Quoted from Pinballlew:I like Night Rider better, there I said it.
Ok there's the one, close the thread now
I'd love to have both but prefer Night Rider based on gameplay. Similar layouts but Night Rider has more drop targets.
Hi Mercury
You show pictures in Your post-1 --- Night Rider is an EM - Evel Knievel is an SS-Pin. I am an EM-guy --- I can fix EMs - I cannot fix SS-Pins. Yes, I do have some Gottlieb-System-1 SS-Pins in my "collection" because I have played them in my youth (Well, I am an nostalgic - not an collector) - I'd prefer to have the EMs - could not buy - so I bought me the SS-Pins AND: http://www.flippp.fr/index.php?lg=en to "boards" here http://www.flippp.fr/boards.php and the PI-1-X4: http://www.flippp.fr/pi1x4.php --- I bought and put-in and the pins run. Greetings Rolf
EK by a mile. EK is so much more interesting. I'm always bored playing Night Rider. But EK just has something special.
Thanks for all the replies..For 2 tables with such similar play fields
it's interesting the strong feelings for either or.
EK by far! I could stare at the lower plastics all day long!!!!!!! Oh wait this is a pinball machine
Looks like its EK all the way...I do find it peculiar though that Night Rider is listed
on the best per manufacturer list under Bally and yet no EK???
Since they where both built as em and ss models I'll go for night rider is the better em model and evel knievel wins the ss model
EK for theme. EK for artwork. EK for gameplay. EK for spinner scoring.
Quoted from Pinslot:EK by a country mile
Since I'm from Canada: EK by a country kilometre.
There is a reason EK SS's sell for about double the price of a SS Night Rider even though the production figures are doubled in the opposite direction. About 7000 for NR & 14,000 for EK.
Faris did the art on both games, but EK is worlds ahead IMO in the art dept. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy playing my NR, but EK is very high on my wish list for a reason (just haven't found right one, at right location, at right price YET)
I do like the game play on my NR better than most of my early SS Ballys, except maybe SuperSonic.
Mine just needs some minor PF touch ups & a good clear job, as well as a cabinet re-paint, which I'll get to someday this year. I am surprised CPR etc has never repo'd the plastics. If you add up the EM & SS #'s there were over 11,000 produced, & strange to see a pretty popular Bally with no repo plastics these days, no overlays, no talk of hardtops, or CPR PFs. I don't think NR gets much love.
Id love to own both! My Uncle has a Night Rider and we play the hell out of it when i go to visit him and it never gets old.
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