The Pinball Arcade table ratings

[Patty]

My Pinball Arcade table ratings
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10 — Attack from Mars
10 — Medieval Madness
10 — Monster Bash
10 — Tales of the Arabian Nights
10 — Taxi
10 — Theatre of Magic
9 — Funhouse
9 — Ripley's Believe It or Not!
9 — Scared Stiff
9 — The Twilight Zone
8 — Black Rose
8 — Cirqus Voltaire
8 — Fish Tales
7 — No Good Gofers!
7 — Terminator 2: Judgment Day
7 — White Water
7 — Star Trek: The Next Generation
7 — Elvira and the Party Monsters
6 — Harley-Davidson Third Edition
6 — Black Hole
6 — Black Knight
5 — Pin•Bot
5 — Genie
4 — Big Shot
3 — Goin' Nuts

none — The Machine: Bride of Pin•Bot, missed it in the list. I vote 7

White water, Fishtales, Terminator and Black Rose only on Kindl, all others also on the PS4.
I hope, that the PS4 will get the new tables soon!

 

[ER777]

Smbhax, you're doing a nice job with the external poll but I have an idea for how you could integrate it into this site if you're interested. It would make the results more transparent here, particularly the details for individual tables, along with maybe a little more assurance that everyone voted only once. It would require some moderator assistance though obviously.

If a stickied ratings poll thread was set up in each of the table specific sub-forums people could vote right there and the results for the table would be immediately visible. Then all you would need to do would be to recompile the overall results from time to time. The moderators might be able to make the raw data easily available from those polls the same way it is for your site now. Just an idea to think about.

Disclaimer: I got this idea from gaming sites that automatically have a difficulty rating thread set up for every new game that is added. The moderators on those sites create that poll thread right when they create the new sub-forum for the game.

 

[smbhax]

That's an interesting idea! Really each table subforum *should* have its own rating thread anyway. It *would* be kind of a chore to compile it all together, though. Also I wonder if having to go to all the different sub-forums wouldn't make it pretty tough to get participation....I kind of like having my vote thing with all the tables on a single page. So I'll leave your idea up to someone else. : )

What I should probably do is post the link on Facebook again. I don't want to spam them with it but I guess I've only posted it there about twice and that was months and months ago.

 

[ER777]

That's true, I suppose it would be more work for voters too having the polls be individual rather than all together in one list.

 

[smbhax]

Added WHO dunnit : )

Here's the current ratings list--AFM finally nosed past Monster Bash into second place, behind Medieval Madness : oo

The Pinball Arcade table ratings
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1. 8.89 — Medieval Madness
2. 8.61 — Attack from Mars
3. 8.60 — Monster Bash
4. 8.35 — The Twilight Zone
5. 8.34 — Theatre of Magic
6. 7.94 — Terminator 2: Judgment Day
7. 7.77 — Star Trek: The Next Generation
8. 7.70 — Tales of the Arabian Nights
9. 7.69 — White Water
10. 7.63 — Black Rose
11. 7.50 — Taxi
12. 7.49 — Fish Tales
13. 7.42 — Black Knight 2000
14. 7.39 — Cirqus Voltaire
15. 7.37 — Scared Stiff
16. 7.34 — Whirlwind
17. 7.26 — Ripley's Believe It or Not!
18. 7.22 — Creature from the Black Lagoon
19. 7.14 — Funhouse
20. 7.07 — No Good Gofers!
21. 7.05 — Centaur
22. 6.89 — Pin•Bot
23. 6.80 — The Machine: Bride of Pin•Bot
24. 6.79 — Space Shuttle
25. 6.68 — Cactus Canyon
26. 6.60 — The Champion Pub
27. 6.50 — Elvira and the Party Monsters
28. 6.20 — Big Shot
29. 6.17 — Gorgar
30. 6.14 — Black Hole
31. 6.04 — Haunted House
32. 6.01 — Firepower
33. 6.00 — Flight 2000
34. 5.95 — Cue Ball Wizard
35. 5.91 — Tee'd Off
36. 5.53 — Class of 1812
37. 5.49 — Dr. Dude
38. 5.05 — Genie
39. 5.00 — Victory
40. 4.90 — Harley-Davidson Third Edition
41. 4.88 — Black Knight
42. 4.61 — El Dorado City of Gold
43. 4.20 — Central Park
44. 3.50 — Goin' Nuts
45. none — WHO dunnit

 

[Espy]

I don't understand why MM is adored so much. AFM does everything it does better in my opinion. It's one of the tables I keep going back to because "everyone loves it so I must be missing something", but fail to get anything from it.

 

[vpalmer]

my used scoring criterions:
base score = 5
modificators:
good theme implemetation: +1
good art/sfx (for table's time period): +1
unique/rare elements: +1
good/challenging table flow/shots: +2
broken table flow: -2
missed/distorted table art elements: -1
major game affecting bugs: -1
minor game affecting bugs: -1

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

 

[JefferyD]

Updated my list. I took out the tables that aren’t on my iPad since I don’t get around to playing on my mac very often.

At the low-end, 1s are machines I’d delete if I wasn’t too lazy and 2s are machines that I just don’t enjoy very much for one reason or another but -- when they come up on a random spin -- I’ll play them once. My only 3 is Champions Pub, which I want to like so badly, but I’m so bad at it I can’t say I’ve enjoyed a second of it. I keep trying, tho.

Everything else I really like!

10 — Big Shot
10 — Firepower
10 — Monster Bash
9 — Attack from Mars
9 — Black Rose
9 — Cactus Canyon
9 — Centaur
9 — Fish Tales
9 — Gorgar
9 — Taxi
9 — The Twilight Zone
9 — Whirlwind
8 — Class of 1812
8 — Medieval Madness
8 — Scared Stiff
8 — Space Shuttle
7 — Cirqus Voltaire
7 — Dr. Dude
7 — Flight 2000
7 — Pin•Bot
7 — Terminator 2: Judgment Day
6 — Black Hole
6 — El Dorado City of Gold
6 — The Machine: Bride of Pin•Bot
6 — Tee'd Off
5 — Cue Ball Wizard
5 — Genie
5 — WHO dunnit
4 — Funhouse
4 — Goin' Nuts
4 — Victory
3 — The Champion Pub
2 — Black Knight 2000
2 — Black Knight
2 — Creature from the Black Lagoon
2 — White Water
1 — Central Park
1 — Haunted House

 

[kinggo]

my used scoring criterions:
base score = 5
modificators:
good theme implemetation: +1
good art/sfx (for table's time period): +1
unique/rare elements: +1
good/challenging table flow/shots: +2
broken table flow: -2
missed/distorted table art elements: -1
major game affecting bugs: -1
minor game affecting bugs: -1

My Pinball Arcade table ratings

5 — Monster Bash

OK, maybe this is not a place for commenting ratings. After all, it's personal preference but I really wonder about MB. It's one of the best Williams table and one of the best overall, I mean it's ranked #4 on ipdb, #2 on bmigaming, 3# on pinside, #15 on pinpedia....
So what is it that MB stays on 5, the same score as base score? What are "+" and what are "-"? For me, MB has everything but what really stands out from all other machines are audio comments, they are just hillarious and makes me play just one more game over and over.

 

[vpalmer]

So what is it that MB stays on 5, the same score as base score? What are "+" and what are "-"? For me, MB has everything but what really stands out from all other machines are audio comments, they are just hillarious and makes me play just one more game over and over.

it is not exactly rating of my personal favourites (i'm not in big love with Chumpion Pub, Gorgar or Cactus Canyon), it is more my rating of TPA tables (it is what title of this thread says - not real tables) based on rules i mentioned (for example two of my favs Genie and AFM got only 7 points).
about MB it was:
base 5
good theme implemetation: +1
good art/sfx (for table's time period): +1
missed/distorted table art elements: -1
minor game affecting bugs: -1
result = 5 (but i reaaally wanted to make exceptions for that and Genie and give them -3 for all this messed art)

My only 3 is Champions Pub, which I want to like so badly, but I’m so bad at it I can’t say I’ve enjoyed a second of it

to make progress on CP in TPA you simply must keep playing by strategy

 

[smbhax]

Added High Speed to the survey : )

http://smbhax.com/tpatr/?c=survey

Lots of activity in the top 10 since the last table was added! Theatre of Magic has moved up into a tie with Twilight Zone at #4, Black Rose has moved from 10 all the way up to 6 (!), and WHO Dunnit has landed at #8!

The Pinball Arcade table ratings
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1. 8.88 — Medieval Madness
2. 8.60 — Attack from Mars
3. 8.58 — Monster Bash
4. 8.33 — Theatre of Magic
4. 8.33 — The Twilight Zone
5. 7.93 — Terminator 2: Judgment Day
6. 7.85 — Black Rose
7. 7.83 — Star Trek: The Next Generation
8. 7.80 — WHO dunnit
9. 7.73 — Tales of the Arabian Nights
10. 7.67 — White Water
11. 7.62 — Fish Tales
12. 7.51 — Taxi
13. 7.39 — Scared Stiff
14. 7.38 — Cirqus Voltaire
15. 7.35 — Whirlwind
16. 7.28 — Ripley's Believe It or Not!
17. 7.26 — Black Knight 2000
18. 7.20 — Creature from the Black Lagoon
19. 7.19 — Funhouse
20. 7.13 — No Good Gofers!
21. 7.08 — Centaur
22. 6.92 — Pin•Bot
23. 6.82 — Space Shuttle
24. 6.80 — The Machine: Bride of Pin•Bot
25. 6.72 — Cactus Canyon
26. 6.64 — The Champion Pub
27. 6.54 — Elvira and the Party Monsters
28. 6.25 — Big Shot
29. 6.16 — Gorgar
30. 6.15 — Black Hole
31. 6.14 — Cue Ball Wizard
32. 6.07 — Flight 2000
33. 6.06 — Firepower
34. 5.99 — Tee'd Off
35. 5.97 — Haunted House
36. 5.53 — Class of 1812
37. 5.52 — Dr. Dude
38. 5.09 — Victory
39. 5.06 — Genie
40. 4.99 — Black Knight
41. 4.98 — Harley-Davidson Third Edition
42. 4.72 — El Dorado City of Gold
43. 4.20 — Central Park
44. 3.56 — Goin' Nuts
45. none — High Speed

 

[vikingerik]

You have two #4s because they're tied, which means that everything below there is really one notch lower than listed.

 

[danivempire]

never seen this thread, I voted ^^

medieval madness? first? really?

I should try it more, didn't play a lot to this one ^^

 

[PC.Doctor]

My Pinball Arcade table ratings
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10 — No Good Gofers!
9 — Scared Stiff
9 — Tales of the Arabian Nights
8 — Attack from Mars
8 — Black Rose
8 — Centaur
8 — Funhouse
8 — Haunted House
8 — Space Shuttle
8 — Theatre of Magic
8 — The Twilight Zone
7 — Cactus Canyon
7 — Elvira and the Party Monsters
7 — Genie
7 — Pin•Bot
6 — Big Shot
6 — Central Park
6 — Tee'd Off
6 — White Water
5 — Black Hole
5 — Cirqus Voltaire
5 — El Dorado City of Gold
5 — Flight 2000
5 — Goin' Nuts
4 — Ripley's Believe It or Not!

 

[francis247uk]

Cool idea, missed this one. Suprised by Black Rose so high, and Cactus Canyon lower then I would have thought

 

[smbhax]

You have two #4s because they're tied, which means that everything below there is really one notch lower than listed.

Yeah I thought about changing the numbering so for instance it would go 4, 4, 6 instead of 4, 4, 5, but eh it would take some doing and there are pros and cons either way.

 

[vikingerik]

I think the con that way is worse, since it screws up relative rankings. Next week when those are no longer tied, every other game will look like it dropped a notch, when really nothing happened at all. But up to you.

 

[smbhax]

Well, that could be. ... Ah, I remember the tricky part with having ties skip the next number, it's when you reverse-sort the list, then it has to know to skip the next numbers *in advance*. Bluh! Anyway I got it running where ties will skip the next number, so "relative rankings" should stay the same. Let me know if you hate it and want to change back. ; )

 

[utblick]

smbhax, please update the survey with Junkyard.

I think this survey is GREAT and hope that people keep filling in/update their rating of the tables. (See first post for a link to survey)
My rating is rather close to the average rating.
What I rate much lower than average; Tales of the Arabian Nights, Cirqus Voltaire, Funhouse and Black Hole.
What I rate much higher than average; Gorgar (10 from me, love it) and Cactus Canyon.

 

[smbhax]

Yep, I was getting to that. ^_^ Glad you like the survey!

The Pinball Arcade Table ratings survey -- http://smbhax.com/tpatr/ -- is now updated with the new table, Junk Yard!

Current standings:

The Pinball Arcade table ratings
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1. 8.91 — Medieval Madness
2. 8.65 — Monster Bash
3. 8.62 — Attack from Mars
4. 8.36 — Theatre of Magic
4. 8.36 — The Twilight Zone
6. 8.00 — Junk Yard
7. 7.98 — Terminator 2: Judgment Day
8. 7.88 — Black Rose
8. 7.88 — Star Trek: The Next Generation
10. 7.77 — Tales of the Arabian Nights
11. 7.75 — Fish Tales
12. 7.73 — WHO dunnit
13. 7.70 — White Water
14. 7.48 — Taxi
15. 7.44 — High Speed
15. 7.44 — Scared Stiff
17. 7.42 — Cirqus Voltaire
18. 7.36 — Whirlwind
19. 7.32 — Ripley's Believe It or Not!
20. 7.28 — Creature from the Black Lagoon
21. 7.24 — Funhouse
22. 7.20 — No Good Gofers!
23. 7.13 — Centaur
24. 7.05 — Black Knight 2000
25. 6.94 — Pin•Bot
26. 6.89 — The Machine: Bride of Pin•Bot
27. 6.80 — Space Shuttle
28. 6.79 — Cactus Canyon
29. 6.67 — The Champion Pub
30. 6.56 — Elvira and the Party Monsters
31. 6.18 — Cue Ball Wizard
32. 6.16 — Big Shot
33. 6.12 — Gorgar
34. 6.01 — Black Hole
34. 6.01 — Tee'd Off
36. 5.99 — Flight 2000
37. 5.96 — Firepower
38. 5.91 — Haunted House
39. 5.59 — Dr. Dude
40. 5.45 — Class of 1812
41. 5.09 — Victory
42. 5.07 — Harley-Davidson Third Edition
43. 5.02 — Genie
44. 4.90 — Black Knight
45. 4.40 — El Dorado City of Gold
46. 4.20 — Central Park
47. 3.57 — Goin' Nuts