The entire two days they have been within one vote of each other haha. At this point it's probably safe to say it comes down to what style of game you prefer to play.

Might as well get both, thats my plan.

TSPP, LOTR, SM, and GB are the essentials for the golden stern collection. Tron is a possible add to the list

Thanks for explaining, and that's why (I think) Tspp is the (slightly) better game. It's just fun.

Note: I never liked Tspp before I got it. I had played it on location without knowing any of the rues and I didn't care for it. But the more I discover about the more I like it. I only wish other pins were coded as well.

Yes. Once you learn how to reset the TV timer, it totally changes the game

The vote is exactly my feeling on the matter...had to have them both....such different games, both crazy fun, but in different ways ( purest flow vs. pure shot maker))....just make sure to pack a lunch and a couple beers....definitely long ball times on both.

I voted SM only because you can play it as fast, mindless fun if you'd like. If your shots are on, EVERY SINGLE SHOT in the game is satisfying. Combos FTW.

They are both GREAT games, and they are really different, but for me the flow of Spiderman makes it a better game. If you are a giant Simpsons fan it would probably win just based on how great the theme implementation is.

I agree w/a previous poster

Buy both...

Get whichever one pops up first & the other later

I don't have a ton of time on SM but can definitely vouch for TSPP, especially in smaller collections which I have. It is great for you because of the depth and great for guests because it's so easy to explain the main objective of locking a ball on the couch.

I've seriously contemplated adding SM to my lineup over the past year, which already includes a HUO modded-out TSPP, but for multiple reasons I keep balking when it goes up against my "next" pin. For me, I keep playing SM so that I can convince myself to love it enough to add it to my collection, but in my opinion, it does not stack up against my love of TSPP. In fact, SM didn't compare well against many of the pins I judged it against. The real question for me would be whether I would replace my TSPP for a SM (or SMVE); the answer would be an absolutely, NO!

Therefore, IMO, SM not only loses out to TSPP, but it lost out to all the following pins I purchased over the past year: MB, TOTAN, CV, TOM and Pinball Magic. Don't get me wrong, SM is a great game, just not great enough for me, yet.

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Me too. Spiderman is my favorite superhero and I like the way the game shoots but the rules don't grab me (the unimaginative 3,6,9,12 shot progression to defeat the villains feels like chopping wood). Not a big fan of the ripped video animations and the playfield art is just okay.

Simpsons excels in all these areas, IMO.

What Simpsons lacks is the thrill you get from stringing together a bunch of smooth flowing combos.

TSPP is in the lead

MET, LOTR AND TWD are all better than SM and TSPP. I had SM and it was fun for 3 months and it hit a wall with me. long ball time and fun shots but just gets old fast. LOTR has been around for 4 years and i can't seem to let it go. There is a reason it is in the top 5. I hate the themes on MET and TWD but they are a great collection of shots and code. Actually i prefer just about any Stern to TSPP.

SM easily holds its own with the other pins mentioned....the ratings are strictly for entertainment, imho....yea, the top 2,3 are sort of landmarks and deserve the recognition.....the rest a crapshoot of personal preference. I had to finally vote SM ( even though I love both), based on Bestshot31 and Wolfy's posts.........

Gotta give props to 2 great machines!!!

Regarding TSPP, either you "get it" or you don't.

SM is okay, but after I sold it, I never missed it.

TSPP has so much, that the rules allow you to play it in different ways that it can feel like a new game depending how you approach it.

TSPP is just a fantastic home game.

Just as I vote SM I finally set the Grand Champ score. Daredevil mania for the first time. Awesome.

TSPP pro: you have TONS of things you'll discover.
TSPP con: you have no idea when or why you discovered them

it's a great pin.

I voted SM cause i just sold my TSPP and replaced it with a SMVE.

I liked TSPP and it is definitely a top tier game. Great code that you will never find the bottom of, fun upper playfield, alien invasion is fantastic. But it was a bit complicated for guests to like and clunky.

SMVE shots are smooth and satisfying code is already complete, id say it is far easier to understand what the goals are for guests. SM and SMVE are also top tier games for sure.

I dont regret my decision to switch from TSPP to SMVE.

Now it's

SM 78
TSPP 79

quite a back and forth battle.

equal leads now. I like more SM because of my upcoming lineup...SM Black , IMVE and XM pro. Nice trio of Marvel's characters.

Wow, dead heat ( still).....best poll ever!!!

I voted tspp as it the newest in my lineup

Like all works of art, TSPP is always going to be polarizing. Like any great painting, you can spend hours looking at it (well, playing it in this case) before you notice the subtle flourishes that make it so great... or maybe it's the opposite. Some people think the Smiths are unlistenable pretentious shit. Nobody really thinks Kanye is just OK. And with the Simpsons, you either take the time to appreciate it and fall in love, or you tell everybody and their mother what a clunky over-rated piece of crap it is... because that's literally what it feels like to you and probably MANY other people that will play it.

Spider-Man on the other hand is just OK (in my opinion). But I can guarantee you won't hate it!

Recommendation to the OP: just buy SM. After a few months you will sell it and then buy TSPP. It will not leave anymore

Seriously: try to spend some time on both. If you like faster games with some flow you should consider SM. TSPP is more of a stop-and-go game. That said I sold Black SM after 6 months and TSPP will stay a very long time.

As it should. So, enough precincts have reported that you're calling it? lol

They're so even in my mind, I had trouble voting. But I realized: There are a lot of games like SM, but there's really nothing like TSPP. TSPP gets the vote. Gap still at 2.

A tie, a tie!!!

"Decision 2016" is too close to call!

I think a good conclusion to take from this thread is that if you buy either of these machines, although very different in gameplay, you will not be disappointed.

Both are great games, I want a spider man,have tspp realy like it alot, great flow with stop and go as for spider man I've played it on many locations and find it is fast and fun with even more flow than tspp...two totally different but great machines. I think tspp for the long run, Flip a coin, depends on what theme you like best, can't go wrong with either one so you mite as well get both, good luck with it and of course best price and condition on either one would help you pick

I have sold a SM. I have never sold a TSPP. But then I rebought SM, so I have bought a SM twice and TSPP only once. I don't understand my own point.

LOLOL Few people admit that!

I did start a thread a long time ago suggesting that SM is respected rather than loved. And I do think that might be the difference. I love TSPP. I respect SM and games feel more like some noble, oriental contest rather than just a fun filled flail. These two games are both top of the pile, but bring a different type of engagement out of the player. I'm sure a lot of respondents would actually simply like to vote for both, but are battling feelings that they themselves don't even understand.

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You could just buy them both and save yourself from the confusion.

And, from here on, there will be the two-outcome-system-balancing-novelty-bias to cope with as new voters will be biased towards making the votes balance rather than vote for their favourite. It's going to get harder and harder to drift away from 50/50 as time goes on.

For me, when I owned SM, I found that the front end of the game played the same a lot. Basically starting the various villain shots (etc.) you have to complete the same villain modes several times.

I am not saying this is bad, it's like other games (IM for example) and there is depth such as the back end of the game wizard modes. I didn't keep it long enough or am not a great player to get to the Wizard modes. I suspect that the game opens up for better players. But if I'm playing the game and most of the time I don't get to the deep stuff each game feels the same. I don't want to say chopping wood but the point is it's long.

I do like the time modes like save MJ and Bone-Saw modes. There is really a lot more than a game like IM. But then SM has long ball times so I see a lot of Green Goblin and Doc Oc and Sandman (over and over).

On the other hand Tspp has more modes that you can get to early in the game or play it different was so each game can feel different. It has like 7 or 8 TV modes and each one feels different. It has I&S, it has the hurry-ups and the double scoring shots, it has the timer and just a lot of stuff in the code. Plus the dots are way (way) better.

Maybe I was not playing SM the right way, maybe I was stuck in a rut and every game didn't have to seem like a carbon copy of the prior game.

Don't get me wrong with pins, a lot of games can play the same each time you hit start, I mean IM and Tron and PotC are very good examples and SM is like those. But Tspp to me has more variation each time I play it I don't know where it's going to take me.

lots of games feel like chopping wood, Tspp is not one of them. Seems like there are so many avenues to go down or up or across.