South Park

http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=4444&picno=13203
High 400,000,000
Replay at 1,945,000,000
3 plays for $1.00

I went to a small, private, Catholic college. Strangely, watching South Park turned into an event night in the basement of my dorm, and if you wanted to hang out with people on Thursday night you'd be watching South Park. I enjoyed it at the time, but since then I don't really find myself watching it, so I'm not sure if I really like South Park or if I just liked hanging out with friends. Probably I liked it but it got old. Whatever my feelings are, I've seen all of the episodes referenced by this game.

Each of the main characters gets its own target, and hitting the ramp/hole three times lites a huge red arrow. A fourth hit starts that characters mode, which is either to hit the character again within a timed period or, in the case of Chef, to hit all of the other characters. Not too bad, the ramps are pretty large and the game is rather forgiving. The fun part, however, is five-ball multiball. Strangely, almost every time I get multiball, two balls hit each other and one drains almost immediately, leaving me with essentially a 4-ball multiball. It's still pretty exciting to keep three or four balls going on this table. You have to keep your eyes on the flippers, but because all of the ramps are at the top you can't see what you're shooting at or hitting until you're down to two balls. And there's no point aiming, since what you hit will bounce off another ball anyway.

I'm somewhat concerned with the required score to win a free game, you'll notice that it is almost five times the high score. Even worse, high scores 1-8 are all 400,000,000 - (25,000,000 x Rank-1). There isn't a score with values in the thousands column until number 8, at around 223 million.

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