Any EM that you thought enough to buy (for price, novelty, looks, or just closeness or youth in your career in pin) is the best EM. Work on it, restore it, sell it, learn from the process, and do it again. Factors like art, tides of like (as some say), production #, playability, condition usually in (some lasted better than others for various reasons) makes it all very subjective. Again, the one I have my head in, humping away at it to make it play the best I can, and learning from it, that makes the EM special and particularly interesting at a given time. Like children, you will have a fav or two, the posse will not pull all equally all the time.

As TA of PHoF has said, and is correct, single player games are pure and simple. You and machine, you get in a zone, a zen and playing them makes for a special relationship between a game and how it plays with the player. The player owns it for that moment in time, no matter if in a friends house, on location or in the spirit of thinking about beating it next time for a high score. Hold over features make multi player EMs from the WMS factory are unique and add strategy. However, 95% of all games played on a multiplayer machine are single. So, stick with the single players for the best bang for the buck, and maintainability. The multiplayer games came into fashion but it was never a realized benefit in the market, or at home for the enthusiast and true player/game owner. However, and there is always a caveat to all things, small percentage benefit at best, is in home game play at parties, and in tourneys the multiple player brings to the floor some interaction and participation which is needed. All charity events I host have 1/2 or more multiplayer EMs. They do serve a purpose, but they are not pure.

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Yep, thanks! That does a quick top quality game search. About 75% of those are in hoard, and no surprise about 50% are GTB games. All those titles I've played and bought, or wish I had or am looking. However, and important, there are hard to find titles that don't get reviews that also are well worth hunting, and restoring. Mars Trek and Cherry Bell come to mind. None of those in the result are obviously woodies, and they are cheap now and some are worth buying and having for completeness/roundness of your collection. Most are super easy to maintain as well.

The reason these haven't been mentioned is likely they are not much for playing in most cases
but were nice titles for beginners that were successful on route. Yes they made quite a few of many
of these titles, but honestly from a player's perspective these games are simple or just not that good.
The exception may be Jet Spin. For instance on your list, its clearly understood that Faces and Prospector
are far inferior to Mars Trek. Jet Spin is far inferior to many other GTB titles. Your WMS titles are far
inferior to ... Its just more of a matter of what we have played, and have in our collections that determines
the collectors opinion, number produced influences that on call outs in threads like this. GetDaVic has it right,
play people's/collections/shows games, decide for yourself. Ask two people, you get three opinions.

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Totally agree, C-37 is all artwork, the game is not even average play IMHO. Not a reason to own the game.