30th June 2015, 5:14 AM
That rant will go down through the ages. I smell the beginnings of a new church.
I'll be honest. I suck at pinball. I really have no idea how to keep the ball from flying right through the middle area of the paddles such that there's literally no way to actually hit said ball. I'm just barely able to control where I shoot the ball if I can do that thing where I let the ball slide along a paddle, but I've got no intuition as to where it's going to bounce to after I fling it off in some direction.
It's odd that this rant claims that Donkey Kong had a million clones when pinball invented "millions of clones". I don't recall seeing any real innovation to the basic mechanics of a pinball machine, except maybe pachinko.
I'll be honest. I suck at pinball. I really have no idea how to keep the ball from flying right through the middle area of the paddles such that there's literally no way to actually hit said ball. I'm just barely able to control where I shoot the ball if I can do that thing where I let the ball slide along a paddle, but I've got no intuition as to where it's going to bounce to after I fling it off in some direction.
It's odd that this rant claims that Donkey Kong had a million clones when pinball invented "millions of clones". I don't recall seeing any real innovation to the basic mechanics of a pinball machine, except maybe pachinko.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)