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549: Video Pinball

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The Importance of Tilting in Pinball

Cine Mario Ball falls down by trying to be an adventure game. The actual progress, process of adventuring is really frustrating. When you make the points kind of not matter, I think Pinball loses something. But keeping the ball in play brings me to another thing I wanted to bring up. Tilting. Because most video Pinball games simulate tilting. Some of them let you do it completely all the time and some don't. It's actually legitimate technique. We it's called a nudge. And it actually, it's a force applied to the ball. So it's far more intuitive than tilting in real life,. we're just kind of inverted. You literally are adding a

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