Party Land - 26,491,570
Speed Devils - 54,913,840
Billion Dollar Gameshow - 50,668,940
Stones 'N Bones - 74,442,570
All of the scores rank as #2 against the default high scores list for each table (the #1 position is 100,000,000 for every table except Party Land, where it's 50,000,000).
Hmm, I may have to go back to "Party Land." That was the one table where I thought I could do better but stopped playing, because I wanted to try out the other tables.
My second-best scores, by the way, are generally quite a bit lower than each table's best score. In "Billion Dollar Gameshow," I was fighting to crack the 25 million mark (to break into the top 3 in the high score list) when I got the 50 million. In "Stones 'N Bones," I think my previous high was about a million less than yours.
You know, I don't think I like these tables very much. There's the whole issue with not having any indicators on how to do certain basic things (like lighting the prizes in "Gameshow"), but beyond that, there's the fact that scoring opportunities seem to consist of a few piddling amounts and then a few enormous amounts. Nothing in the middle. Or maybe this was just the feeling I got because I kept having long periods of scoring 0 points, because the ball could take paths that didn't give any points at all.
One thing is certain: it is much easier in these tables to score big points once you already have big points. Several scoring opportunities in these increase in value the longer you've played. So, your good games end up looking way better than your bad games. Nonlinear progression.
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Ah well, they are one of the earliest pinball games around so I can forgive them for not having all the features that later games have. None of them have multiball if you noticed. I wish the game had a rule book although I managed to figure out what to do from some of the tables already from playing. The only pin I have trouble with is Billion Dollar Gameshow since it's impossible to win prizes and to date I still haven't figured out how to actually win them.
On a whole though I still like Fantasies and Dreams a lot. They're good for their time compared to crud like Dream Pinball 3D. Ever played that game? Between these and Wiliams Pinball, I have my PSP pinball fix.
I didn't mean features like multiball, which stresses the engine, but just in terms of design, there are many "dead zones" in the playfield where you just won't score any points. This came out in the early 90s, whereas pinball as we know it has been around since the 50s, so it's not an issue of being early software-wise.
For "Billion Dollar Gameshow," see this video if you want to find out how to activate all the prizes (you can only win them after you've activated all 3 in a set). I found that video after moving on from the table. Ridiculous that the game doesn't tell you any of this. It would only require a few lights on the ramps, maybe messages on the DMD. As it is, you have to accidentally activate 3 prizes without losing the ball before you can discover that you are able to win any of them.
I've heard bad things about Dream Pinball 3D, so I have never tried it.
Nooooooooooo . . . as I type, my best game ever of "Party Land" is jammed. A ball having just drained, the music is still going, and I can pull on the plunger, but nothing else works. My score is somewhere around 64 million, and I think I have another ball left because breaking the game's top score (the default 50 million) gave me an extra. The game is in the middle of "Mega Laugh," in which I've earned 10 million points (included in the ~64 million; I can't see my score because the DMD is just displaying that 10 million) with 8 seconds left on the now-stuck timer. It's the first time I've broken any of the default top scores, and this happens. Curse my luck!
*sigh* Here's my new high score from a non-stuck game:
Party Land - 49,791,530 (so close to an extra ball!)
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