Originally Posted by MisterV View Post
On the subject of skill based casino games, what about pure pinball?

But instead of playing to achieve a fixed score, compete against others in other casinos, even other states, all linked by computer.

The casino gets their money by taking a rake of all money bet, off the top; the remainder is used to fund jackpots.

The winner of a jackpot would be the highest score in a game during a certain amount of time, say a half hour: of all the players hooked in to the network there could be graduated payouts for first, second and third place for that one period of play.

This of course would attract serious pin ball players and AP's.
Mr. V., I would assume by pure pinball you mean pinball machines with a physical playfield (regular pinball machines) instead of a virtual playfield like the Cleopatra and Texas Tea virtual pinball playfields. If this assumption is correct, then a very big challenge would be the standardization of the physical machines. All the machines (say 50 Addams Families or 50 Funhouses or whatever machine is being used in 50 casino locations) would have to be completely uniform - tilts set all the same, leveled exactly the same, and so on. Otherwise people playing easier machines would have the advantage. I suppose virtual machines in all locations would work, with the casinos taking a rake as you describe. I would be down for this if the physics of the virtual machines were very close to reality (i.e the ball doesn't go through a flipper like my friend told me happened to him on Texas Tea/Cleopatra and you could do drop catches, alley passes, dead bounces, nudging, live catches and so on as with a real pinball machine).