Hamilton, ON
Just curious what pinsiders favorite 2" flipper E.M games are in terms of game play? Gottlieb produced 2" flippers until early 1970s, same with bally & Williams....
Let's start the list of the grail of all 2"flipper games!!!
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Salem, OR
Duisburg
Astro, Kings and Queens, 2001, Central
Park, and Scuba are top of my list of the “must haves” of Gottlieb 2” flippers!
Bulli
Just picked up a 1970 Groovy and it's a ton of fun. Feels like Old Chicago with baby flippers and drop targets to snipe.
1965 Gottlieb Buckaroo.
1966 Gottlieb Central Park
I took a couple balls out of each game and moved the jones plug from 5 ball to 3 ball play. I really like the backglass animation.
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so lately it's been Pleasure Isle, AAB Hula Hula, Lariat, and Add-a-Ball (Skill Ball).
Flipper Fair's the last I went through, so that one also..
Oh yes, Bristol Hills is another good player..
I like Gottlieb's 1965 SkyLine. It has two backglass animations, the elevator doors and the elevator floor indicator. There is the humorous artwork which includes the 1960s New York skyline. It has four ways to win free games: point score, advances ("elevator floor"), special by chasing the lit number, and matching the last score digit. I like the more normal (not wide) flipper placement.
There are many great 2 inch flipper games. I just happen to have owned a SkyLine.
Love this era. Top 10 would look something like this, in no order:
Star-Jet
Mystic Marvel
Heat Wave
Skyline
Sea Wolf
Kings & Queens
Moulin Rouge
Melody
Central Park
Magic City/Town
'70 Flip a Card, many nearby sequence targets down below that suit the short flippers, and the loooong shot back up to the arch to get the top rollovers. Boy I sure would love to have mine back, kept it for 20 years.
Definitely Target Pool, with Royal Guard a firm second. Combination of both precise shot making and strategy decisions.
I've been hearing good things about Kings & Queens, and also Slick Chick.
I have them both. If I have room for only one, which one shall it be?
Quoted from lazySUNBATHER:Kings and Queens
Scuba
Capersville
Dodge City
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LOL, dude, you peeking into the game pictures is kinda creepy. You look like an axe murderer or something...
Quoted from EMsInKC:LOL, dude, you peeking into the game pictures is kinda creepy. You look like an axe murderer or something...
finally…somebody gets me
I’m biased since I went recently and found my favorites from my youth and bought them… now I found a nice KOD before I found a reasonable Sky Line, otherwise this list would be the City Living triumvirate of Subway, Central Park, and Skyline.
Subway- the hardest AAB machine I have ever played, and one of the most satisfying “over the top” experiences in pinball IMO. You turn over a Subway and you can feel your chest hair burst forth from your pirate shirt. The world is your oyster, and nobody can tell you different. This is the machine that made me a better pinball player back in the day, it separated the men from the boys. You turned over a Subway and you felt you could do anything.
Central Park- you got to have some love for the monkey. I cut my teeth on Hurdy Gurdy but I found a storage room queen CP that had every service tag either still in place or laying in the bottom of the cabinet. Clean and no wood loss and an original backglass and monkey.
King of Diamonds- what can you say?, got to have you some roto target fun in the lineup. Just picked up one that needs a little cabinet repaint love. I like the turret style roto target, it allows for more shots at a time than just one or two like the daisey roto. Can’t wait to put a couple hundred games on it.
Honorable mention goes to Sky Line and the only reason I didn’t hold out for it was the fact I found a Subway. I really wanted a set of animated doors in my collection, and still want Sky Line, but I love roto targets and needed a good example in the collection and KOD is a great roto target game.
Oh, can I inject a little conflict into the EM debate? Does anyone anywhere like gobble holes? Will you actively shoot for and trade a ball for a free game at a gobble hole, or is the free credit just the salve to ease the loss of a hot ball that strays too near the hole? Personally Slick Chick is the only machine I like that has one, but you avoided it like the plague.
Only gobble hole game I like is Williams Jungle, just a fun game all around.
My favorite small flipper game is Rockmakers, zipper flips, simple but fun layout, great zany art, dinosaurs and bikinis, with monkeys, what's not to love.
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Quoted from ZooDude:Only gobble hole game I like is Williams Jungle,
I have a Jungle, but haven't gone through it yet. I'll eventually have to get it out..
I'm not exactly into Gobble Holes, but another early 60s Williams game that I don't
mind the Gobbles is this one. At times, you kinda want the ball go into one of the
Gobble Holes..
IMG_1150 (resized).JPGQuoted from Bublehead:Central Park- you got to have some love for the monkey. I cut my teeth on Hurdy Gurdy but I found a storage room queen CP...
"Subway" harder than "Central Park"??? Well, first of all, it's apples and oranges; replay vs. add-a-ball. "Central Park" is THE hardest game to light the "special". I'm not the world's greatest player, but I'm pretty decent on EMs. I've NEVER lit a "special" on "Central Park"!
Central Park is a hard Special to get to, it's why I have it. But turning it over is my nemesis. I've done it once. Without extra balls, some machines are nearly impossible to hit that 2000.
I've turned over Subway multiple times, but never Cross Town. Like you said, apples and oranges 
My votes in no particular order
Crosstown
Heat wave
Kings and Queens
Domino
Sing Along
(Full disclosure there are a LOT I haven't played)
I really like my 1966 Williams Hot Line, a fun and fast game! The Dot Matrix really makes it stand out from other EM's.
I had a Williams Heat Wave too, and it is a fast and fun one as well. 
Quoted from EM-PINMAN:The Dot Matrix really makes it stand out
Ok, had to actually think this one through… lol
Quoted from Bublehead:Oh, can I inject a little conflict into the EM debate? Does anyone anywhere like gobble holes? Will you actively shoot for and trade a ball for a free game at a gobble hole, or is the free credit just the salve to ease the loss of a hot ball that strays too near the hole? Personally Slick Chick is the only machine I like that has one, but you avoided it like the plague.
Only gobble hole game I have or ever did have is my Gtb. Poker Face, but 'shooting for' the holes is pretty much pointless. The ball just skips over them and might even hit the glass. I guess you could tap-flip the flipper for a slow shot but with those little flippers it wouldn't do me much good, maybe wizards can do it. Poker Face doesn't even have any drains or even an outhole so I just think of the gobble holes as drains and hope the ball lands in the one(s) I need. All five balls are goin' in 'em one way or the other.
Quoted from Bublehead:Central Park is a hard Special to get to, it's why I have it. But turning it over is my nemesis. I've done it once. Without extra balls, some machines are nearly impossible to hit that 2000.
I've turned over Subway multiple times, but never Cross Town. Like you said, apples and oranges
I've done it a few times. The key is get all the bumpers lit and get a few shots at the target when it is lit for 300. The target though can be a drain shot.
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