Frontier

Frontier is big on bonus, but two kinds of bonus, built in slightly different ways. For both the Frontier and Predator bonuses, you need to collect A-B-C lanes or stand-up targets to advance base bonus. For the Predator bonus, each of the 15 predator lights is worth 3000 in bonus. The A lane and left stand-up advance the left column, B lane and the center stand-up the middle column, C lane and the right stand-up the right column. Once you have all 5 in any column, you can’t advance further until completing the other columns. Completing a column does light the corresponding stand-up target for 15,000, though; the stand-ups are otherwise worth only 500.

When you finish all 15 lights, the 45,000 bonus light will come on and you can begin scoring more predators; you can get one more complete set of 15 for a maximum base bonus of 90,000. Your bonus multiplier for the Predator bonus is advanced by completing the right side drop target 3-bank, up to 4X, so you can get up to 360,000 in Predator bonus.

Frontier bonus is linked to Predator bonus in that both rely on hitting lanes and the stand-ups, but in this case, your Frontier base bonus is advanced by finishing a set of 3, i.e. one of each letter / predator. Each set adds 10K in Frontier base bonus up to a maximum of 60K. The bonus multiplier for this is advanced by making shots to the left inline drop targets

The first left inline drop target lights the spinner on the right and opens the collect Frontier bonus gate at the top right of the game. The next three shots advance the Frontier bonus multiplier to 2X (2nd drop target), 3X (3rd drop target) and 4X (stand-up target at the top left). Each drop target and the back stand-up target on the left also open that Frontier collect gate.

Both Frontier and Predator base bonus progress is held from ball to ball, so the sooner you build them up, the better.

Building and repeatedly collecting the Frontier bonus during the ball is the route to big scores. Once you have the top collect gate open, shoot the ball through the spinner and try to nudge its rebound off the top left cushion so that it falls into the collect chute. The collect saucer can also be scored if the ball squeezes through the gap to the bottom left of it beside the right bumper, even if the gate is not open. When the ball is bumping around in that area, encourage it to do so\! Collecting the Frontier bonus closes the gate but does not reset the bonus value. Shoot a target at the upper left to reopen the gate to enable another chance to collect.

The fact that your shots to collect bonus will be going through the lit spinner helps, too, since you can often get 30,000 for a good spinner shot.

At the end of the ball, you collect both the Frontier bonus and the Predator bonus; note that the Predator bonus is \_only\_ collected at the end of the ball.

Key feeds are the rebound from the left inline drop targets and the drop-off from spinner shots that don’t go all the way to the top but fall back through the spinner.