Radical (Bally 1990) Prototype VPW Mod

This is my favorite table from my teenage years.  Looking back on how I played it, I realize that I had no idea what I was doing.  Now I know how to play it and can see that my skill is very low 😀

Anyway, I love the table and it is one of the top plays on the system I just put together in order to play VPX.

Unfortunately, I'll have to offer some negative feedback. The Radical is the most popular pinball machine (in my collection) among all my friends, and the excitement it provides for a four-player game... even the BK 2000 doesn't deliver that kind of excitement. But unfortunately, as far as I understand, this table is an older model that VPW has only been tuning?  This led to inherited problems, but the root of the problem is not the radical, it's the radical prototype.

1) The prototype lacks a post-stud in the center of the field to the left of the central drop targets, which is needed to prevent the ball from falling vertically downwards, as well as for nudging and playing on the upper left flipper.

2) The ball-throwing mechanic was removed in the release version. It was removed for a reason; it disrupts the flow and requires different ROMs (I had the same problem with the Airborne prototype, where the left ramp was open by default, but the release version has a different mechanism because the prototype burned out the coils and the ROMs aren't compatible).

3) And now the real pain. Because the Radical has a very specific right inlane, the ball has a 90% chance of going into the right outlane if it enters the inlane from below rather than from above (which he does constantly). That's why in the release version of the Radical, the right inlane has a stopper that allows the ball to go from top to bottom and not from bottom to top.

These three factors kill the original flow of Radical, and it's physically painful to play. I could fix it myself, but unfortunately, English isn't my native language, and I can't find enough software tutorials to fix these issues.

P.S And yes, it seems to me that the ramps in this version of the table are very high. I can remove the glass and make a scan of my radical to compare the 3D models.

Another great table   VPW.  Thanks to everyone involved.

This is really hitting up the 70's when radical far out and cool were in the vocab.  So glad you did these tweaks. Plays great and looks incredible. Thanks Guys for all your work.

Looks and Plays Amazing! Thank You Very Much!!

This is a really cool table, love the art design, also really like the ramps in this one.  Thanks to all who worked on this table to make it a reality. 5 stars *****

radical Table is loopy fun