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Interesting list...but I think it's hard to tell about a game's true brutal nature on location. If 99/100 pinball newbs play any game, it's probably going to be short.
Quoted from 27dnast:Interesting list...but I think it's hard to tell about a game's true brutal nature on location. If 99/100 pinball newbs play any game, it's probably going to be short.
Not to mention 99/100 that play SF2 just let the ball drain so they can stop playing
Stern Dragonfist is a brutal, unforgiving game.
If you have the means, I highly recommend playing one.
Marcus
Quoted from TheLaw:Not to mention 99/100 that play SF2 just let the ball drain so they can stop playing
I was going to say this about TRS.
Quoted from 27dnast:Doubt we'll see any Gottlieb Sys 3 on here...
Freddy is not even close to making this list LOL...
Quoted from 27dnast:Attack from Mars??
Haha misread, fast and short ball times.
Ehh, Starship Troopers then
I dunno, must be me!
I played some route machines today and tried to keep track of my game times...
From longest to shortest times were:
POTC
IM
Must pro (tight tilt)
TWD pro (new machine, very tight tilt, seemed like 1 out 4 balls out of the pops did a sdtm drain)
Glad I have a mustang at home to practice on, but it doesn't seem to help?! But it's speed is fun and once you're used to that, you're prepared for any other game out there...
BBH is another pin that I can't play for long, nor have I seen any other players manage a reasonable game.
I have a cftbl that is drain city. A really great game is when you get to start multi ball. A once a month game is when you actually find the creature during it.
Quoted from 27dnast:I'm a big fan of games that, by design, are brutal and fast...and can be set-up to be be even nastier, resulting in average game times that are insanely short. Games like Iron Man, F-14, BSD (w/lightning flippers). There are times I step-up to Iron Man and can rip-off 5-6 games in 10 minutes.
I know you've all been there.
Thought it would be fun to compile the ultimate list of the fastest players ever made. I'll keep a list going in the second post.
I'm genuinely curious why you prefer games that are very short or setting up pins to be very hard and short. I'm not saying that those games aren't fun but I don't get the appeal of having all or a majority of a collection like that.
I get that shorter games are better for competition and that 30-40 minute games are the extreme the other way.
Why are 5-6 games in 10 minutes better than 2?
It really may be what you are accustomed to. As I grew up near the end of EM beginning of solid state era and you had no 20 minute ball times. pinbot, black knight, HS, paragon, centaur etc..
The ball is wild, right! It seems Not so true if most anyone can keep ball in play for long. 2-5 mins per ball I would say your doing Great!
Sorcerer can be really short and brutal. I've got a montage of it kicking my ass in my Sorcerer Walkthrough video (at time 13:54).
Surprised at some of the system 11 games making this list...f14 pinbot taxi and diner I can usually play one out of three games for awhile. If I'm thinking of games with CONSISTENT short ball times none of those come to mind. BSD with lightning flippers routinely kicks my ass however. AMH also can be brutal if the sling coils are cranked up...I swear the outlanes have magnets. Also I find EATPM to have short ball times for a system 11 game.
It's funny. Reading the games listed it seems my collection is made up of some of the shortest ball times out there.
Brutal games I own in order of short ball times.
But that's why I like them.
1. Interflip Dragon - set to 3 balls.
2. Pinbot
3. F-14
4.Iron man
I can play what seems like marathon games on my ST pro.
But the others only once in a while do you get a long game.
Dragon I have only rolled the score over once.
I checked the audits just to see where I was at.
BSD: Ball time: 45 sec, game time: 2.24 minutes. Thought it'd be the shortest, but I was wrong. Extra balls are enabled on this one.
Fathom: Ball time: 38 seconds, game time: 1.89 minutes. 3 ball, no extra balls.
TZ: Ball time: 53 seconds, game time: 2.88 minutes. Extra Balls are enabled.
Fireball II: Ball time: 90 seconds, game time: 4.5 minutes. Looks like my assessment of this game being relatively "easy" is correct. 3 ball, no extra balls.
My jacked up eight ball champ garners a
few cuss words and brother in laws genesis can be brutal can't wait til he gets mine rehabed
Quoted from 27dnast:Time to add Ghostbusters Pro to the list?
Ha! Take off the ball saver and you can move it right to the top of the list
Because post editing rules have changed, here's the updated list:
AC/DC Pro
Americas Most Haunted
Atlantis
Avatar
Avengers
Bally Eight Ball
Big Buck Hunter
Big Daddy
Black Hole
Bram Stokers Dracula
Chirpin Crickets
Crescendo
Diner
DragonFist
Eight Ball Del.
Embryon
F-14 Tomcat
Fathom
Fireball
Flash Gordon
Firepower
Fish Tales
Frontier
Full Throttle
Ghostbusters Pro (no ball save
Gorgar
Iron Man
Jack*bot
Johnny Mnemonic
Jokerz
Mystic
No Fear
Old Chicago
Paragon
Pin*bot
Robocop
Sinbad
Skyline
Solar Fire
Stars
Taxi
Ted Nugent
The Walking Dead
Tradewinds
Tron
I'd like to see what the avg ball times for GB are going to be once it's on location for a few months. I'm willing to bet GB is going to make this list as well... it can be fing brutal at times.
EDIT --- looks like it was added with no ball save... don't think I'm ready for an ass beating that bad just yet
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