I like Diner. The 50s soda jerk diner style art just does it for me.
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Ottawa, ON
Quoted from OTTOgd:No, I compared the Paragon backglass to the Dogs Playing Poker
Right, so you still compared his art to dogs playing poker.
It's obvious you do not like Faris' artwork and I do. We have different opinions. Move along.
Allyn, WA
Quoted from GoneFishinLvMsg:How about one without all that wear
Well, I didn't want to steal anyone else's pictures...so yeah, that' my slightly worn playfield screaming for a nice restoration.
I love playing the new DMD era games, but as far as looks are concerned the late 70's early 80's games crush the new games! Early Bally SS games are my favorite. Fathom, Medusa, Centaur, Paragon, Flash Gordon, etc. I also like classic Sterns like Star Gazer as well. Here is a pic of a HEP Medusa playfield that just blows me away!
Quoted from cdnpinballer:Right, so you still compared his art to dogs playing poker.
It's obvious you do not like Faris' artwork and I do. We have different opinions. Move along.
Sorry, you're right, I shouldn't have made that comparison; any one of the Dogs Playing Poker paintings are better.
Obviously, if you read my posts, you would read that I already mentioned that I liked some of Faris' work 3 or 4 times, despite his controversial methods/inspiration. Xenon is easily one the best looking pins ever made, imho. If the gameplay was better, I definitely would have kept the nice one I had.
And if you think the Paragon backglass is a 'masterpiece', well, then that's just super-duper. But it isn't.
Dave Christensen's Nitro Ground Shaker was nutty and he didn't rip-off Ed Roth. His Mata Hari is nice too.
Quoted from OTTOgd:Sorry, you're right, I shouldn't have made that comparison; any one of the Dogs Playing Poker paintings are better.
Ok, we get it, you don't like the paragon backglass. Comparing it to dogs playing poker is an insult.
Faris has several masterpieces. The paragon backglass is one of them but Centaur as a complete package is another. It was super-duper to hear him and Jim Patla reminise about Centaur at Expo last October. They really did a great job on that pin and the artwork from Faris during this era, especially Paragon and Centaur are far better than anything produced in the last decade. The detail in his artwork is what sets him apart from the rest IMO. He is by far my favorite pin artist and it's not surprising that I will be acquiring my 5th Faris pin to add to my collection.
Quoted from cdnpinballer:Ok, we get it, you don't like the paragon backglass. Comparing it to dogs playing poker is an insult.
Sorry, didn't mean to insult your masterpiece. Who's 'we'?
Centaur, like Paragon, is another of Faris' pins where the detailed playfield and cabinet art is great but the backglass is ... meh. The whole composition is a sideview of the pig-man/motorcycle-centaur-cyborg and his bug-eyed babe with a giant, floating axe behind him. And some orbs up front to fill space. Not very exciting. If you look at other pins from 1981, there are much more interesting backglasses like Fathom, Embryon, Flash Gordon, Viper, Catacomb, among others ... imho.
Congrats on your 5th Faris! If all goes well, I'll soon be acquiring a pin with a translite that Faris painted too! Then we'll be like brothers, joined by our appreciation for Faris!
Centaur & Paragon are both amazing looking. I'm more familair with Centaur, but Paragon is just crazy. The artwork is great sure,but the layout of that thing is awesome. Crazy pop bumper area by the left flipper? wow.
I'm not usually a fan of games around that era, but that thing is something else.
Creature has always been super looking to me, as well as TZ, but I don't count TZ because I like the theme so much.
Quoted from OTTOgd:cdnpinballer said:
Then we'll be like brothers, joined by our appreciation for Faris!
It's obvious that we're on completely different levels in our appreciation for this artist so I will leave it at that.
Quoted from BackFlipper:MM needs to be in the conversation.
Why? Cost?
I agree, just based on artwork and looks the DMD era is out of the running. DMD rules in play but artwork I give the edge to Xenon, Centaur, Fathom, and many others from that time.
Xenon is gorgeous.
BBB, just for the dancer!
Paragon is a beauty, although that third flipper kind of makes me cross-eyed.
Anyone like Dungeons and Dragons? BG and PF
Quoted from jonogo:I like Diner. The 50s soda jerk diner style art just does it for me.
I like diner as well.
Warrington
4 months later
Quoted from cdnpinballer:It's obvious that we're on completely different levels in our appreciation for this artist so I will leave it at that.
As an amusing sidenote, the member who compared Faris' artwork to dogs playing poker has a recently acquired Paragon sitting in his basement. I guess the backglass isn't so bad afterall.
Paradoxically, I sold mine about a year ago but have always believed it has the nicest bg artwork ever.
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Quoted from NimblePin:I will go against the grain a little bit (TOTAN of course no brainer...) and vote for JD and Genie!
For backglass, I vote 'Viper' from Stern...
+1 viper
A modern Stern? Really guys? You guys are killing me. 
If you want to talk art, you must be talking about the Gottlieb EM's, early solid state alphanumeric Williams, Bally's, or some of the WPC-95s (hell some of the old Stern's were lookers too).
Fireball, Fathom, Barracora, Xenon, Eight Ball & Eight Ball Deluxe, Embryon, Paragon, Captain Fantastic, Quicksilver, Gorgar, Centaur, Phantom of the Opera, the original Playboy from Bally...hell too many to list man. Can't choose a favorite.
No one has mentioned this one yet, but KISS is my favorite "older" game that I have always loved the art on.. so much that I owned one for over ten years. While I found the gameplay got boring once I got exposed to DMD's, I still loved the way the machine looked..
And I think X-men Wolverine is one of the best looking pins out there right now.
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