I was just wondering if I was the only one who did this.
I like to play 4 player games and I try to do the best I can for each player. Usually there is one player that stands out which I don't understand how I can do poorly on 3 players and then one has a great game. (This is all relative to my skill level, my great games = most of your poor games at this point. So imagine what my poor games are like! But I digress.)
I may be wrong but I swear that my Getaway has a different points structure during multiple play games. IOW, play three or more and bonuses change, jackpots go up.
So I will play 3 or 4 games.
Quoted from Geocab:I like to play 4 player games and I try to do the best I can for each player.
I play an older EM Gottlieb that once you tilt a player you are disqualified which a 4 player gives more opportunity to get tilt parameters dialed in,plus it gives all the contacts and rotating assemblies a good workout.
Quoted from MrBally:Used to with em's only.
Ditto^ Only thing I know. 
I will only play 4 player on Comet when I am at home and alone. Never in the wild or at a show. I like to hit the million point jackpot and it's too disappointing to get to ball 3 and loose your opportunity. When you are playing 4 player, you have more chances to win a million!!
Quoted from DaveH:I like playing single player. It seems to flow better as I am trying to make objectives in a game. If I have a really good ball I want to follow it up and not have to play 3 more before I get back to that game.
^ this!
exactly what I was gonna write.
I have never claimed to be completely normal. 
I don't play 4 player games exclusively, I do play a lot of single player games, but when I'm having a lot of bad games, I start a 4 player match to get some practice on shots and different strategies. Or sometimes I just view it as a way of playing Solitaire, pinball style. I am one of four players, play the best I can on each, and hope to win.
Unfortunately I don't have a lot of pinball interested friends to stop by and play.
I play 2 player sometimes so if my wife comes over and wants to play a ball or 2 I let her on the game I am doing worse 
Haha, I do that too! Occasionally if the game is starting to irritate me and my patience is running out I start hitting start to restart the game. Sometimes my timing is off or the machine isn't set to do this, and enter next player. Only at home do I do this, but only at home do I play enough to get irritated. Also, if I did it in the wild, that wastes a credit.
Only to "use them up" after my nieces/nephews have played and walked away from it mid-game (they are 11 9 and 7 years old).
Not a big deal at my place, but this was the stuff of nightmares amongst certain ones of us in that infamous "Do you have rules in your gameroom?" thread LOL
http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/do-you-ever-feel-like-you-have-to-set-rules-for-your-gameroom
I do when playing my EMs. Keeping all those score reels rolling helps prevent problems later. On my EM bowler, I'll play all 6 players every once-in-awhile.
Always interesting how close together, and sometimes how far apart, your scores can be.
On Flintstones I discovered that the dmd animation for Water Buffaloes is different for players 2 and 4, and didn't figure this out for the longest time because I would always player single player. But my son likes to hit the Start button a bunch so I finally stumbled upon this "easter egg."
On TZ the powerball can keep coming back to you on multi-player, which is usually a bad thing for me.
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