What Are Your Favorite Pinball Tables?

[nosweargamer]

Time to break the ice in the pinball area!

 

What your favorite pinball tables?

 

Mine include Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Fun House & Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Edited May 5, 2015 by nosweargamer

[RickR]

I love ANY pinball table.  But Fun House, with that crazy giant head, is a favorite. 

[Justin]

I just shot a pinball video about an hour ago, it should be up sometime soon 

[RickR]

There was also one I think was called "Mata Hari" or something like that.  It was in a convenience store on the way home from high school for me, and I really got hooked on pinball after playing that one whenever I had a spare quarter. 

These days, I'm a sucker for any "Pinball Collection" type game on the newer consoles.  The Williams Collection being a favorite. 

[Atari Adventure Square]

Yeah, like Rick, I can go for any pinball if it's in physical proximity.

 

But as a nostalgia item, I would say the Kiss table, for one.

Played it on a daily basis at my local cheap eats spot on the way to and back from school, in those heady days of Kiss Army membership.

I was a big fan (obvs) and the awesomeness that was the greatest rock band alive coming alive on the bumper thumps and flipper saves and everything well...couldn't pass it up.

 

Also, another daily table was Black Knight, sole pinball at our corner bowling alley and teenage meeting haunt.

We were both good customers - dropping all our loose change in this and the couple of cabinets present - and bad  - we would stay there as long as humanly possible on a few dollars, figured out a way to shock the cabiinet coin slots into giving us free games by using carpet friction, would flick the Black Knight switch underneath until it gave us free games (peaked at 99, I think).

Yeah, I didn't discover either of those tricks, felt very bad at the buds doing this, but still exploited the heck out of that friction one.

Cuz (bad) science!

 

eh, I sidetracked a bit. Oh well. Lemme finish with Caveman, that blue hybrid pinball and VG.

Played only a few times on this one. It was out of town and me and my dad would stop by the big city mall were he'd go off and leave me at the arcade with a fistful of quarters.

This one just impressed with its easy switch to the maze VG bit and back to the table.

I liked the reward of playing that internal mini game from strategizing the pinball action.

 

I could go on...those early model/late 60s surf tables found in hotels and diners alongside the enigmatic Pong cabinets, in those pre-arcade days...any mechanical score display table, where the gear sounds were as cool as the bumpers bells...

 

Yeah, pinball talk

 

Bring it on

[RickR]

There's a Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas that's just about the most awesome place.  Screw the casinos...when I'm in Vegas, that's the place to go. 

[Arenafoot]

Being that I've attended the last 2 Houston ArcadeExpo's, and their original focus was on pinball machines, I've played more pinball in the last 2 years than ever in my life. My favs would be:

 

Rollergames (love the TV show!)

Demolition Man

Circus Voltaire

CSI

Back to the Future

[VectorGamer]

My favorite pinball of all time is either Cyclone or Comet - doesn't matter cuz they're almost the same pin.

 

Other faves are Sky Lab, Xenon and Tri Zone.

 

I was at Pinfest in Allentown last weekend and I shot video. I'm still editing the vid and hope to have it up sometime this week.

Edited May 5, 2015 by VectorGamer

[Atari Adventure Square]

Gotta post this link here as a follow-up to Rick's mention of the Pinball Hall of Fame.

It's a page with sweet panoramas of the D.C Pinball Museum.

 

http://pinball.rocket9.net/National_Pinball_Museum.htm

 

Also has links within to more of same in different areas.

 

Would you believe I found this while looking up M-Network VG titles?

It's one big wonderful world of retro gaming that opens up once you dive into the portal.

[LeeJ07]

My favorites? You ask too much.

 

Since you insist, I'll say that The Shadow, Addams Family, and Tales of Arabian Nights are my all time favorites.

[dauber]

There's a Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas that's just about the most awesome place.  Screw the casinos...when I'm in Vegas, that's the place to go. 

 

I went to the HoF this past summer. Holy cripes....Pinball Circus!! That thing is a monster! I heard someone offered the owner $150,000 for that thing...and was turned down.

 

But answering the OP...among my favorites (although I'm not a huge pinball fan): Pinball Circus, Haunted House (Ferg wasn't kidding -- it is REALLY COOL!), Police Force (I played that a lot when I was in college; at one point I had getting the bonus points and extra games with that ramp down to a science!), and the new Batman machine.

[Clint Thompson]

I guess I'm too cliché and my favorites consist of PinBot and High Speed. While not an overly huge fan of Star Wars, I really did like the new video spin they did on their machine of the 90s and played that quite a bit while at the local bowling alley.

[nester]

Banzai Run! 

[chas10e]

Wow, how did I miss this thread ?

 

In times past; when asked this question "What Are Your Favorite Pinball Tables?" My mind would go blank as there are many. So I decided to choose "The Wizard of Oz" by Jersey Jack. It's the machine that sort of got me back into pinball. I will admit they did sucker me in and I realized it right away.

Other machines at the time this one releaced were I recall "AC/DC" & "Iron Man" (Another two favorites now .)  the location I saw these three were all $1.00 to play and had a bill slot as well at quarter slots  & I thought "It's a buck to play these now ?"

The replay score on "WOZ" was like 35,000 points , "AC/DC" was like 50,000,000 points and "IM" seemed high as well (maybe 35,000,000 I dunno.) I figured the lower score would be easier to reach so I risked it on "WOZ" and when the game was over having not reached the replay score I waited for the "match feature" . If the random number shown matches the last two digits of your score you are awarded a free game. Well on "WOZ" "the match" was a SINGLE DIGIT , explaining the low replay threshold  BUT I did match and was able to play again.

The next game I did reach the replay threshold and got a 3'rd game (on that first buck) and I was hooked !

[Atari 5200 Guy]

I didn't even know that this thread existed!  Wow.

Pin*Bot, Bride of Pinbot, High Speed.  Pinball games not based on real pinball games?  Epic's Android and Silverball collection.

Edited June 17, 2022 by Atari 5200 Guy
I really hate autocorrect

[Smell Dawg]

On 5/4/2015 at 10:46 PM, RickR said:

There's a Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas that's just about the most awesome place.  Screw the casinos...when I'm in Vegas, that's the place to go. 

I see this was posted eight years ago but all the same - I'm learning about this for the first time, and it appears to still be open!  We make it down there once or twice a year, so I'm totally checking this out!! Thanks for sharing!