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Good eye! I love the dev note in the activision manuals. I gotta test this one out!

Is this based off of the code or what you've seen?

Hmm, interesting. There could be some added strategy in herding to purposefully avoid the angus. I love the points, but too many in a row and you'll pass em real quick.

My vote is to keep going since it's counted. I wonder why they even roll that low, maybe it had to do with how they coded the score display. I will be very impressed if we actually have to implement a rule.

I can't seem to lock down the pattern either. In game 1, at first I thought they were popping up shortly after a skull, but I don't think that theory panned out. Sometimes I find myself intentionally skipping one b/c I know I can't get to it, and then a few more pop up real quick. Then I go again and grab it and the following ones don't show up. So I'm starting to think that the game punishes you for not roping them. Dang, so close! This reminds me- how high has everyone's stray count gotten? So far I've only broken the first 1K threshold for one extra, and I had a particularly good run and it happened before I lost any, so my top stray count is 4. Has anyone earned extra "lives" without losing one?

I can't picture someone getting that high in this game, whoa dogie

Nice first post! Welcome!

Manual says it rolls at 10K, which is pretty high I'd say for this game. But considering the bunch we have here, I wouldn't be surprised to see it

Don’t have a photo, but I dropped Pauline (!) on my last ball (!!) and the game over text was green (??). An odd detail I hope you never have to see, hahaha.

I accomplished my goal! Didn't last long afterwards, but still counts. I got a royal flush at 104k (only lasted till 110k) but man did that ease the pain of having invisible flippers on the bottom screen. 151,280

Ropin' dem dogies... 1B: 1206 8B: 605

Thanks for pointing that out, I misread it too! Phew, nice to know I'll have two scores to go after 😅

He did it! Nice! So what's everyone strategy here? I tried to spend some extra lives on stage 2, but didn't end up with as much as when I spent all my extras on stage 3. Of course, trying to hit multiple guys with one fruit is a no brainer (and easier said than done).

Something that I've noticed with these pictures- the number of lives are different all over the place. But I think it's always the default 4 for me during the demo. Any ideas why?

After a streak of poor games, got myself a royal flush (for a 42k period) and ended up getting closer to seeing those flipper again 132,340

Oh yeah, startin' Activision weeks with one of my favs! Don't know how I'll fair on game 8...bring on the cattle! 🤠🐄

I like how you can keep getting an extra life every 20k...right? That doesn't cap out does it? It gives me something to always shoot for. 69,650

Holy crap. That's way too impressive of a competition for me. With scores like that, luck must have nothing to do with it, they have to see inside the game.

1k bonus when they're all hit. For the top section, the big money maker is bouncing continuously through the 1k lane in my opinion. And getting 3 penguins of course, which doubles all points and gives you the guard. When I got mine, I accidentally went through the slot lane and reset it. On the bottom screen I think the royal flush is the biggest key to points, just so damn hard to get em. That score's crazy talk. But so true about the difficulty. I get anxious when I'm on the bottom screen b/c of those damn bumpers.

Damn, there goes Tempest resetting that bar again. Nice score! Any crazy bonuses?

Some games 20k, some games... 110,180 I was thinking about all of the different areas on the table to interact with and which ones I haven't been able (or lucky enough) to activate. But before I could post about it I got lucky and completed the list just now Got 3 penguins in the slots one game (didn't last long, but it was cool!) and for the one above I flipped all the cards for a royal flush! Man was that a great run. It pops up the stopper between the bottom flippers, and if you can get the chick bumpers consistently, you really rack up the points. I went from 64k-96k during that period. Yesterday I managed to finally use the exit, but only the once so far. Which areas of the table are you guys having good or bad luck with? Yesterday I also managed to save Pauline (? instructions just say 'lady') twice during the same bonus round. The ball is so erratic there. Anyone else able to save her more than once on the same screen?

My photo isn't doing it justice 😆 A great feature is that I get to fine tune color and dozen other knobs depending on which system I'm playing. So lucky. Hahaha but I still prefer it- big CRT

@asponge I don't qualify for those Golf bonus points anymore in the score chart I gotta get back to it then!

Not shown: invisible flippers! Didn't last long at that point, haha. New personal best on my first game today and I thought, wow getting the hang of the strategy, maybe it's not as much luck as I thought. Then I had a series of pretty bad games and had to reconsider, haha. It always seems the case that when I get the bumpers from the chicks, the ball falls through the flippers and it's wasted 🤦🏼‍♂️ Check out this faq, it has some pretty good tips. 100,920

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