MB: Hate how the balls bounces of dracs feet at times n heads SDTM. Need to remember to give the game a nudge as its coming down.

AFM: RTU is to easy to complete for how difficult it is to achieve.

WH2O: That darn Extra Ball target placement.

ACDC: Right inlane/outlane blocked by cannon only thing that get on nerves at times.

White Water - "Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide the Whirlpool!"

SS - not as funny as people think it is, but neither are some of the other "comedy" pins

IM - um... hmmm... pegs and lack of instant info. Dots, too.

Indy 500 - lock shot bounce outs, some of which immediately drain in the right outlane.

STTNG - Theme.

Shadow - Theme/lines. Why is the Shadow laughing maniacally throughout the movie?

Tron - Stacking strategies are not as good as IM's.

SFII- Where do I start?

NBAFB: I've made a million effing baskets, now what!?

No FEAR: The skull can stfu at times

STTNG: You drain one more time down the outlanes for no actual reason and I will kill you

TOTAN: take out the jewel obtaining ability from bazaar

Every one of my games has a huge gap between the flippers that the ball falls through.

They all have out lanes too.

Jason

LAH -- Ramp diverter mistimed sometimes and scopps in the center of the playfield you either hit too much or not enough.

DW: Too much emphasis on playfield multiplier for a great game.

Tommy: Terrible video mode

Goldeneye: Mode start too damn narrow to hit half the time.

Shadow: Some repetitive callouts and having a plastic under the battlefield that just gets beat to hell and broken.

TZ: Diverter bounces ball off...should have had magnet to begin with.

RS: Wish you could start with a different mode rather than one of the same two every time.

WW: Side draining off the slings happens way too often.

CV: Shooting the skill shot often times is rewarded with a SDTM drain. Wife is jumpy to all the times the cannon fires when scoring jackpot's....can't play without the coil though (cannon) in the back box.

POTC: Only had a short time...call outs are pretty cheesy in general.

POTC- no flow.
CFTBL- too linear, same game every time to get to multiball.
AFM- I can't do it best game ever.
Fishtales- video mode is too easy once you master it.
WH2O- the annoying sound the ball kicker makes over and over every time the ball is kicked up to the upper flipper.
FH- needs a dmd
BSD- drain monster, I never get too far ( I suck)
Space Odyssey- those sling kickouts keep you from cradling a ball.

BoP- Lack of objectives to justify hitting shots other than the ramps

CFTBL- needs more beefy modes beyond just qualifying multiball

TSPP- could use another flowing shot and Harry Shearer voice work

NGG- needs a harder to achieve Wizard mode (18th hole would be nice!)

STTNG- bigger payoff for Warp 9 mode

MB- needs combos and more open orbits/center ramps

RFM- too linear progression

AC/DC- poor visibility right inlane/outlane

Tron: Frickin black rubber marks everywhere
STTNG: Is it broke again!
Hulk LE: Hulk stop catching the dang ball
Spiderman: nuttin to speak of
RS: Those heads are really weird
Hurricane: The clowns crotch is like right there!
Robocop: If the flippers were any stonger, glass would break
IJ: Is there a top half of the playfield
Lotr: Is Valinor even attainable on 3 ball
Rescue 911: Its for sale
WCS: Does the soccer ball do anything other than look cool
RFM: Am I shooting at the screen or the machine targets

All the women depicted in the art on my games have all their clothes on.

Maverick: Mel Gibson, Paddle Wheel
WWF: 'Ooohhh yeah'
Jackbot: Not many shots

I'm going to expand this to games that I have owned...

Skateball: Simple strategy that doesn't utilize all shots
Black Belt: Terrible sound
Panthera: Panther roar sounds like a wet fart
SFII: Linear Gameplay
Jokerz: Terrible PF layout
LWJP: Insanely difficult and imbalanced scoring. Snagger is SLOW
T2: Limited number of shots and shallow rules
SST: Bug screams
TFTC: Most annoying game I've ever owned
WPT: Steep learning curve
Secret Service: Plain old not fun
Shadow: Upper PF is stupid
Avatar: In strategic play, only a few shots are used
LOTR: Ball times too long
Goldeneye: Punishing when you don't hit your shots. Lots of mechs that can malfunction
Nascar: Theme

SW DE: Super Force Awards are SOO not worth it. Anything besides the mball doesnt have enough value.

Drac: Can be very "buggy", balls launching randomly, balls ending prematurely etc.

WCS: Only 1 mball. Translite kinda sucks?

SOF: Too easy? Gets a bit repetitive once you master it.

4mbc - Plays a little dull compared to some others..

Flash - That loop shot from the upper flipper, I feel like you should be able to keep that going.. Ant the art (but I kinda like it).

Space Shuttle - A little too simple, perhaps. MB is easy to achieve, ball saver, outlane save, all those kind of make it play a little long.

PinBot - Right flipper heavy. Only 2-ball mb.

WCS - Not a fan of the art/colors. Sounds aren't the best, either.

Wh20 - Sound quality? Doesn't bother me much, but could be improved. Edit: The up kick sound is kind of annoying. That center shot is a little too prominent.

AC/DC - Art. Seeing how great Metallica turned out, the game is a little disappointing in this regard.

You dont like Whirlpool Challenge????

Dr. Dude - only 2 ball multiball and generally over very quickly so scoring can be haphazard, nurse looks like a mental patient

JM - hurts my wrists I have to nudge it so much to keep it in play, blasting through the modes too quickly doesn't grant you enough Mb to start powerdown, looking at Keanu every evening and asking God why

Mine are more about the condition as well as design:
BOP (and others): ramps not designed to withstand the abuse they take given their location, standing targets too random to activate
Bad Cats: Again, ramps - fishbowl ramp to extra ball can be too easy, don't like that jackpot can be activated by the seafood wheel, takes away skill from a high point score
Doctor Who: Standing targets a too random, perhaps I just need to practice on skill, art is lacking - bg gives doctors weird expressions, would've liked more specific objectives to match each doctor

They all need to be dusted every week.

Tommy - - mirror target shots that don't always register and the auto plunger assembly.

Who dunnit - - unfinished rules, imo.

Roadshow - - um erm???

On all my 48 pins it's the balls which almost always drains before I got to my target .
Don't forget the designers have spent many hours on each and every game to make this thread possible. If a game wouldn't become dull within a certain time nobody would buy or play another game. I always blame the machine when thing go wrong. Up to now it seems correct as the machine never complains....
But okay: Premier Gottlieb games. Like the game but those slim boy flippers are just so unreliable. And although the outlanes aren't wide open it seems the balls are swallowed in there.
Data East. The black beast coils are so powerfull that it sends the ball out to destroy the games own components.
And a lot more.
The cure though is simple. You do not need to stop playing pinball but stick to all games before 1980. Ball drains are fast, no ball save, so before you really get pissed it is already over and you can turn to other activities.

Metallica LE: It is sitting in Teekee's basement.

Pinbot: I can't reach the Godd&mn Sun.
HS: Hmmm....tough one. I had to buy a refurb board?
WW: That damn million's ramp is a bitch to hit.
Funhouse: Rudy's a twink.

XM: Could those shots get any tighter. Shut up already wolvie.
TF: Optimus voice actor is terrrrible.
Tron: black skids marks EVERYWHERE
Avatar: The metal spring hack to fix the drain doesn't always work.
Goldeneye: Playfield wear in 007's crotch
PZ: DJ shot VERY tough with a cliffy installed. Flame polish ramps VERY difficult.
BlkRose: leveling the canon is a PROCESS
RFM: Takes forever......to boot up.
Time Machine: No ball save.

Almost for DM: Annoying callouts and no video clips from the movie.

Great thread! No pin is perfect, and considering the + & -'s is essential (IMHO) to deciding whether or not a particular pin suits you.

woz: Mine is invisible

T2 - People like you too much because of your cool theme.

Getaway - Uhhhh, I don't like ZZ Top? Should have Splash Wave from OutRun.

ACDC: cannon obstructs my vision of the lanes
Xmen: could they make wolverine any bigger?
IM: just got this so hard to nitpick - up post on left orbit shots brick it back down the orbit.
WCS: the translight needs to go

JM - center rollover lane drops the ball right past the pops

NBAFB - saucer passes sometimes fall out of "In The Paint" for no reason

Big Guns - Too much force on the plunge = giant wear spot at the ball drop

Monopoly - plain red backboard is boooooring

X-Men - f@#$ing Iceman ramp entry is sooooo narrow

RCT - "Dunk the Dummy" and "Super Dunk" are the same damn mode. Really, guys?

Later,
EV

SM- The left side of my cabinet is burnt to a crisp and there's no decals. Oh, and I can't make the Venom ramp most of the time.

Frankenstein- My first shop job and while the 2-LED bulbs in the GI look great most of the time, the GI flashes A LOT and we now call it Frankenseizure.

No Good Gofers- The bulbs oxidized from sitting so long not being used, so my LED shop job was basically a failure and I have mostly incandescent lights despite hours of pushing, poking, changing bulbs, brusing my ribs on the side of the cabinet, putting the playfield down, turning it on, bulb doesn't work, trying again. Ugh.

Jurassic Park- Tempermental, the control room switch likes to mess up, and now it shorts out when booting up so that I have to open the coin door then reset everything different from standard factory, like free play.

Twin Win- So pretty, yet so slow and boring after playing the others.

RFM- The computer crapped out on us during a family tournament, but husband was able to fix it by adding RAM, so that was nice. It's being pretty good, except the left martian doesn't jump as much as he should. Sadly it is getting a bit boring, but it will always stick around in hopes we find a SWE1 kit someday.

TAF- A pain to decal the bookcase/Thing box. Fliptronic board is being stupid and messing up the top flipper occasionally.

Flintstones- Ball gets stuck in the dino ramp, which requires removing the glass.

Pinball Magic- Subway recently messed up and required a custom welding job by my dad. Callouts get a little repetitive and old.

IM - Feels cheap.
SP - Shallow rules.
JD - Music gets a bit old.
TFLE - Modes aren't that fun.
Sopranos - Playfield art sucks.
GnR - Data East pins do not seem reliable.
TZ - Too much stop and go.
BSD - Shallow rules.
WOZ - Will it ever arrive??

Wh20 - sound is a little cruddy

TZ - Sound is a little cruddy

PM - Linear

NF - Theme, Video mode not integrated well

DH - Shoot-out impossible

NGG: can drain on skill shot. Pops are pointless.
Shrek: coolest mini play field ever, but needed one more true shot to be great. Right spinner heavy.
RS: I avoid the NY taxi smash mode like the plague

I get the spirit, but as I tried to answer this everything sounded kind of lame. I REALLY like most of my games right now. Lots of "keepers". What am I going to say bad about Tron? That it is dirty and I'm too lazy to clean it right now? That the Gem shot is too hard? No matter what I say everyone would know that I just love to play the game. But:

Tron: The Gem shot.
LOTR: TABA... I still can't get there. Wait a moment, that isn't a bad thing about the game, that is a bad thing about my skills.

X's & O's is stupid. There, that one is true... but I still play it. I give up.

• T3 - "Shoot heah...and heah" (I know these can be turned off at the start of the game).
• T3 - BNOBs on the right and center ramps
• TSPP - Ruthless drain machine.
• TSPP - Hate having to shoot through bumpers for the left loop.
• TSPP - No repro side art available (thanks for that Fox)
• TSPP - Treehouse shot

A chance to Rant!

1) Simpsons Nothing
2) TZ Nothing
3) Road show, Random starting of cities is/was needed
4) Ripleys A lot off time and space for the left ramp tic tac toe reward.
5) Tommy....The Music...Please someone find a way to change this to original Who
6) Dracula plain old Hard
7) Golden Eye Not enough extras features as related to a weak multi-ball
8) CSI, not enough use of solving a crime, andd no reward
9) Family Guy Want more to do
10) Spiderman, Fast, but for me, too easy to master.
11) T3 Arnolds call outs..."Shout Heeeere and heeere"
12) Monopoly....Too easy for me
13) WPT Yes, the translite.
14) TRON fast as hel, but was too linear for me.

Blackout - No multiball and spinner sound annoys my girlfriend

Black Knight - (and all system 6-7's) That D$%#! interconnect!

F-14 Tomcat - Upper sling between tomcat stand-ups never implemented

Earthshaker - Sinking building pulled from production (I added it back in tho)

Addams family - Thing grabbing your balls really messes the flow

Doctor Who - Only 7 doctors

Pinbot - F#!ing outlanes

WOZ - Impossible to play as is (unassembled in New Jersey)

Apollo 13 - the 8 balls that drop in the second phase of 13 ball multiball need to be diverted so they don't all gather immediately at the flippers

STTNG - The wormhole mode is boring

Demolition Man - Needs a way better painting of Sandra on the backglass.

Gn'R - It is still sitting in San Jose after almost a week instead of sitting in my gameroom.

CFBL: Music is midi quality
ToM: Ball often bounces very high to either the plunger lane or right outlane if the black rubber to the left of the right ramp is hit straight on
Rollergames: I don't hear K-k-k-k-kick butt! often enough
Farfalla: The mini playfield is too easy- Extra balls can be continuously earned... and the backglass chick is covered on mine (anyone want to trade backglass inserts?)
Buck Rogers: The chick only shows up in the backglass
Whitewater: It's taking me over 2 years to playfield swap/shop it...
Paragon: Collecting dust waiting for me to finish WH20

Spiderman: No way of seeing how many balls you have locked.
Checkpoint: Hard to get the ball to the rollover lanes at the top.
X-Men: Wolverine is a fatty.

Gotta ask... What are BNOBs?

Well, I'm married and the Wife doesn't play, so that's a non issue with the spinner sound. But otherwise, I agree! Wish it had multiball like Firepower.

LOTR: Print quality for playfield graphics is poor.
Tron: Brutal outlanes. Zeus' voice.
TFLE: Getting far in this game is beyond my skill level. Sometimes the game thinks the ball is in the Ironhide playfield when it's not.

Slugfest - fun, but it's not pinball
Alien Poker - art isn't so great
Stern Dracula - sounds aren't great
Big Game - mine is unplayable currently
Trident - unplayable and in peices
Special Force - I don't have much bad to say... could have used some toys?
Stars - mine doesn't smell great
Jurassic Park - loving it so far, but have to open it and work on something constantly

Comet: Has a racist backglass.
Freddy: has Gottlieb Flippers.
Taxi: Is mean.
Star Wars DE: Is an alcoholic.
Demolition Man: Has Stallone on the backglass.

Taxi and Whirlwind need a ball save.

I don't have any real complaints about any of my games. I like how they all play, and the ones that have random elements built into them (if by mistake or on purpose) have helped make me a better player. If I wanted a game that had no random elements, I would collect video games.

A13: The stupid saucer above the pop bumpers. You end up with a 30 second loop of the ball goes in the saucer, ejects, hits the pops, back into the saucer, ejects, hits the pops, back in the saucer... Also, the Blastoff carryover makes it a crappy tournament game as if you steal the 13 ball multiball, it is basically match over.
TAF: Not much to add to what has been said. Some of the modes are kind of a cop out.
AFM: Can't think of anything at the moment.
Getaway: Code needs to be updated to fix the multiplayer multiball bug. Other than that, kind of shallow.
Funhouse: Can't think of anything at the moment.
IM: The center post should not come up for the skill shot. It should be disabled for the plunge. Instant info is worthless.
JP: Please, don't hand me multiball automatically on Ball 3! Some of the modes aren't worth the effort.
RFM: Dated humor that tries too hard to be funny.
Spiderman: Too long of ball times. Should not have a center post between the flippers.
STTNG: The right outlane is brutal. I go back and forth between hating it and thinking it is a good part of the game that forces shot control.
DE SW: With the new code, I can't think of anything at the moment.
SWE1: Do I really need to say anything about this one?
TOM: Haven't owned it long enough to make an assessment.
Tri Zone: No complaints, Tri Zone is awesome. I'm not kidding.
TSPP: Usually seems like work, I don't play it much.
TZ: I hate the bounce outs from the diverter. And yes, I have a magnet for it.
Whirlwind: The one game that gets me the angriest, but I love it.
WOZ: Reserved for later comments after code is further along.

SM and STTNG are both to hard to get up and down my basement stairs!