Understanding Pinball - Bally's CENTAUR II - Learn How It Plays! - TNT Amusements

Unique in it's Black and White artwork, Centaur II had a limited production run. See and learn all the features--including the underplayfield ball firing mechanism! This video will tell you EVERYTHING about how to master this game! Go to our website to see all the machines we have for sale! www.tntamusements.com We also sell DVD's which offer better resolution than our YouTube videos! Email us if you have questions! Todd

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• Understanding
• Pinball
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• Bally
• Centaur
• Todd
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[stoob1969]

Brings me back to my youth club in 1983, awesome game and awesome complete description of game. I remember seeing you on Kendra, funny clip! :O)

[skycow2]

Stunning machine. The black & white graphics, the crazy echo-voice, great stuff. I wish I could play one for real.

[Souldiver66]

Nice video again - thanks a lot!

BTW: You just forgot to mention one small, but neat feature which I like a lot: If the captive ball at the left is hit directly, the drops award just the lit value (CENTAUR taunting you: "Only single value!"). But passing the "tunnel" with the two star rollovers first (as you did in the video) - and which is much harder to do - these values are doubled; seperating the Amateurs from the Pro's! ;-)

[mdegast]

@robotype

I have no idea. I play the game emulated through VpinMAME 2.3 and Visual Pinball. Emulation of the tms5200 is still broken in the PinMAME core, but the proper chirptables for correct emulation of this chip are already implemented in the MAMEcore (0.137u3 and beyond). I hope they soon rewrite the PinMAME core with it. It would be nice hearing the emulated counterpart sounding just like the one in this video,

[robotype]

@mdegast exactly! thank you...and has anybody noticed that each different machine has it's own pitch on the voice? you can regulate the delay but not the pitch I wonder howcome every centaur speakes at different speed...could it be some component related to the clock in the squawk & talk pcb?

[mdegast]

@robotype

"Slow, aren't you"? Is the other phrase

[robotype]

sometimes insted of "bad move human" he says another phrase that I can't understand, any idea?

[HaikuAutomation]

Nice overview! I hope your skill has improved in 21 years :)

[GKcoupe1]

Great game, and I have it too, just need a little restoration!

Greetings from the Croatia!

[Paulywint]

I really liked this game. A tavern had this game, I enjoyed the multi-ball feature, I also enjoyed the sound effects it made. However, the vendor, who owned the game, had the volume turned down, I could not hear the voice talk to well.