Frispel
sedan 2001
Extra bumper?
Another change involved some posts and rubbers near the bumpers. As any good designer does, Pat Lawlor decided to try something new - putting the pop bumpers low, close to the bottom of the playfield. It worked well, and they stayed in that position during early prototypes. Somewhere along the line, something changed, and suddenly balls would fly right out of the bumpers, and down the left outlane. Finally, after enough complaints from playtesters, Pat installed a few posts and rubbers to reduce this occurence. Everything was fine, until somewhere along the line of the actual production run of the game - another minor change somewhere, and now balls were flying out of the bumpers right down between the flippers. The posts were taken out of all the rest of the production machines - and left inside, for the operator to choose.