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I actually played it at The gaming Show. After playing it one time, I challenged Ahigh and anyone on his team to some money matches. I think it was $50 per game. I beat them easy a few times, I may have even offered some odds after that. No one wanted to play with me anymore
. To be fair, they were not there to play me Heads Up pinball all day, they were there to sell their game. I'm sure I would have been AP'ing that game all the time had it hit the casinos. I like playing pinball with others, but not so much solo.
I hope another company will take up the mantle and get a virtual pinball machine on the floor. It did seem like Gamblit Gaming was going to offer a Playboy themed virtual pinball (as part of a suite that would include other skill games as well - all of which to be offered on the same kiosk), but that one seemed to fizzle too.
I've messed around a tiny bit with some of those gamblits skill games where you compete against others, but the vig seem too high, and I didn't see enough ploppies playing to make it worthwhile. I didn't really investigate much further, so perhaps somebody could go around making a living playing those. If that was the case, I think I would have heard about it by now.
The Texas Tea pinball was definitely a nice vulture game because the skill factor limited the number of vultures targeting them. It's really too bad those didn't take off and proliferate, I think I would have acquired a nice pair of machine Hustler shoes and started pounding the pavement since I really enjoyed those.
I think I'm fairly good at pinball for someone who doesn't play all that often, probably once every 3 or 4 years. I played as a kid but probably not much more than the average boy at the time. Of course, then you watch some Pinball Wizard and quickly realized just how good some people are at certain things.
Here's an interesting story. Shortly after those Texas Tee pinball machines first came out, me and Mike we're hanging out at the Venetian, It just before an event or something, I can't remember why we were there.
I told him I want to do a little experimenting and see how they worked since I had never played them before. I think I tossed in $20 or $40 and entered the bonus round quickly. On my very first attempt I made it through all three stages and won the bonus. The bonus wasn't very high, I think it was about 70 bucks. I remember Mike saying, well if it's that easy it probably isn't going to be a very good advantage play. I was kind of thinking the same thing. At the time, I really didn't know much about the machines and how lucrative player funded banking was. I even had a bad experience with one where I got pounded. It wasn't for quite a while after that when I started looking into them again, unfortunately, by then, there were quite a few guys targeting them. I'm not sure why, but the Egyptian pinball version fairly difficult for me to complete all three stages, it took multiple tries each time, until I finally figured it out. To this day, I wouldn't be confident enough to say I could get through all three stages on the first try since I haven't played one in a while.
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