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Gag Boobs has been renamed to Boob Based Gag. Changing to the proper trope where appropriate and cutting misuse.


* GagBoobs: The woman on the backglass has a pair of comically unrealistic round breasts.
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* PrecisionFStrike: One of the game's quotes has the woman exclaim, "Ooooh, bitchin'!" when the player gets an extra ball. This was enough for some parents to complain, and Williams provided a "family" ROM patch to operators as a result.
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The game casts the player as a researcher at the Earthquake Institute, and his task is to visit various Zones along the UsefulNotes/{{California}}- UsefulNotes/{{Nevada}} border where upcoming earthquakes are predicted to occur. After a while, tremors occur; take the Fault Trip, which will cause California to split from Nevada, allowing the pinball to get locked. Use another ball to keep visiting more Zones, and soon a full-blown [[TitleDrop Earthshaker]] occurs, starting three-ball multiball.

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The game casts the player as a researcher at the Earthquake Institute, and his task is to visit various Zones along the UsefulNotes/{{California}}- UsefulNotes/{{California}} - UsefulNotes/{{Nevada}} border where upcoming earthquakes are predicted to occur. After a while, tremors occur; take the Fault Trip, which will cause California to split from Nevada, allowing the pinball to get locked. Use another ball to keep visiting more Zones, and soon a full-blown [[TitleDrop Earthshaker]] occurs, starting three-ball multiball.
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The game casts the player as a researcher at the Earthquake Institute, and his task is to visit various Zones along the UsefulNotes/{{California}}-UsefulNotes/{{Nevada}} border where upcoming earthquakes are predicted to occur. After a while, tremors occur; take the Fault Trip, which will cause California to split from Nevada, allowing the pinball to get locked. Use another ball to keep visiting more Zones, and soon a full-blown [[TitleDrop Earthshaker]] occurs, starting three-ball multiball.

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The game casts the player as a researcher at the Earthquake Institute, and his task is to visit various Zones along the UsefulNotes/{{California}}-UsefulNotes/{{Nevada}} UsefulNotes/{{California}}- UsefulNotes/{{Nevada}} border where upcoming earthquakes are predicted to occur. After a while, tremors occur; take the Fault Trip, which will cause California to split from Nevada, allowing the pinball to get locked. Use another ball to keep visiting more Zones, and soon a full-blown [[TitleDrop Earthshaker]] occurs, starting three-ball multiball.
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The game casts the player as a researcher at the Earthquake Institute, and his task is to visit various Zones along the California-Nevada border where upcoming earthquakes are predicted to occur. After a while, tremors occur; take the Fault Trip, which will cause California to split from Nevada, allowing the pinball to get locked. Use another ball to keep visiting more Zones, and soon a full-blown [[TitleDrop Earthshaker]] occurs, starting three-ball multiball.

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The game casts the player as a researcher at the Earthquake Institute, and his task is to visit various Zones along the California-Nevada UsefulNotes/{{California}}-UsefulNotes/{{Nevada}} border where upcoming earthquakes are predicted to occur. After a while, tremors occur; take the Fault Trip, which will cause California to split from Nevada, allowing the pinball to get locked. Use another ball to keep visiting more Zones, and soon a full-blown [[TitleDrop Earthshaker]] occurs, starting three-ball multiball.
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A digital version is available for ''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade''.

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A digital version is was formerly available for ''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade''.
''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade'' until the license to all WMS tables expired on July 1, 2018.
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* BoringButPractical: Shooting the middle ramp ad nauseam is actually a very viable strategy.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeology: Borders on ItRunsOnNonsensoleum. The central event of this game is a fissure hundreds of miles in length. Said fissure is precisely along the California-Nevada border's entire length. The Earthquake Institute is in charge of monitoring it rather than the US Geological Survey. Said monitoring consists mostly of driving down 99 miles of highway looking around. There are underground earthquake shelters, which makes no sense considering earthquakes originate underground.[[note]]The safest place to be during an earthquake is out in the open on flat land with few to no tall objects nearby. You might lose your balance, but nothing will fall on you, which is what the REAL threat of earthquakes come from.[[/note]]
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Appropriately enough, ''Earthshaker!'' is the first pinball game to include a shaker motor that caused the table to vibrate during gameplay. The first 200 units even had the Earthquake Institute building sink into the playfield during multiball; however, the feature proved too costly, and was discontinued in later units, making early versions of ''Earthshaker!'' quite the collector's item.

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Appropriately enough, Fittingly, ''Earthshaker!'' is the first pinball game to include a shaker motor that caused the table to vibrate during gameplay. The first 200 units even had the Earthquake Institute building sink into the playfield during multiball; however, the feature proved too costly, and was discontinued in later units, making early versions of ''Earthshaker!'' quite the collector's item.



* [[OutrunTheFireball Outrun The Fissure]]: The playfield shows a female jogger frantically trying to outrun a fissure right behind her.

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* [[OutrunTheFireball Outrun The Fissure]]: OutrunTheFireball: The playfield shows a female jogger frantically trying to outrun a fissure right behind her.
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The game casts the player as a researcher at the Earthquake Institute, and his task is to visit various Zones along the California-Nevada border where upcoming earthquakes are predicted to occur. After a while, tremors occur; take the Fault Trip, which will cause California to split from Nevada, allowing the pinball to get locked. Use another ball to keep visiting more Zones, and soon a full-blown [[TitleDrop Earthshaker]] occurs, starting a three-ball multiball.

Appropriately enough, ''Earthshaker!'' is the first pinball game to include a shaker motor that caused the table to vibrate during gameplay. The first two hundred units even had the Earthquake Institute building sink into the playfield during multiball; however, the feature proved too costly, and was discontinued in later units, making early versions of ''Earthshaker!'' quite the collector's item.

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The game casts the player as a researcher at the Earthquake Institute, and his task is to visit various Zones along the California-Nevada border where upcoming earthquakes are predicted to occur. After a while, tremors occur; take the Fault Trip, which will cause California to split from Nevada, allowing the pinball to get locked. Use another ball to keep visiting more Zones, and soon a full-blown [[TitleDrop Earthshaker]] occurs, starting a three-ball multiball.

Appropriately enough, ''Earthshaker!'' is the first pinball game to include a shaker motor that caused the table to vibrate during gameplay. The first two hundred 200 units even had the Earthquake Institute building sink into the playfield during multiball; however, the feature proved too costly, and was discontinued in later units, making early versions of ''Earthshaker!'' quite the collector's item.



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* {{Cap}}: The counter for miles accumulated tops out at 99 miles (the playfield inserts themselves being unable to accurately show more than 75). Additional shots to the center ramp score an "End of the Road Bonus" for 200K.

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* {{Cap}}: The counter for miles accumulated tops out at 99 miles (the playfield inserts themselves being unable to accurately show more than any miles past 75). Additional shots to the center ramp score an "End of the Road Bonus" for 200K.
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* {{Cap}}: The counter for miles accumulated tops out at 99 miles (the playfield inserts themselves cap out a little sooner, at 75). Additional shots to the center ramp score an "End of the Road Bonus" for 200K.

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* {{Cap}}: The counter for miles accumulated tops out at 99 miles (the playfield inserts themselves cap out a little sooner, at being unable to accurately show more than 75). Additional shots to the center ramp score an "End of the Road Bonus" for 200K.
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* {{Cap}}: The counter for miles accumulated tops out at 99 miles. Additional shots to the ramp score an "End of the Road Bonus" for 200K.

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* {{Cap}}: The counter for miles accumulated tops out at 99 miles. miles (the playfield inserts themselves cap out a little sooner, at 75). Additional shots to the center ramp score an "End of the Road Bonus" for 200K.
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* AntiFrustrationFeature: Shooting the ball into the Shelter within 15 seconds after the end of multiball starts Aftershock, giving the player another chance to score the jackpot.

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* AntiFrustrationFeature: AntiFrustrationFeatures: Shooting the ball into the Shelter within 15 seconds after the end of multiball starts Aftershock, giving the player another chance to score the jackpot.
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Appropriately enough, ''Earthshaker!'' is the first pinball game to include a shaker motor that caused the table to vibrate during gameplay. The first two hundred units even had the Earthquake Institute building sink into the playfield during multiball; however, the feature proved too costly, and was discontinued in later units, making early versions of ''Earthshaker'' quite the collector's item.

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Appropriately enough, ''Earthshaker!'' is the first pinball game to include a shaker motor that caused the table to vibrate during gameplay. The first two hundred units even had the Earthquake Institute building sink into the playfield during multiball; however, the feature proved too costly, and was discontinued in later units, making early versions of ''Earthshaker'' ''Earthshaker!'' quite the collector's item.
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Appropriately enough, ''Earthshaker!'' is the first pinball game to include a shaker motor that caused the table to vibrate during gameplay. The first two hundred units even had the Earthquake Institute building sink into the playfield during multiball; however, the feature proved too costly, and was discontinued in later units.

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Appropriately enough, ''Earthshaker!'' is the first pinball game to include a shaker motor that caused the table to vibrate during gameplay. The first two hundred units even had the Earthquake Institute building sink into the playfield during multiball; however, the feature proved too costly, and was discontinued in later units.
units, making early versions of ''Earthshaker'' quite the collector's item.
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On December 5, 2014, [=FarSight=] Studios [[https://www.facebook.com/pinballarcade/photos/a.285728704781530.70035.255539697800431/842371149117280/?type=1 made an announcement]] stating that ''Earthshaker!'' will be added to season 4 of ''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade''.

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On December 5, 2014, [=FarSight=] Studios [[https://www.facebook.com/pinballarcade/photos/a.285728704781530.70035.255539697800431/842371149117280/?type=1 made an announcement]] stating that ''Earthshaker!'' will be added to season 4 of ''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade''.A digital version is available for ''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade''.

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