What is the toughest or most challenging machine to beat in your collection? The hardest one to get special, beat the replay scores, is a drain monster, or just seems to kick your butt game after game?
What is the toughest or most challenging machine to beat in your collection? The hardest one to get special, beat the replay scores, is a drain monster, or just seems to kick your butt game after game?
For me it's Tropic Isle. Love the art and the monkeys on the backglass, but wow this machine has my number. I've completed all the numbered rollovers plenty of times and have hit special on last ball. The most A-B-C-D target sequences in one game to advance a monkey has been two and my highest score to date is 1,547. This machine kicks my butt and at least 95% of my games last about a minute and score around 500 points and drain right down the wide middle.
Getting all 15 targets down on Target Alpha/Solar City/El Dorado is rather challenging. Same foes for Joker Poker.
Gottlieb North Star. By a big margin. Trying to get all lights lit for the 300 point ball capture is so difficult.
Marcus
Quoted from Yoski:Nice playfield! Restored?
Thanks! It's an original playfield only wear is around a couple of the pop bumpers
Quoted from Xerico:Gottlieb North Star. By a big margin. Trying to get all lights lit for the 300 point ball capture is so difficult.
Marcus
I play North Star over a friends and at shows when it's there and have never been able to get every lights out. I've come close and had one top roll over left!
love bug (doodle bug) such a tough game to keep the ball in play..and even more so getting the 'doodle bug' lit for 10k and keeping the ball in play.
biggest rush in pinball hands down.
Capersville by Ted Zale (Bally)
First, Understand the ruleset
Second, Adjust play style to compensate
Third, Mastery of using "zipper flippers"
Sweet Hearts, making all 13 rollovers is pretty tough. But yes Tropic Isle is a killer, no longer in my collection.
Gottlieb Atlantis, still haven't rolled it. Got close a few weeks ago at 9500+ points. Lousy 5th ball stopped it from finally happening.
Quoted from xTheBlackKnightx:Capersville
Uff those 60s ballys can just be a bastard!
I've only owned 4 but Kings & Queens should suffice.
Quoted from xTheBlackKnightx:Capersville by Ted Zale (Bally)
First, Understand the ruleset
Second, Adjust play style to compensate
Third, Mastery of using "zipper flippers"
sold my fireball as i think capersville is a far better game.
Quoted from Dayhuff:Canada Dry. Fast playing game.
John
Who's the young dude in that pic?
I have to agree with Vic.I've had my Central Park now for almost 10 years.I can win free games on scoring but I think I've only ever had both specials lit twice.
Ted
'Hi Dolly', right now, it is tough to get it over 1000 points. 1 in 12 games or so, to light the 1000 point lamp.
Quoted from pinhead52:Sweet Hearts, making all 13 rollovers is pretty tough. But yes Tropic Isle is a killer, no longer in my collection.
I need to play Sweet Hearts more. Only played it once at Allentown and it wasn't tuned up the best it could be. I love games with multiple specials for double, triple, and quadruple pops. (Buckaroo, Tropic Isle, and games with special in a lane that you can go up and back down)
Quoted from illawarra92:love bug (doodle bug) such a tough game to keep the ball in play..and even more so getting the 'doodle bug' lit for 10k and keeping the ball in play.
biggest rush in pinball hands down.
Doodle bug is fun and definitely challenging to keep the ball in play once you get the doodle bug moving!
Quoted from Vic_Camp:Central Park is a tough player. Getting both specials lit is a task. The palms of my hands are always red and sore after 5 games of play.
Those are the best games that you have to shake! Ice Revue does that to me with the side outlanes, similar to Central Park, and trying to keep the pop bumpers going when they're lit for 10 points.
Bally Quarterback. The unique flipper configuration is a blast to play. You can nudge the ball back into play off the lower corner posts, but more often you end up getting screwed in some new and unexpected way. This is a great head-to-head game and also a great tournament game.
Quoted from TheLaw:Uff those 60s ballys can just be a bastard!
Grand Tour- Lighting all ten.
Quoted from MrBally:Who's the young dude in that pic?
Yeah I know right !! LOL.......
That picture was taken in December 2002.
John
Hi Phillips88 +
Williams Fan-Tas-Tic: http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=820&picno=53460 --- the only pin I have that I do seldom make replays. I love it from my youth (seldom making replays). I bought mine having a Score-Card with (5 Balls) limits 71'000 and 86'000 points (about the same in my youth) --- I usually make some 30 to 40'000 points. I sometimes think of adding (new) the feature: A lost ball collects the Bonus (as the original logic is "Collecting Bonus ONLY when the ball lands in one of the three Eject-Holes (collecting eventually depending on the Roulette-Wheel)"). Greetings Rolf
EXPRESSWAY Good luck trying to spell expressway even on five balls. Triple Strike is another tough game to score high on.
Thank-you all for this post!! I have been wanting to start a EM collection,but didn't know where to start.Some of these pins I have seen at our local PAGG,but couldn't remember the names! This is actually a nice collection of killer Ems to start with!Go Pinside!!!
Quoted from fingersport:I agree with John_I. Quarterback is one hard game to master. I also find 2001 very challenging.
Good point Don. My 2001 is sitting not too far away from QB and it is definitely tough!
In my lil collection, it's definitely royal guard. It's not often that I hit the snap targets to light all pop bumpers and targets. Once you do that, the fans alternate for special..it's still challenging to put up a decent score on this game..but that knock is loud and sweet!
Central Park. I have owned for 4 years and still no special/add a ball. Seemed a lot easier on pinball arcade (years ago).
Check out this video of the my Royal Guard on the last day before i shipped it out. I had the game for 13 years in my collection and enjoyed immensely. I always thought it was an easy game to beat. In the video you can see in and around the second, third and forth games how i was and popping free games on special almost at will.Pay attention to my shoot rod shots for a free game in the letter C in the top arch rollovers. At the end of the video i looked at the credit wheel and there sat 15 free games which is the max you can win on a wedgehead. I fined tuned the game to perfection and maybe that gave me an advantage to winning so many replays?
In my small collection, em or dmd, Drop A Card has my number. Win on points once in a while. But getting all the drops down, then hitting the special rollover, a rare event.
Fireball. Just a bitch of a game.
The hardest single shot on any EM I ever had was the Special on Super Soccer. It's difficult to keep it lit, and almost impossible to hit while it is lit.
Quoted from Vic_Camp:The palms of my hands are always red and sore after 5 games of play.
It looks like you left a lot of skin on that lock bar!
Have to agree. Cycling through to get the 10k lit, start the Doodle Bug and keeping it going it so hard to do in one ball. Very fun.
Quoted from illawarra92:love bug (doodle bug) such a tough game to keep the ball in play..and even more so getting the 'doodle bug' lit for 10k and keeping the ball in play.
biggest rush in pinball hands down.
Without question, Flying Chariots for me. Those two outside lanes with the pop bumpers naturally funnel the ball straight down to the four outlanes and the valuable Mystery shot up the center lane can be equally as deadly. Still enjoy it though!
Lovely Lucy - really really hard to light pop bumpers 3 times for specials.
Goggle, gobble, gobble.,....
As previously mentioned, nearly impossible to get all 12 balls racked on Bowling Queen/Rack a Ball/Mibs.
Quoted from Toyguy:Without question, Flying Chariots for me. Those two outside lanes with the pop bumpers naturally funnel the ball straight down to the four outlanes and the valuable Mystery shot up the center lane can be equally as deadly. Still enjoy it though!
Played one of these long ago at a show. Like the "Sunset" I once owned, keeping the ball in play for more than five seconds is nearly impossible.
Quoted from o-din:Very challenging but also very fun at the same time.
Jesus man WTF is that one? Can you get the ball back up to the top?
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