Diner: Theme and rules.
Mousin' Around: Awesome shots.
Banzai Run: Different enough to be really cool.
Whirlwind: All around best System 11 game.
F14: Ass kicking!

I've just never ever warmed up to Pinbot themed machines at all......

Now gimme a clean fast F-14 and I'm having fun.

Funhouse?

Not SYS11...

Fun house is WPC, not system 11

PinBot is #1 for me

I love my Pinbot and find it challenging and fun. I think Taxi's great and fun to make the objectives of picking up the riders. There are many good system 11 games, but Whirlwind to me is my overall favorite with solid rules for its time and very good game play.

F-14 hands down. Easily one of SR's best.

I have F-14, high speed, taxi and cyclone. Played whirlwind, Pinot and diner and of those I vote for cyclone as my favorite! Love the simplicity and amusement park theme probably because I worked at one while in my teens! And it's also my kids favorite too with the Ferris wheel and awesome Chris Granner sound.

whirlwind for the win. pinbot,high speed, mousin around, f-14, taxi, diner, swords of fury, eatpm,bk2k, space station, fire, big guns, all great games. there are others I am missing and or have not played. bottom line, you cant go wrong with any system 11 game. oh, roller games. under rated fast, fun steve Ritchie goodness.

Too hard to pick a winner. I love all of mine, as well as many that I don't own. The sys11 is my era.

I voted other because Black Knight 2000 wasn't an option. Ironically neither are my second and third favorite System 11s, Earthshaker and Swords of Fury.

Whirlwind.
Play a nice example and you will understand.

You include mousin around but not bk2k??

Grand Lizard!

1) See my System 11 thread
2) See my Collection of "the best 6" System 11s -- imo.
3) See my Ratings
Diner > WW

A. Diner's theme locks you in better
B. Diner's theme execution is better
C. Diner's play is more challenging with the lower risk/reward drop targets
D. Any Ritchie > Lawlor
E. WW has too many "do nothing" shots. Diner has almost no "do nothing shots" -- those are those shots where nothing happens. No sounds, no scores, no action.
F. Did I mention I think Diner is the best pin ever?
(drops mic)
-mof

truth, on some days I think it's in the top-3 best S11's
-mof

This thread is an exposure thread.
Change the question to:
"Which System11 games have you played the most/least?"
WW has digital representation on many platforms, and it had decent production.
Diner, Grand Lizard, etc... people haven't seen as much.

It's the same old, "Which games have you played?" response, it's not truly a "Which is best?"
Not pointing fingers, just saying, Diner, Grand Lizard don't get a fair shake, since not everyone has been in front of one live or virtual.
-mof

I have not been fortunate enough to play an F14 or a Diner. After watching some vids of these tables, I have to say: These are great pins I would be happy to own someday! Forgive me if I don't vote since I haven't played them.

BK2K Second tier??? WW of the poll choices.And some Funhouses are partially System 11 including mine(Sample)

Diner for the theme and rules
Followed by Bad Cats because of the sounds and game play

I like them all, but a few favorites at this time:
Transporter: the Rescue
Pool Sharks
Big Guns
Mousin' Around

Taxi, Whirlwind, and Grand Lizard are my three favorites, but I wouldn't kick any of the System 11s out of bed for eating crackers.

Taxi's sounds, theme implementation, shots spread around the field, timed Jackpot shot, and the skill shot all add up to a perfect storm of fun. Diner is a lesser version of Taxi, in my OPINION.

Whirlwind does feel more limited in the useful shot selection category, but it does so many things right it overcomes that feeling for me. Another great theme implementation with a whole lot of chaos. I'm not a catch, control and shoot guy so that may explain why I like chaos oportunties of Whirlwind.

Grand Lizard was such a surprise pleasure when I first played it that it has stayed with me as a favorite. Timed shots, great sounds and lights, and Magna Save. I prefer it to Black Knight, Flash Gordon, Solar Fire and other split level games.

I must also add EATPM to the list... It has to be one of the top 5/10 system 11 games...

I played a good bit of Diner in the day. It's not a bad machine, but IMHO it's not in the same league as Black Knight 2000, Earthshaker, Pinbot, Whirlwind, or Swords of Fury.

Cyclone, EATPM, WW, Taxi are my faves.

I will nominate another of my System 11 games for consideration...

Radical! Four flippers with really satisfying shots. It's GOOD!

Bad Cats near the top, partly as I own one, but largely because it has a lot going on. Fun ramps, two banks of drops, bumpers, everything but a spinner and multiball and I'm not missing either on this game.

Taxi - flow, speed, though the music and call-outs are lacking.

f-14 - fast and furious, kind of evil

pin-bot, love the theme, harsh though.

would love to try SOF and GL.

From my little experience Sys 11 seems to have just good solid gameplay in most machines. It was a good solid period for Williams design overall.

My favorites, in order:

Bad Cats, lots of timed shots going on, great non multi-ball play, beautiful machine, mechanical backglass, roulette wheel, drop targets, 20 million point ramp shot

Diner, Great art, great theme, great shots, mechanical backglass, drop targets

F-14, Fast, great light show, great multiball play, overall very pretty machine

BK2K, fast, probably one of the prettiest machines made. Awesome sound

EATPM, Elvira...need I say more?

Pool Sharks, the ability to play 2 different games on 1 machine, nice long ramp shots, fun non multi-ball play, drop targets

Taxi, fast, great flow, great theme,

Riverboat gambler, simple, yet still a lot to shoot for. Beautiful cabinet/translite artwork.

Didn't care much at all for SOF.

Fire is OK, just didn't like the flow all that much.

Can't really rate Space Station just yet. Even though I own it, I haven't played it yet. It's folded up and in storage till I have space/time to shop it.

Good call, tamoore. Radical! deserves some love. It's not my favorite, but it's probably top third.

-Steve

i unfortunately haven't gotten to play a lot of system 11s (WW, taxi, bad cats, pool sharks, diner, mousing around) and have very minimal play on several others (SOF, BK2K, EATPM, F-14, game show). i messaged a guy in town who had a WW asking to try it since i was wanting to buy one, but he never responded
i DO however own an earthshaker and pinbot, both of which i'm really happy with. love the theme/lawlor design of earthshaker and pinbot has AMAZING sound and lights on top of really unique game play.

Couldn't disagree more with you on the music and the callouts. I think Taxi has some of the best music of any pin, and the callouts are excellent. Nice bit of humor to them.

This is a hard poll to answer.
PinBot, Whirlwind, F14, Taxi, and High Speed. I put a lot of quarters into these pins, when they were new. These 5, to me are fairly close. I prefer PinBot, only because I have one.

Diner (great all round game)
Police Force (really a one shot game, but a blast to play)
Taxi (great fun)

bk2k is my desert island pin. no argument. you need to play it. make sure the volume is up.

BK2K and Grand Lizard are my top ones

I should probably clarify. I actually just meant the call outs. The music does get stuck in my head (it's going through now). The call-outs annoy me because of the quality. Gorbie's call outs particularly.

Such a hard thing to poll. Most people haven't played all the games listed above, let alone all system 11.

It's always going to be somewhat of a biased poll.

I haven't played nearly enough System 11 machines, but I own two Police Force and Swords of Fury, and really would like to own a Whirlwind one day.

A lot of people sell SoF short, it's an interesting game, there are no pop bumpers anywhere on the machine and it's still super fast. Once in a while you can get a good game in, but it's punishing like a lot of system 11 games.

Here are my favorites of the ones I have played...

PinBot
love the sounds, layout, hate the outlanes!
Whirlwind
all around great game
High Speed
love the speed, grew up with this one
SoF
great unique layout, great use of drop targets
Fire!
awesome art, great theme integration, love the break the window shot

In order for me:

taxi
eatpm
ww
pinbot

all the rest

When talking system 11 there is whirlwind and then everything else. They are all great games and I personally love pinbot but whirlwind is hands down the best. Other games may have one aspect that is better but on the whole whirlwind is superior.

Whirlwind
Pin bot
Swords of Fury

Whirlwind
Diner
Swords of Fury
Earthshaker

Note: I own three of the four listed so I may be biased. However, I have had four other System 11 titles in my house at one point so have logged some serious time with a lot of them.

I played earthshaker at papa for the first time. Totally unimpressed.

Really diggin' eatpm and dr. dude. Zany pins