by Bernard Blvd.
It’s time for another great new way to play pinball with your friends: Dollars!
Dollars is a multiple player game during which each player strategically puts one of their own dollars on the playfield of a chosen pinball machine in an attempt to sabotage the other player(s) game. So say you’ve got four people on Indiana Jones (the newest one). Your friends would probably put dollars in the most obvious spots like: Over the two scoops (there are bumpers behind them and the Sankara Stone scoop isn’t always open), hiding the magnet in front of the arc (that’s a good way to distract other players from an easy target for multiball), or covering the flippers (duh).
Their choices leave you free to be more careful with your own dollar placement. A good spot would be over the plunger lane because you can cover the five choices for the skill shot. Another place that could handicap your opponents is over the pegs on top of the side drains. That’s a spot where most champs can save their ball by nudging the machine, so placing a dollar there increases your chances of crippling the competition and winning FOUR BUCKS!
Of course, you can put more than one dollar down, and have each player put in a dollar at the start of every ball. Although this option is more profitable for the winner, playing ball three with twelve dollars covering the playfield is hard. And most people can’t afford to spend three dollars to play pinball in this economy.
But some people are still rich. Why not play five dollars? A hundred? With the stakes a lot higher, players could get so into the game that they try to actually move the dollars by shaking the machine. What about a million? Maybe someday James Bond will bet one hundred million dollars on one ball in a big budget 007 movie. My suggestion for the title: Goldflipper.
So you put in a buck, pick a spot that you think would be hard for your competition to play without being able to see it, and lay your money down. You could win a million dollars! But remember, betting money on pinball is illegal and we only “play flipper skill games for fun and recreation”, so if the cops show up, grab that dough and run. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.