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.

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 proven 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.

That’s it, the slight flipper difference. I have an MMr & enjoy it, and it plays well. But there’s just a slight unexplainable something about how it just feels ever so slightly different from B/W originals. A big batch of MMr’s actually came with the wrong flipper plunger...it was 1/8 in too long, and that LEGIT made it feel different. Once fixed it’s much better and more subtle. I have MB, and love how it plays...I’m intrigued by MBr as I love the bling CGC added to AFMr, but I’m worried about trading a play-feel I love for some superficial upgrades.