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[EalaDubhSidhe]

LOCH NESS MONSTER



Version: RC1
Category: VP 8.x Recreations

Author(s): Eala Dubh Sidhe

Description:
A VP adaptation of the 1985 GamePlan prototype.
LOCH NESS MONSTER

Adapted for VP by Eala Dubh Sidhe, 2004

Note: this is not a VPM table and requires no romset.

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Submitted by EalaDubhSidhe, on Apr 3 2009, 12:42 PM

[Pin-Pete]

Thanks for release,Eala.
It looks interesting.
D'loading it right now.

Edited by Pin-Pete, 09 April 2009 - 01:26 PM.

[neoblood]

Neat looking layout, thanks.

[Coenst]

This is what makes VP so valuable, as this table was only a prototype, how many people had the chance to play the thing in real?
Does anybody know if they made a flyer for it? Guess not.

Great job, Eala!!!

[templarjh]

This is a VP favorite of mine. It's really too bad Game Plan tanked. I don't think I've played a table of theirs I didn't like.

Looked it up at http://www.gameplanp...ssmonster.shtml and no, there was no flyer made.

[Vanblaricom0]

Are these the original sounds in the game? Where did you get them? How did you find the rules of the game?

Edited by Vanblaricom0, 22 May 2009 - 04:18 PM.

[EalaDubhSidhe]

At the time of its creation (early 2004), a lot of the GamePlan catalogue still wasn't working properly in VPM. We didn't, for instance, have any sounds in Cyclopes or Andromeda, which is what Loch Ness Monster would have sounded the most like, along with a couple of speech samples ("Monster alert!"). The sounds used in the VP recreation are samples from the Cheap Squeak sound board that Bally was using in 1985, and recorded from Xs & Os, Kings Of Steel and a couple of others.

Not having played the original machine (and very few have), VP Loch Ness Monster rules were a complete fabrication on my part; pure intuitive guesswork based upon what I could see of the bonus lights, the known two-ball multiball, and how to use all the LOCH NESS MONSTER letters and the toy under the playfield that would briefly light up on occasion. They're probably way off, but the idea was to make it as least feel like a GamePlan game (having already made the VP version of Cyclopes), and I think I did a good enough job on that basis.

[Vanblaricom0]

At the time of its creation (early 2004), a lot of the GamePlan catalogue still wasn't working properly in VPM. We didn't, for instance, have any sounds in Cyclopes or Andromeda, which is what Loch Ness Monster would have sounded the most like, along with a couple of speech samples ("Monster alert!"). The sounds used in the VP recreation are samples from the Cheap Squeak sound board that Bally was using in 1985, and recorded from Xs & Os, Kings Of Steel and a couple of others.

Do you think you could possibly update this table now that Cyclopes and Andromeda are both working well in PinMame? I've never downloaded those two tables but I'm sure they are now working well by the way you said it. You could now import some of the sounds and music from those two tables to this table to make this table sound like it probably would have been. Perhaps someday that only rom chip in the world of Loch Ness Monster could be dumped and attached to this table. That would be nice.

Not having played the original machine (and very few have), VP Loch Ness Monster rules were a complete fabrication on my part; pure intuitive guesswork based upon what I could see of the bonus lights, the known two-ball multiball, and how to use all the LOCH NESS MONSTER letters and the toy under the playfield that would briefly light up on occasion. They're probably way off, but the idea was to make it as least feel like a GamePlan game (having already made the VP version of Cyclopes), and I think I did a good enough job on that basis.

You did a good job! You did the best you could. The rules i'm sure aren't found anywhere on the internet. I've done the same thing for some projects i've done in the past, such projects that are based on things with unsure rules or information.

Edited by Vanblaricom0, 22 May 2009 - 08:26 PM.

[CaptainNeo]

i'm sure this game will show up at a pinball show sooner or later. It recently sold on ebay for $25k. There is only one known copy out there. If it shows up at a pinball show, i'll take a ton of video of the rules, and get as many closeups of the playfield, plastics and backglass. This is one game, i'd love to see an overhaul on for VP9 FS.