Quoted from Darscot:I fell into this trap. Back in the day I worked in fairly remote location and they had a Pinbot. Me and another guy battled it out for high score for months. We worked different shifts so we never actually played together but we constantly swapped initials. Fast forward 20 years and I picked one up, took me about a week to realize it was only fun because it was the only pin in the place. I could not get rid of it fast enough. Jackbot is better but the rules can’t save that layout for me.
Agree with everything said, I grew up playing PinBot so when I found Jack Bot it was a natural purchase. My kids love the Jack Bot, I have come to appreciate how difficult mega visor is and overall gameflow is incredible. A real shooters' game where it's very possible to manipulate the ball with the flippers (always impresses guests).
My only gripe is the casino theme over the universe theme found in PinBot, the universe themes in pinbot are fantastic and I wish they would have used them in Jack Bot.