Favorite Bestest Pinball Machine of all Time?

[Neal_W]

Quickie: Fish Tales   -lightning flippers and brutal multiball.
Longie: Lord of the Rings  -theme for days!

[TheBatman]

Batman Forever... Of course.

[NormaJ]

jeeze, no EM love at all? Not a two inch flipper game to be found. no mention of NORTH STAR or AZTEC or FLIPPER CLOWN or OLD CHICAGO?
 I think this group is biased. DING DONG or DODDLEBUG? GRANADA?
 you are all allowed your own opinions but jeeze louise.
 But then I wouldnt go out of my way for a ADAMS FAMILY which has a cute attract mode but plays dumb as hell. Most overrated of all time for that one IMO. 

I grew up on the old EM's and will always love them.

Old Chicago? Created by a masochist.
Ding Dong? Should be called "Ding Gone" because your ball disappears so fast.
Doodlebug? A legitimate flipper control game that never lets you set the ball on the flipper.

So I guess people get mad when they lose the ball a lot, and that makes it not a favorite. I get it.

Unfortunately, most EM games are a little disappointing in layout. You have the "top half" (which you usually don't end up spending much time on) and the "bottom half" (where you are constantly fighting to keep the ball alive or send the ball back up to the "top half").

Of all the EM's, I think Big Indian has to be among the best because there are enough things to do (lanes, drop targets, vari-target) and your mission is to keep the ball alive to keep doing the same things over and over again. Also, on each ball all your "missions" reset to zero (unlike some games like Strange World where your last couple of balls are a frenzy of points).

I will play anything that has flippers on it, no matter what size. I used to put dimes in kiddie candy machines that had flippers just so I could have a really short game and get a gumball.

[FourFlippers]

Great post Norma!  Perhaps we should modify this post or start a new one that asks for your favorite game by classification:
EM
SS
DMD
LCD
Thoughts?
Ed K.



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[busa32927]

sounds good

[imjay]

I also thought there are a variety of answers depending on the type of pin.
EM - my favorite was Old Chicago though I brought many, many others home across those years.
SS - my favorite was/is Fathom - Centaur/Eight Ball Deluxe/Haunted House runner ups
After those I think the wonderful Bally/Williams of the 1990s were the best of those times into current times.
AF and MB and AFM probably best of that breed thought I really liked my Fish Tales and NGG.
It's too bad that it all crashed just after Pin-2000 games were being introduced.  I really liked my Revenge From Mars.

[prefontaine79]

still Whirlwind for me. rdy to buy again for the 5th time. where are you me whirlwind..