What real-life tables do you want to play on the most?

[speedfreakz]

I miss playing Hercules, King Kong, and Phantom of the opera. It's been a number of years but they were fun.

 

[Zombie Aladdin]

I suppose I should also include machines you've played but were in too poor of a condition to function properly and thus get the intended experience. For that, I have at least two: Revenge from Mars and Viper Night Drivin'.

I have only played Revenge from Mars once. The center ramp mechanism pops up as intended, but the sensor to detect a successful ramp shot was broken, so I was unable to progress much at all. I was stuck on this mode where a martian is watching TV on many screens, and all I seemed to be able to do was change the channels. Before long, something else started malfunctioning, and all three balls got stuck towards the left, rendering the machin unplayable.

As for Viper Night Drivin', this machine was said to have those Glo-Balls. However, all of the inserts were turned off, half of the DMD was displaying garbled images, the flipper buttons were sticky (as in they adhered to my fingertips), and the center drain sensor was out meaning that once you drained the ball, you're not getting a Ball 2. Worst of all, the staff was disgruntled or something, as they didn't seem to give a rat's butt that the machine was broken. (This was at Jilliard's Billiards at Universal Studios Citywalk, by the way. It had a Sopranos machine that was in almost as bad a condition, but I have access to better-working Sopranos machines.)

Cactus was at the top of my list too until recently, after visiting the playable ones at the Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame and also at Modern Pinball NYC. Both also have Wizard of Oz. (Playing it in person didn't help me figure out what was going on either though.) You're in LA, you ever get to make Vegas trips?

No, it takes too long to drive to Vegas and back, and I don't feel like paying to stay the night in those casino hotels. Pinball Hall of Fame is definitely the top priority if I wind up in Vegas though.

Back on topic, I have had the chance to play The Wizard of Oz and it was pretty entertaining the one game I got to play. I would have earned a replay had they been turned on. It does almost suffer from a case of visual overload but it is a fun game for folks to watch as well as play. I think the table I would most like to play in real life is probably White Water. I would be curious to see how much of my ass it kicks in comparison to my TPA scores. I would also like to play a Cactus Canyon for both the history and the fun factor.

Good! What seems to visually overload other people seems to fascinate me. I love the Wachowski Speed Racer film, for instance, but it seemed to be overwhelming for most others.

Real White Water machines are a lot less predictable than in Pinball Arcade. I topped out at about 800 million in Pinball Arcade, but 270 million is the best I've done on a real one.

Big Bang Bar is my most wanted one to play and I should get to do that next month at the Ann Arbor Pinball Museum. They also have a Banzai Run that I've been looking forward to playing that in real life too. But would also love to play a Spy Hunter, which apparently sucks but I loved the arcade game, Apollo 13 for it's 13-ball multiball, and the long shot due to rarity King Kong.

Any of the Capcoms would be a real treat for me too. And yeah, I would love to play an Apollo 13 to experience firsthand a 13-ball multiball.

The only table I really want to play but have never even seen one in person.....Oribtor 1. *runs*

Nah, Orbitor 1 is on my list too.

 

[Fungi]

Nah, Orbitor 1 is on my list too.

Play it just to get it out of your system. Halfway thru the first ball, you'll walk away and say to yourself, "well, I can now say I played it, but never again."

 

[Crawley]

Play it just to get it out of your system. Halfway thru the first ball, you'll walk away and say to yourself, "well, I can now say I played it, but never again."

Its kinda fun for a few plays. Not much to do on the table, and only a 2-ball multiball. But the little trick where the ball can be behind the flippers, then roll up between them back in to play always gets a little laugh out of me.

 

[Martin Rusby]

I would love to try Wizard of Oz as it one of my favourite films and sounds a treat.I would love to try MM and AFM as i love them in TPA but never got to play them IRL

 

[Mr.Fridday]

I would love, love, love to play Haunted House one more time. It was the first pinball machine I remember playing and would love to have another go at it now that I am an adult.

 

[smbhax]

Mata Hari

 

[Shaneus]

Thanks to my visit to Texas this year, this is a pretty easy question for me to answer. I've now played pretty much everything I wanted to (Varkon, Hercules, Orbitor 1) but Big Bang Bar wasn't playable... so I still want to play that (and likely never will, being in Australia). TX-Sector is also on the list from that fantastic CGR review. Everything else... nothing comes to mind.

 

[brakel]

I haven't played Addams Family since finding out about is legendary place on the want list. I haven't played Comet in a really long time and it is my nostalgic all time favorite. I would say those are my top two current machines that I most want to play.

 

[Fungi]

Thanks to my visit to Texas this year, this is a pretty easy question for me to answer. I've now played pretty much everything I wanted to (Varkon, Hercules, Orbitor 1) but Big Bang Bar wasn't playable...

Varkon was weird huh? My head had a hard time accommodating the standard pinball physics stuffed in an upright position.

 

[Shaneus]

Varkon was weird huh? My head had a hard time accommodating the standard pinball physics stuffed in an upright position.

Even weirder after playing an actual table with an upright playfield... Banzai Run. Twisted my head something shocking.

 

[Richard B]

I'd like to try the new Star Trek Stern table, as well as some of the other newer Sterns, like Batman and Family Guy. I'd also like to play a fully functional WOZ - I played one that was fine but had incomplete (prototype) software, and another that had complete software, but had a broken upper left flipper (it was too weak to get the ball through the door). I played a Metallica, and wasn't too impressed, but the sound was so low you couldn't hear the music. Perhaps if I could it would be as good as ACDC (a current fave)?

 

[Nightwing]

I want to play every table that is on TPA that I haven't already done so.


Three that aren't in TPA that I would love to try would be Safe Cracker,Krull, & The Pinball Circus.

And Orbitor 1. Just once...

 

[Trever Chalmers]

There are few I would love to play. I have already played High Speed, AC/DC, Twilight Zone, STTNG and Terminator 2.

Here's my Top Choices: Creature from the black lagoon, Cactus Canyon, White Water, Attack From Mars. I would love to play them all. Finding them however proves a great challenge lol.

 

[brakel]

Pinball Circus is one of those machines that everyone who loves pinball should try to get a chance to play. It's an experience. But don't expect the greatest pinball machine ever. It lacks depth of play. Hit a couple of targets and move to the next level. Repeat. If it had gotten out of the prototype stage then I'm sure they would have added more depth. Even though there were only two made its cool that one of them is at the Pinball Hall of Fame where anyone with the means to get there can experience the unique play of a "vertical" machine.

 

[shimoda]

Pinball Circus was never completed the way Python envisioned, this may change in the future...

 

[Brian Clark]

I would like to play Flash, Diner, Mousin' Around, Centuar, Alien Poker, Meteor, Flight 2000, Seawitch, Joust, Jungle Lord, and Swords of Fury.

(forgot I played a modded version of Fathom at Flippers)