now i can say something about this game: simply amazing!!
i like hard pins that you need to practice a lot to reach the wizard. yes it is worth the 3 hours drive and yes it is a top 20 pin (i would put it at top 10)

you could make an excel chart of every rating there is and post it here
would save me a lot of trouble

what he means is that completing every mode is very hard. not that you are a bad player.
i consider myself a good player, i even won a local tournament once, and in my opinion Tron is the hardest game i ever played.
another big proof:
"My TRON LE has been played over 700 times. Nobody has ever made it to Portal."
WTF?? 700 plays and no wizard mode?? :S
when i reach the portal, if i ever, i will make a party and get drunk!

on the combos you hear a strange annoying sound, that tells you you made one more shot. the thing is it doesn't play the sound all the time. confusing yes. once i made a 7 hit combo just by shooting right ramp - right loop - right ramp - right loop....

me too! my high scores are all done alone with nobody watching

please please post a vid showing your skill! that shot is the hardest thing i ever saw in pinball!

the other day i shot it with the lower right flipper, bounced on something i can't remember.
the gem shot is like a luck shot. you get it much more times out of luck.. and that makes the game so hard i love it!

yesterday i picked up the camera to made some vids of my Tron. On the third game i reached the portal!! wow i was so excited since it was the first time that i completely blew it lol
now when i get there again on a game so hard? i don't know but i will keep trying forever
that is one of the reasons this game is so awesome, just by reaching the wizard mode is like beating a game.. and you still have to beat it after it