I've played all of these in Birmingham, AL. Of course, I have played many other tables elsewhere, but none of them are featured in TPA.
Williams:
Gorgar - Plays pretty much the same except the ball isn't quite as "loose" as in TPA, but that goes for real pinball in general.
Black Knight - Obviously much different considering the TPA version of BK is TERRIBLE. Seriously, it's pathetic. It's actually a very addictive, challenging, and fast game IRL. It's one of those early-mid 80s tables that prove you don't need tons of rules and modes to have a good pinball game. Also, this particular one I played is upgraded with LEDs and looks pretty sweet.
Fish Tales - Is as fun as always. TPA does a very good emulation of it and gives a good idea of the real thing. Of course, it's still very challenging.
Medieval Madness - Easily my favorite from this bunch of tables both IRL and in TPA. This particular one had a color DMD installed. Plays more or less the same as TPA except the catapult shots are a little more difficult when actually aiming for them (plus, the ball doesn't teleport into the catapult shot when it's barely close to it like in TPA obviously.)
Stern (Including Stern Pinbal Arcade):
Ripley's Believe It Or Not - A little more difficult IRL for the one I played, but mostly because that table is in need of maintenence and has to go into ball-search often during gameplay. Also, the shrunken head almost never leads to the upper flipper while the vari-target releases at an odd angle - making penguin loops and slot machine shots a lot more difficult, but that's the way it is. It's a mechanical game after all.
Mustang - Plays about the same.
AC/DC - Pretty tricky although not in a fun way, and not one of my favorite modern Sterns despite being an AC/DC fan.
Star Trek - Fun game with fun rules. The physics feel a little off in Stern Pinball Arcade in general though. It's almost as if they just copied the physics from an older version of TPA.
Ghostbusters - Same as Star Trek.
Gottlieb:
Cue Ball Wizard - The flippers on the one I played didn't rotate ridiculously high so I had to be more careful compared to TPA.
Genie - It's Genie... That's all you need to know, really.
Williams:
Gorgar - Plays pretty much the same except the ball isn't quite as "loose" as in TPA, but that goes for real pinball in general.
Black Knight - Obviously much different considering the TPA version of BK is TERRIBLE. Seriously, it's pathetic. It's actually a very addictive, challenging, and fast game IRL. It's one of those early-mid 80s tables that prove you don't need tons of rules and modes to have a good pinball game. Also, this particular one I played is upgraded with LEDs and looks pretty sweet.
Fish Tales - Is as fun as always. TPA does a very good emulation of it and gives a good idea of the real thing. Of course, it's still very challenging.
Medieval Madness - Easily my favorite from this bunch of tables both IRL and in TPA. This particular one had a color DMD installed. Plays more or less the same as TPA except the catapult shots are a little more difficult when actually aiming for them (plus, the ball doesn't teleport into the catapult shot when it's barely close to it like in TPA obviously.)
Stern (Including Stern Pinbal Arcade):
Ripley's Believe It Or Not - A little more difficult IRL for the one I played, but mostly because that table is in need of maintenence and has to go into ball-search often during gameplay. Also, the shrunken head almost never leads to the upper flipper while the vari-target releases at an odd angle - making penguin loops and slot machine shots a lot more difficult, but that's the way it is. It's a mechanical game after all.
Mustang - Plays about the same.
AC/DC - Pretty tricky although not in a fun way, and not one of my favorite modern Sterns despite being an AC/DC fan.
Star Trek - Fun game with fun rules. The physics feel a little off in Stern Pinball Arcade in general though. It's almost as if they just copied the physics from an older version of TPA.
Ghostbusters - Same as Star Trek.
Gottlieb:
Cue Ball Wizard - The flippers on the one I played didn't rotate ridiculously high so I had to be more careful compared to TPA.
Genie - It's Genie... That's all you need to know, really.
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I found myself in vegas on new years eve (driving back from CA) - i thought making a pilgrimage to the pinball hall of fame would be a better way to spend NYE than watching street fights and vomiting on the vegas strip. I got there at 8:50pm and it was completely dead so the operators decided to close early at 9pm. I only got to do a quick walk though and couldn't find the goin nuts machine so I played Harley Davidson (on my list) until they literally shut off the power.