and Dan/ CNFuzzy.

Had a great time hanging with everyone, was there a LOT longer than planned.  Pretty much spent the first THREE hours on the Batman pin.  Didn't want to rush to any hasty conclusions or anything.  I thought it was a nice pin. I should stop there probably, but I'll give you some more.  Yeah, I love playing on most ANY new pin, so "nice" doesn't tell you much, huh?  I guess overall I was a bit underwhelmed, but MOSTLY disappointed.  Not at the PIN as much as that after I somewhat informed Rocky's to try to make sure they have the current code/ software loaded in it, I was hoping for at LEAST the previous update, version 2.1 .   The current and mostly considered FINISHED code is version 2.2 .  So what did it have?  Version 0.7 .  WTF?  I'm pretty sure this is the original code the game was produced with, the way it left the factory.  So, obviously Brady didn't take the effort to update it (or care) when they set it up, or Stern didn't bother to update it before they shipped it out.  Either way it was disappointing right off the "bat" knowing the game we came to play wasn't the finished product.

So then played it for 3 hours anyway...because it's a Batman pin, and STILL the greatest pin ever made, Thomas... FU ! :)   Well, actually, like I said was a bit underwhelmed.  Not anything jaw dropping, lots of wasted toys and space and ideas that could have been better I thought.  But to be fair it's pretty much running prototype software so not fair to give a final judgment just yet.  Don't know how much the finished code will add, but I'm sure it will make things better, and add a lot more voices and effects.  It IS a nice game, similar to IJ4  I think that I enjoy playing them both, but not sure if I need to rush out and buy one just yet... or ever. Will continue to play them and see if they grow on me a little, but I like games that slap me in the face and drop my jaw right off the bat and give me a challenge if it's going to be something I might actually consider buying.  This isn't going to be one of those.  but it's a nice game. :)  Best I can say for it right now.  Seems like, well...it's a Stern.  They're starting to all have a "Stern feel" and look to them, and simplicity.  Not sure that I care for it, but glad I guess someone's still making new pins and at least trying.  And glad Rocky's actually gives us a place to try them, even if it does kill our lungs.  I hate the smoke, but realize we're at least fortunate to have SOMEPLACE that gets the new pins.  Unfortunately BIG bummer is they got rid of Spiderman to make room for BDK.  Oh, don't worry, WOF is STILL there...damn it!  Leave THAT one, and get rid of Spiderman?

Funny story re: Rocky's staff... I asked the one guys if he could turn the volume on the game up, he said he'll leave a message for the tech that comes in, since he doesn't know how to do that and they don't have the technology?  Huh?  I told him there's FOUR of us over there that know what we're doing if they had the key and could open it up it's VERY simple.  He said they have the keys for "emergencies" but can't go into the games to do anything technical.  OK, great.  I told him about the code not being updated and he looked at me like a deer in headlights...and thus explained a little more carefully and slowly what I was talking about.  THEN it hit him and he said "OOOOh! THAT'S what somebody ELSE was telling me the other day but it went right over my head!".  No kidding, not surprised.  After I went back to join the boys and played some more the OTHER manager guy comes up and asks how we like the game and thoughts...so I kinda repeated what I told the other guy.  He says" Oh...here."  and pulls out the keys and cranks up the volume.  WOW!  I was pleasantly surprised he did that, and sure glad he did since NOW we could at least HEAR a lot that we were missing and it definitely made the game more enjoyable.  I guess we just had to ask the right guy, or the guy with the friggin KEYS...who actually HAD the "technology".  Told HIM about the code also, and it also kinda went over his head.  He didn't understand how it wasn't "completed" if it was only 2 days old...then understood what we were telling him and THEN didn't understand why Stern ships out games that don't have finished code.  Join the crowd.  But it was nice to get some attention and felt for once they actually gave a little bit of a damn about us and trying to make us happy.  Well, at least until they killed the power and kicked us out at 12:10am...right in the middle of Art's best ball ever...and multiball...on Family Guy.  He actually overtook my high score on his last ball...so I guess since nobody saw his final score and his ball wasn't official...I WIN! :)  Or...maybe I TOLD them it was "time to kill the power...QUICK!".  :)

Anyway, had a great time playing pin for the evening, and hanging with the guys.  Looking forward to playing the BDK pin when they get it updated, at least I guess we can now see the differences and upgrades.


On a sidebar.... I blame myself for this.  Had I not tangled with that Bane guy, he wouldn't have broken my back and had me out of action for the weekend.  And of COURSE this is the weekend Robin decides to go out of town chasing young chicks in sexy outfits at Dragon con...good help is SO hard to find.  So of COURSE this is a weekend the "shipment" comes in, and with nobody to protect it, the damn Joker runs rampant, and probably prevented the updated software from being loaded. Damn Joker.  I HATE the Joker.
 




 
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Re: BATMAN the DARK KNIGHT is now at SMOKEY'S REPLAY
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2008, 01:09:00 PM »
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On a sidebar.... I blame myself for this.  Had I not tangled with that Bane guy, he wouldn't have broken my back and had me out of action for the weekend.  And of COURSE this is the weekend Robin decides to go out of town chasing young chicks in sexy outfits at Dragon con...good help is SO hard to find.  So of COURSE this is a weekend the "shipment" comes in, and with nobody to protect it, the damn Joker runs rampant, and probably prevented the updated software from being loaded. Damn Joker.  I HATE the Joker.

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Re: BATMAN the DARK KNIGHT is now at SMOKEY'S REPLAY
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2008, 02:01:06 PM »
well here's an intresting sidebar, after helping me unload the star wars arcade game , my firend left here did some errand s and picked his son up at the airport on their way back he decided to go to Rocky's to play some pinball as he had played some earlier in the day here and still had it in his blood, while low and behold he called me today and say he played the new batman an shrek. also said there was a group of people playing pinball, that seeded to get aggravated that he was not getting off the pins in a timely fashion, so if any one saw a man with a shaved head  prob about 5'6",   playing pinball , just to let you know be nice to him i cant tell you how many times he has driven form Sanford to Deltona or even gone to Sarasota with me to load or unload a pin

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« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2008, 06:21:08 PM »
Sorry, couldn't resist.  All this talk of unfinished code makes me wonder which superhero will win out in the end.  I've yet to play Batman, so I'm just prodding at the point.  S-M is rapidly rising through the ranks here.

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Re: BATMAN the DARK KNIGHT is now at SMOKEY'S REPLAY
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2008, 09:14:56 PM »
Spidey ROCKS!  Especially with a shaker.  Batman's got a lot to overcome when he arrives soon.  He left Phoenix today, so now I'm on NAVL's schedule...DAMN, I WANT THAT GAME!!!
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Re: BATMAN the DARK KNIGHT is now at SMOKEY'S REPLAY
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2008, 09:47:31 PM »
IMO I definitely like Spiderman better compared to the Batman pin as is.  I like the flow and speed of SM, and definitely the soundtrack.  But would like to see a few more things working  on THAT one also (how about a video mode?  Don't know if either game has or is SUPPOSED to have a video mode...someday?).  They both seem to fall just a little short, but still like playing them.

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Re: BATMAN the DARK KNIGHT is now at SMOKEY'S REPLAY
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2008, 10:02:14 PM »
"he called me today and say he played the new batman an shrek. also said there was a group of people playing pinball, that seeded to get aggravated that he was not getting off the pins in a timely fashion, so if any one saw a man with a shaved head  prob about 5'6",   playing pinball , just to let you know be nice to him i cant tell you how many times he has driven form Sanford to Deltona or even gone to Sarasota with me to load or unload a pin "

Herman,

I THINK I might have seen him right when I got there, there was a bald guy with a go tee, playing IJ4 with another guy.  That was around 8:30pm.  I didn't notice him with a kid though.  There WAS a mother and son playing BDK for a while when I got there, I think the father came around also and played FG, while I was waiting on Art & Spencer to arrive... and was standing next to THEM and checking out the game as they played, but didn't try to put up a police ribbon or anything around the game or anything.  I WAS kinda wondering WTF they were doing there with a kid going on 9pm on a school night in a Smokey arcade though.  I WAS waiting for them to get the hell away from the only pin I came to play though, since they accidentally kept winning free games.  But maybe your friend was thinking of other people, we didn't bother anybody.  We actually had the pins mostly to ourselves most of the night, being a Monday evening ...only a few others even came over to play a few games on any of the pins. By 10 or 11pm the place was mostly empty...but the smoke remained.

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Re: BATMAN the DARK KNIGHT is now at SMOKEY'S REPLAY
« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2008, 10:52:53 PM »
Yea that was him the oe with the gotte, the person he was with  prob a 19-20 yr old is his son, i guess his son just got back in from vegas where he competed in some kind of R/C car racing , but yea he is the one that helped me deliver the IJ4 when i sold it a couple weeks back , but he called today and said he pereffered the old IJ over the new


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Re: BATMAN the DARK KNIGHT is now at SMOKEY'S REPLAY
« Reply #13 on: September 02, 2008, 11:26:40 PM »
Oh, then there were no issues with him! :)  They were playing IJ4 as we were getting there, I guess I MIGHT have hovered a little to check out the game for a minute when they were playing.  Actually, I DID go around the side to get a front view of him, since I couldn't tell from behind if it was Spencer or not, no offense Spencer! :)  But didn't have any interest at that time of playing IJ4, so he perceived it wrong...I was definitely there for Batman!