#mildlyintersting — Public Fediverse posts
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Sharkey's Shootout (Stern, 2000) has a Totally-Not-Magic-8ball toy, the Mystery Ball as a playfield toy. It sits above a spot where the left ramp is split into two habitrails and uses a magnet to divert the ball into the left one if needed.
Below the case is a spinning dome that has cutouts with all the prizes listed. The dome sits on an encoder ring that interrupts opto switches below it. The game uses them to determine when the dome aligns with the cutout in the shell and to figure out the dome's orientation.
I think the idea is technically neat, but the effect is pretty underwhelming and it gets a bit old seeing it rotate the dome twice before revealing the prize. But the whole thing is pretty complex thing for something that nowdays would have been implemented as a cheap LCD or OLED display instead.
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Sharkey's Shootout (Stern, 2000) has a Totally-Not-Magic-8ball toy, the Mystery Ball as a playfield toy. It sits above a spot where the left ramp is split into two habitrails and uses a magnet to divert the ball into the left one if needed.
Below the case is a spinning dome that has cutouts with all the prizes listed. The dome sits on an encoder ring that interrupts opto switches below it. The game uses them to determine when the dome aligns with the cutout in the shell and to figure out the dome's orientation.
I think the idea is technically neat, but the effect is pretty underwhelming and it gets a bit old seeing it rotate the dome twice before revealing the prize. But the whole thing is pretty complex thing for something that nowdays would have been implemented as a cheap LCD or OLED display instead.
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Sharkey's Shootout (Stern, 2000) has a Totally-Not-Magic-8ball toy, the Mystery Ball as a playfield toy. It sits above a spot where the left ramp is split into two habitrails and uses a magnet to divert the ball into the left one if needed.
Below the case is a spinning dome that has cutouts with all the prizes listed. The dome sits on an encoder ring that interrupts opto switches below it. The game uses them to determine when the dome aligns with the cutout in the shell and to figure out the dome's orientation.
I think the idea is technically neat, but the effect is pretty underwhelming and it gets a bit old seeing it rotate the dome twice before revealing the prize. But the whole thing is pretty complex thing for something that nowdays would have been implemented as a cheap LCD or OLED display instead.
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Sharkey's Shootout (Stern, 2000) has a Totally-Not-Magic-8ball toy, the Mystery Ball as a playfield toy. It sits above a spot where the left ramp is split into two habitrails and uses a magnet to divert the ball into the left one if needed.
Below the case is a spinning dome that has cutouts with all the prizes listed. The dome sits on an encoder ring that interrupts opto switches below it. The game uses them to determine when the dome aligns with the cutout in the shell and to figure out the dome's orientation.
I think the idea is technically neat, but the effect is pretty underwhelming and it gets a bit old seeing it rotate the dome twice before revealing the prize. But the whole thing is pretty complex thing for something that nowdays would have been implemented as a cheap LCD or OLED display instead.
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Sharkey's Shootout (Stern, 2000) has a Totally-Not-Magic-8ball toy, the Mystery Ball as a playfield toy. It sits above a spot where the left ramp is split into two habitrails and uses a magnet to divert the ball into the left one if needed.
Below the case is a spinning dome that has cutouts with all the prizes listed. The dome sits on an encoder ring that interrupts opto switches below it. The game uses them to determine when the dome aligns with the cutout in the shell and to figure out the dome's orientation.
I think the idea is technically neat, but the effect is pretty underwhelming and it gets a bit old seeing it rotate the dome twice before revealing the prize. But the whole thing is pretty complex thing for something that nowdays would have been implemented as a cheap LCD or OLED display instead.