Will Ghostbusters be in Pinburgh? 
PAPA Doesn’t own a Ghostbusters yet.
I know of two Ghostbusters on public route in Pittsburgh not far from the Convention Center - Ace’s (5 ball!) a few blocks across town and Kickback in Lawrenceville (about 3 miles away in a neighborhood with great restaurants, bars, & shops). Both are actively tracked on Pittsburgh’s Pinball Map.
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Actually I was asking for another reason 
If I were a tournament director I would not use it at this time 
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Do tell…
By the way, I really encourage folks to explore a little if they have extra time while visiting Pittsburgh - I started another thread for chatter about what else is fun to do around here, check it out and post if you want recommendations - ReplayFX/Pinburgh Tourist Advice
We just ran the Pintastic show tournament this weekend with Ghostbusters and had no problem at all. No glitches, scoring bugs or tech issues at all. Never had to open the game. Nearly 800 plays logged on it including the tournament after party.
Also congrats to Lyman for winning the tournament this weekend too.
what’s he going to find? Keith is either hinting at some playfield validation trick or scoring exploit that he found. I’m not going to find it either because after about 4 games or so of Ghostbusters my hands hurt too much from smacking the cabinet and I don’t get to take the glass off. oh well. won’t miss it at pinburgh
No glitches just some bad code for A level players.
clearly none of us found anything odd at pintastic based on our scores lol
Did they do anything special in the setup, or did it just play that hard? I love ghostbusters, but I am still of the opinion it is too long playing to be a good tournament game. Clearly, these results go against my view. That is a lot of plays to not have a single person have a good MH or WCWSWKIA and break a billion.
I would be curious what the loop champion score was after the weekend.
I’ve never found it to play long, and have never found one that felt “good” to play. Airballs, tight tilt, no outlane rubber posts, and huge center gap keep the ball in that drain. How long does a good “dialed” game of Ghostbusters last?
- phantom slimer hits if tilt is not set tight
- 6x Michelin man
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I will check my audits tonight. I don’t really know, when I play well I lose track of time. I personally can’t hit the left ramp all day, but I image many A players can. In WCWS… this seems possible. In my head this will turn into Cayle on who dunnit kind of times, in reality this may not happen.
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I don’t think will be a problem with the new mech. Slimer really doesn’t swing any more. We will see over time, but right now I am not worried.
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Please explain.
If you complete the modes on the right loop then you get to “choose the destroyer”. If you select the marshmellow man it is worth about 50M a shot. with a 6x multiplier it is about 300M a shot.
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TLDR; Longer times than AC/DC, shorter than STLE.
My perception may not be supported by fact (although I am a B player, so A players should push it longer). Here are my audits after a couple days of play from myself and a couple friends. There are some debugging games and I was cheating and restarting after some bad balls (127 games, only 82 scores) :). There are 2, 1.5B games in these audits.
3 AVERAGE BALL TIME 1:10
4 AVERAGE GAME TIME 3:23
59 0 - 1 MINUTE GAMES 0
60 1 - 1.5 MINUTE GAMES 6
61 1.5 - 2 MINUTE GAMES 5
62 2 - 2.5 MINUTE GAMES 9
63 2.5 - 3 MINUTE GAMES 6
64 3 - 3.5 MINUTE GAMES 8
65 3.5 - 4 MINUTE GAMES 7
66 4 - 5 MINUTE GAMES 10
67 5 - 6 MINUTE GAMES 11
68 6 - 8 MINUTE GAMES 12
69 8 - 10 MINUTE GAMES 4
70 10 - 15 MINUTE GAMES 4
71 15+ MINUTE GAMES 0
And here are the score audits
30 0.0M-1.99M SCORES 01
31 2.0M-3.99M SCORES 01
32 4.0M-5.99M SCORES 03
33 6.0M-7.99M SCORES 01
34 8.0M-9.99M SCORES 03
35 10.0M-12.49M SCORES 03
36 12.5M-14.99M SCORES 01
37 15.0M-17.49M SCORES 01
38 17.5M-19.99M SCORES 02
39 20.0M-24.99M SCORES 02
40 25.0M-29.99M SCORES 03
41 30.0M-39.99M SCORES 06
42 40.0M-49.99M SCORES 03
43 50.0M-74.99M SCORES 09
44 75.0M-99.99M SCORES 09
45 100.0M-149.99M SCORES 08
46 150.0+M SCORES 26
47 AVERAGE SCORES 150,244,140
For comparison, my AC/DC Premium has
3 AVERAGE BALL TIME 1:01
4 AVERAGE GAME TIME 2:30
59 0 - 1 MINUTE GAMES 1
60 1 - 1.5 MINUTE GAMES 39
61 1.5 - 2 MINUTE GAMES 113
62 2 - 2.5 MINUTE GAMES 78
63 2.5 - 3 MINUTE GAMES 89
64 3 - 3.5 MINUTE GAMES 63
65 3.5 - 4 MINUTE GAMES 52
66 4 - 5 MINUTE GAMES 80
67 5 - 6 MINUTE GAMES 66
68 6 - 8 MINUTE GAMES 36
69 8 - 10 MINUTE GAMES 12
70 10 - 15 MINUTE GAMES 5
71 15+ MINUTE GAMES 0
and STLE
3 AVERAGE BALL TIME 1:26
4 AVERAGE GAME TIME 3:50
59 0 - 1 MINUTE GAMES 0
60 1 - 1.5 MINUTE GAMES 2
61 1.5 - 2 MINUTE GAMES 14
62 2 - 2.5 MINUTE GAMES 22
63 2.5 - 3 MINUTE GAMES 23
64 3 - 3.5 MINUTE GAMES 34
65 3.5 - 4 MINUTE GAMES 25
66 4 - 5 MINUTE GAMES 41
67 5 - 6 MINUTE GAMES 35
68 6 - 8 MINUTE GAMES 37
69 8 - 10 MINUTE GAMES 21
70 10 - 15 MINUTE GAMES 7
71 15+ MINUTE GAMES 2
Of course those games have been played in league and have more diverse player base.
It’s the Stay Puft Marshmallow man, just FYI.
Stay Puft is worth a lot but takes some time to get to so not really an easy “exploit”