haveaniceswim's ratings

Fan-Tas-Tic is really two machines. If you are alone, it's an OK EM with a couple of nice features that were not too common when it was manufactured - a left outlane kickback and a right outlane gate to return to the plunger. The roulette wheel is fun but doesn't really shine until you are joined by 1-3 friends.

As a 2-4 player game, Fan-Tas-Tic is FANTASTIC! The roulette wheel is the great equalizer - giving the worst player a chance to beat the best player in every game. Fan-Tas-Tic is the machine that absolutely proves that the phrase "It's more fun to compete" (printed on so many backglasses) is true. The roulette wheel levels the playing field so that everyone is actually competing, not just watching the best player rack up points. When I have guests over, everybody takes turns on Medieval Madness and Stranger Things, but the party comes alive when 4 people compete on Fan-Tas-Tic.

The artwork is goofy - the theme is weird - the sound is just the standard Williams 3 chimes - the playfield layout is nothing special - but the fun factor is through the roof when you have 4 players playing!

CGC faithfully recreated the original Medieval Madness and called it the Classic Edition. Everybody knows the game, and it’s a 10/10 across the board. There’s a reason it’s been at the top of the Pinside 100 forever.

The only complaint I had was the speakers CGC installed in the CE. No matter how you adjust the sound settings, the call outs were muffled and impossible to make out. As well documented in the MMR Owners thread, the only solution was to install new higher quality speakers. With the new speakers, call outs are clear. It’s a shame that CGC couldn’t reproduce the sound quality from 1997 in 2019.

Once the sound issues are fixed, it’s the best game ever. The all important “one more game” allure is always there. Pure fun!

Great game. Great flow. Brian Eddy’s familiar fan layout (AFM, MM) taken to a new level with great code (1.02) and a great theme. 12 chapter modes, 3 demodog modes, 5 demogorgan modes, 2 total isolation modes, all lead to final showdown mode. What’s that, like 23 modes? Not to mention the coolest physical ball lock in pinball history, and a very good center bash toy.

This game doesn’t multi-ball you to death, and the swipe-a-ball feature is an incredible addition to help you extend certain modes. Very fun game, and the all important “one more game” allure is always there.

Touchdown is not a “shooter’s game”. No drop targets, just two standup targets and a bunch of rollovers. That said, it’s a lot of fun. Very unique backbox animation to show your progress toward a touchdown. Lighting is excellent pointing you in the direction you need to go for either advancing the football, scoring football points or scoring pinball points. The dual scoring plus the backbox animation unfortunately limited Williams to making this a single player game, and it’s always more fun to compete.

Huge outlanes and no inlanes keep ball times short and scoring low. But it is a fun game that has the all important “one more game” allure.