Your Top 3 Tables in PA, Worst 3, and Your 3 Most Wanted

[Demonolith]

With Season 7 at a close and the game at a major crossroads due to the Williams/Bally thing, now seems like the perfect time to reflect on Pinball Arcade

My Top 3 Favorites
1. El Dorado: City of Gold
2. Banzai Run
3. Scared Stiff

Worst 3
1. Class of 1812
2. Dr. Who (the farsight table)
3. Bone Busters Inc.

Top 3 Most Wanted - Going to keep this somewhat realistic
1. Apollo 13 (if we only get this table and nothing else I'll still be a happy man)
2. X-Men (Stern 2012)
3. Star Wars (Stern 2017)

 

[strells]

Umm...sorry, but are you serious? El Dorado?

 

[shogun00]

Favorite 3:
Banzai Run
Wipeout
Judge Dredd

Worst 3:
Going Nuts
Spanish Eyes
Dr. Who: Master of Time

Most Wanted 3:
Robocop
Jurassic Park
Bullwinkle and Rocky

 

[Gorgar]

Favorite 3:
Medieval Madness
Eight Ball Deluxe
Banzai Run

Worst 3:
Judge Dredd
Xenon
Scared Stiff

Most Wanted (with remaining licenses)
Ace High
Royal Flush
Seawitch

Bonus - Most wanted WMS tables that we will now probably never see
Jive Time
Spectrum
Big Guns

 

[Dok5555555]

Top 3: Attack from Mars
Star Trek TNG
Addams Family

Bottom 3: Black Knight
Class of 1812
Goin Nuts

Wanted: Pirates if the Caribbean
Indiana Jones
Tron Legacy

 

[Citizen]

Favorites:
Theatre of Magic
Fish Tales
Frankenstein

Least Favorites:
High Roller Casino
Phantom of the Opera
Rescue 911
Victory
Bone Busters Inc.
Black Knight
Goin' Nuts
El Dorado: City of Gold

Sorry, can't narrow it down more than that.

Top Wanted:
Pinball Magic
Seawitch
Star Wars Stern

WMS Crushed Dream Wants:
The Shadow
Congo
Barracora

 

[yespage]

Favorite 3
Monster Bash
Attack From Mars
Theater of Magic

Worst 3
Starship Troopers
Lights, Camera, Action
Centaur (love it in real life, where I can do better than on TPA)

Most Wanted
Monopoly
Family Guy
Gridiron

 

[Gorgias32]

Favorites:
8 Ball Deluxe
Paragon
F14

Worst:
Goin' Nuts
Bone Busters, Inc.
Dr. Who Master of Time

WMS wishlist:
Barracora
Indiana Jones
Medusa

 

[BostonBuckeye]

Favorites:
8 Ball Deluxe
Genie (finally got the 3 million wizard goal on iOS and steam)
Paragon

Worst:
Goin' Nuts
Cue Ball Wizard
Dr. Who Master of Time

WMS/Bally wishlist:
Indiana Jones
Mousin' Around
Rollergames
Space Station

 

[Blkthorne]

Favorites: Monster Bash, Tales of the Arabian Nights, and Theatre of Magic

Worst: Bone Busters Inc., El Dorado: City of Gold and Dr. Who Master of Time

WMS/Bally destroyed dreams list: Flash Gordon, Medusa, Barracora and Space Station.

Future unlicensed tables I hope show up:
Stern Electronics' tables: Quicksilver, Seawitch, Catacomb and Star Gazer.
Gottlieb: Joker Poker, Spirit, Robo-War and Alien Star.
Alvin G. & Co.: Mystery Castle
Data East: Time Machine and Laser War.

 

[Gorgias32]

My Top 3 Favorites
1. El Dorado: City of Gold

I totally respect this, El Dorado City of Gold is completely unique in TPA, it's a super hard and unforgiving EM with short ball times (as I imagine it is in real life). I hated it at first too, but you can't compare it to TotAN or Monster Bash or any of the smooth, deep 90s pins. It represents a specific type of game and does it really well. Definitely a table where when you have that rare good ball you get a big adrenaline rush...

The worst part about it is the sound, but I usually play muted.

 

[Narc0lep5y]

Best 3
1. Addams Family Gold (still trying to get my KS $ worth)
2. T2
3. Cyclone

There are better tables, but these are my favorites as they are all recreations of favorites i played in HS/College

Worst 3
1. Bone Busters
2. Haunted House
3. DW Master of Time

Wishlist - There might be a theme here. It's subtle
1. Batman '66
2. Batman (data east) -
3. Batman the Dark Knight

 

[Citizen]

Taking a shot in the dark here, but would #4 be Batman Forever?

 

[Narc0lep5y]

Taking a shot in the dark here, but would #4 be Batman Forever?

I guess so, i keep forgetting Sega is Stern (even though i know Data East is) so i thought i picked only the Stern licensed ones (oops)

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

Top 3 (in no particular order):
8 Ball Deluxe
White Water
F-14

Bottom 3 (again in no particular order):
Goin' Nuts
Bone Busters
Eldorado City Of Gold*

Wishlist:
Iron Maiden (Stern)
KISS (Stern)
Dialed In (Jersey Jack)

* The horrible Mylstar/Premier SS update, of course, not the EM El Dorado which is perfectly good. How two tables with the same layout can play and feel so differently is beyond me. If you ever get a chance to play Target Alpha - yet another table to use the same layout - do so; it has different rules again.

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

If you ever get a chance to play Target Alpha - yet another table to use the same layout - do so; it has different rules again.

Agreed. Played one at ReplayFX last year. It's amazing how one layout can have different rulesets and, thus, different strategies on how to play it.

 

[bavelb]

1) Somehow I'm always drawn to Taxi
2) Tales of the Arabian Nights is the full package.
3) Ripley's Believe it or Night might be the best/deepest Pat Lawlor table. I take to it more than TZ or TAF at least.

Worst...well any EM could be in this list but I tend to avoid them (I appreciate the history but for me the enjoyment starts at around eight ball deluxe/fathom/centaur). So ignoring those Ill do a worse alphanumeric, numeric and DMD
1) Black Knight
2) Lights...Camera...Action!
3) Tee'd off

Wishlist...well...ACDC wouldve been on here, but thats available in SPA and will likely come to TPA. So...
Iron Maiden, Legacy of the Beast (yea right...)
Lord of the Rings
Indiana Jones
Simpsons Pinball Party

 

[AdrenalinDragon]

I can imagine these lists constantly changing, but for now...

Top 3:
1) Creature from the Black Lagoon
2) Haunted House
3) Ghostbusters

Bottom 3:
1) Doctor Who: Master of Time
2) Harley Davidson 3rd Edition
3) Starship Troopers

Top 3 Most Wanted:
1) The Simpsons Pinball Party
2) Freddy: A Nightmare on Elm Street
3) Stargate

 

[JefferyD]

Faves:
Big Shot
Monster Bash
Firepower

Not so goods:
Rescue 911
Al's Garage Band
High Roller Casino

Wishlist:
Evel Knievel
KISS (the old one)
Superman or Spider-Man (the old ones, naturally.)

 

[Nomorestalker]

Favorites
Medieval Madness
Attack from mars
Three way tie between whitewater/ Dracula/ champions pub

Least favorite
Victory
1812
Dr who master's of time

Tables we'll never see unless they get the licence back
Indiana Jones
Radical
The shadow
Congo

Future wishlist
Xmen
Batman dark knight
Spiderman vault
Lotr
Anything from jersey jack
Stern Indy

Honorable mention Sega Batman