In the past week, I’ve played the following pins and would rank them in this order:
1. Star Wars Premium
2. Jurassic Park Premium
3. Pirates of the Caribbean (JJP)
4. Avengers IQ Pro
5. Elvira LE
6. Guns N Roses LE
7. Willy Wonka
8. Deadpool Pro
9. Dialed In
10. TMBT Pro
11. Game of Thrones Pro
12. Munsters Premium
13. Batman 66 Premium
14. Stranger Things Premium
15. Hot Wheels
Quick Comments:
Star Wars, when set up correctly, is just a much faster and a better shooting pin than any others on this list. Maybe I am biased because my first pinball experience was on Terminator 2 in the 90’s, so that is what I thought pinball should be (also a Ritchie game).
Also, it seems to me that there are a few styles of pinball games now:
The shooter style, with shorter ball times (SW, GoT, Hot Wheels).
The adventure style where you try to hit a specific shot or shots to advance in the “game” and with long ball times (JP, AIQ).
The hit one thing over and over style (Elvira, Stranger Things and anything else in the AFM or MM genre)
The packed playfield style (JJP, Guardians)
Some games are a hybrid of these styles, of course (AIQ, JP, Deadpool, Willy Wonka, Munsters).
As an interesting note, for GnR, it was definitely more fun to watch the playfield and screens when other people were playing than when I was the shooter. I think that may be true for most JJP pins. They are more beautiful to look at than they are fun to play for extended periods of time, but PoC is an exception to that rule (I think).