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Jody's Monopoly game and shot description Game & bar were well lit. Easy to see the whole playfield. 4 different ramp shots on the game. The short Railroad ramp above the left kicker just dumps the ball very quickly to the left flipper. You have to be quick to recover from that. Decent sound and good flow to the game. Pop bumpers were very strong. Red flipper rubber - yayyyy !! Some things a little monotonous - like having to pound the Bank shot four times after aquiring property. Visiting jail gives you Break Out multiball. Free Parking also give multiball. Forget what it was called. Cool Dot Matrix animation at beginning of multiball. Shows pinballs smashing houses & hotels on a Monopoly board on the DM display. Most of my drains consisted of balls hitting the tops of the kickers & heading out the opposite drain. Some ramp shots that only make it half way up tend to go SDTM. Problems & complaints: Multiball Jackpot sound effects are weak. The machine should say "JACKPOTTTTT!!!" not "jackpot". The saucer that holds the ball above the UR flipper holds the ball too long during multiball. You have to wait forever for it to release so that you can shoot the left side ramp with the UR flipper for jackpot. Teeny tiny LED light for extra ball. Machine told me extra ball was lit, but it took me a while to figure out where to shoot. The Bank Door that opens & closes in front of the center ramp gets out of position sometimes when you hit the edge of it while the door is open. You have to smack the door closed with another ball to get it to pop back open. During the Cash Grab mode the machine would not recognize ball locks. Machine would cycle & search & then end the ball. Employee pulled a business card out of the cash register & made a phone call. He came over & said they told him they were still trying to fix that software bug. But if you turned the machine off & on it should recognize locks again. We did, it did. Guy gave us 5 freebie credits because of the problems, Yessss!!I ended up getting about 3/4 of the board properties and high score 6. Played for 2 hours. High score 1 was DGH @ 60 mil HS 2 was PML cant remember how many mil, maybe 45? HS 3 & 4 KOZ, one was actual score & other was even # of mil HS 5 was machine generated, (even # of mil) 35 I think? HS 6 AFD (me) @ 32 mil First replay @ 18mil Second replay @ 36 mil Sound effects after Match are similar to TZ multiball jackpots. (Match sound effect was better than multiball jackpot) Overall I liked the game & want to play again. Didn't understand what to shoot during some of the modes but more time at the flippers will fix that. The playfield is a little cluttered so some of those that prefer more open playfields may not like the game. I think the game will be well received by the pinball community. Can't wait to play again & collect all the properties for the Land Grab. If you get the chance, go play it !!
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