Champion Pub (Midway 1998) is a PinMame table, version 1.1 from VP Forums by UncleReamus, Destruk, TomB, and Scapino on 03-21-06.
The IPD listing can be found here.
You advance through the game by building your health jumping rope, hitting the heavy bag, or hitting the speed bag, which earns you gems. Once your health is full you are able to start a fight, the heavy bag rotates revealing a boxer. You have to hit the boxer until either his health is gone, your health is gone, you loose the ball, or using the the scoops you can activate the KO and knock the fighter out. It takes 5 fights to become Pub Champ. This table even tracks how many times you are the champ. Once you have become the champ, you fight challengers as you build your health and start fights.
There are officially 5 different types of multiball in the game, Standard Multibrawl - is a standard 3 ball lock on right loop of the table, which starts "Multibrawl", Fisticuffs Multiball - hitting the heavy bag in the center of the table so many times will start a 2 ball multiball and a fight with a drunk, Raid Multiball - after the 3rd fight win 3 ball Raid multiball starts, Champion Multiball - after you get club champ a 3 ball Champion multiball starts, Ultimate Challenge Multiball - Never done this one but you have to collect all the gems and be champion to get it started, and Concurrent Multiballs - 4 ball multiball for getting a multiball while in multiball (Starting Fisticuffs MB during Multibrawl MB), though this is not considered a separate multiball.
This software version does this table justice. It plays a lot like the real thing, even frustrates me on the jump rope like the original did. There are a couple of buggy thing I have seen in this version, though they do not mess with gameplay too much, one of the worst is, when in multiball sometimes the balls get moving real fast and I have seen them go through the flippers. I think the problem is with VP and not the table as I have this problem with a few other tables but I thought I would mention it.
Overall this is a pretty fast paced game with some true comical moments, the drunk you fight throws out some great one-liners as do a lot of the fighters. This table has a lot more to offer than what I mention here. I will not go through a complete walkthrough or rules sheet since they are already available elsewhere. I have not done everything in the game yet, though I have earned Pub Champ a few times. If you are looking for a good pin with good humor, I would definitely recommend Champion Pub. I played this table in my younger days and would like to play it again, the computer versions are good and they are definately worth the time, I just like to play the real thing when possible, so if you know of a table, post a comment and let us know where it is located.
I love this table, one of my all time favorites, I give it an 8.5 out of 10. Next time, I will do my best to bring a good review of another great table.
tijir
