If the OP has it set on normal settings, then it is a cluster mess and ever mode is stacked within a minute with late call outs, etc... Never saw in the post that he changed the mode start to hard.

X-men is a terrible example of Stern code, especially with the newest code on normal settings.

Now, having said that, I think most of Stern games are just as easy as B/W games to learn. Look at TZ or Safe Craker as examples of B/W games that the average person just doesn't walk up to and get.

Disagree big time. The initial software and problems with it soured a lot of people, but the game is great. Holds up well to B/W games and I got a lot of B/W games that people consider "A" games. I can pretty much own any game I want and I'm not letting X-men go anytime soon.

I have a kid in my classroom that hates pizza, and in another classroom one that hates chocolate. A reminder to me that everybody has different tastes.

Off topic: I had to Google PDX to figure this one out. I never knew PDX was an acronym for Portland.

Seems you two know each other, don't let a thread on a pinball forum cause a wedge between two people who both like pinball and live close enough to each other to play each others pins. Really not worth it.