Silver Ball Century ep. 74 - Summer 1995 - Gigapoints

1995 is the peak of pinball score inflation. We saw some of this last episode, with three different players submitting high scores over a billion. Score inflation gets even more extreme with Jack*Bot, third in the Pin-Bot series, where Pin-Bot and his loving wife The Machine start a space casino together. The Machine: Bride of Pin-Bot had the first billion-point shot in pinball, and it was such an imbalanced way to score that it puts you on a separate "Billionaire's Club" leaderboard. Now Jack*Bot is going to make billion-point scores commonplace. You might also earn a billion points in WHO dunnit, the pinball machine with an original noir murder mystery theme, and you might gamble every one of those points away on a roulette spin that can double your score or set it to zero. Spanish pinball is back and bringing us another ruleset that makes us ask "¿Qué?", with Mach 2, or if we let the backglass tell us the title of the machine, Mach 2.0 Two. Speaking of giga, have you heard of this…

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