Judge Dredd
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Hello, thinking of adding a JD to my collection. Had the opportunity to play it for just a few minutes, so my opinion on it is mostly based on youtube videos or reading other reviews.
Seems good, cool ramps, cool theme (not from the movie like Demolition man but based from the comics that I prefer).
Also, how does it fit\compare to my current collection (tz, tom, cftbl, cv, ww) ?
Thanks in advance.
Quoted from goatdan:Yeah, JD isn't going to jump in price. What JD will do, however, is be a great not-family friendly machine *if you set it up right*. If you set it up so you can constantly loop the left ramp, it's a dull machine. If you set it up so that without a perfect shot to that ramp it comes back at you, it's a spectacular game that doesn't get old because you have a ton of control and can really make some great strategies on how to score points. If you aren't a big pinhead though, it sucks. It's about the least popular game for guests, it hits all these bad points for them:
- You'll probably set it up hard, which is a turn off.
- It's a violent, not-really-recognizable theme.
- There is no plunger or even plunger button. It is really confusing for people to have to press the button above the left flipper button to fire the ball into play.
- Even with the planet ring, there is really no easy interactive toys to get people to just randomly shoot at the game.
- You don't know clunky until you play a JD. Seriously, anyone who says DE is clunky has never played this thing.
If that stuff matters to you, skip it. If it doesn't, you'll love it. I've had mine for about 5 years now, and it won't go anywhere.
Oh, and I'm a weird-o who doesn't really like the planet ring lock.
Thanks for all the answers so far. goatdan's was really helpful. I will only know if I made a good or bad choice unfortunately a few weeks after I (probably) buy it.
I don't care about the guests 
This is 99.99% of the time for me. But that "clunky" statement got me worried...it's because it's a wide-body and not as smooth-flow like butter as TOM ?
Also the machine being more cheap is not an issue, I don't want it because its a bang-buck, but because (I think) I like it.
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