(Topic ID: 147854)
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Beauharnois
Present Day:
Wizard of Oz
The Big Lebowski
90's:
Monster Bash
Tales of the Arabian Nights
System 11:
Pinbot (I was going to pick Fun House too until I remembered that it's a WPC not System 11)
EM:
To be completely honest while likely saying something unpopular that will get me chastised, I am not certain I would even play an EM if it was at my house and free. I will sub this with another category for my answer-
My favorite non conventional pin:
Revenge From Mars
Villejuif
Gilligan's Island
I'm not trying to Hijack the thread but I think I see a theme here... I like it because it's the direction I'd like to go in now.
Quoted from snyper2099:Oh and FH is WPC, not sys 11
Some FHs actually were...surprise!
VERY few, but they did exist.
Quoted from xTheBlackKnightx:Some FHs actually were...surprise!
I don't believe this is true. Surprise!
Some early Funhouse games had system11 sound boards in them, but they ran on WPC CPU and driver hardware.
Quoted from tamoore:I don't believe this is true. Surprise!
Some early Funhouse games had system11 sound boards in them, but they ran on WPC CPU and driver hardware.
I will try to find a couple of photographs from my production archives.
The original sample prototypes used System 11 and then were converted to WPC, not just those that had the early production soundboards that used the adapter boards to "fill the gap", that were REALLY early in the actual production line.
WMS software engineers were doing the conversions at the time of the design with the new boards, and the code was used for both sets of electronics.
They DID exist.
How many I do not know.
If there are a few in the wild today, I do not know anyone who owns them, as most were recycled into WPC machines at the start of production.
One of the mysteries of the world of pinball.
Quoted from tiltmonster:I'm not trying to Hijack the thread but I think I see a theme here... I like it because it's the direction I'd like to go in now.
To get in to my home theme is the most important thing, game play keeps them here.
With an attempt to go with the rules laid out:
Iron Man
TOM
Star Gazer
Fathom
Eight Ball Deluxe
Stars
Bow & Arrow
Quoted from DaveH:In my mind this is exactly how you build a balanced collection. Picking games from all different eras to go with all the different moods.
This is what I've tried to do with my collection. I'm lacking in early SS games, so I'm going to pick up a few of them, next.
Current: Tron/TWD
90's: AFM/TOM
Sys 11: BOP
SS: Blackout
EM: Fireball
Nothing interesting about my list, except maybe Blackout as my SS choice. Not sure whether Fireball would be a keeper as I've never played one that worked particularly well.
The caveats are that I don't have the space, can play all of these at nearby locations (<2 miles from my house), and I don't presently care to own $30k worth of pinball machines.
WOOLY (amazing flow monster wide body and great theme) and TWD (best risk/reward code ever)
Congo (best 3 flipper F U N game) and StarGate (best GTB DMD and great 3 flipper action with great mutiball use)
Mousin Around (I have steered away from most sys11 lately but still want this one badly)
TX Sector (best SS pretty much ever)
Atlantis or 4milBC (both are good for different reasons but to me most EMs dont hold my attention for long)
I will say that my perfect collection would be more 7 games as I feel 20 is about the minimum to create a really diverse and well rounded line up across style and era.
I have issue with requiring an "Ultimate Top 7 Collection" to adhere to an arbitrary distribution over pinball eras.
Sana'a
Can somebody educate me on this? I thought System 11 WAS Solid State. So would Banzai Run be considered System 11 or Solid State?
Very confused.
Quoted from beelzeboob:Can somebody educate me on this? I thought System 11 WAS Solid State. So would Banzai Run be considered System 11 or Solid State?
Of course Sys11 is solid state. So is a TRON.
People need to pigeonhole things, so they try and further and further distill games down to little segments.
A 70s SS Bally has the same -35 MPU that a 1985 Bally does.....
Quoted from vid1900:Of course Sys11 is solid state. So is a TRON.
People need to pigeonhole things, so they try and further and further distill games down to little segments.
A 70s SS Bally has the same -35 MPU that a 1985 Bally does.....
Well, then, since I'm a square-headed German who has to have everything spelled out for him, that makes it difficult to complete my list. But here goes (subject to change):
WOZ
GOT LE (flavor of the month...could revert back to AC/DC)
Banzai Run
Eight Ball Deluxe
Nip It
Quoted from vid1900:A 70s SS Bally has the same -35 MPU that a 1985 Bally does.....
Well, 1978-1985, right?
IMO, "SS" is used an abbreviation for "early-SS," which is how we collectively refer to solid state games without alphanumeric score displays or DMDs, generally produced in the decade between '76 and '86.
Quoted from DaveH:In my mind this is exactly how you build a balanced collection. Picking games from all different eras to go with all the different moods.
This is what I was going for
I'm going to make this my most wanted in these categories. I may have played these and I may have not.
Pres-Ripley's
Full Throttle
90's- WWF Royal Rumble
CFTBL
Sys 11-Rollergames
SS-Black Knight 2000
EM-Whoa Nellie, does this count? If not, then any EM that looks cool and is pretty close. I like Mr. Claytor's Hayride.
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