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- Center stationary posts are fixed pegs planted between and just below the flipper tips, in the path a ball takes when it drains down the middle.[1] The trade calls the piece a stopper, a peg or a mini-post screw: it is a metal post screwed into the playfield with a rubber ring on top, and a ball that catches it bounces up and away instead of out of play.[2] A practised player will work shots off it on purpose.[1] Because it is a screw and a rubber sleeve rather than a mechanism, the post costs a designer nothing but the hole, and it has stayed in use across the whole flipper era — on woodrail machines of the early 1950s, on [[manufacturer:stern-electronics]] and [[manufacturer:williams]] playfields through the solid-state years, and on modern boutique games such as *[[title:the-hobbit]]* (2015, [[manufacturer:jersey-jack]]) and *[[title:the-mafia]]* (2018, [[manufacturer:team-pinball]]). Where [[gameplay-feature:center-up-posts]] do the same job only for as long as the game grants it, the stationary post is there for every ball of every game.
- 1.Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_pinball_terms
If the ball hits the post, it will bounce up and away, saving it from draining. Skilled players can use the stopper to make trick shots.
2.Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — https://www.ipdb.org/glossary.php ArchiveA typical placement of this device is between and below the flippers at the bottom of the playfield to bounce an otherwise drained ball back into play.
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