Quoted from Rarehero:

Great list of great games.
Shouldn’t cost 100k
Shocked at the pin opinions of 2018...shitting on B/W games and recommending unplayed games like Pirates or new Sterns over the bonafide classics from the greatest era of pinball design? We’re in the bizzaro era of this hobby. If the collectors of a decade ago saw people saying to ditch B/W for Sterns, they’d laugh their ass off.
Now look, I like plenty of Sterns and many are excellent, but none of them take away from how great the B/W 90’s games are.

Quoted from Rarehero:

Every game offers a finite experience. The amount of times you want to play them is subjective. If this guy has never owned these games, they’re new to him. The B/W games have price to themselves to be mostly perfect combinations of design, art, sound and rules that have stood the test of time. That’s why they’re still played, collected, and remade.
As for “fresh and different”...Most Sterns have similar designs as previous games, lack of interesting mechs and interactive toys or wacky ramps of the 90’s games. Some of the math-chess rulesets are different, but divisive. I’d rather play any B/W game for 10 years straight than ever touch SW, GOT or GB ever again. I’d rather play any B/W game than listen to the boballee bobo monologues of GOTG. I own 7 Sterns...but nothing made after Metallica could replace a B/W game. The OP’s got LOTR on the list. That’s a great Stern.