I like to hit the swinging target.

My Palooka and Big Daddy are both like that. Single drops that really mean a lot and take good aim to hit. Seems Williams were pretty much the only ones using drop targets at the time.

I still like that swinging target on Magic Clock. The fact that your shot not only has to be accurate, but timed as well. With two inch flippers to boot.

I'm surprised gobble hole isn't on the list of options either.

It depends on the spinner and where it is located. The one on Bon Voyage is my favorite because if you hit it dead on the ball will make it through one of the rollover lanes and back to the top. That is a very satisfying shot and really makes those parts work.

Now on the other hand the Fun Land I played last week had spinners that even if you hit them full power would barely even spin and make one bell ring.

So this isn't just Fun Park? I guess you could almost count on one hand the amount of games they had with spinners. I think it was a missed opportunity. They seemed content to use a lot of the same features on many of their games during certain eras like the roto targets in the 50s and 60s and drop targets in the 70s. Just moving them around.

Perhaps.

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Minstrel Man has some cool drops.

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It looks like Keeney's Arrowhead was the first to use the modern style drop target and then Williams pretty much took over for the rest of the decade and fine tuned it.

I like them too! Lanes or buttons. Throw in a couple of pop bumpers, passive bumpers, kickout holes and maybe even a drop target or two, and it can be a fine game. You can keep the roto and vari targets.

It can be. But what you don't want want to do is shoot it there once the target is down. Then it will most likely go STTM. I learned by watching my daughter play. She doesn't mess with that target much. She likes to get the ball back up top. With the outlanes the way the are and the bounceback from the target, even a few seconds down below can be too much. Ask rat, he'll tell ya!

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