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Round 4 - Greatest Pinball Game of All-Time - Tournament Edition 2020

By AFM95

3 years ago


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    “Round 4 - Elite Eight Voting”

    • (1) Pirates of the Caribbean (JJP) VS 204 votes
      11%
    • (8) Lord of the Rings 247 votes
      14%
    • (2) Medieval Madness VS 238 votes
      13%
    • (7) Twilight Zone 234 votes
      13%
    • (3) Attack From Mars VS 251 votes
      14%
    • (11) Indiana Jones (Williams) 202 votes
      11%
    • (4) Monster Bash VS 187 votes
      10%
    • (5) Jurassic Park (Stern) 259 votes
      14%

    (Multiple choice - 1822 votes by 520 Pinsiders)

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    #40 3 years ago
    Quoted from Tranquilize:

    As stated, the remakes will skew the results in their favour, but it's still cool to see the battle!

    MM and AFM were highly regarded before there were remakes. I for one hope TZ knocks out MM.

    #44 3 years ago

    I have an AFMr and a TZ right now; I had an original MM for about a year or so. All three of the games are superb machines.

    MM suffers in the eyes of many due to the scoring being somewhat unbalanced. Many tournament players do not particularly like MM. The scoring is really the games only weakness though.

    TZ suffers in the eyes of many because it is a high maintenance game. Some people dislike the stop and go gameplay style of it as well...it has so many interactive toys that the ball stops constantly. This doesn’t bother me one bit, I love all the jam packed features TZ has and the theme integration is really the best of the B/W era other than maybe TAF.

    AFM has the most balanced code of the three, really superior software to MM in particular as AFM has three distinct viable strategies to pursue in tourney play. Some people are not a fan of the artwork on AFM, but it doesn’t bother me.

    My personal rating of the three head to head is TZ #1, AFM #2, and MM #3. All that said, modern games just have so much deeper code that it is hard to compare them. Games like BM66 and Dialed IN are just so loaded with things to do and ways to approach the game play. Of course, complexity doesn’t mean better, sometime a simple game is what someone wants to play (hence, MM is so highly regarded).

    #101 3 years ago
    Quoted from Tranquilize:

    I'd say TZ's code holds up well against modern code. There's a shit-ton to do in that game with some decent stacking. Lots of modes, battle the power, loops, dead ends, two main multiballs, hitch hikers, Gumball, camera, slot, clock... So much code!

    Hands down. TZ is best coded game from the 90’s, primarily due to all the things that have to interact with the ball (there was an overwhelming amount of toys that needed code). People talk about how WOZ approaches TZ from a toy perspective, but it really doesn’t. TZ is still more loaded than WOZ.

    #115 3 years ago
    Quoted from colonel_caverne:

    I understand your arguments regarding tournament aspects but I don’t think it concerns most of the players that play casually

    Yes, agreed. Tourney players are a big minority of pinball players. Games that niche of the hobby like and do not like is not reflective of the hobby at large.

    #131 3 years ago

    TZ is a mere 13 votes behind...as voting is coming in an end.

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