> So, over to the Stern Metallica, inserted my $5, get 3 credits (yeah, expensive).
> This game has a snake's head which is a target to shoot at. During my first game, the
> ball got stuck between the snake and an adjacent post. The game then tried to release
> the ball a few times then said game over. Not nice. When that happened, the snake's
> mouth closed on the ball, making sure it couldn't be shaken loose.
You just experienced another one of the nice features of real pinball tables that you can't easily simulate in a computer version 
I haven't been never a fan of pinballs, I was pretty bad and my coins were too scarce so I played arcades most of the time. However I like computer pinballs. I spent quite a lot of time playing Epic Pinball (specially Android, Excalibur, Magic and the multimillion Deep Sea) and those 21st Century Entertainment pinballs (specially Nightmare from Pinball Dreams which IIRC was the first game in the series). I know it's nothing like real tables, but they're fun games to play in their own.
However no pinball I've tried in the computer has something I dreaded/liked in real pinballs: when for some reason the ball jumps to the glass making that loud "clunk" noise. I always thought sooner or later the glass would break because some of the hits sounded so loud.
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I can't get it right / Get it right / Since I met you...
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