best pinball machine

[lookfun78]

I would like to know some of your favorite pinball machines. some of mine are the addams family, monster bash, and the simpsons.

[Classicgamesdepot]

Tales from the crypt is awesome, T2 was kind of cool

[Blur2040]

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[Flashback2012]

My absolute favorite game of all time is the Addams Family Pinball machine. :)

Other fun favorites include

The Twilight Zone
Demolition Man
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Star Wars (Data East)
Star Trek: TNG
Baby Pac-Man :wink 2:

[Howie6925]

Mine would have to be Fishtales and The Who's Tommy.

[staxx]

Adam's Family (Gotta love the Thing)
Revenge from Mars (Now that is smart way to use a screen)

[norkusa]

T2 (all-time favorite)
Bride Of Pin-Bot
Twilight Zone
Fishtales
The Sopraons
The Who's Tommy
Theater Of Magic
World Cup Soccer '94

[Baloo]

Super Mario Bros. is my favorite, but I also really like mideval madness.
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[apogee_vgc]

High Speed, Police Force, Eight Ball Deluxe, Pin-Bot

[Xian042]

Pinbot
T2
Dr. Who

and what was the one that would blow air at you with a fan on top of it?

[Ecks Kon]

How has no one mentioned Police Force yet? (well, I guess Apogee vgc did, I have to read better)

Oh, and that stupid WWF Royal Rumble one

[shawnbo42]

Pinbot
T2
Dr. Who

and what was the one that would blow air at you with a fan on top of it?

Whirlwind.

[Goblin]

Space Shuttle is my favorite machine. It is fast, fun, and I love the theme. When I want a longer game I play The Simpson's Pinball Party.

One of my next machines is going to be Lord of The Rings. I do like playing the Adams Family, but it isn't one I am in a hurry to own for my collection.

[scooterb23]

Fireball
Hercules (more nostalgia than actual gameplay)
Addams Family
Batman (buggy as heck, but oh so much fun)
Pinbot
High Speed
Baby Pac-Man
Friendship 7
Doctor Who

I'll stop there, but I'll say that even bad pinball machines are better than most games found in arcades today.

[namzep]

My all-time favorite is the Twilight Zone machine but I also like:

Pinbot
the Adams Family
Black Knight
Baby Pac-Man

[Videogamerdaryll]

Phantom Of The Opera

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/Chris1/MISC%20PICTURES%202/FLEAMARKETMAY3009043.jpg
Dads

[BeaglePuss]

Fireball
Hercules (more nostalgia than actual gameplay)

Canobie Lake Park???

My favorite by FAR is Medieval Madness. I could play that game forever and not get bored with it. The only other pinball I really fell in love with was Monster Mash.

[DreamTR]

My favorites are:

Elvira and The Party Monsters
Earthshaker
Black Knight 2000
Demolition Man
The Shadow
and Tales of the Arabian Nights


I actually own 18 pinball machines right now and there's a lot of fun ones out there =)

[otaku]

simpson's was a good one someone has one locally for 750 but instead of buying that I went and bought a couple new computers :)

[scooterb23]

Canobie Lake Park???

Technically, Washington Square Mall, about 1983 in Indianapolis, Indiana. But more recently, Cedar Point reunited me with two of my loves once again.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/scooterb23/random/CP_FireballHercules.jpg

That wall of pinball may be in my top 5 places on the face of the Earth.

[ryborg]

The correct answer is GnR pinball.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/Guns_N%27_Roses_pinball.jpg

[Giskard]

The correct answer is GnR pinball.


This man speaks the truth. My wife has DEMANDED that I own this machine.

[erehwon]

I think I would like to track down a T2 or Lord of the Rings pinball machine once I move out of my parent's house.

[tholly]

Super Mario Bros. is a great table.

[Sniderman]

Time Machine and Haunted House. There are no others.

[GrandAmChandler]

World Cup Soccer '94
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros.: Mushroom Kingdom
Star Wars
Simpsons

[Videogamerdaryll]

Dad and Son Playing HANG GLIDER Pinball...(1976 Bally EM)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/Chris1/MISC%20PICTURES%202/PINBALL001.jpg

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Not enough love for Williams' Medieval Madness in this thread!

http://www.robertwinter.com/pinball/mm/official/mm_flyer_back.jpg

One of the best prop/goal-based playfield tables of the end of the Williams pinball era!

[norkusa]

Wow. I can't believe I've never seen a Medieval Madness machine before. Off to download a PinMAME version NAAAOW.

[Bloodreign]

I used to play a ton of Medieval Madness a few many years ago, the voice clips help make the game even better than it already is. The only game I ever bothered to emulate with VPinMAME.

[mgriff]

Jackbot
NBA Fastbreak
Medieval Madness
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
probably forgetting a few others...

[slapdash]

YEARS ago, me and my brother had big love for Spanish Eyes, except... The backglass seems to have a Picasso-like seniorita, while I remember a soft-focus painted style seniorita. Have I mixed two games up? Was there a variation of the backglass?

[Postermen]

1. Whitewater
2. Medieval Madness
3. The Pinball Circus

[psychicotic]

silverball mania.
:)

[Lady Jaye]

I love World Cup 94. :)

And I never heard of Medieval Madness, but it looks totally kickass! :D

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

I love World Cup 94. :)

And I never heard of Medieval Madness, but it looks totally kickass! :D

I've known several pinball collectors and enthusiasts that have called Medieval Madness "simply put, the best modern table".

It was one of Midway's last table designs, and I can't think of a better "goal" based table. (You had to defeat all of the evil knights to face the "King of Payne" ... defeating them surrounded getting access to the castle via the drawbridge and then demolishing it from the outside or by passing the ball over the castle wall.)

The ramps and rails were pretty balanced and the "events" like the pop-up animated talking trolls were great.

I suspect that most of the designers of this table went on to Stern as the Lord of the Rings Trilogy is pretty reminiscent of the play field and events in Medieval Madness.

Unfortunately Madness had a lot of moving parts and some elements that I can only imagine were pretty prone to damage just through normal play.

Since it was at the end of Midway's run, they probably didn't offer a ton of service/parts, and finding one in good working condition isn't likely.

I didn't even see one at the Pennsylvania Pinball Wizards a month or so back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFq2s8HuCHg

That's the actual press promo for the table, worth watching, it details the highlights of the table nicely.

If I could find/afford one it would be my holy grail of pinballs.

[Kaboomer]

I've always loved Williams Taxi !

[cyberfluxor]

Since I don't emulate pinball machines and they aren't that frequent around here, I have limited exposure to them. But from what I've played two favorites of mine are:
Bride of Pinbot
South Park

I don't know why, but the voice remarks spewed during the SP games are always hillarious and the in-game challenges are fun.

[importaku]

My absolute favourite is Twilight zone which i own.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jasonmuir/tv%20&%20stuff.JPG

Also love....
Funhouse
Pinbot
Embryon
Black hole

[Blanka789]

I would kill for that GN'R machine, I've never even seen one in real life.

My favorite that I have played is Junkyard by Williams.

[TheSmirk]

hmmm...

1) Pinbot
2) Addams Family
3) Haunted House

[-dustburn-]

I CAN NOT believe no one has not given any love to THEATRE OF MAGIC! By far my favorite, with Midevil Madness coming in second.

[Baloo]

Not enough love for Williams' Medieval Madness in this thread!

http://www.robertwinter.com/pinball/mm/official/mm_flyer_back.jpg

One of the best prop/goal-based playfield tables of the end of the Williams pinball era!

This pinball machine is it right here, one of the best. And my other personal favorite:

http://mirror1.ipdb.org/images/2435/2435f1.jpg

[lagartija_nick]

Xenon
Taxi
Who Done It
The Phantom Menace

[udisi]

chalk anotherone up for World Cup '94

Also a fan of Fish Tales, Arabian Nights, MM, most any of the later Williams machines. Surprised no said anything about the Indiana Jones Table. I thought it was fun.

[lagartija_nick]

My absolute favourite is Twilight zone which i own.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jasonmuir/tv%20&%20stuff.JPG

Also love....
Funhouse
Pinbot
Embryon
Black hole


Twilight Zone looks fantastic, I might have played it as a child but I can't say for sure.

Anyway I listen to a Pinball Podcast and they mentioned that Twilight Zone is so elaborate, a working machine is hard to come across and a pain in the neck to maintain.

Do you have any problems with your particular machine?

[diskoboy]

Jesus, I have a ton... Pinball during the 90's was awesome. About 99% of the DMD games were excellent.


-Twilight Zone is my all time favorite. I don't own a machine, but I had a backbox translite framed, if that says anything.
-Judge Dredd
-24
-Medieval Madness
-Attack From Mars
-Revenge From Mars
-Red & Ted's Roadshow (errily similar to Funhouse, with the 2 talking dummy heads)
-The Shadow
-Safecracker
-Corvette
-Cirqus Voltaire
-Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventures
-Dr. Who
-Star Trek: TNG
-T2
-The Getaway: High Speed 2
-Bad Cats (A 1989 Williams Table WITHOUT multiball - but still a blast to play)
-Funhouse
-Whirlwind
-Earthshaker
-Diner
-Police Force
-Big Guns
-F-14 Tomcat
-High Speed
-Rocky & Bullwinkle (probably Data East's only GOOD pinball machine)

And yes, TZ's were very problematic. I worked in an arcade that had one, in the early 90's - it was constantly out of order. The optics in the spirals and ramps would keep breaking down. I think there are aftermarket parts, nowadays that are built better than the original factory parts. And you'll notice The Addams Family did not make my list - I think it is one of the most overrated machines ever made.

[Game Freak]

FunHouse
The Black Knight
Addams Family
Monopoly

i also played the super mario pinballs once or twice, but i rarely see them nowadays...

[sixteenbits]

Champion Pub!!!

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7850/pubfront.jpg

[AB Positive]

Lots of good ones mentioned but my favorite, by far is the Dr. Who pinball... with a surprising honorary mention for WWF Royal Rumble. Good machine... AND hilarious.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

I haven't played it in years, but Medieval Madness is featured on the Pinball Williams Classics for PS3 which I picked up last week, and hot damn it's every bit as fun as I remembered it to be.

I had no idea that Tina Fey did the voice of the damsels in distress!

[Baloo]

And yes, TZ's were very problematic. I worked in an arcade that had one, in the early 90's - it was constantly out of order. The optics in the spirals and ramps would keep breaking down. I think there are aftermarket parts, nowadays that are built better than the original factory parts. And you'll notice The Addams Family did not make my list - I think it is one of the most overrated machines ever made.

Yeah, Addams Family is good, but like Twilight Zone, it constantly breaks down.