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Truck Stop (Bally 1988)

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trucksp3 ROM Name
Mecha_Enron Created by
Bally Manufacturer
1988 Year

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“Making money for you in the short run and over the long haul”

TRUCK STOP captures America at its most manic, and spins it on eighteen big rubber wheels... The player (truck driver) is pitted against the Interstate System and other gearjammers. The truck route winds between five proud cities of the sun belt and rust belt: LA, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, and New York. Each has its own spirit and its own adventure. The player must show his true grit over long stretches of open road. A long rank of gasoline is a job. And it's power, light, and the way back home.

 

Who said I can only make Gottlieb tables? I present Bally’s classic 1988 Truck Stop featuring everyone’s most asked for features: 2-ball multiball, scantily clad diner waitresses, and truck horn sounds. This machine was the first of a new merger between Bally and Williams which can be seen in the various parts such as the Williams lower flippers and Bally upper flippers.

 

At the center of the playfield is the City card. The goal is to complete your card in order to enter the progressive Jackpot hurry-up. Complete a “City” (LA, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, New York) by collecting each letter in the column above it. A letter can be collected at each ramp along with a “Spot Letter” mushroom bumper. Players can also complete the six blue standup targets for an automatic “Spot City”. Once all cities have been ‘spotted’, the Jackpot mode begins and you have limited time to spell CITY to claim your big points! This table may seem simple enough but you’ll find its not for the faint of heart. And don’t let those lot lizards distract you.

 

And as a special treat, ebor has graced us with a beautiful color DMD that can be found here!

 

Lots of features:

-Brand new scanned playfield

-VLM and VPW's toolkit visuals

-Nfozzy physics

-Fleep sounds

-VR Room

-Desktop Mode


Special thanks alphabetically:

apophis - Debugging and general advice

CarnyPriest - ROM stuff and instruction card

DGrimmReaper– VR magic

ebor - colorized DMD

hauntfreaks– Backglass

PinStratsDan- Non-stop playtesting

Primetime5k – Staged flippers

RobbyKingPin– Physics

somatik – standalone testing

Tomate – Main Ramp sculpt (literally would have given up without his help)

 

A big thanks to everyone from the VPW team for playtesting. They never stop working on things and are well committed to churning out the best. And another big thanks to @agentEighty6 for his original work on Truck Stop all the way back in 2021.

Edited by Mecha_Enron
link to B2S


Permission from ORIGINAL Author(s)?

Yes
written permission received.
This is my own creation.

Allow file to be included on a VPUniverse downloader app?

Yes

VPX Standalone

Yes
https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2667
https://vpuniverse.com/files/file/25573-truck-stop-bally-1988-b2s
Yes
10.8 required
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Titanic4

   2 of 2 members found this review helpful 2 / 2 members

This recreation looks amazing.

One minor correction: Swap l67 and l51 between one another in the VPX file. This small mistake can be seen in single lamp test and during gameplay. 

neil81992

   2 of 2 members found this review helpful 2 / 2 members

First class recreation and another talented author in the fold. Plays really well and a big improvement on prior versions. Great choice of table. Thanks to Mecha and the long list of talent. Surely the first game to include a hide nipples option! 

POKE78

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

Amazing table😍 Great & totally worth waiting update from 2021 version that I liked alot too 👍 Looks & plays so great👏 Thanks alot for great work & choosing  this old Bally classic 🤝

JRVirtual34

  

Thank you for creating this table. It’s a fantastic contribution and a real pleasure to play. Great work and much appreciated. Thanks again for sharing it with the community!

MachWon

  

This is one of the best-looking tables I've seen here on VPU, from the lighting to the artwork and physics this table is top tier! Plays really well.

Thanks for all your time and effort

JefersonNL

  

Perfect....Muito obrigado

GuruChoc

  

Nice and clean table, never played it in the wild, very enjoyable.

 

A couple of things to point out:

 

Is the Y ramp higher than the C ramp ? I only ask as 90% of the trapped left flipper shots up the Y ramp never make it around the loop (or is it something funky up there with the curve), trapped right flipper shots up the C ramp only fail about 10% of the time.

 

Also the return to the top left flipper after shooting up the C ramp fouls on the trip switch 90% of the time, making the T ramp almost impossible to combo.

 

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Response from the author:

In response to the C vs Y ramp, this is a conversation a few of us had while play testing the table. It’s my belief that the lower % of made Y ramp shots is due to the shape of the ramp as the ball loses a lot of momentum on impact against the back wall when jumping over the plunger lane opening. I think 90% of failure is still a bit high as I can trap and hit it almost every time. It just requires tighter timing compared to the C shot. Hope that helps. I’ll have to look into the other issue.

Norm7

  

very fun table, great job - plays great!

emanoel299

  

Great table

Great work

Thank you very much

ksandersbna

  

I just love this table. I have never heard of this but knew it was special as soon as it loaded. It looks gorgeous in the cabinet and has been super fun to play. I have a few tables in my rotation and keep coming back to this. Job well done on this! The lighting is phenomenal too. 

xdoolyx

  

ive been waiting for an updated version of this table to try it out, looks and plays great!

Spacegoogie

  

Well done! Looks Amazing, VR room is a really nice touch. Plays very nice, a new fave.

Thank you!!!🍻

weathervane

  

Thank you for sharing this table .the options on f12 are really nice. the table play is very smooth . This table surprised me . All around this has been upgraded nicely by people that know what there doing. Thank you

Harley-Boy

  

Thank you very much, I love it 👍

falumpagus907

  

Only 7 months after HH, you have pulled yet another impressive release.. I will follow your career with great interest. Fantastic work to you and everyone involved! Thank you for yet another amazing game.

 

KRAKEN

  

Oh my, this looks and plays so good.  I played Truck Stop more last evening than I have in the past 5 years combined.  Thanks to all who spent their free time bringing this to life, you are all awesome!  🍻

LordTheRon

  

Brilliant release. Such high quality all over. Love the VR Room as well.

tjaf

  

What a great release. This table has a special place in my heart, it was the very first real pinball machine I owned, more than 20 years ago. When I got into virtual pinball, I was amazed people bothered recreating it and now we have a beautiful  modern virtual recreation with great lighting, physics and sounds. 

I am likely biased, but I really like the gameplay flow. At first glance, this super symmetrical layout might not seem the most inspired table design, but the game offers IMO surprising diverse and fun gameplay. Shooting the ramps to light up city lights, knocking down the drop targets and trying to get the multiplier up (which is risky because of the high change of a down-the-middle-drain), going for the multiball, and let's not forget, this table learned me the shot for extra ball on twilight zone, it's almost the same shot ;)

Thanks for this wonderful release.

embryodead

  

Wow! Very impressive once again and the physics are top notch.

Really feel like im playing the real thing.

Thanks Mecha-Enron and teams!

tki1980

  

Good job. Plays really well.

guess this is very close to the real one.

never trued the real one.

onedevotee

  

amazing work, looks and plays great, thank you 👍

Hiylow

  

Isnt this Wild! Fantastic Build and with the optional nipple removal for the younguns and me its better than I hoped!!!!!

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