dracula

Bram Stoker's Dracula has to be one of the worst tables I've ever played. The playfield was absolutely weak, it was too spaced out and there weren't a lot of features or toys to play around with; the center drain was too wide and it's so easy to lose the ball, it's annoying, and there was only...

I'll give the obvious one, (Bram Stocker's) Dracula.

No, not machines with 6 pinballs in them (Twilight Zone, Indiana Jones, ST:TNG, Tales from the Crypt, and probably a few others). I rate TPA table difficulty on a scale of 1 to 5 pinballs, and I sometimes compare real machines with that scale as well. Given that I've assigned the real TZ a...

It occurred to me earlier today that for all the blogging and posting I've done, I've never really done a list of my favorite machines. That stunning omission is about to be corrected! The 10 machines below are kind of an eclectic mix, although heavy on the 90s Williams/Ballys, and I'm...

I'm flailing around after league yesterday (an average performance, although one plagued by mechanical failures: X-Men's flippers died on me mid-multiball and another player got shafted by AC/DC failing to return a ball it should have) on Dracula, and have a pretty mediocre first two balls, only...