Chester, CT
Top ten most under rated pins! Go!
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I think WWF Royal Rumble and NBA Fastbreak are pretty under rated.
im gonna say Mario Andretti and Shaq Attack ... because I will have them up for sale soon and want to create a buzz about them
Toronto, ON
I will go along with the "lots of EMs"
But the rest are not under rated. They have been rated for years and the masses have decided,
The rest is disagreement due to personal preference.
Avengers by far
X-files!!! Amazingly fast and fun when set right....
Breda, Holland
Roadshow. A great Lawlor pin with so much going on. Getting to the West Coast is a real blast. Shooting the ball into Ted's mouth is a great shot for multiball. The country music may turn off some, but it adds to the campiness of the whole theme, I think. Tons of funny banter between Red and Ted. Read the rules and give it a chance.
No Good Gofers
Congo
Fish Tales
Whirlwind
Funhouse
Elvira and the Party Monsters
Bram Strokers Dracula
Black Rose
Road Show
The Champion Pub
X-men.
Shadow
These deserve a top 10 spot.
My personal top 10
1:Medieval madness
2:Shadow
3:Xmen
4:Star trk next gen
5:stern star trek
6:Totan
7: TOM
8:Cirqus voltaire
9: johnny mnemonic
10: revenge from mars
These are my pics based on gameplay, fun, and features.
If i could only have 10 this would be it.
Avengers - its becoming a very popular pinball latetly...
Nba fastbreak - such a great game very different score function
Sopranos - great theme , cracking open the safe is always fun , plus the dancing strippers makes it very unique
Transformers - a lot of fun once you know the rules !!!
Fish tales - some love it some hate it ....
Indy 500 - why did I get rid of mine ? Dam it !!!
Congo - easy to understand and a lot of fun
Champion pub - I want one of these .....
Shrek - such a great game , excellent call outs , fun ,fun , fun .
Goldeneye - great game , great shoots, great layout , great ramps In other words GREAT .
Black Hole is easily the most underrated pin in my mind. on pinside's top 100, it's like #84 -- barely makes the top 100. play a good one and you will be shocked by the challenge and speed.
i truly don't get why a game like Haunted House is ranked higher -- they are virtually sister games, except Black Hole features speech and multiball, while HH has neither. Black Hole is also a cooler theme with better art, but that's at least subjective i guess.
Black Hole is one of the most challenging games ever made in terms of getting to multiball, and once you get there, it's one of the most disorienting multiball modes in all of pinball. tracking balls across the upper and inverted lower playfield at once is a totally unique and chaotic experience.
But the real slap in Black Hole's face is that BH abbreviates to Big Hurt on pinside! 
cmon, nobody talks about Big Hurt!
just my opinion, of course 
Solar Fire - A real gem that never quite received the respect it deserves. Even Pinside disses it by not underlining it when typed. No respect I tell ya.
Quoted from pezpunk:Black Hole is easily the most underrated pin in my mind.
Okay. Based on your recommendation, I'll be on the alert for one to play. I've seen it but never played it, I believe. Thanks.
Quoted from scylla:Lots of EMs.
I completely agree with this. I played a lot of great EM's at TPF. Wish I had room for more.
Agree that Black Hole should be on the list. Probably Genie too. I've heard Black Hole can be difficult to keep running but I've never owned one.
Frankenstein. It gets knocked because it is a Sega, but it is a gorgeous pin with great flow, huge DMD with cool animations, awesome ball-throwing monster toy that watches your ball, 8 different modes, wizard mode, several multiball options up to 6 balls at once, left outlane kickback, and you can choose your background music. It has an awesome light show, especially with the LEDs I added to give a little extra color to some inserts. I have it sitting next to JP and they have similar layouts, but Frankenstein is the advanced/harder version since instead of just hitting the control room bunker to light a mode on JP, you instead have to hit 11 individual targets to light up the name Frankenstein to start each mode. It was the cheapest pin we have bought so far and was available without us actively searching it down or knowing much about it, but I am very glad we got it and we have no intentions of letting it go.
Paragon. It's a disgrace that this machine is so low in the ratings. Play a properly set up example, repeatedly. It will make you a better player.
Pyongyang
I've always thought Black Rose was the most under-rated B/W game, has never gotten the respect it deserves.
Sunshine
Starship Troopers and Roller Games - both are alot of fun to play, but the themse hold them back.
Quoted from blondetall:Frankenstein. It gets knocked because it is a Sega, but it is a gorgeous pin with great flow, huge DMD with cool animations, awesome ball-throwing monster toy that watches your ball, 8 different modes, wizard mode, several multiball options up to 6 balls at once, left outlane kickback, and you can choose your background music. It has an awesome light show, especially with the LEDs I added to give a little extra color to some inserts. I have it sitting next to JP and they have similar layouts, but Frankenstein is the advanced/harder version since instead of just hitting the control room bunker to light a mode on JP, you instead have to hit 11 individual targets to light up the name Frankenstein to start each mode. It was the cheapest pin we have bought so far and was available without us actively searching it down or knowing much about it, but I am very glad we got it and we have no intentions of letting it go.
definately and i prefer this over BSD too.
other underrated pins imo, baywatch, freddy, LAH NBA fastbreak SST goldeneye shrek LW3
none of which are currently in the top 100. heh
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