Pinball Tips - How to Catch the Ball (Bounce Pass, Drop Catch, Live Catch)
Pinball Tips - How to Catch the Ball (Bounce Pass, Drop Catch, Live Catch)
Looking for some tips to help improve your pinball game? In this video, I take you through the 3 fundamental catch moves in pinball. The bounce pass, the drop catch, and the live catch, and show you...
Highlights
- There's over a 99% chance you live within 50 miles of a Godzilla pinball machine
- The bounce pass is the fundamental move most players learn first when getting into pinball
- Drop catches can cause the ball to roll up the in lane and out the out lane, creating a new risk for successful execution
- The flipper rubber strip between the ball and flipper bat can snap rapidly back and forth to kill momentum, only visible in super slow motion
- Loop passes on games like Attack from Mars use the same mechanics as drop catches but at high speed with an obtuse angle
Notable quotes
“The biggest risk on a bounce pass is having the ball hit too high above the flipper right at the joint between the in lane and ramp or down the middle.”
“Trying to figure out a brand new bounce pass in the middle of your weekly league or tournament will probably mean you're going to have a bad time.”
“In between the steel pinball and the flipper bat is a tiny strip of rubber. And as the flipper bat hits the coil stop, this piece of rubber continues traveling, often snapping above the flipper.”
“The best pinball players are the ones who effortlessly combine all types of pinball skill moves into their game where it becomes second nature as to what they're going to do based on how the ball is returning to the bottom of the game.”
Entities
- Attack from Mars· game
- Godzilla· game
- Jurassic Park· game
- Tim Sexton· person
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