Your Controversial Pinball Views

[huggers]

The big fella who likes NASA isn't here any more and everyone is a bit less edgy. I want your pinball views that you think many might disagree with. Remember, pinball is VERY serious.

1. Titans, superbands etc..,.. Garbage. Standard black rubbers or gtfo. Mainly for flippers

2. Stern Premiums are 99% of the time not worth the extra money. Even the one's with 'must have' stuff, rarely are actual must haves.

3. Spooky games feel like homebrew titles

What have you got?

 

[lukewells]

99% of modern pinball machines are boring (especially Stern)

 

[David_Vi]

AFM, MM and many other WPC95 games are nowhere near as fun as the late 80s and early 90s sys11 or wpc games.

Alphanumeric and dmd displays > LCD

 

[Fantazia2]

Addams Family isnt that good and not worth what it currently sells for.

 

[Doggard]

Godzilla is hugely overrated, don’t get me wrong it’s not a bad game, but it ain’t that SPECIAL. Also theme is proper lame

 

[Sgt GrizZ]

This

Thread 'GrizZ's Ultimate Guide To Popeye - The good , the bad and the spinach'

Aug 3, 2016

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EDIT Jan 2023 - LINK to pdf of this rules/discussion. Easier to read than on here. Thanks go to @cooldan

Popeye The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.pdf

drive.google.com

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Nobody asked for it but here it is - GrizZ's guide to one of the most infamous misunderstood games from the 90s. Popeye Saves The Earth !

This may take a while so I'll post...

• Sgt GrizZ
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• Forum: General Pinball Discussion

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[AlanJ]

Tilts should be super tight, games don’t need leveling and it’s not proper pinball unless at least one flipper rubber is hanging off.

 

[huggers]

Tilts should be super tight, games don’t need leveling and it’s not proper pinball unless at least one flipper rubber is hanging off.

Ah Tilts. Read that wrong at first

 

[Taxiturn]

Many 90s titles suffer from a combination of being very light on code but also not having the addictive quality of the early solid state games, making them get stale fast

 

[cooldan]

Anything with a telly in (ie. after the DMD disappeared) bores the pants off me

 

[rolorolorolo]

Pound for pound...American Pinball have made some of the best games with the best build quality in pinball (with the slight ball drop of the original pricing on GTF CE) I'm delighted they are still around and look forward to what they have for us going forward (and I'm gutted we may never see Cuphead )

 

[RetroHeed]

Finally Stern Pins are now available in the UK close to RRP, so now your previous Stern Pins prior to this are worth less.

 

[lazyarus]

Bobbins - Godzilla, Addams, TZ

 

[Epotech]

Ifpa has ruined competitve pinball.

 

[Gonzo]

I don't like tilt bobs, pop bumpers or plungers replaced with buttons.

Oh . . . Toppers are pants and so is TZ

 

[Ashbo]

It’s ok for a pinball machine to show its age. Not being mint isn’t a problem.

Old pinball machines (pre-2000) are better than the newer pinball machines.

Pinball is addictive and can cause unhealthy obsession with owning and collecting.

 

[Spandangler]

I like Neil McRae
System 11 are the best of all eras

 

[mark9]

Fish Tales is the greatest pinball of all time!

 

[lukewells]

James bond is as good as Bugs Bunny / Popeye

 

[PinballNoobie]

Essentially all pinball games are the same, no matter the colour of the box or the number of flippers.

 

[Sgt GrizZ]

Ifpa has ruined competitve pinball.

Competitive pinball (tournaments , prizes, points…… not a 4 player game with your mates ) ruins pinball

 

[Arv]

Most modern Stern games are w@nk, made of Chinesium and use lead free solder.

 

[Marvello]

Lose and loose are interchangeable.

 

[Pop Bumper Pete]

It is what is on the playfield that counts.
Toppers, butter cabinets, powder coating, mirrored backglasses, Pinsound, these do not make your pinball experience better

 

[gnarled112]

Overly modding a pinball machine is the equivalent of a modded vauxhall corsa with a spoiler, splitter, exhaust, decals, vents, etc

 

[PinIB]

Natural white LEDs are better than incandescents (even flashers). Colour LEDs are terrible in all circumstances.

 

[Mozie]

Spooky games feel cheap and none are worth over 5k

 

[John Taylor]

Pinball machines are like Gym memberships, most people like to say they have one but in reality rarely us them (as I say this looking at my MM that I have not played in a year
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[AlanJ]

Sterns next game is “The new world order”

 

[Replay]

Super deep games are boring.

Most players never, ever see the final wizard mode.

Those that do, need to play until their hands fall off.