Quoted from cottonm4:I'm a sound set junkie. Most of these classic Sterns we are discussing here have the sounds that jazz me. Big Game sound set was a hit from day one. Nine Ball has some cool sounds. Catacomb took a bit to grow on me. And there is Seawitch, screaming witch that she is. Dragonfist has a nice sound set. After living with these sounds it is hard for me to go back to chimes like Trident and Hot Hand.
If I had the room, I would like to have both an Ali and a Meteor. But both pins, especially Meteor, has that humming sound that drives me nuts. With Meteor I guess it is supposed to be a Meteor crashing into Earth. I know Meteor looks like a blast to play but that humming....
Bally's sounds were..ahh... interesting, I suppose. Look at this rare 326 unit Bally Voltan. Beautiful game. But what is it with those Bally sounds? They make a great looking pin seem mediocre.And Gottlieb had a catalog of strange sounds that I just cannot wrap myself around. Here is Genie. Beautiful game to look at but those sounds...
Check out the video of Genie with Hulk sounds using the all in one board. Much better.
In Big Game, the sequence of rip left spinner/saucer/B-I-G lanes to pop bumpers is what kills the buzz of fast game play in the lower part of the playfield. When ripping spinners in Cheetah, the game continues to something else useful. Even the spinner that leads to Cheetah's pop bumpers has the side goal of randomly hitting the bonus-building drops at the top.
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