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549: Video Pinball

Retronauts

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How Adam Farando Invented the Hook in Pinball

The gun emplacements will fire and they can take out the targets, start off flapping around. That seems like a new thing to me, I've not seen that before in a pinball game. Once you start using it, it's so intuitive, also, if you get plasma ammo, if you hold down instead of tap, you'll shoot the little squiggly toothpaste lasers. And I don't think that takes away any of the strategy, it's just another option, which, you know, I think is fun.

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