jasonaross's ratings

Have about 20 games on this. The levitating ball trick, magic wand trick, and the trick shot are fantastic. I love the theme and game play.

The pin I played has poor lighting in the back, little to shoot at, and was repetitive.

Wow this is a fun game and I'd like to have one. I played one on site this evening and found it funner than Attack from Mars. The theme, music, toys, and nostalgia makes this one of my favorite pins.

Cheap looking toys, played slow on site, and not much fun.

It has an open playfield, is well implemented, is fast, and is fun. I've only been able to play few games on it to date and immediately understand why it is a classic. I spent a lot of quarters on AFM and other pins tonight (ghostbusters, avatar, batman dark knight, star wars, and world cup soccer). Ghostbusters was a bit more fun. GB and AFM were heads and shoulders above the others...followed by WCS.

The theme could be more dark/intense and the game play was a little slow on location. Multi-ball was kind of fun. I am a batman fan but would not purchase this machine even at a below market price.

The playfield seemed crowded. I do not like soccer but this was fun to play. My kids and wife and kids liked it.

I loved TMNT as a kid and have three turtle-loving kids now. I loaded my pin with action figures and get nostalgia every time I play. The theme music, callouts, etc. are awesome. I get frustrated with game play in that I frequently hit the divider located between the twin ramps. Sometimes the ball jumps up the twin ramp, hits the top covering plastic, and rolls back down into the playing field rather than continuing up and around the ramp. I configured the pin to an easier mode to increase the likelyhood of getting multi-ball. The easier mode is fun for my kids and I am embarrased to say it is funner for me too. Easy mode reduces the high score challenge but this pin does have a high chance of quick drains. Love it!

This was my wife's choice and our first pin. I'm six foot tall and can see the bottom floor of the upper play field without a problem. She cannot. I find the idea of popeye saving the earth weird but the designers did a good job with the theme implementation. The game will look much better with colored LEDs (haven't done yet). Popeye has 3, 4, and 6 ball multi-ball. 6 ball multi-ball is difficult to get where as you can get 3 ball multi-ball like every time. The rule set is what makes this game a delight. You can save the animals, go for the round house loops, skill wheel, escalator award, pop and eye targets, find Swea' Pea, sea hag multi-ball, bluto multi-ball, six ball multi-ball, fight the bluto cartel, stampede mode, super jackpot, and more.

I found Olive annoying in the popeye cartoon so there is not a natural fan love for the machine. My wife loves it. I do not know the full rule sets of Jurassic Park and Terminator 3 but played at the Pizza West in KC. The popeye game play is better than Jurassic Park and not as good as Terminator 3.

I drove 11+ hours to pick this machine up and couldn't be happier with it. It was thrilling as a kid to hit a home run and get baseball cards (I have 40K+ in my collections). It is loaded with my own baseball cards and now is a way to distribute them to my kids (9, 6, 3). The mystery has driven a beginner's interest in cards and baseball. We literally jump, scream, and holler when hitting the heckler. While better as a two play game, its plenty fun for one player too. Make sure you go into configurations and turn up the 'outs' difficulty and turn on random pitches for one player mode. Obviously one player is pointless if you know the pitch coming but can be challenging when you pick change up and get a curve ball or fastball. If you are a baseball fan, this is the best! Mine is set to the Royals and Mets currently to ensure the Mets are drubbed repeatedly as with the 2015 World Series :). Fun!

Complaints? Sometimes a homerun up the middle is stopped as the pinball gets stuck under the flap covering the pitcher's ball output. The playing field is simple but the central ramp makes it interesting. The inside left and right walls of the cabinet are not decorated but you can fix that by baseball themed wallpaper, pictures, or cards. LEDs make the playing field brighter. While the game is super fun, a 9 inning game can get stale. Change the game configuration to default to two or three innings so that it ends in a reasonable time period. You can always add innings on the fly to play longer. If the game is tight, I sometimes wish it would let me pinch hit with the bases loaded and ramp up. In that scenario, the machine disables the pinch hither (any ball in play is a hit) to force the hitter into the high-pressure situations of making a grandslam or 'out.' No pressure :)