The only person who knows if Fathom is worth it is you. I did not really care for Centaur and the instant that I sold it, I started looking for a Fathom.

I grew tired of EBD but it took a long time. I never did like the design of Quicksilver, Star Gazer, or Seawitch, even when they were $1500 titles.

I think Skateball, Flash Gordon and Frontier are all very good games. I would consider owning one if I sold something else.

But, a ton of classic Bally machines are all very similar. Finding the perfect game for you that compilations your collection could take years or even decades. In my opinion you CAN have too many. I typically prefer to own 2-3 of each pinball era/company and look for games I can't seem to play locally.

IMO, Harlem is the FIRST SOLID STATE pinball that can/should be considered a tournament game that you can set up extremely difficult.

On some other opinions of classic Sterns/Bally machines others listed... a lot of the other games mentioned are great but I can't justify owning most of them. Pinball takes up quite a bit of space!

One game that I think is fantastic that was not already mentioned is Mystic. There is just something great about that game.

Oh, and whomever thinks Galaxy is not a fantastic game, you are wrong.

I mean yes... I would never buy anything for 5500 until I played it but that's just me I guess.

I don’t blame you for holding off on Williams until 85ish High Speed, when they completely blew away all other machines from that point, all the way through 1999... even though there are a lot of good Williams titles from the early 80’s, there are only a few that feel epic to me. Bally/Stern had a better percentage of great machines from 77-84.

I am an artist. To me, pinball is not just art. It was never intended to just be art. Some pinball has good art but unfortunately Silverball Mania, Xenon, and Space Invaders are all pinball machines with good backglass art that all play bad, and I mean really bad! None of the 3 are worth playing. Now, if you played the backglass...

And no matter how much you want pinball to be about art, it’s not just about that, it’s about playing good pinball and if it has cool art, that is a plus... If it was solely about being art, you wouldn’t play it, you would just observe it.

I don’t mind horrible pinball art as long as it plays fun... I mean why is the object there??? Not about the art. It works one way but not in the other direction very well.

Oh, and Mata Hari is fun but a few friends of mine have one I can play so I don’t feel like it’s a must own game for me.

Mostly disagree. The backglass is cool... good gameplay--> I personally do not think so.

Meteor is a decent choice but I fear eventually you will grow weary and tired of it.