Official Fear Itself Thread

[snakeman07]

Just had a great game on this table. Played from about 8pm to almost 11pm, racked 1.8 billion and am #1 (FOR NOW ) Got to the wizard mode twice, did GREAT the first time, horrible on the second time, but oh well. I was hoping for 2 billion but I'll settle for my score

[bazz]

I need to compile a list of the graphic novels I need to pick up to have the entire Fear Itself story arc. I love this story and how the Serpent is called forth by Sin, who then in turn, calls forth the Worthy. Those transformations and the death of Thor sound sick.

I've actually got the entire Infinity Gauntlet run as I collected them when I was an early teen.

Maybe Zen should consider the Todd McFarlen drawn "New Fantastic Four". When the original Fantastic Four was thought killed, Spiderman, the Grey Hulk, Wolverine, and Ghost Rider teamed up to become the "new" Fantastic Four. That was quite the site to see!

i have the infinity saga too and it is awesome
a new f4 table it could be cool
personally if had to do a new F4 related table as some sort of sequel to the existing table i'll go with the Future Foundation run, it would be the perfect excuse to have some of the cosmic F4 stuff like the celestials and Annihilus

[bclewis]

I guess they didn't have enough memory to push out those background pixels.

The notable thing about Vectrex is that it was based on vector graphics rather than raster graphics -- so, no "background pixels", but rather line segments in arbitrary directions; and I believe there are hardware limitations on the number of line segments possible.

[BootToTheKool]

thats Sin Shmidt daugther of Red Skull, she is transformed in Skadi by her Hammer
her voice sound like that because she has a german accent mixed in her voice

I need to compile a list of the graphic novels I need to pick up to have the entire Fear Itself story arc. I love this story and how the Serpent is called forth by Sin, who then in turn, calls forth the Worthy. Those transformations and the death of Thor sound sick.

I've actually got the entire Infinity Gauntlet run as I collected them when I was an early teen.

Maybe Zen should consider the Todd McFarlen drawn "New Fantastic Four". When the original Fantastic Four was thought killed, Spiderman, the Grey Hulk, Wolverine, and Ghost Rider teamed up to become the "new" Fantastic Four. That was quite the site to see!

[bazz]

The woman's weird robot/apocolyptic voice really helps make it stand out too.

thats Sin Shmidt daugther of Red Skull, she is transformed in Skadi by her Hammer
her voice sound like that because she has a german accent mixed in her voice

[surf1der]

Ah, the Vectrex, my friend had one of those, I recall the game backgrounds were printed on clear plastic sheets you just stuck on the screen

Regarding the "breakout/arkanoid" mini-game on Fear Itself, I'd say it's actually a little closer to Pong, in the absence of bricks to smash.

Ah, I forgot about those clear plastic background sheets. I think they had different colors too. I guess they didn't have enough memory to push out those background pixels. The only games I remember from the Vectrex was a tank game and an ateroids like game.

@Evolve: I was also wondering what the max multiplier for this table was. I think I got as high as x18. Anyone maxed out the multipliers yet?

[bclewis]

I first played breakout on the atari 2600. Unfortunately, I missed the gaming greatness of the commodore 64. I had the bastard gaming system of that generation, the Vectrex. Never heard of the ZX spectrum.

Ah, the Vectrex, my friend had one of those, I recall the game backgrounds were printed on clear plastic sheets you just stuck on the screen

Regarding the "breakout/arkanoid" mini-game on Fear Itself, I'd say it's actually a little closer to Pong, in the absence of bricks to smash.

[lasvegaspinballhalloffame]

The woman's weird robot/apocolyptic voice really helps make it stand out too.

[BootToTheKool]

Fear Itself

By far, my favorite table at the moment. The Avengers table pack is the best set of tables by far but, Fear Itself stands out.
Simple complexity at its finest.

[Evolve or die]

aarrgghh, that breakout/arkanoid min game drives me nuts, it's just completely random and the position it hits on the bar has no correlation with where the hammer goes afterwards. so all you have to do is mirror its movements, coz it does that weird comes back to you after it hits the side walls.

STTC, 3 million for first two hits and then a base 6M for final, with 1M for every time you defeat him (so 2nd time 7M, 3rd time 8M, etc)

And showing my age here but I love how the jackpot sounds are the classic 6M Dollar Man action noise and, especially, the avengers multiballs is the classic Superfriends transition noise. funny, funny.

Anyone know how to up the multiplier on the Avengers multiball? IS it just linked to the EOB muliplier?

And anyone get Bonus Held yet? How???

And BUG BUG BUG, if you activate the Elven Forge and immediately hit the center shot, you get 18M but then the ball stays in the Odin sinkhole and wont come out (unless of course you've got the game in 'testing'* mode with 10 balls and (more importantly) tilts turned off, and then you can rumble the table like a mofo until the ball eventually comes out. But in normal play, that would be a game killer.

* When I first get a game, I go into operator menu and play with the settings and get max balls and other stuff, so I can just play with the table and not worry about score, just getting the feel for every shot. That way I dont have to restart the game continuously in frustration, and really work the table out.

[surf1der]

I first played breakout on the atari 2600. Unfortunately, I missed the gaming greatness of the commodore 64. I had the bastard gaming system of that generation, the Vectrex. Never heard of the ZX spectrum.

[Corpsesmith]

I'm with you, I remember playing breakout on Commodore64 in our school library when I was supposed to be studying.

I thought it was arkanoid that started adding details like the enhancement pills (widened/narrowed paddle, convex paddle, speed-up/slow-down, paddle with laser guns, etc.) Not sure if that game was the first to introduce those features, that was.... a while ago.

First time I played it it was called Thru the wall on the rubber keyed ZX Spectrum! I think it was most likely the first game I played on it!

It was either Arkanoid or Batty that added the upgrades and different layouts I'm sure.

[bclewis]

Everyone keeps mentioning the "arkanoid"-like minigame. I had grown up with atari so maybe i'm showing my age but it was called breakout.

I'm with you, I remember playing breakout on Commodore64 in our school library when I was supposed to be studying.

I thought it was arkanoid that started adding details like the enhancement pills (widened/narrowed paddle, convex paddle, speed-up/slow-down, paddle with laser guns, etc.) Not sure if that game was the first to introduce those features, that was.... a while ago.

[surf1der]

Loving this table
which it took me for surprise since i wasn't a big fan of the comic itself (we comic book guys like to call this one "everyone getting hammers" the comic)
so far the mission are the most fun i had with the table (its me or is Angrir the easiest one?), i liked the arkanoid like game with Mjolnir against the Serpent too

Everyone keeps mentioning the "arkanoid"-like minigame. I had grown up with atari so maybe i'm showing my age but it was called breakout.

[bazz]

Loving this table
which it took me for surprise since i wasn't a big fan of the comic itself (we comic book guys like to call this one "everyone getting hammers" the comic)
so far the mission are the most fun i had with the table (its me or is Angrir the easiest one?), i liked the arkanoid like game with Mjolnir against the Serpent too