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Post by brain galacki on Jan 26, 2023 15:34:57 GMT -6
Dumb Records is now the #1 proud location in the entire state of Illinois for HOLLYWOOD HEAT PINBALL (Gottlieb, 1986)
(Wow 2 new pinballs in like 1 weeks time?)
First, let's hear about it from Todd:
Four flippers total? 6 drop targets? Outlane on only the left side? A captive ball that has it's own separate pop bumper and playfield? A HOT SHOT RAMP that makes no sense at all? Looks like we are gonna have a lot of fun with this game, pinball club!
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Post by jeffradon2000 on Jan 30, 2023 14:17:28 GMT -6
I noticed brian had a score of 3.4 mil last time I was in the arcade so I made it broken again.
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Post by brain galacki on Jan 31, 2023 14:40:51 GMT -6
new thing is that we get new game, and then I put money on facebook boosted ads that say "come on down to dumb records arcade, and play _____!" and that game is just broken while the ads are running
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Post by brain galacki on Jan 31, 2023 14:42:00 GMT -6
I noticed brian had a score of 3.4 mil last time I was in the arcade so I made it broken again. |
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Post by jackparanoia on Feb 2, 2023 18:38:53 GMT -6
First time I got to put initials at Dumb. 1,183,620 The number is legit this time, unlike that over 4 million score I had when the machine went haywire.
I really enjoy the soundtrack and gameplay on this one.
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Post by jeffradon2000 on Feb 3, 2023 12:30:36 GMT -6
First time I got to put initials at Dumb. 1,183,620 The number is legit this time, unlike that over 4 million score I had when the machine went haywire. I really enjoy the soundtrack and gameplay on this one. Nice, welcome to the forum Jack! Hollywood Heat gets a bad wrap because it's pretty common to find on marketplace and many pinball nerds hate that era of gottlieb premier games, which are also harder to maintain as witnessed by this game. I also like it for it's 80s retro vibes and music as well as unique design. |
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Post by jackparanoia on Feb 8, 2023 21:01:48 GMT -6
First time I got to put initials at Dumb. 1,183,620 The number is legit this time, unlike that over 4 million score I had when the machine went haywire. I really enjoy the soundtrack and gameplay on this one. Nice, welcome to the forum Jack! Hollywood Heat gets a bad wrap because it's pretty common to find on marketplace and many pinball nerds hate that era of gottlieb premier games, which are also harder to maintain as witnessed by this game. I also like it for it's 80s retro vibes and music as well as unique design. Newer high score is 1,299,990! Not much better than my previous score, but my last score vanished. Is it the Gottlieb layouts and gimmicks that give them a bad wrap, or mainly that they're a pain to maintain? I'm a pain to maintain, but my wife still loves me. |
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Post by jeffradon2000 on Feb 9, 2023 13:08:51 GMT -6
Newer high score is 1,299,990! Not much better than my previous score, but my last score vanished. Is it the Gottlieb layouts and gimmicks that give them a bad wrap, or mainly that they're a pain to maintain? I'm a pain to maintain, but my wife still loves me. I think it's a combination. During that time Williams was hitting it out of the park with innovation with their system 11 games that also didn't break down as often |
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Post by brain galacki on Feb 10, 2023 10:58:18 GMT -6
JACK'S ON THE FORUM NOW?? Oh sh**t, it really is coming back!
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Post by jackparanoia on Feb 11, 2023 12:14:56 GMT -6
JACK'S ON THE FORUM NOW?? Oh sh**t, it really is coming back! I heard this is where the cool kids are. I finally figured out how to change the letters to leave my initials. I kept hitting the flippers before. Instead of AAA I'm now JAX. |
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Post by brain galacki on Feb 13, 2023 18:48:01 GMT -6
Okay now that the game has finally been working for more than two days in a row it's time for us to break things down on the forum...
The rule sheet on this one is really hard to read. I took a picture and tried to edit the best I can so we can take a better look:
okay and we're gonna need a pic of the playfield to understand this as well:
Okay let's just start by taking a look at the first bullet point here on that list of things... completing "SPECIAL"... so okay the rollover targets 1,2,3 at the top OR hitting that red ramp in the middle gives us a letter in spelling out P-I-N-B-A-L-L on the playfield and once that is spelled out "SPECIAL" is LIT (you see special there, it's that weird hidden little cove front and center of the playfield, what a weird shot)... and it only awards 50,000 points? That is lame as h*ll I am trying to beat 3 million here.
Also someone named "LRP" has knocked me off the top and taken the #1 spot with 6 million something, sO i guess I gotta change my forum tag now. And I got the #5 spot yesterday and knocked Jack off, sorry Jack
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Post by jeffradon2000 on Feb 14, 2023 14:25:46 GMT -6
Actually special is separate from the 50,000 when lit. The 50,000 starts flashing when you go through the right inlane. It's a very tight shot so probably not worth going after.
I find it interesting that you can only progress the drop target value only by finishing both drop target banks. So it's actually not worth staying as long as you can in the upper playfield area as you need to complete the other targets before you can advance. I believe in multiball you can progress drop target value much faster by just needing to complete one bank, but not sure on that.
I figured there was not a jackpot shot for multiball but I didn't know about the multiball bonus, that makes sense as there is that separate bonus count at the end.
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Post by brain galacki on Feb 14, 2023 15:46:06 GMT -6
Actually special is separate from the 50,000 when lit. The 50,000 starts flashing when you go through the right inlane. It's a very tight shot so probably not worth going after.
and what are you talking about the right inlane where it says "Light rollover" is what lights up that other "Special"?
I tried playing and going for lighting up all the P-I-N-B-A-L-L so I could get that other "Special" but it resets after every ball?? |
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Post by brain galacki on Feb 15, 2023 11:18:11 GMT -6
Okay just want to take a look at the other bullet points on the RULE SHEET
- okay the thing about the EXTRA BALL, nice, I was playing yesterday and got an extra ball... kinda confusing when you keep hitting all of the drop targets towards the top in the small playfield over and over again (so I guess you get it once up there and the rest of the times you get it don't mean diddly squat, because you have to go down and hit the other three drop targets?) (as Jeff is saying) (so it's like you got to alternate which set of drop targets you are going after?)
- BONUS MULTIPLIERS okay, okay hitting those numbered targets #1-7, I find it interesting that #4 is hidden inside that captive ball area, but there's also a #4 rollover in the upper playfield? whatsupwiththat? Also some of these lights are out on the playfield *cough cough Jeff* so it's kind of hard to tell which numbers you are shooting for sometimes (I think like #3 is out or something)
- MULTIBALL BONUS okay this is the part I need to pay attention to... "scoring any switch in multiball" what does that mean? what does "scoring any switch" mean? what's a switch? help? Scores 500 points times bonus multiplier? Excuse me?
- HEAT BUMPER okay I love that heat bumper. scores 100 points and multiplies with each continuous hit.
Okay like damn though why are we talking about measly 100's of points where I am trying to increase my score of 3 MILLION something. I think this game is a DUD because there is no BIG SHOT I am supposed to be shooting for! Even when I understand all of the rule sheet I am like bro, I know I am supposed to try to get the MULTI-BALL but like what after that and what other than that? No JACKPOT no ANYTHING??
and LOL wtf about that HOT SHOT RAMP is so funny and pointless and doesn't go anywhere!
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Post by brain galacki on Feb 15, 2023 11:59:13 GMT -6
I am sorry about what I said about some of the numbered (#1-7) lights being out on the playfield a minute ago, I was wrong. I had originally thought you were supposed to hit all of these numbered lights in order, and that is not the case, and that is also why I thought some of them were burnt out on the playfield. This makes it easier to complete the numbers and get the bonus multipliers.
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