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<blockquote data-quote="CC13" data-source="post: 38182" data-attributes="member: 1151"><p>As you can probably gather from the thread title, I have started work on a "best-pin-of-all-time" tournament. When I finish drawing it up, I plan to hold it on this very forum! It's still a work in progress (I'm still drawing up the conferences, with 16 conferences of 16 tables each being the goal), but here's what I've come up with so far (the conference themes are in parentheses next to the conference names):</p><p>Argent Defender (People's Choice):</p><p></p><p>Avenging Revenant (Handheld & mobile pinball):</p><p>Age of Pinballs</p><p>Arcade Pinball (Pinball HD Collection)</p><p>Devil's Due Pinball</p><p>ESPN Pinball</p><p>Frogger Pinball</p><p>Kirby's Pinball Land</p><p>Metroid Prime</p><p>Monster Pinball</p><p>The Pinball of the Dead</p><p>Pinball Pulse: The Ancients Beckon</p><p>Pokemon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire</p><p>Revenge of the 'Gator</p><p>Revenge of the Rob-O-Bot</p><p>Sonic Pinball Party</p><p>Super Robot Pinball</p><p>Undead Attack! Pinball</p><p></p><p>Cosmos' Heart (Non-Big-Six solid-states & other oddities):</p><p>Airborne (Capcom)</p><p>Big Bang Bar (Capcom)</p><p>Breakshot (Capcom)</p><p>Cactus Canyon (Williams)</p><p>Champion Pub (Williams)</p><p>Devil Riders (Zaccaria)</p><p>Farfalla (Zaccaria)</p><p>Full Throttle (Heighway)</p><p>Joust (Williams)</p><p>Kingpin (Capcom)</p><p>Pinball Magic (Capcom)</p><p>Predator (Skit-B)</p><p>Revenge From Mars (Williams)</p><p>Safe Cracker (Bally)</p><p>Superman (Atari)</p><p>Wizard of Oz (Jersey Jack)</p><p></p><p>Golden Engine (New Stern):</p><p>AC/DC</p><p>Batman (The Dark Knight)</p><p>Elvis</p><p>Family Guy</p><p>Iron Man</p><p>Lord of the Rings</p><p>Metallica</p><p>Monopoly</p><p>Pirates of the Caribbean</p><p>Ripley's Believe It Or Not!</p><p>Roller Coaster Tycoon</p><p>The Simpsons Pinball Party</p><p>Spider-Man</p><p>Transformers</p><p>TRON: Legacy</p><p>X-Men</p><p></p><p>Grim Jester (Gottlieb):</p><p>The Amazing Spider-Man</p><p>Big Hurt</p><p>Black Hole</p><p>Class of 1812</p><p>Cue Ball Wizard</p><p>Genie</p><p>Haunted House</p><p>Joker Poker</p><p>Q-Bert's Quest</p><p>Spirit</p><p>Stargate</p><p>Street Fighter II</p><p>Super Mario Bros.</p><p>Tee'd Off</p><p>TX-Sector</p><p>Wipe Out</p><p></p><p>Harlequin Blitz (Console pinball):</p><p>Alien Crush</p><p>Battle Pinball</p><p>Crüe Ball</p><p>Devil's Crush</p><p>Dreamlands (Digital Pinball: Necronomicon)</p><p>Flipnic</p><p>Galactic Pinball</p><p>Gladiators (Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators)</p><p>Jaki Crush</p><p>Midnight Magic</p><p>Pinball Quest</p><p>Ruiner Pinball</p><p>Showtime (Super Pinball 2)</p><p>Sonic Spinball</p><p>Time Cruise</p><p>Wizard (Super Pinball: Behind the Mask)</p><p></p><p>Hurricane Cannon (Williams alphanumerics):</p><p>Bad Cats</p><p>Big Guns</p><p>Black Knight 2000</p><p>Cyclone</p><p>Diner</p><p>Earthshaker</p><p>F-14 Tomcat</p><p>Fire!</p><p>FunHouse</p><p>High Speed</p><p>Pinbot</p><p>Rollergames</p><p>Space Station</p><p>Swords of Fury</p><p>Taxi</p><p>Whirlwind</p><p></p><p>League of Thunder (Best of the rest):</p><p>The Avengers</p><p>Civil War (Marvel Pinball)</p><p>Da Vinci Pinball (Pinball HD)</p><p>Demolition Man</p><p>Doctor Who</p><p>Freddy: A Nightmare On Elm Street</p><p>Ghost Rider (Marvel Pinball: Vengeance & Virtue)</p><p>Lights...Camera...Action!</p><p>Monday Night Football</p><p>NBA</p><p>No Fear: Dangerous Sports</p><p>Operation: Thunder</p><p>Pro Pinball: The Web</p><p>Rocky</p><p>Who Dunnit?</p><p>WWF Royal Rumble</p><p></p><p>Mage's Revolution (Bally/Williams DMDs):</p><p>The Addams Family</p><p>Attack From Mars</p><p>Cirqus Voltaire</p><p>Creature From The Black Lagoon</p><p>Fish Tales</p><p>Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure</p><p>Medieval Madness</p><p>Monster Bash</p><p>No Good Gofers</p><p>Scared Stiff</p><p>The Shadow</p><p>Star Trek: The Next Generation</p><p>Tales of the Arabian Nights</p><p>Theater of Magic</p><p>The Twilight Zone</p><p>Whitewater</p><p></p><p>Paladin's Blade (Marvel Pinball/Pinball FX/Zen Pinball):</p><p>Buccaneer (Pinball FX Classic Pack)</p><p>Captain America (Marvel Pinball)</p><p>Epic Quest (Zen Pinball)</p><p>Excalibur (Pinball FX)</p><p>Fantastic Four (Marvel Pinball)</p><p>Fear Itself (Marvel Pinball: Avengers Chronicles)</p><p>Mars (Zen Pinball)</p><p>Moon Knight (Marvel Pinball: Vengeance & Virtue)</p><p>Pasha (Pinball FX 2 Core Pack)</p><p>Plants Vs. Zombies (Pinball FX/Zen Pinball)</p><p>Sorcerer's Lair (Zen Pinball)</p><p>Spider-Man (Marvel Pinball Core Pack)</p><p>Street Fighter II Tribute (Zen Pinball)</p><p>Tesla (Zen Pinball Classics Pack)</p><p>Thor (Marvel Pinball: Vengeance & Virtue)</p><p>World War Hulk (Marvel Pinball: Avengers Chronicles)</p><p></p><p>Sable Shield (Bally & Williams digital displays):</p><p>Barracora</p><p>Black Knight</p><p>Centaur</p><p>Comet</p><p>Defender</p><p>Eight Ball</p><p>Embryon</p><p>Fathom</p><p>Firepower</p><p>Flash</p><p>Flash Gordon</p><p>Gorgar</p><p>Paragon</p><p>Skateball</p><p>Sorcerer</p><p>Xenon</p><p></p><p>Starlight's Wing (Old Stern):</p><p>Ali</p><p>Big Game</p><p>Catacomb</p><p>Flight 2000</p><p>Galaxy</p><p>Hot Hand</p><p>Iron Maiden</p><p>Lightning</p><p>Magic</p><p>Meteor</p><p>Nine Ball</p><p>Orbitor 1</p><p>Seawitch</p><p>Stars</p><p>Stingray</p><p>Wild Fyre</p><p></p><p>Steel Corsair (Assorted Bally/Williams):</p><p>Black Rose</p><p>Bram Stoker's Dracula</p><p>Corvette</p><p>Dr. Dude</p><p>Dungeons & Dragons</p><p>Elvira and the Party Monsters</p><p>Johnny Mnemonic</p><p>Judge Dredd</p><p>The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot</p><p>Mr. and Mrs. Pac-Mac</p><p>Mousin' Around</p><p>Party Zone</p><p>Red & Ted's Road Show</p><p>Space Invaders</p><p>Space Shuttle</p><p>Terminator 2</p><p></p><p>Tsunami Nova (Sega):</p><p>Apollo 13</p><p>Batman Forever</p><p>Baywatch</p><p>Frankenstein</p><p>Godzilla</p><p>Goldeneye</p><p>Harley-Davidson</p><p>Independence Day</p><p>Lost In Space</p><p>The Lost World</p><p>South Park</p><p>Space Jam</p><p>Star Wars Trilogy</p><p>Starship Troopers</p><p>Twister</p><p>The X Files</p><p></p><p>Unknown Empire (Data East):</p><p>Back to the Future</p><p>Batman</p><p>Checkpoint</p><p>Guns 'N Roses</p><p>Hook</p><p>Jurassic Park</p><p>Last Action Hero</p><p>Lethal Weapon 3</p><p>Phantom of the Opera</p><p>Rocky & Bullwinkle</p><p>The Simpsons</p><p>Star Wars</p><p>Tales From The Crypt</p><p>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</p><p>Time Machine</p><p>Tommy</p><p></p><p>Wild Roller (PC pinball):</p><p>3-D Ultra Pinball</p><p>Android (Epic Pinball 1)</p><p>Crystal Caliburn</p><p>Desert Run (Obsession)</p><p>Duke Nukem (Balls of Steel)</p><p>Enigma (Epic Pinball 2)</p><p>Pangaea (Epic Pinball 3)</p><p>Party Land (Pinball Fantasies)</p><p>Pro Pinball: Timeshock!</p><p>Revenge of the Robot Monsters (Pinball Dreams 2)</p><p>Rollerball</p><p>Space Cadet (Full Tilt! Pinball)</p><p>Steel Wheel (Pinball Dreams)</p><p>Tarantula (Pinball Mania)</p><p>Tristan Pinball</p><p>Worms (Addiction Pinball)</p><p></p><p>Also, I have a few questions for you about this:</p><p>1) What do you think about my incorporation of video pinball into the tournament? I knew going in that it would draw some ire, but would it be a deal-breaker for anyone here if I went forward with that approach?</p><p>2) Can anyone help me come up with more themes? I already know I want to do a Gottlieb EMs conference and I would really like to do a "people's choice" conference, but what else would you suggest? </p><p>3) Which tables will make it to Pinball Power (the postseason tournament for this contest)? There are 96 slots total, with each conference having three auto-bids (conference tournament winner, third place match winner, and regular season champion) and the rest going to at-large contestants. It's a little hard to tell now with the tournament in a very incomplete state, but let me know how you think the conferences I've finished will break down.</p><p></p><p>Well, that's about all for now. Hopefully, I'll have the rules of the tournament up soon, as well as a complete 256-table lineup.</p><p></p><p>UPDATE: I apologize for the radio silence on this, but I got really bogged down with holiday preparations, a choral concert at Carnegie Hall and moving to a new apartment. Anyway, I majorly expanded the roster–we're two-thirds of the way to the lineup size I want. There's plenty more where that came from, hopefully at a faster pace than last time!</p><p></p><p>UPDATE 2: I told you the next update would be quicker! This time, I've added in Starlight's Wing, a conference dedicated to the pre-Data East Stern that older forum members knew and (hopefully) loved. Can they hold their own against the silver ball's finest or will they fizzle like bullets fired at Evil Otto? We'll find out soon enough!</p><p></p><p>UPDATE 3: Here we are again with another new conference! The latest conference is Steel Corsair, a collection of some of the best Bally & Williams tables from the days of their pinball dominance. Will these cult favorites rise above some brutal Bally/Williams competition or will they find themselves relegated to the B-side?</p><p></p><p>UPDATE 4: This is another big update–we have two new conferences and a placeholder for our People's Choice conference! First, though, let's turn to the other two new leagues. Harlequin Blitz may not have the most intimidating moniker, but you surely wouldn't want to cross the Crush Pinball fans. The three Crush tables should acquit themselves nicely, but can the rest of the conference keep pace or are they just so many bugs on the windshield? Next up, we have League of Thunder, a collection of the best pins to not get into their respective "native" conferences. Can they go blow-for-blow against the best of the best or will this motley crew find success elusive? As for Argent Defender, I'll have more information in my next post on this thread–stay tuned!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CC13, post: 38182, member: 1151"] As you can probably gather from the thread title, I have started work on a "best-pin-of-all-time" tournament. When I finish drawing it up, I plan to hold it on this very forum! It's still a work in progress (I'm still drawing up the conferences, with 16 conferences of 16 tables each being the goal), but here's what I've come up with so far (the conference themes are in parentheses next to the conference names): Argent Defender (People's Choice): Avenging Revenant (Handheld & mobile pinball): Age of Pinballs Arcade Pinball (Pinball HD Collection) Devil's Due Pinball ESPN Pinball Frogger Pinball Kirby's Pinball Land Metroid Prime Monster Pinball The Pinball of the Dead Pinball Pulse: The Ancients Beckon Pokemon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire Revenge of the 'Gator Revenge of the Rob-O-Bot Sonic Pinball Party Super Robot Pinball Undead Attack! Pinball Cosmos' Heart (Non-Big-Six solid-states & other oddities): Airborne (Capcom) Big Bang Bar (Capcom) Breakshot (Capcom) Cactus Canyon (Williams) Champion Pub (Williams) Devil Riders (Zaccaria) Farfalla (Zaccaria) Full Throttle (Heighway) Joust (Williams) Kingpin (Capcom) Pinball Magic (Capcom) Predator (Skit-B) Revenge From Mars (Williams) Safe Cracker (Bally) Superman (Atari) Wizard of Oz (Jersey Jack) Golden Engine (New Stern): AC/DC Batman (The Dark Knight) Elvis Family Guy Iron Man Lord of the Rings Metallica Monopoly Pirates of the Caribbean Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Roller Coaster Tycoon The Simpsons Pinball Party Spider-Man Transformers TRON: Legacy X-Men Grim Jester (Gottlieb): The Amazing Spider-Man Big Hurt Black Hole Class of 1812 Cue Ball Wizard Genie Haunted House Joker Poker Q-Bert's Quest Spirit Stargate Street Fighter II Super Mario Bros. Tee'd Off TX-Sector Wipe Out Harlequin Blitz (Console pinball): Alien Crush Battle Pinball Crüe Ball Devil's Crush Dreamlands (Digital Pinball: Necronomicon) Flipnic Galactic Pinball Gladiators (Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators) Jaki Crush Midnight Magic Pinball Quest Ruiner Pinball Showtime (Super Pinball 2) Sonic Spinball Time Cruise Wizard (Super Pinball: Behind the Mask) Hurricane Cannon (Williams alphanumerics): Bad Cats Big Guns Black Knight 2000 Cyclone Diner Earthshaker F-14 Tomcat Fire! FunHouse High Speed Pinbot Rollergames Space Station Swords of Fury Taxi Whirlwind League of Thunder (Best of the rest): The Avengers Civil War (Marvel Pinball) Da Vinci Pinball (Pinball HD) Demolition Man Doctor Who Freddy: A Nightmare On Elm Street Ghost Rider (Marvel Pinball: Vengeance & Virtue) Lights...Camera...Action! Monday Night Football NBA No Fear: Dangerous Sports Operation: Thunder Pro Pinball: The Web Rocky Who Dunnit? WWF Royal Rumble Mage's Revolution (Bally/Williams DMDs): The Addams Family Attack From Mars Cirqus Voltaire Creature From The Black Lagoon Fish Tales Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure Medieval Madness Monster Bash No Good Gofers Scared Stiff The Shadow Star Trek: The Next Generation Tales of the Arabian Nights Theater of Magic The Twilight Zone Whitewater Paladin's Blade (Marvel Pinball/Pinball FX/Zen Pinball): Buccaneer (Pinball FX Classic Pack) Captain America (Marvel Pinball) Epic Quest (Zen Pinball) Excalibur (Pinball FX) Fantastic Four (Marvel Pinball) Fear Itself (Marvel Pinball: Avengers Chronicles) Mars (Zen Pinball) Moon Knight (Marvel Pinball: Vengeance & Virtue) Pasha (Pinball FX 2 Core Pack) Plants Vs. Zombies (Pinball FX/Zen Pinball) Sorcerer's Lair (Zen Pinball) Spider-Man (Marvel Pinball Core Pack) Street Fighter II Tribute (Zen Pinball) Tesla (Zen Pinball Classics Pack) Thor (Marvel Pinball: Vengeance & Virtue) World War Hulk (Marvel Pinball: Avengers Chronicles) Sable Shield (Bally & Williams digital displays): Barracora Black Knight Centaur Comet Defender Eight Ball Embryon Fathom Firepower Flash Flash Gordon Gorgar Paragon Skateball Sorcerer Xenon Starlight's Wing (Old Stern): Ali Big Game Catacomb Flight 2000 Galaxy Hot Hand Iron Maiden Lightning Magic Meteor Nine Ball Orbitor 1 Seawitch Stars Stingray Wild Fyre Steel Corsair (Assorted Bally/Williams): Black Rose Bram Stoker's Dracula Corvette Dr. Dude Dungeons & Dragons Elvira and the Party Monsters Johnny Mnemonic Judge Dredd The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot Mr. and Mrs. Pac-Mac Mousin' Around Party Zone Red & Ted's Road Show Space Invaders Space Shuttle Terminator 2 Tsunami Nova (Sega): Apollo 13 Batman Forever Baywatch Frankenstein Godzilla Goldeneye Harley-Davidson Independence Day Lost In Space The Lost World South Park Space Jam Star Wars Trilogy Starship Troopers Twister The X Files Unknown Empire (Data East): Back to the Future Batman Checkpoint Guns 'N Roses Hook Jurassic Park Last Action Hero Lethal Weapon 3 Phantom of the Opera Rocky & Bullwinkle The Simpsons Star Wars Tales From The Crypt Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Time Machine Tommy Wild Roller (PC pinball): 3-D Ultra Pinball Android (Epic Pinball 1) Crystal Caliburn Desert Run (Obsession) Duke Nukem (Balls of Steel) Enigma (Epic Pinball 2) Pangaea (Epic Pinball 3) Party Land (Pinball Fantasies) Pro Pinball: Timeshock! Revenge of the Robot Monsters (Pinball Dreams 2) Rollerball Space Cadet (Full Tilt! Pinball) Steel Wheel (Pinball Dreams) Tarantula (Pinball Mania) Tristan Pinball Worms (Addiction Pinball) Also, I have a few questions for you about this: 1) What do you think about my incorporation of video pinball into the tournament? I knew going in that it would draw some ire, but would it be a deal-breaker for anyone here if I went forward with that approach? 2) Can anyone help me come up with more themes? I already know I want to do a Gottlieb EMs conference and I would really like to do a "people's choice" conference, but what else would you suggest? 3) Which tables will make it to Pinball Power (the postseason tournament for this contest)? There are 96 slots total, with each conference having three auto-bids (conference tournament winner, third place match winner, and regular season champion) and the rest going to at-large contestants. It's a little hard to tell now with the tournament in a very incomplete state, but let me know how you think the conferences I've finished will break down. Well, that's about all for now. Hopefully, I'll have the rules of the tournament up soon, as well as a complete 256-table lineup. UPDATE: I apologize for the radio silence on this, but I got really bogged down with holiday preparations, a choral concert at Carnegie Hall and moving to a new apartment. Anyway, I majorly expanded the roster–we're two-thirds of the way to the lineup size I want. There's plenty more where that came from, hopefully at a faster pace than last time! UPDATE 2: I told you the next update would be quicker! This time, I've added in Starlight's Wing, a conference dedicated to the pre-Data East Stern that older forum members knew and (hopefully) loved. Can they hold their own against the silver ball's finest or will they fizzle like bullets fired at Evil Otto? We'll find out soon enough! UPDATE 3: Here we are again with another new conference! The latest conference is Steel Corsair, a collection of some of the best Bally & Williams tables from the days of their pinball dominance. Will these cult favorites rise above some brutal Bally/Williams competition or will they find themselves relegated to the B-side? UPDATE 4: This is another big update–we have two new conferences and a placeholder for our People's Choice conference! First, though, let's turn to the other two new leagues. Harlequin Blitz may not have the most intimidating moniker, but you surely wouldn't want to cross the Crush Pinball fans. The three Crush tables should acquit themselves nicely, but can the rest of the conference keep pace or are they just so many bugs on the windshield? Next up, we have League of Thunder, a collection of the best pins to not get into their respective "native" conferences. Can they go blow-for-blow against the best of the best or will this motley crew find success elusive? As for Argent Defender, I'll have more information in my next post on this thread–stay tuned! [/QUOTE]
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