The Pinball Arcade table ratings

[Dedpop]

Shocked @ Black Rose placing so high, that shot gets so monotonous. Its like a war of attrition trying to get high scores on that thing.

Thought for sure Junkyard would place higher, probably my favorite S3 table.

Is that a picture of yourself used in your avatar ?
If yes I will agree on everything you would post in here !

(...even if I LOVE Black Rose in TPA)

 

[Nolan]

I just became aware of my hypocrisy as Junkyard is all about the same center shot. The theme is just so retarded that I love it, despite the horrible video mode.

Pretty sure I like just about all of season 3, save for Lights Camera Action.

ps no, that is Micky Ward, and I am just a wanna be.

 

[Zorgwon]

I just became aware of my hypocrisy as Junkyard is all about the same center shot. The theme is just so retarded that I love it, despite the horrible video mode..

On Black Rose you can “walk the plank“. Both have 3 video modes. BR plays faster than the tedious JY.

 

[Nolan]

Yeah, I meant the video mode in JY, which is terrible. BR video modes arent great either though, button mashing to swim to shore gives me horrible Track n field flashbacks.

There are 3 in JY? Trying to remember the third one offhand. Seems like after you get the toaster its just shooting the dog every damn time /wrist

 

[Zorgwon]

There are 3 in JY? Trying to remember the third one offhand. Seems like after you get the toaster its just shooting the dog every damn time /wrist

Saucers

 

[smbhax]

Added Phantom of the Opera to the survey!

http://smbhax.com/tpatr

In the past month, ST:TNG has moved into a tie for 7th place with T2, and Scared Stiff has moved into a tie for 10th place with Black Rose. Last month's new release, BSD, has settled in at 14th place.

The Pinball Arcade table ratings
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1. 8.88 — Medieval Madness
2. 8.65 — Attack from Mars
2. 8.65 — Monster Bash
4. 8.37 — Theatre of Magic
5. 8.20 — The Twilight Zone
6. 7.93 — Tales of the Arabian Nights
7. 7.88 — Star Trek: The Next Generation
7. 7.88 — Terminator 2: Judgment Day
9. 7.67 — White Water
10. 7.50 — Black Rose
10. 7.50 — Scared Stiff
12. 7.48 — Fish Tales
13. 7.42 — WHO dunnit
14. 7.40 — Bram Stoker's Dracula
15. 7.36 — Ripley's Believe It or Not!
16. 7.34 — No Good Gofers!
17. 7.32 — Cirqus Voltaire
18. 7.31 — Taxi
18. 7.31 — Whirlwind
20. 7.25 — Creature from the Black Lagoon
21. 7.24 — Funhouse
22. 7.21 — Junk Yard
23. 7.09 — High Speed
24. 6.91 — The Machine: Bride of Pin•Bot
25. 6.89 — Centaur
26. 6.88 — Cactus Canyon
27. 6.86 — Black Knight 2000
28. 6.85 — Pin•Bot
29. 6.69 — Diner
30. 6.63 — Space Shuttle
31. 6.50 — Elvira and the Party Monsters
32. 6.49 — The Champion Pub
33. 6.28 — High Roller Casino
34. 6.16 — Gorgar
35. 6.11 — Flight 2000
36. 6.09 — Big Shot
37. 5.96 — Tee'd Off
38. 5.92 — Firepower
39. 5.89 — Black Hole
40. 5.79 — Cue Ball Wizard
41. 5.56 — Lights...Camera...Action!
42. 5.54 — Haunted House
43. 5.49 — Dr. Dude
44. 5.33 — Class of 1812
45. 5.21 — Victory
46. 4.98 — Harley-Davidson Third Edition
47. 4.95 — Genie
48. 4.85 — Black Knight
49. 4.10 — Central Park
50. 4.09 — El Dorado City of Gold
51. 3.41 — Goin' Nuts
52. none — Phantom of the Opera

 

[Turbine]

Really useful having this, as the list is somewhat different to the real table ratings on Pinside and IPDB. I checked which table packs I haven't bought yet and was surprised that after buying all season 1 (except BH which I now can't buy), I only bought 2 packs from S2 and 3 from S3. Despite this I'm only missing one top 10 table (T2) and only 3 (BR and WD) from the top 20.

 

[Fungi]

It's different in my case due to the fact that I rated based on the TPA version. I'd have rated Black Knight much higher if it wasn't for FarSight's interpretation.

 

[TomL]

smbhax, would you be willing to share the raw voting data? I'm curious about the effect of normalizing the votes per voter.

 

[Kolchak357]

It's different in my case due to the fact that I rated based on the TPA version. I'd have rated Black Knight much higher if it wasn't for FarSight's interpretation.

I did the exact same thing to Black Knight. I also rated Haunted House fairly low for the same reason. Haunted House should play slower and have less powerful flippers, and Black Knight....where should I start with that one?

 

[smbhax]

smbhax, would you be willing to share the raw voting data? I'm curious about the effect of normalizing the votes per voter.

Sure, here's a sort of crude data dump of the current (as of this post, I mean--this is a static file that doesn't update itself) data arranged by voter

http://smbhax.com/tpatr/users.txt

Now you can check my math! : o Hm... Looks like I'm not rounding nicely, ah well.

Hah I see there's one user who voted everything a 10. ; )

 

[TomL]

Sure, here's a sort of crude data dump of the current (as of this post, I mean--this is a static file that doesn't update itself) data arranged by voter

http://smbhax.com/tpatr/users.txt

Now you can check my math! : o Hm... Looks like I'm not rounding nicely, ah well.

Hah I see there's one user who voted everything a 10. ; )

Yeah, I was wondering how the overall table results would change if user votes were normalized so that their ratings would always span 1 to 10 and adjusted so that their mean was 5.5

 

[smbhax]

Yeah, I was wondering how the overall table results would change if user votes were normalized so that their ratings would always span 1 to 10 and adjusted so that their mean was 5.5

Well, whoever likes math should be able to work it out from the data there. : )

 

[TomL]

Thank you for access to the raw data, I'll throw it into a spreadsheet the next time I'm at a full size keyboard, and share what I uncover.

 

[weirdproq]

My Pinball Arcade table ratings
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10 — Creature from the Black Lagoon
10 — Junk Yard
10 — Medieval Madness
10 — No Good Gofers!
10 — The Twilight Zone
9 — Black Knight 2000
9 — Monster Bash
9 — Star Trek: The Next Generation
9 — Taxi
8 — Attack from Mars
8 — Centaur
8 — Cirqus Voltaire
8 — Funhouse
8 — High Speed
8 — Pin•Bot
8 — Ripley's Believe It or Not!
8 — Whirlwind
8 — White Water
7 — Big Shot
7 — Black Rose
7 — Bram Stoker's Dracula
7 — Cactus Canyon
7 — The Champion Pub
7 — Cue Ball Wizard
7 — Diner
7 — Fish Tales
7 — Haunted House
7 — The Machine: Bride of Pin•Bot
7 — Phantom of the Opera
7 — Scared Stiff
7 — Space Shuttle
7 — Tales of the Arabian Nights
7 — Tee'd Off
7 — Terminator 2: Judgment Day
7 — Theatre of Magic
7 — WHO dunnit
6 — Black Hole
6 — Central Park
6 — Elvira and the Party Monsters
6 — Firepower
6 — High Roller Casino
6 — Lights...Camera...Action!
5 — Black Knight
5 — El Dorado City of Gold
5 — Flight 2000
5 — Genie
5 — Gorgar
5 — Harley-Davidson Third Edition
5 — Victory
4 — Class of 1812
4 — Dr. Dude
3 — Goin' Nuts

 

[NeoGeo]

My (different) ratings.

Rated 6 - 10:
Attack from Mars
Big Shot
Black Knight 2000
Cirqus Voltaire
Diner
Dr. Dude
El Dorado City of Gold
Elvira and the Party Monsters
Firepower
Flight 2000
Funhouse
Genie
Gorgar
Harley-Davidson Third Edition
Haunted House
High Speed
High Roller Casino
Junk Yard
Medieval Madness
Monster Bash
No Good Gofers!
Phantom of the Opera
Pin•Bot
Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Scared Stiff
Space Shuttle
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Tales of the Arabian Nights
Taxi
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Machine: Bride of Pin•Bot
The Twilight Zone
Theatre of Magic
Whirlwind
White Water

Rated 3 (Ok but not my tables):
Black Hole
Black Knight
Black Rose
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Cue Ball Wizard
Fish Tales
Lights...Camera…Action!
Tee'd Off
The Champion Pub
Victory
WHO dunnit.

Rated 0:
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Still not sure about the rating 0 but 1 good game, 25 not worth to mention, 1 good game 25…. For now it’s an everlasting no
Cactus Canyon: Actually a cool table but FS destroyed the game play. Try to stop a ball with the right flipper and you’re out… every time!
Centaur: This sound… this damn CENTAUR…!
Central Park: Nothing against the real table but as a digital table with limited physics… no fun
Class of 1812: Table design and audio: No thanks
Goin’ Nuts: Whatever it is but to me it’s not pinball

 

[Zorgwon]

Bram Stoker's Dracula: Still not sure about the rating 0 but 1 good game, 25 not worth to mention, 1 good game 25…. For now it’s an everlasting no.

everlasting love/drain
You have to give a 1, I think.

 

[Rich Lehmann]

To have POTO at the top and Dracula at the bottom is just silly.

 

[NeoGeo]

To have POTO at the top and Dracula at the bottom is just silly.

It's not in order. I'm a pinball fan all my life so it's either good, very good or "just" ok. However, there are view tables I give a zero rating, - the real table and/or the TPA table - and this post is more about the 0 ratings.

 

[Nolan]

Had to put White Water a notch higher and give it a 10 after playing it a bunch this weekend.

God I wish I could play it for real.