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The Most Overrated and Underrated Pins?

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#37 3 years ago

Overrated:
Theatre of Magic
Circus Voltaire
Medieval Madness (top 20 game but not best ever)
Willy Wonka
Guns N Roses (Data East)
Road Show
Centaur
Fathom
Diner
Black Knight 2000
Transformers

Underrated:
CSI
Goldeneye
Elvis
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Waterworld
Baywatch
Catacomb
Mystic
Medusa
Stars
Space Shuttle (it gets love but should be higher)
Munsters

BTW I think Junkyard is trash, I kept Popeye over JY when I decided to sell a pin, the only pin I've sold in 16 years. I'd say Popeye's underrated but I understand the theme isn't for everyone. Fairly deep ruleset for it's time with great DMD animations.

#44 3 years ago
Quoted from alexanr1:

I don’t care for Popeye Predominantly because the upper playfield obstructing the lower and almost all become cloudy and impossible to effectively see. I love the theme.
Disagree with you on RoadShow, love the goal of going across the country to visit all the cities and the different mini games for each.
MM is a great game for people who don’t play a lot of pinball. Busting down the castle is easy and your average low attention span player feels like they can do it. I think that’s why people like it.

Totally agree on MM.

Roadshow to me is too repetitive with not enough variety. I've never played one with the Soren chip or a Pinsound, which I think would probably be game changers. But in the wild without those things it gets old because the theme can't carry it. And it seems like the ones I play are always broken.

I get the Popeye upper playfield complaint, it's one of the few (or perhaps only) upper playfields that obscures shots. But it's really only 2 shots, the two upkicker holes. And I guess the rollover lanes can be hard to see through cloudy plastic (LEDs can overcome this and be more visible). Still I think it's not as bad as most people give it grief for.

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