Tips and Tricks #18
Posted by Catarino,
Hello everyone, my name is Tiago and in today's article we're having some fun!
I love games and sports in general so these tips speak to me in a different way!
Air hockey table
I haven't played this much in my life but it's fun, and I can already hear the metallic sounds of this being played, clink clank!
A highly requested build in the comments of my videos on Youtube.
Arcade machine
Never played a real one in my life but back in the day, I played the Space Cadet pinball game on Windows quite a lot!
There's something about this type of retro game that attracts all of us I think, and the new window elements felt like the perfect fit to turn this into a cool build for everyone.
Foosball table
Here in Portugal this type of game is SUPER popular. You will have this in lots of small town cafes, universities and schools and so on and so forth.
I have friends that have this in their homes as well! Now you can have one too, or, your minifigs can!
What was your favourite build? What types of other games would you like to see?
Build Something Fun Today!
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Nice! Love the Air Hockey!
This series gets better and better!
You could put one of those 393726: Rocker Bearing 1X2 where a leg should be. That way, you can always account for that one cheater!
I’ve played (and loved) every one of these. I’ve got to build them!
Oh yes, pinball machine! nice!
I love the fooseball/table soccer build in particular as we have one of these at my house, and I love playing it!
Nice builds, but a serious question: Why do so many small furniture and object builds have no anti-studs on the bottom to connect to the floor?
I love love love the arcade machine.
The pinball machine would be even better if the "playing field" were slightly sloped. Other than that, great builds, as always!
Great builds but i think the pinball should be this link? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyks9lXjCAs
The click through takes me to the arcade machine
I comented that on video - Change Air hockey pieces for nipples so minifigs can hold them, and they look more acurate
Epic!
All ready turned the pool table into an air hockey table. The two models look eerily close. Love the foosball table. (:
the kickertable looks good, althoug the center studs should not face eachother, they are actually off-set in the real game ;)
@lordofdragonss said:
"I comented that on video - Change Air hockey pieces for nipples so minifigs can hold them, and they look more acurate"
My thoughts exactly and what I was going to comment :D
I can see these appearing in future modulars.
@rab1234 said:
"Nice builds, but a serious question: Why do so many small furniture and object builds have no anti-studs on the bottom to connect to the floor?"
It is a question of construction principle.
Simplesmente brilhante!
How are the strikers for the air hockey table not the 'Tile, Round 1 x 1 with Bar and Pin Holder' so that minifigs can grasp them?
Same piece that's used for the plunger on the pinball table.
It is not the large builds that most impress me; it is the small builds.
@Huw. the link for the PINBALL MACHINE is this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyks9lXjCAs
I don't consider myself particularly skilled at air hockey, but the few times I've played it I always seem to pull off a lot of single-shot scores. I suspect it has more to do with a better understanding of math, and a completely unskilled opponent.
If Space Cadet was the first pinball game that was incorporated into Windows (ME, I think?), I remember that. At my last job, they got one computer with the next edition of the OS that came with that installed. My boss (one of the two co-owners) would regularly go over there when he had some free time and play. One time I ended up coming in on a weekend to get some extra work done, and decided to try my hand at it before heading home. I set the record with the first score exceeding 1,000,000 on my first attempt. It took a _long_ time before I was able to start scoring that high on a regular basis.
And foosball. Now there is a game that benefits more from aggressive play than any degree of actual skill, in my experience. So much so that one time I remember being informed that spinning the bars was forbidden under house rules. In order to be "fair", they required that you actually maintain your grip on the handle like you do with the goalie bar. I had such a hard time adjusting to that restriction that I probably played it worse than if I'd never even seen a foosball table before I walked in the room.
@Meowzap77:
Are you talking about "tilt" on the pinball machine? Tilt is actually an acceptable, and expected, form of ball control in pinball. _Too_much_ tilt is cheating...or it would be if the machine didn't penalize you for triggering the tilt sensor.
@rab1234:
Because they're small, which restricts the range of parts you can use just based on size alone, and because purposefully including connection points will often result in a clunky studs-up construction. That said, the air hockey table has 1x2 tiles on the sides of the feet. Those could be replaced with 2x2 tiles, which could then be built down into a studs-sideways floor to keep that from moving. The pinball table sits on Technic 1L beams, which will each attach to a stud. And the foosball table has 1x1 tiles on the ends of the feet, which allows the same trick as the air hockey table. So, it's not that they _can't_ attach to a floor, but that you might have to be creative about tweaking the design so it's possible to do so.
@Tuun:
If you're referring to the foosball table at the bottom of the article, there's enough side-to-side play on the bars that you can position the center ranks so they are not offset. I think this might not be possible with the bars closest to the goalie, where there are far less players on each bar, but they're just packed in too tight in the center.
@guachi:
I've often said that really large builds become more of a challenge regarding structural integrity, simply allowing the model to hold up under its own weight. Small builds become more about technique and finding just the right pieces, because there's so much less space to work with and your options quickly become limited.
Air hockey hand goalies need to use part 31561 1x1 plate with shaft more than 6141 1x1 round.
The air hocky rules! I love it!
I never knew it is called foosball. Here in Hingary it is something like 'Chaw-chaw' and is very popular as well!
@Yooha:
Foosball has a complicated history. The first patent for what we recognize as "table soccer" was filed in 1921 in the UK, but similar games existed for decades before that. This patent was filed with the name "foosball", which may have come from the German spelling for "football", which is "Fußball". A French inventor has been credited with inventing the same game over a decade later (no idea what influence he may have had on the modern game), but finally a Spanish inventor came up with the design that's closest to modern foosball in 1937. An American imported some version of this game in the 1950's and marketed it here, where it eventually became a traditional element in bars, pool halls, and arcades (by this time, someone had figured out how to incorporate a coin-op system). As a result of this one company, it's pretty much known as foosball throughout North America, but people will still usually know what you're referring to if you say "table soccer". If you say "table football", however, people are more likely to think of an informal game played with one person flicking a sheet of paper that has been folded origami-style down into a small triangle towards an opponent who is holding hands up to form NFL-style goalposts.