I would recommend you do a search on here. There are plenty of threads that go over this exact topic.
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Medieval Madness
Williams, 1997-
Medieval Madness (Remake - LE)
Chicago Gaming Co., 2015
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Medieval Madness (Remake - Standard)
Chicago Gaming Co., 2015
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Quoted from pezpunk:they play the same.
the remake has better clearcoat on the playfield and better DMD graphics (if you spring for the color upgrade).
the original has the benefit of 20 years of service, so any and all issues are already well-known and there are solutions available.
the remake is run by a Beaglebone Black, which is a very cheap and easy part to replace. it's not a part that's exclusive to our niche hobby. there are literally millions of them out there, don't let anyone tell you they'll be hard to find down the road. However, it also has a bunch of custom boards that are more of a question mark simply due to the fact that we don't have 20 years of history on them yet. i haven't heard of many technical issues with them so far, though. if for whatever reason the company making them fails, the custom boards could be hard to find years from now.
the remake also comes with a warranty.
in my opinion, there's really only two reasons to go original over the remake:
1) you care about authenticity, or
2) you are worried about the boards on the newer game failing and not being able to replace them years down the road.
edit: 3) you don't like LEDs, or you really want to be able to customize your own LED choices.
As a side note the original isn't without difficulties in getting parts. More and more of the chips that drive the game are no longer in production. They will dry up over time. The AV board is very tough and getting very expensive when you do find it. These issues will only get worse. The one advantadge that the original has here is that it shares its boards with thousands of other b/w machines. There is a greater chance that someone would take the time to make substitute parts/boards, but that is only an *IF*.
Quoted from o-din:I prefer original game over emulated game.
Emulated is a stretch. Sure the software is emulated, but the majority of pinball is physical. If someone took two original mm, put them side by side and ran one off new boards and one off original you wouldn't be able to tell them apart. This isn't like arcades which require precise timings. At least then expert level players could tell something was amiss.
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