For EM's there is only one answer, Gottleib 1964 Majorettes only 425 made, great wedgehead AAB

My wants, but have-nots and will try hard to have someday...
Krull - played and loved
Viking - have not played
Alien LV - played and loved
Cyclopse - have not played

We had a Solar Fire in our basement growing up. Only 782 produced. Super fun and challenging game. Wish my dad never sold it.

I very recently went through this one which has a low production run,
and as far as performance. No disappointment. 100% "Plus" Satisfied..

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They are for sale regularly. Being a clone of BK, JL and Pharaoh, with varying opinions of which of the 4 were best, there is opportunity to own one or similar style of play.

Personal favorites of the rare games I have played...

Cosmic Gunfight
JJP Pirates of the Caribbean
Defender
Mystery Castle
America's Most Haunted

How about a link to the poster on the wall? Now that would be fun!

I played Kingpin at a show earlier this month and thought it was awesome. Really cool and unique theme, a fun layout with some great gimmicks (slot machine and spinner ramps), exciting scoring with the playfield x, and the video game-esque life meter rule is very cool, especially how the enemy goons shoot back at you and you've got to then regain health.

BBB for me.

Big Buck Hunter Pro (pretty sure it had a small run)

Not sure about the very best, but (playability wise) it was very much a surprise.
Pleasant surprise..

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I didn't know Snow Derby/Snow Queen had an AAB version. Those games are super fun so I can only imagine the AAB is great too.

Stern Shrek < 700 units

Best rare games for me are Andromeda (500 made) and Algar (349 made).

Andromeda is one of the best all around early-SS games made from both player's point of view and certainly for the art.

Algar is super under-rated. Great tournament game, and so weird/wildly different in gameplay from just about any other game I've played.

I have a Sunset Riders on the truck on it's wat to me atm.

Retheme of a Bally Eight Ball. Not sure how many there were made, maybe 6 or 7? I'll ask the manufacturer.

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Total run of 7 machines apparently.

Yea. Actually Bristol Hills has a little meaning to me. It's a Ski Resort here in Upstate N.Y. fairly close by..
A Vendor (and a huge Gottlieb distributor, Johnny Bilotta) from my small hometown knew Dave Gottlieb
well. As the two were walking through Gottlieb's factory, Johnny noticed a Ski Resort pinball machine (Snow
Derby) being made and said, "Why don't you call that Bristol Hills" thus Dave produced 110 Bristol Hills
models solely for New York State..
I had it (actually a couple) for years, and just this past month or so I went through it and I can honestly say,
the rating on IPDB isn't joking..

Defender.

My Cleopatra EM is 1 of 349 made for US market.. It's by far the most fun EM I've played ( haven't played many ). Game has been HUO since early 80's. I got it for free..

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Totally agree. Was going to say this, but saw you beat me to it. Played Tim Mehan's at a PPE years ago, and was hooked on this game.