Pinball isn’t as random as it seems



Hint: Go for the flashing lights.

When you look at a pinball machine, you might think it’s nothing more than a bunch of flashing lights. Many people think the game is random, but it’s actually carefully laid out in groups of targets that correlate to specific objectives, called modes.

These modes, along with the multiball, are the key to achieving higher scores in the game. Once you learn to control the ball using the flippers, start aiming for the targets that are lit – that means they are activated. Once hit, the game will light something else to tell you what to aim for next.

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18 Comments:

  1. Reza Mahendra Kurnia Mellenium

    This is so interesting, now i want to play pinball

  2. Yeah, it Wasn’t Random in the first place

  3. Somebody remember the Windows Pinball 3D?
    Spend to much childhood on it xD

  4. It’s a game of emotional control. No quick reactions and irrational decisions to the ball, but, tactics and logic!
    Hard to do when things are moving super fast! Doable though!

  5. Who in the heck thinks Pinball is random???

  6. I’ve never actually played it in real life, just on windows XP as a kid haha

  7. People who grew up with a computer but no internet already know about this

  8. Only a moron would believe that a game with a list of rules on it, is totally “random”.

  9. Only 90’s kids will remember…

    *_Pinball Space Cadet for Windows XP_*

  10. The Overlord Girl

    God, I miss this game! ?

  11. Should have put more of what Roger Sharpe had to say about the game instead of the opinions Vox members.

  12. You can lead your life by accident or by purpose. Pinball is an example of those two different types of thinking. People who play purposefully accumulate points, people who rely on accident find themselves out of the game very quickly. Life is a pinball game, pull the plunger and go for it or do nothing and watch the balls disappear into the holes of poverty. Education is the key to success.

  13. the old guy is missing a pinball wizard costume.

  14. I know I’m not the only one here that learned this game from Sonic Spinball. But that being said, I didn’t even know multi ball was a thing…

  15. Sebastian Elytron

    I wish I was a little bit taller
    I wish I was a pinballer
    I wish I had a girl who looked good I would call her

  16. All this time I’ve playing it wrong,
    I thought the main game is to keep the ball in the game, & don’t let it goes in to the gate,

  17. You might say….that Roger Sharpe…..is a Pinball…Wi-
    **is shot**

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