
Bazooka (Version 2.0, January 2004)
A Visual Pinball conversion
by Proginoskes (proginoskes@email.msn.com) ne Christopher Carl Heckman 
and Hugh Rafferty

Made with and for Visual Pinball by Randy Davis
http://www.visualpinball.com

Background was taken from a picture on the Internet. The table itself was 
scanned. The music ("Stars And Stripes Forever", performed by the 1994 Illini 
Marching Band) was also taken from the Internet.

Comments, suggestions can be sent the the e-mail address above. Currently,
my website is at http://math.asu.edu/~checkman/. 

Created with Visual Pinball version 0.6.2728, which was made possible through
the collective genius of Randy Davis, Chris Leathley, Mark Parris, and Jerry 
Rice.

REDISTRIBUTION NOTICE: Users are allowed to distribute this table FOR FREE, 
but are not allowed to sell it. This table may not appear on any website 
without explicit permission from the author, except for IRPinball, VPGD, and 
websites run by the author.

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Improvements over version 1.0:

* Balls aren't cut in half when they land in a kicker.

* Playing field brightened

* Keeps highest score so far

* Colored balls

* Animated plunger (looks like real thing!)

* Sound (yes, metal on plastic!)

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FILES: This .zip file contains the files:

	* Bazooka.txt     This file
	* Bazooka2_0.vpt  The table itself
	* Bazooka2SS.jpg  A screenshot
	* 35_3.jpg        Picture of the original directions

INSTALLATION: Put the .vpt file in your Tables directory. Put the Stars94.mp3 
(in another file) in the Music folder of your VP directory.

RULES: Press S to play. Five balls are given, one at a time. Use the plunger 
to launch them, nudge to help guide them into special kickers. Lather, rinse, 
repeat.

     Information about the original game:

This is a bagatelle (flipperless pinball game), which I rescued in 2002 from 
our garage sale or Goodwill. The cover was a bit scuffed up, and this showed 
up in the scanned image. 8-)

In case you can't read the picture, here are what the kickers represent:
	At top, three tanks. The one in the middle is a Heavy Tank w/ 155 mm. 
gun, worth 500 points. The one to the lower left is worth 1000. The one to 
the lower right is worth 3500.
	Below that is a "Heavy Truck (2 1/2 tons), with 6 wheel drive". It is 
worth 2500 points.
	At the next level down, there are two guns; the one on the left is an 
"Anti-Aircraft Gun, 3-inch Gun in Firing Position", worth 1000 points (2000 
if the black ball lands here). The gun to the right is an "Anti-Tank Gun", 
worth 1500. Right under the anti-tank gun are the instructions: "To return 
balls tilt board forward and to right, then tilt board backward and to left 
until all balls are in starting slot."
	The level under that is a jeep (500 points, 2nd ball worth 2000 points); 
to the right is a "Water cooled 30 cal. Machine Gun", worth 2000 points.
	At the bottom, the kickers are worth 500, 400, 300, 200, 100 points, 
respectively, left to right. The second ball there counts triple the original 
score (1500, 1200, 900, 600, 300). Between the rows of figures is written: 
"Second ball triples score." Above the top set of numbers is written: "All 
five balls at bottom count 10,000." This 10,000 point bonus is also counted 
in the game.
	Below the kicker which creates the balls is "Return balls here."
	To the left of the plunger is the game designer's seal, MARX Toys, 
"Made in United States of America."  An online source gives a production date 
of ca. 1958.
	Some versions of the game were made with balls with five different
colors; my original had four white balls and one black ball.

-- Christopher Carl Heckman, October 2002.
