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Best 80s Era Pin.....the Poll....Revised!

By Sonic

5 years ago

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“Best 80s Era Pin”

(205 votes)

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#1 5 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

I first created this poll about a week ago and had to make a few adjustments to the parameters (everyone takes things so literally)...as well as heard a few good suggestions of missing pins and decided to give this another try. I'm going to NOT include the ever-popular WW, Taxi and FH from this poll in the effort of digging a little deeper into 80's era pins. Yes, there will be a couple from 1990 and 1979 included (hence the word ERA) and there will be pins that aren't included that you may feel is unforgivable....oh well, not everyone likes Fire!, let alone laid hands on a Cyclopes or Night Moves....

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#2 5 years ago

pinzrfun

Pinside+ Frequent

11y 90,300 4,305 20

Vote cast. I hope Fathom and Centaur don't just steamroller over everything else.......

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#3 5 years ago

ejg10532626

Pinside member

11y 76,600 1,431 13

Literally IS the word for the 80's - as we never saw such advancement in one decade of pinball before.

*We were 2 years removed ffrom the last EMs one the back end.
*We were 1 year removed from DMD on the front end.
The games through the 80's are just too varied, like no other 10 year period.

Not my favorite but definitely the most important, I must vote for High Speed.

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#4 5 years ago

keys88

Pinside member

You forgot to list TAXI.

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#5 5 years ago

keys88

Pinside member

Never mind. I see where you are going with this. But it seems like you should eliminate fathom, centaur, cyclone ect.

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#6 5 years ago

Tommy-dog

Pinside member

Where is the original BK (Black Knight), 1980?

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#7 5 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

My vote was SOF....

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#8 5 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

So far:
#1 EBD
#2 BK2K
And #3: An 8-way tie.....wow....HS, PB, SOF, SkateBall, BH, FP, SW & EATPM

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#9 5 years ago

phil-lee

Pinside member

8y 91,550 4,208

Where is the option "None of the above"?

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#10 5 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

No love for Roller games?

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#11 5 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

EBD and Pinbot hold the lead with Firepower close behind...of course we don't even have a 100 data points...be good to get this poll up to 200 votes if we could....

1 week later

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#12 5 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

EBD and Pinbot hold the lead.......

2 weeks later

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#13 4 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

Was hoping still for more data points - but it looks like EBD will get the win, with Flash Gordon a close 2nd....

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#14 4 years ago

Blackbeard

Pinside member

12y 106K 12,104 6 20

Taxi.

How is this not on your list?!

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#15 4 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

Quoted from Blackbeard:
Taxi.
How is this not on your list?!

Read the very first post......it was by design....

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#16 4 years ago

Tommy-dog

Pinside member

OP
Quoted from Sonic:
I'm going to NOT include the ever-popular WW, Taxi and FH from this poll in the effort of digging a little deeper into 80's era pins.

You can't do a 1980's poll and not include Taxi, Whirlwind and where is the original 1980 Black Knight game? Funhouse does not matter anyways in a 1980's poll since IT IS A 1990'S game.

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#17 4 years ago

Blackbeard

Pinside member

12y 106K 12,104 6 20

OP
Quoted from Sonic:
Read the very first post......it was by design....

Revise poll and your thread to include these pins.

Poll is deemed invalid without.

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#18 4 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

Quoted from Blackbeard:
Revise poll and your thread to include these pins.
Poll is deemed invalid without.

I know you jest, but this is the revised poll - the first poll seemed to only have votes for WW, FH and Taxi - I thought it best to dig a little deeper....so they had to be removed to get a little deeper look.....

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#19 4 years ago

Flynnyfalcon

Pinside member

12y 58,300 1,291 8 23

Where’s Taxi?

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#20 4 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

Quoted from Flynnyfalcon:
Where’s Taxi?

NBC cancelled it in '83.....

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#21 4 years ago

JayDee

Pinside+ Member

Elk Grove Village, IL

5y 114K 5,509 4

Space Shuttle?

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#22 4 years ago

easye9901

Pinside member

8y 51,900 267 4 8

Bad Cats?

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#23 4 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

Quoted from JayDee:
Space Shuttle?

Was lost in '86

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#24 4 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

Quoted from easye9901:
Bad Cats?

That's exactly what my review read when it debuted in the West End in '81.....

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#25 4 years ago

JayDee

Pinside+ Member

Elk Grove Village, IL

5y 114K 5,509 4

OP
Quoted from Sonic:
Was lost in '86

And ‘03. And definitely not funny

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#26 4 years ago

Blackbeard

Pinside member

12y 106K 12,104 6 20

Pinbot, I think, easily wins this.

It's emcompasses just what pinball is. You vs. the machine.

Pinbot has some of the best sounds and music in pinball ever. The game is brutally difficult. Short ball times and the hardness of the game is what I love. It's so iconic.

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#27 4 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

Pinbot, EBD, HS...aren't a surprise....but, IMHO, I thought Flash Gordon was an interesting surprise....

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#28 4 years ago

DRDAVE

Dr. Dave's Pinball

Marlborough, MA

11y 94,800 1,549 53

Flash Gordon was hated in the arcades as it was too tough to win games.
However in the home market it's wonderful for the same reason!

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#29 4 years ago

mof

San Francisco, CA

11y 149K 13,299 25 94

Here's what I learned after creating a few polls about 80s and 90s games many years ago...

1. Do not use your subjectively measured parameters to create the initial base. They may not match how most people see the groupings. You can start by proposing your own parameters, but I recommend you put them up to a challenge first.
2. Start with write in options and count "thumbs ups" to get your initial base created so that the crowd feels more like they are the ones creating the base.
3. Have several rounds of polling to learn which pins keep winning in head to head or elimination rounds. It can be informative.
4. No matter how carefully you create the parameters and test them, and set up the base -- a few people will still call the poll rubbish.

Here's an example of a poll that was pretty fun over 4 rounds: (It still had a few rough edges as a few people disagreed on parameters: what could be had for $2500 at the time, based on their location of course) -- back at this time, if you recall, we could only have 9 games in a poll.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/your-top-9-2500-dmds

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#30 4 years ago

Ericpinballfan

8y 166K 10,434 7 1

FIRE!

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#31 4 years ago

albummydavis

Pinside member

11y 57,800 666 12 10

Quoted from DRDAVE:
Flash Gordon was hated in the arcades as it was too tough to win games.
However in the home market it's wonderful for the same reason!

It still amazes me how many people don’t realize how tremendous a game Fg is. To me it embodies everything great about 80s games. And it’s tough. Real real tough. And fun.

And it’s the biggest bargain out there-one of the best ever for under 2k.

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#32 4 years ago

mof

San Francisco, CA

11y 149K 13,299 25 94

Quoted from albummydavis:
still amazes me

Simple, some people are still easily amazed.
-mof

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#33 4 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

RG getting 0 votes is interesting....I'm not enamored with the theme - but the game play and toys are hard to argue....

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#34 4 years ago

dozer1

Pinside+ Addict

10y 114K 1,553 7

OP
Quoted from Sonic:
RG getting 0 votes is interesting....I'm not enamored with the theme - but the game play and toys are hard to argue....

There, now it has one. I was a Taxi vote at first if I remember right. RG isn't going to have the break through signifigance of some of the others like Pinbot, High Speed. Probably not the nostalgic connection like EBD or coolness of SoF. RG really proved to be a great system 11 pin to me though, easily in the top 10 sys11 pins on my list.

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#35 4 years ago

DaveH

Pinside+ Frequent

11y 121K 7,881 21 13

Quoted from ejg10532626:
Not my favorite but definitely the most important, I must vote for High Speed.

Really ejg??? Really? Did you not see EBD on the list? You crazy man

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#36 4 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

I'll close it once we reach 200 votes...but i'll be hard to beat EBD at this point...

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#37 4 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

Almost to 200....5 more votes....if they aren't all for Pinbot - looks like EBD will win this little poll.

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#38 4 years ago

Nevus

Pinside+ Frequent

12y 129K 6,681 1

EBD!

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#39 4 years ago

Sonic

10y 114K 1,508 9 11 2

And there it is....EBD was never behind the 8-ball in this one.....

#1 Eight Ball Deluxe
#2 Pinbot
#3 High Speed
#4 (Tie) Swords of Fury & Flash Gordon

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