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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sean DonCarlos" data-source="post: 31494" data-attributes="member: 152">Scared Stiff is nearly universally considered a superior table to Party Monsters, although a lot of that is just progression in technology - they were able to put more Elvira sound bites in there, gave her some DMD animations, and greatly increased the music quality. (Scared Stiff has a very atmospheric multiball tune.) And of course they added mode-based play, a wizard mode, and the backglass spider. Neither table has a particularly deep ruleset - you'll never mistake either one for a Lawlor table - and both tables tend to drain a lot and have shorter ball times.Party Monsters is one of those transitional alphanumerics where you start seeing an increase in complexity over earlier numeric-only SS tables, but Lawlor hasn't come along yet and unleashed FunHouse and Whirlwind on the world, much less anything mode-based like TAF. This whole transitional period is kind of the red-headed stepchild of SS tables: too complex to appeal to EM/early-SS fans who want their "pure" pinball, yet not interesting enough for those who grew up on DMD machines. There are a few gems in here (Taxi, F-14 Tomcat, etc.) where the gameplay is strong enough to overcome the presentation, but in general I prefer the Lawlor alphanumerics to the earlier ones.</blockquote>

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