They're all good.

Mmmmmm, dinner.

I want to review the two I have but they don't make the cut - Mustang and Klondike

Apparently it's now in Santa Fe Springs, should be here tomorrow.

2 down. I'll put up a couple more later. Been meaning to do this for a while; thanks for the reminder.

Where is the link for Williams "Star Pool"?

Hmmm, I believe I have already rated all of the EMs that I've played recently, but perhaps I can bend the rules and review some that I have played many years before.

Thanks Rat, I'm glad you know your way 'round this site...I gotta write me some reviews!

Thanks, buddy. As soon as I get it up and running, I'll review it. Haven't played one in years. I will say this though, with the four large drop targets, three pops, and the easy return to the top on both sides, this game does have possibilities.

Reviewed Card Whiz not too long ago.

Super Soccer is my all time favorite. Sinbad and joker poker are awesome. Target alpha, and some woodrail I played that had a group of 6 point bumpers that rotated around on the upper part of the playfield. Don't know what it was called, but I liked it. Wouldn't mind getting one of those too.

One very detailed review completed. http://pinside.com/pinball/archive/spirit-of-76/ratings

Nags, a very collectible Williams woodrail...
Alex

is nags the one with the rotation Pop looking targets. They look like POPS but arn't. if they were pops that would be even more killer.

Just IPDB'd it. Yup that's the one. That was a lot of fun to play.

I just did my EM reviews. It's a pIA to review games that arn't on the list. Took me 20 min to figure out how to look up a game for review. ok took me 12 min, but felt like 20.

This will change as the number of review increase. Robin allowed machine with only one review to be counted so the EM top 100 could get started. He will change the number of reviews required once the Data pool can support this.

What we have seen over the past few months. One person rates a machine as a 9.9. it becomes number one until the second rating is added, usually a more realistic rating, then it drops way down.

So hopefully, people will rate the machine against other machine of the same period and not just to get there machine on to the list, unless of cause this gives them a raging hard-on, we don’t want to relieve (Pun intended) people of this simple short term pleasure for decent usable data, do we

And....how do you do it?

I've stumbled across it before, but there needs to be a better "game search" function.

...and to answer my own question:

Click "Archive" at the top.

Centigrade 37: Best EM ever made. There!

I've stumbled across it before, but there needs to be a better "game search" function

Also you can use the search function too, will get you to the same place, select the machine and scroll to the bottom. Here it has “Rate this Machine”.

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ok, I've started posting some reviews too - still learning all the neat features here on pinside

regards, Ron

So does World Fair justify its #1 ranking? Never played it before.

At lease it has 7 ratings, got to be more realistic then others that held #1 in the past

the search isnt' very precise either. All these goofy games come up that have no business being in there. When I searched for Super Soccer. I had to go to page to, to find the game I searched for. First page was nonsense.

I'd love to give some ratings, but I haven't had any real playing time on an EM pin in over 20 years. In Oct, I did play a handful of games on Ted's Centigrade 37, does that count?

Yes! And here's a mini review. It's gorgeous.

World Fair is a damn fine game. As is Little Joe. Any why are we not hearing more about Fireball?

Centigrade is not the best EM ever made. It is a really good game, but it is not the end all that people make it out to be. It's too easy of a player and people gush over it because it's relatively rare (that's for a reason, HA!). Atlantis is a much better player and has a number of multiplayer iterations (Lawman) as well. I also like 300 and Top score for the way that the bonus builds and is collected. Never ending goals are good to work for.

Joker Poker is a great EM, but the rules on the SS version of this game are better with the bonus multiplier travelling around the PF and incrementing in difficulty as the game progresses.

Of course these are just my opinions. I do have a new EM review coming out in a bit. Klondike. It's a righteous game from Williams.

Klondike just pushed me to 550 reviews! Now I have to go out and find more pinball games to review...

550 reviews, amazing effort Wow

It's my lunchtime habit for the past few years. You know what they say. "A pin-review a day, keeps the pin-blues away." Actually, I just said that. You can quote me on that one from now on.

Livin' the DREAM!

I did a couple more reviews today. May add a couple more later today. Looks like it's about time to have a minimum number of reviews to be listed on top 100.

Nice job Rat, getting everyone motivated to review.

Damn that Neptune, I would be perfectly ok with Kings and Queens being #1.

when do my reviews get recognized ??

just curious, my icon still doesn't show that I have done six reviews??

regards, Ron

It takes a while as they actually review them for appropriate content!

I just took a minute and wrote up my thoughts about two of the games I own. It was really fun!

Dogies was my first machine ever, and I brought it back to life through a bumbling combination of persistence, luck, and frequent visits to pinrepair.com and this very forum -- so I have a sentimental attachment to it. Sea Ray is much prettier and more fun to play, though!

I've got a new-to-me "Cosmos" sitting in the basement now, awaiting maintenance. Once I get it up and running and I've played a bunch of games, I'll definitely add a review.

Rat_Tomago, thanks for the thread and for pushing everyone to add reviews. I'm a little skeptical of the value of a "top 100," but each review is really useful. It's great to have access to someone else's thoughts about a given game, as well as to read a few words about the game action and/or what exactly makes a particular game fun or special or boring or beautiful.

Thanks for the effort guys. Pinside is drastically lacking in decades of pin info!

Would be nice if each machine page had a link to the IMDB page... Or a way for us to add the links in.