Quoted from snyper2099:I think EBD is good but I could not justify keeping it because I found it too easy after playing it hundreds of times.
Nearly every game in my collection is set up extremely difficult to minimize ball times. I even have lightning flippers on a few!
My games play fast and have short ball times on purpose. Only exceptions are maybe Elecktra, Mr/Ms pac-man, Fathom and Sharkey's. So yes, you are looking for a lot of the same games that I’ve collected for the last 16 years. Honestly, you shouldn't need long ball times to play a fun game of pinball. My main problem with those games is that once you are really skilled at pinball, your standard setup game of LOTR or WOZ plays so long that on ball 2 or 3, your hands and fingers start to cramp up! (Not kidding!)
Some that I’ve let go of that are very difficult and have short ball times are Tron, Sinbad, and F-14 Tomcat.
Theme is usually not that important in pinball unless you are an operator. There are certainly exceptions (BSD,Tron,TZ) but most often, theme does not matter as much as the raw pinball design matters.
Great to hear this! Short flippers, minimizing game time, boring long balls on overcomplicated machines... all stuff for unskilled, or normally skilled people, with not much experience. I don't think I am a pinball wizard at all, but geez, I believe every normal person with normally decent reflexes, after playing pinball AT HOME for few years, hence playing thousands and thousands of games, reach a level when easy setups are just plain boring. Its happened to me recently to drop a coin in a pinball at a bar, and leaving at ball 2 because the game never ended. I am not saying its like a sport, but still there are huge difference in skills between a (few years) pinball owner and a casual player. Hence reviews are so different!
So my suggestion is: before selling your machine and constantly looking for new machines, make your machine tougher increasing steepness, putting short flippers, changing tilt sensitivity and so on.
