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In Super-Skill Pinball: 4-Cade, Geoff Engelstein brings the arcade classic to the tabletop with art, atmosphere, and roll-and-write mechanisms.
Choose one of the four unique tables and matching backglass for scorekeeping, then roll a shared pair of dice and get the pinballs rolling! You'll select one of the two die results, then move your pinball to a bumper or spinner, or target one level below with a matching number. Once you reach the lowest level, pick which flipper's roll to use to send the ball right back to the top. Play well, and you'll unlock bonuses like multiball, score multipliers, and more to help you get the high score!
The 4-Cade comes with four different tables, each with its own unique art and challenges. In "Carniball", the intro table, you shoot ducks, pop balloons, and ring the bell in the test of strength! In "Cyberhack", steal data from an evil corporation and earn Hacks to help you when you activate the RUN mini-game. In "Dance Fever", return to the 1970s with lots of spinner action as you try to manage the main playfield and a mini-pin at the same time. In "Dragon Slayer", take on the role of a young wizard and defeat enemies for big bonuses; hit drop targets to level up, and learn new spells that let you manipulate the dice and trigger bonuses like multiball.
—description from the publisher
Part of the Super-Skill Pinball family — see Super-Skill Pinball: Ramp it Up! for the combined view.
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- Fun and fast
- Good simulation of pinball
- Excellent solo play
- Pinball
- Star Trek
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- Dice Rolling — Dice are used to decide where the ball moves.
- Roll and Write — Uses dice to determine the movement of a ball on a board.
- variable scoring — Each board scores differently.
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- We call a roll and write game a game like yatsi which by the way wasn't in the running for my list where you roll dice and then you use the results of that roll to write something on your sheet.
- So there is really no good term for it but either way it is a fun genre and there are hundreds of games in this category.
- Although these games still come out, they're easy to produce for many companies. All you need to do is make a sheet of paper and put some dice out.
- It's the closest simulation of pinball that we're going to get in a board game.
- This isn't just one game. It's multiple games.
- This is such a huge game. It's by far one of the biggest ones out there.
- It's one of the most thematic rolling rights I've ever played or flipping rights because you're flipping a deck of cards.
- When I was making my list, it was this was such an easy thing. I wrote Flip Town as number one, then 10 as number two. Then I thought about the rest of the list because these those two were just so obvious to me on how much I enjoyed them.
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- it's called bamboo bash
- it's a pinball game
- it's a great solo game that can be played anytime anyway with a dice rolling app
- Amanda loves this game it's very much like pinball
- cartographers is kids fun
- the heroes is awesome to defeat the monsters
- photographers this is actually my our top game of not 2020 2019 top 10 game was 2019
- three sisters and it was fun
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- it's basically fully individual you're playing alongside each other and playing the same dice but there's no interaction between players at all
- it's a good solo game
- not as intuitive as your typical roll and write game
- this is probably the game for you
- it captures the essence of pinball really well
- not sure I would recommend to many people because I think it is so niche
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- the big change here is i'm turning the good games vlog into a patreon exclusive
- the only constant is change
- i adore bunny kingdom
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- clever implementation
- fun mechanical feel
- niche appeal
- arcade/retro
- pinball-style rolling ball action
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- dexterity/rolling — rolling ball with pinball-like interactions
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- One of the greatest experiences I've ever had playing a board game ever.
- It's all about board games, but especially the people who play them.
- This is Look Back, a series that I do where I talk about games that I reviewed one year ago, 5 years ago, 10 years ago, and 20 years ago during this time frame.