PachiTalk - Pinball

I just won one of my dream machines on ebay will be arriving tomorrow.

I Was reading some reviews on it on the IPDB and check this out!

Orbitor is worth about three minutes of novelty. Like everyone else, when my friends and I first laid eyes on it we were wowed and had to play it right away. That quickly turned into head-scratching confusion, like maybe we just didn't "get it". By ball three it was clear that we did get it, and this is just one of the worst pins ever to get the green light for production.
This pin is so bad that when the three of us played omething else, the punishment for coming in last was to play a game of orbitor.

The flippers are almost unnecessary on this pin as the ball's movement is so erratic they'll help very little. When you're actually allowed a shot, where you shoot doesn't really matter. You just try to send it back up field. In a nutshell it has the depth of strategy of a pachinko machine.

The sounds are horrible. The ball in play sounds are similar to someone trying to tune in AM stations in the middle of nowhere. The synthesized speech is cute for a couple games and quickly grows annoying. "WHOA WHOA WHOA YOU ARE A VERY GOOD PLAYER." The worst is being in a room full of pins and having to hear this thing in the background all night.

I wouldn't be surprised if this pin requires very little maintenance. There's very few objects on the play field and none of them will be hit with any frequency. Likewise, the game will sit un-played the majority of the time, so there's that, too.

With novelty as its only saving grace, this is a pin for collectors only, not for players.

I guess he doesnt like Pachinkos either!

Anyway heres an old vid that I made of the machine when I saw it at the Pinball expo

YouTube - ‪Stern Orbitor 1‬&lrm;