UK Machine Record
Stern · 2022 · at 5 UK venues.
Rush is one of Stern's best examples of making a music licence actually behave like a music-based pinball machine. You travel through the band's history while playing ten Rush songs, with the music changing as you progress through the game's structure. The Time Machine, Clockwork Angels Clock and musical drop targets give it a lot more personality than simply putting a band's name on a cabinet.
The Premium and LE versions add the subway system and Dead End mechanism, while the LE also gets Stern's Expression Lighting System. But the Pro still contains the core game and plenty of the speed and flow that make Rush enjoyable.
This is a machine where rhythm genuinely matters. Don't just shoot the easiest shot; listen to what the game is doing and build your song progression.
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Silverball guide · Rush
Rush looks like six song modes with a combo game bolted on the side. It is the other way round: the 1-2-3 combos hand you albums, albums arm The Weapon, and The Weapon is what finishes a song mode.
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Hitting the action button will change where the ball is diverted to after hitting a ramp. A flasher on the left or right side of the playfield will slowly strobe to indicate which side of the playfield ramp shots will be diverted to.
Short plunge to the upper flipper and hit the upper scoop or left ramp for skill shot. Inner loop can be hit as well and will award super skill shot if ramp/scoop is hit after.
Song mode determined by greatest amt of colored records. Shoot flashing to lock in solid. RUSH Targets shuffle flashing records' colors.
The rainbow records will light after finishing a mode. (Beware old code was different so old tutorials likely might say outdated information).
When playing a song mode, the record shots that were lit in its color (or rainbow) will remain lit, and will award 2x song award scoring.
Premium and LE: If you have 1 ball locked in Far Cry it will always kick out the bottom and never to the side
If you have a weapon and are close to starting a multiball, wait until you start multiball to use the weapon as it will spot all shots in the mode as well as multiball. Works for all mode/multiball combos except limelight & red barchetta
Hit green targets by the right ramp to help advance far cry multiball then shot the ramp to light lock
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How Rush was sold to operators — Stern, 2022. The back is the feature list the manufacturer led with, which is a fair record of what the machine was meant to be famous for.
Flyer scan via the Internet Pinball Database. The artwork is Stern’s.
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