The true wizard mode is the 50 diamond award IMO!

Ya IMO it was easy. But fun and a challenge if you create goals and work to master it.

Real easy but lots of fun. I would own it again if I had more room.

can always make games harder with changes in rules, outlanes, and angles

Yea its not that hard but when kids have friends over they really enjoy playing it

I would also put Congo in the "friendly" category when it comes to gameplay. I don't think about Congo in terms of game progress, difficult gameplay, or wizard modes. Other games offer that. Congo is just so much fun. I chase my high score and diamond counts. It is a great game for guests. That being said the second I think to myself the game is too easy I brick a shot and power drain. Its theme, layout, and charms won me over

I think you are supposed to set up a treadmill in front of it to make it more difficult.

I got one recently and like it a lot, but I can definitely see how it would be an easier game. Mine is at that point where a few things needs replacing and I think that's making it artificially harder so I'm almost afraid to change them

Nobody at MRP complained that mine was too easy...

I have never gotten to 100 diamonds yet, and it seems like I am comtinually seeing new things on it. I bought it along with CFTBL and found Creech to be much easier even with the larger SDTM gap.

Congo doesn't have that? I thought all Trudeau games had this larger gap? I've never played Congo.

There was one in my watering hole for a while. We got sick of long games so we took off the post rubbers. Made it a little more difficult but as long as you don't get a bad shot Congo seems to go on for ever.
Lightning flippers could be alot of fun, has anyone tried them?

Congo is just a fun game for everyone with a great playfield design. The rules are different than other B/W 90's games and it feels refreshing to play because of it. The rules are fairly simple, and not overly complex like many others. Just because it is easy to play, does not mean the game is easy to see everything. Some of the modes are fairly difficult to get to, and require long games. A few that come to mind are skill fire, video mode levels 2 & 3 and 100 diamond MB. The Volcano ramp is also a tough shot that never gets old.

It's my nephews favorite pinball they say its the easiest one and more fun .

Congo is one of those games where you get to a point where you see how many times you can do the wizard mode, instead of if you can get there. I had one for a little bit, and it was fun playing strategy; like starting your first diamond hunt multiball and right after doing it, getting the start multiball award from the lower playfield that you had setup to by pass all the locks you would have now needed for the second one. Seeing how many points you can during the skill shot rapid fire mode. Maybe shooting for all satellites and trying to max that out. For diamonds, my best was 283 diamonds, but I did it without a working switch for the mine door video mode, so I never got that mode during the game. I didn't know it was broken at the time. Man, I would have easily gotten 17 diamonds throughout the game in that video mode for my 3rd Super Diamond Hunt Multiball, that would have been crazy. Even though I could work through the game pretty easily, I miss my old Congo. I would get another one, but I wouldn't pay the prices people are asking for them nowadays.

I have returned to this thread to publicly apologize to my Congo. I called it easy here the other day, and it must have heard me because it just handed me my ass for about an hour. Every shot to the saucers was a bounce out, every ball exited the hippo pops SDTM, there was a magnet in the right outlane. It has never treated me so poorly. Please forgive me Congo! You are good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, you're hard enough to occasionally kick my talentless butt.

Hitting the Volcano ramp is easy, but I haven't had too much time with Congo.

Come on. Its not the most difficult thing in all pinball, but its not really easy. The shot is steep, narrow, and far away. Those are things that make for a more difficult shot.

It's always been pretty tough on the Congo's I've played...

Agree totally.I had Congo for a few months and I could never nail that shot when I needed to.

Now the left hand ramp ...that is pretty easy