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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BStarfire" data-source="post: 49425" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Any love for Gottlieb's Majorettes?  That's probably one of my favorite machines of all time, even though it's a mid-sixties EM.  It's so different from other machines and looks so impossible at first, but I've never had more intense pinball playing than on that machine.  Despite the playfield's looks, it's not a drain machine but it takes skill.  The strangest thing is getting used to the timing of simply moving your flippers to allow the ball to pass through (either direction) depending on the trajectory.  I think I had one game where I went 30 seconds without the flipper touching the ball, and an intense 30 seconds as I was managing the bounce from the lower playfield and the number 5 bumpers, dancing with the flippers to avoid knocking the ball to its death.   Once you start a game of Majorettes you'll forget it has no graphics, toys, or what not, but be absorbed but its play and intensity.  Of course, I love some of the other classic Gottliebs but pinball has evolved in the ensuing decades.  Majorettes, however, has a playability that still holds up and is a classic and unique game that deserves immortality in the TPA world.  Nothing else is quite like it.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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