Easy answer, get both!

Indian Jones is a very fun pin, I love the movies!

I owned both, prefer IJ.

IJ has more modes, but gets kinda repetitive. TOTAN is kinda easy but I find the experience of it to be more interesting & unique. They're both solid for what they are. I think it comes down to which theme you like more.

Tough one!

I personally think IJ has the better rules and better gameplay, but TOTAN is such a lush enriching game to behold. What do you value in your collection? Do you want something alluring and somewhat obscure, or just a really good game?

Me, personally, I'd probably go for Indiana Jones, but all the while wish I had picked up the TOTAN (pun intended).

Get both and donate one to me.

I currently own both, both keepers, for long time. I have never finished, or come close ro finishing indy. It is very difficult and makes it worth turning on very often.

They both have awesome ColorDMDs, too.

On rules and Theme IJ all the way, for pure beauty TOTAN is the pageant winner.

Still have to go with IJ...

Unfortunately totan isnt very fun to play imo.... i went to buy a fully restored/modded example a few months ago for a good deal and it just wasn't very good especially for what people pay for them. Its beautiful with some neat toys/magnets but overall not fun to play after the first few times.

I've always thought of TOTAN like a super attractive person who just blew through the doors at a bar. Attention is certainly grabbed, but once you start talking to the person, you realize that there's next to nothing between the ears. It's fun for a while, but once the façade is dropped, you're on a one way trip to disappointmenttown.

That's not to say the game isn't fun though, but after a while, the cage ball saves and genie bottle magnet lose their allure, and the rest of the game becomes very much average. TOM has the same effect. Once you peel back the layers of amazing artwork and lush sound, the game becomes super "samey." But to each his own. Some people really like those artistic factors in a pinball machine. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, it's just that I'd prefer a game with lasting strategy.

I have owned TOTAN three times . Each time having to pay thousands more buying it back . 1st time TOTAN in 1998 I bought off a SAGA chain of arcades located in lower level of the 'PARK MEADOWS MALL' in Denver Co. Due to the fact that it was a SEGA arcade they could not put TOTAN in the arcade proper . It was in the hallway. I contacted purchasing dept. And bought it for $1,700.00. The second TOTAN I bought from Wolfman in 2009 for $3,400.00 . It needed a shit load of work to get 100% . It was also my first (LED conversion I had ever done). I sold it do to space issues to arcade 'Pinball Jones'. The Third was I trade deal . I think every one Interested in a TOTAN should one at least once and if possible as a collector never sell it. Both Pinball are great but TOTAN a trip to play and really fun to trick out with custom hand picked LED's. If go TOTAN Let me know as the are some tricks for the LED conversion I could share with you. Good luck ! Rob

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I like the theme on IJ, sound, look, the whole package... but I never felt like it was a great player.

TOTAN is a nice looking game that does some cool stuff but it never really clicked with me.

TOTAN for me is gorgeous to look at. Has an awesome theme with great DMD animations. In those areas I give it a perfect rating. The problem for me is the gameplay is far too easy to have any lasting replayability in a home setting. The wizard mode is cool, but again no challenge to it to build excitement. I get some really like the game and that's great, but it's definitely not for me.

Yeah, when I had IJ, there was a "problem" I couldn't quite figure out. The flippers couldn't seem to get the ball around the orbit that well...it would usually floop into the lanes and bumpers when a mode required it to go all the way around - but at the same time when I hit the ramps, the shot was so strong that the ball would fly off the ramps a lot. If I put in stronger flipper coils, that might solve the orbit issue, but then my ramps would be double-F'd. Not sure if this is common on IJ's, but it was one of the reasons I sold mine pretty quick.

Have you asked your husband what he would like?

It's always good to have at least one practical person in the family.