I wanna see Vic Camp's reply ;-

I play all my games at least twice a week. I rank them all very close in game play and enjoy them all equally.

There is a fine line between most all EM’s that are considered great players and there are many from all manufacturers.

King of Diamonds
North Star
2001
Target Pool
Sweet Hearts
Top Card
Show Boat
Eldorado
Jack’s Open
Atlantis
Cross Town
C-37
Bank a Ball
Lady Luck
Big Hit
Domino
Buckaroo
Spin a Card
Skill Pool
Golden Arrow
Flip a Card
High Hand
Sign Along
Volley
Sure Shot
King Pin
Central Park
Drop a Card
Mibs
Blue Chip
Aquarius
Dixieland (bingo)
Lite a Line(bingo)
Silver Sails(bingo)
Gay Time(bingo)
Coney Island(bingo)
Tropics(bingo)
Count Down(almost an Em)
Playboy(almost an EM)

Sky jump
Atlantis
Quick draw
Royal flush
Surfer
Jumping jack

Jacks open is in work so we shall see where that fits when I am finished with it...

Centigrade 37
Atlantis
Team one
Abra cadabra
Grand Prix
Outer Space
Surf Champ
Vampire
Aztec

Truth be told, luv them all

1) Spanish Eyes. Just cause GUNSTAR has such a hard-on for it. (long live AL).
No order....
ElDorado
Dimension
Lucky Hand
Big Indian
Quick Draw
Lawman
Sky Jump
Volley
Blast Off
Big Hit
World Series
Home Run
C-37
Jumping Jack
Pop-A-Card
Pin Up
Bon Voyage
Far Out
Top Card

#1 OXO - Williams
#2 Expo - Williams
#3 Old Chicago - Bally
#4 Double-Up - Bally
#5 Royal Flush - Gottlieb
#6 Aztec - Williams
#7 Spanish Eyes - Williams
#8 Travel Time - Williams

1. Quick draw
2. Atlantis
3. Lucky Hand
4. Bank-A-Ball

1. Sing Along
2. El Dorado
3. Strato Flite (underrated and FAST DC action)
4. Domino
5. Continental Cafe (almost fully playable so it may move up, on high tap it's not as bad as I thought)

I would rank Kings and Queens toward the top I'm sure but it's my next project.

1. Bally Hang Glider
2. Gottlieb Vulcan (Not 100% yet)
3. Gottlieb Target Alpha (Sold)

I'm going to base my ranking on playability. There is a good variety with drop target games, stand up target games, gate games, pop bumper games, spinner games, rare games, classic games, and multi-player games in the collection. Currently 19 wedgeheads, 7 two-players, and 1 four-player set up right now. So here are the games that when I walk down to the basement game room I seem to play the most.

1. Abra Ca Dabra
2. Atlantis
3. Strange World
4. Quick Draw
5. Jacks Open
6. Sing Along
7. Buckaroo
8. Ice Revue
9. Big Hit
10. Jacks Open
11. Kings & Queens
12. Centigrade 37
13. Target Pool
14. Domino
15. Volley
16. Golden Arrow
17. Sky Jump
18. Wild Life
19. King Pin
20. Jumping Jack
21. Paul Bunyan
22. King of Diamonds
23. King Kool
24. Gridiron
25. Hot Shot
26. Bristol Hills
27. Tropic Isle

Seems like Jacks Open is the only one you'd play twice though

1. Atlantis
2. Sky Jump
3. Royal Guard
4. Ship ahoy
5. Quick Draw
6. King of Diamonds
7. Aladdin's Castle

I thought you had a "Pin-Up" as well.

Although I could get into almost any of them, once the colder weather came around,
I fixed a couple issues and now when I do play a game, 90% it's on the Joker Poker.
I have heard once the targets are down, there's not much else to shoot for..
If one gets all 15 targets down before drain, I say one had a damm good ball!
For a couple of months, EM J.P. #1

Whoops #10 was supposed to be El Dorado...but yes I’d play Jacks Open twice

He had a very nice King Pin

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Pin-up went away, as did King Pin. Was time to change things up.

That's a real-nice King Pin!!

1. Grand Prix
2. Quick Draw
3. Aztec
4. Top Card
5. Jumping Jack
6. Liberty Bell

Ranking your EMs can be fun, but it is like watching weather forecasts. Everything changes over time.
I had buyers' remorse after picking up a Domino. I would have put it in last place. I put a Shay glass in it to make it look better, but that made me regret my purchase even more.
Then I realized how much fun Domino is to play. It's a great pin! And now that the Shay Domino glasses are gone, I am relieved that I have one.

As of now:
1. Mars Trek
2. Grand Prix
3. Royal Flush
4. Domino
5. Full House
6. Teacher's Pet
7. Zig Zag
8. Palooka
9. Criterium '75 (only because it is a project, and will be a low-end-pin-machine at best)

I only have 2 at the moment. I brought them both back from decades of neglect so I love them both. I think I will go
1. 4 Square
2. Dancing Dolls

List of my games that are currently set up and working:

1. GTB Jungle Queen
2. BLY Mata Hari EM Version
3. WMS Gulfstream
4. GTB Jumping Jack
5. BLY Expressway
6. GTB Hit n Run
7. GTB King Pin
8. GTB Target Alpha
9. WMS Super Star
10. WMS Dealers Choice

GTB Quick Draw
GTB Abracadabra

#4-roses

#skylab

#aladdins-castle

Only have two right now...

1. Grand Prix
2. Rancho

Rancho has grown on me and is right up there with Grand Prix but I prefer the alternating bonus lanes and dual spinners... Both are great Williams machines!

Only have 3 and 2 are projects, so I would have to go in this order for now:

1) 1976 Surf Champ

2) 1973 Gottlieb King Pin

3) 1975 Bally Hokus Pokus

I find that I play my EM's the most, followed they the pure mechanicals "M's" (Rock-ola Jigsaw, World's Series, TNT, Army Navy), followed by Solid State then DMD/LCD games. Here are my EM's, in the approximate order I play them from most to least:

1) Joker Poker. I'm really psyched about that Ed from Texas is working with Shay to make a replacement backglass!!!!
2) Fireball
3) Wizard
4) C37
5) Slick Chick
6) Bow and Arrow
7) Surf Champ
8) Kings and Queens
9) Rocket (Williams
10) Jet Spint
11) Lucky Hand
12) Captain Fantastic
13) Cover Girl

Someday in the future I would love to augment my collection with an Atlantis and Quick Draw.

Nate

Wizard
Target Pool
Pin-up
Jacks Open
Abra Ca Dabra
Target Alpha
Central Park
Sweet Hearts
Buckaroo

1) Freedom (prototype) - playing this most, lately.
2) Pop-A-Card
3) Fireball
4) Centigrade 37
5) Fast Draw

? Pyramid - not working yet.

Since last April. I posted in your middle-pop thread about it back then. (post #186)

Fast Draw

Argosy

Fireball

Cool. I thought it might be fun to pick up a standard Freedom playfield sometime, if I get the chance. Then I could convert back and forth between the two styles.

EM games working and in the current lineup (except Mata Hari, currently being restored):

1. GTB King Pin
2. GTB Jumping Jack
3. GTB Jungle Queen
4. WMS Gulfstream
5. Bally Mata Hari EM
6. Bally Expressway
7. GTB Target Alpha
8. GTB Hit N Run
9. WMS Super Star
10. WMS Dealers Choice

Pop-A-Card

I have 6 games left and they are forever-keepers. Here's how I rank 'em:

King of Diamonds
Slick Chick
North Star
Hearts and Spades
Sing Along
Paddock - (although many think it's pretty lame, amazingly, it's the game everyone
gravitates to at every party-of-pinheads I have. It's a game I grew up
with and had to have).

1) Astro
2) Pop-A-Card
3) Wild Wild West

Paddock/Post Time is definitely a sleeper pin, not unlike Pit Stop.
Paddock one of the first pins to use 3in flippers.

I've come across many Paddock pins most to far away one was here, but was a project pin and that was a very project pin.

Fast draw
In fact ... it is the only em I own , but I love it

Fast Draw / Quick Draw are great players!