Spot Bowler, Sittin' Pretty come to mind.

And it is possible to search on light animation in IPDB:
http://ipdb.org/search.pl?gtype=EM&ft=light+animation&sortby=date&searchtype=advanced

Interesting, the IPDB search does not include Globe Trotter. You can light the 4 engines and also the foreign destinations as you travel the world.

Alpine Club - the mountain climber ascends the mountain by the player hitting certain targets in sequence. The feature carries over from game to game. Seems like I read someplace that it was the first pin to have that carryover feature, but I can't locate the reference.

It might be a fine line definition of "animation" - maybe IPDB only counts those that have more an animation "sequence" (i.e. lit frames that show progression of an item, like the barrel falling on Niagara, or the clowns dunking on Sittin' Pretty). Lighting static or discrete items that don't tie together into an animation 'sequence' may not be considered?

The cities are a progression as you travel the world. You adjust a replay setting to award upon reaching later destinations. It's not random by any means.

Maybe the illusion of movement is the qualifier. That would make more sense than progression I suppose.

Edit: I see River Boat is included in the light animation search. You simply light cards on the back glass as you get them. No movement. I'm confused.

But do the cities 'morph' like an animation cel sequence? ('animated' like one of those old flip-page books, where there's 'motion' conveyed for the item or character.)

I'm sure it's possible that not every game with animation is noted though.

yeah, I wouldn't count that one.

Roto Pool, you just light the back box balls.
Moulin Rouge, you light the painting segments.
Flip-A-Card, lit cards.
No illusion of movement.

I guess it depends on the definition of "light animation." I always thought of it originally as an interactive lighted back glass element. The flip-book style movement is certainly more interesting though.

I guess I could see where lighting the painting segments and the pool balls could count. So the 'mechanical' animation that just drops flags or pool balls is considered as backbox animation, so why not the lighting equivalent?

Very fuzzy definition.

I think the ones with more the flip-book style are 'animation' in the pure sense, and the others are more 'indicators'. But it makes some of the mechanical ones iffy then too.

Tropic Isle has the monkey climbing the palm tree.