Quoted from frg:I agree with mostly everything... especially with your comment on AC/DC - at least in Germany this game opened the door and took away the NIB virginity of a lot of owners. Pre AC/DC you it was super special to buy a new in box machine. But AC/DC was at this point of time so seducing. Okay there was also reorganisation with the distributor and upcoming dealers, but this game as a gamechanger. Still love it, even though I play it not so often and it looks a bit outdated standing next to more modern Stern, JJP or...
So I would take WOZ out of the listAC/DC (most influential game of the decade - the game that turned many Bally / WMS purists on to Stern)
I agree with this. AC/DC was essentially Stern's response to JJP and WOZ. It was the Stern game that really took things to the next level in terms of toys and features. It also seemed to really pioneer the modern day risk/reward rule-set. I don't think we had ever seen something comparable to the "Song Jackpot" rules before. I just remember being blown away by the game the first time I played it! It may have been surpassed since then by games like TWD but I think it is probably the most influential game of the past decade.