I blogged a while back about the Wild West Pinball for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Come to think of it, I never heard back from the guy who offered to review it - nor in fact from the guy who offered to review Monster Pinball - and to think I turned down John Popadiuk who also offered - d'oh! Next time I'll do the damn reviews myself!Anyway, I don't really play Wild West Pinball anymore, I'm far too busy trying to wrestle my iPod off my 3 year old son who plays Pocket God just about whenever he can.
BUT... if you haven't played Wild West Pinball, why not try it now as it's FREE (for a limited time) from the App Store!
(It's a slow news/gossip day)
Cheers
Nick
The Pinball Blog
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Wild West Pinball has tremendous potential as pinball games go. There are 3 main missions to be had; each with it's own unique activator and sense of satisfaction when completed, not to mention CA$H.
The Bank robbery is a typical side section of bumpers you can access after the rollovers have been triggered and you "crack the code", opening the gate. THe droptargets on the lower right open the Goldmine mission which is completed once the ball uses the lower right ramp. Finally, Shooting Dirty Harry - once the targets on the left are activated, the saucer will suck the pinball in and you will have a chance to "fire" the ball at a toy. I still have yet to figure out HOW to fire the ball AT the little man on the rail. But an oscillating arrow moves left to right and at some point fires - drop a comment if you figure it out.
The main frustration of this game is the drop chutes on the left and MAINLY the right. It seems to always fall down there WAY too often.
A few tweaks, some progressive missions and this game would ROCK!
Good review and I totally agree about the drop chutes. Im not the best pin ball player but it happens way way too often. I don't under how the high posted score has broken a billion. There must be something you and I aren't getting, and part of has to do with a trigger for shooting harry.
One way to get unlimited points in the game is to shake the phone when the ball is going down the railway track on the right. If you shake it as it passes the rock you can keep making the ball go back and forth past that same point as the game continuously accrues points. However it only gives you about 1m points per 2 minutes so you would have to sit there shaking your phone for about 40 hours straight to beat the record this way
To direct the arrow to shoot Harry, tap left and right to try and keep the arrow pointing towards him, it's pretty tricky!
a few tips:
-you can re-generate the safety on the side chutes by completing the triple drop-target on top, by the indian village.
-killing harry when the gold mine is activated is worth 500K (instead of the regular 300K) but it's not an efficient way to get points. the shooting mechanics is a bit too random for me, and I rarely hit harry.
-the best way to make high scores is through the bank robbery, which can yield upward of 1M and is quick and easy to unlock repeatedly
-1M gets you an extra ball.
still, i can't believe that this would be enough to get into the hundreds of millions of the high-scores, so there must be some additional high-scoring mode that i have yet to discover.
two things puzzle me:
1. can you get in the bank from the back door? i was never able to.
2. what's the 'mission' at the bar on top? can you go around the bar bumper? what is it worth?
I don't think you can go back through the back door. I managed to get the ball in there once and the game froze.
Once when I activated the shoot Harry mission it rolled the ball back by the back door but nothing happened and the ba was stuck.. I had to restart game... I agree about the chutes it happens WAY to often
Check out gameprom.com. (wild west developers blog)! The newest post says a new update for Wild West is coming soon. To me, it sounds like it's a pretty large update...they've even created a soundtrack to have playing!
They also have a brand new pinball game coming out soon as well. From what it says, it's already been submitted to apple.
I found the site by accident, but i'm pretty excited about the update. Like some one else said, wild west has a lot of potential
~O'Jay
so i have figured out how to "shoot" harry....the left side will make it move left and the right to the right just try and keep it aimed at him its a timed thing
I have from time to time gotten the bank door to close while my ball was in there. You can do this by shaking the game wile the ball is coming back out. The ball will become still or roll slowly near the door end, When this happens the door will close, and the ball will shoot back into the bank. Effectively you are locked in the bank, now just keep the ball in the bank for as long as possible, I have achieved 20X on massive scores when I can do this. it is very hard to activate though.
On the right slide ball drain I have had success in shaking the game as the ball passes the angle door which covers the launch chute, it will hit the chute and move back into play.
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