Quickie Version
UTAD via the side slingshots, ideally by going over either of the small rollover buttons.
Go-To Flipper
Balanced
Full Rules
Darling is the 2-player version of Jubilee, with the same central captive ball horseshoe and side slingshot design.
What to do? Build your bonus, keep the ball alive; the points in the game other than bonus are trivial. Yawn. Bonus is earned by the top lanes (two when lit), by looping a captive ball to the opposite side, by the two small rollover buttons next to the bottom of the captive ball enclosure and by the outlanes. Bonus goes up to 20K. Bonus is doubled on the last ball; double bonus cannot be earned on other balls.
Because the game is so unbalanced towards bonus, you rarely see it in competition; a player with a big lead is all but impossible to catch.
Playfield Risk
There’s no ball control to speak of, it just bounces around. The straighter up-and-down the ball falls from the top, the safer it tends to be - - it’s then more likely to come to a flipper or a saucer behind a flipper. Side to side action drains more, both center drains and outlanes. Shots at the looping captive balls risk center drains.
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Machine Information
- Name
- Darling
- Manufacturer
- Williams
- Year
- 1973
- Type
- em
- Display
- reels
- Players
- 2