{"id":1003,"date":"2014-05-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2014\/05\/13\/how-do-i-change-among-the-three-levels-of-play-in-space-cadet-pinball\/"},"modified":"2014-05-13T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T07:00:00","slug":"how-do-i-change-among-the-three-levels-of-play-in-space-cadet-pinball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20140513-00\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"How do I change among the three levels of play in Space Cadet Pinball?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Many many years ago, a customer presumably was taking advantage of the <i>unlimited support<\/i> part of their support contract when they asked <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p> In the documentation for Space Cadet Pinball, it says&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> The game is divided into three levels of play: basic, intermediate, and advanced. The objective of all levels is to achieve the highest point total. The more advanced the level of play, the greater the point reward. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> How does one advance to the next level of play? The documentation doesn&#8217;t explain. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> The level of play being described in the documentation refers not to any particular in-game option or accomplishment. It&#8217;s describing three different styles of playing the same game. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Basic level: You try not to lose the ball. <\/li>\n<li>Intermediate level: You earn more points by     hitting the targets in the right order. <\/li>\n<li>Advanced level: You earn even more points by completing missions. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> It&#8217;s like how you can play tennis on multiple levels. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Basic level: Chase the ball when it is hit to you,     and return it over the net. <\/li>\n<li>Intermediate level: Anticipate where the ball will be hit,     and return it to where your opponent     will have difficulty reaching it. <\/li>\n<li>Advanced level:     Plan multiple-stroke attacks.     Identify your opponent&#8217;s weakness and     adjust your style of play to take advantage of it. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> In other words, the answer is not in the game. The answer is inside you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many many years ago, a customer presumably was taking advantage of the unlimited support part of their support contract when they asked In the documentation for Space Cadet Pinball, it says&#8230; The game is divided into three levels of play: basic, intermediate, and advanced. The objective of all levels is to achieve the highest point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Many many years ago, a customer presumably was taking advantage of the unlimited support part of their support contract when they asked In the documentation for Space Cadet Pinball, it says&#8230; The game is divided into three levels of play: basic, intermediate, and advanced. The objective of all levels is to achieve the highest point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}