Congo gets enough love just because it says bally on the backbox. B/W don't need to be hyped up. If you want to look at underappreciated games, take a look at about 90% of DE's catalog. I do like congo's unique ruleset. If it was any other theme or unique theme, would have been an awesome game. Suffers the same way Shadow does. Tho, I like shadows theme and like the movie. Plus it's a kick ass game.

Congo is a great game!! I think that it was an underrated game, but here lately it has been getting alot of attention... Love mine I searched for it for a couple years before I finally found 1. It won't be going anywhere soon!

As far as MODs go Look for this post (posted awhile back here on Pinside) http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/congo-what-mods-have-you-done

Great game enjoy it!

Phoebe

You can add some tasteful leds.......purple for the hippo pops looks cool. I added a large plastic diamond with a color changing led behind it looked cool.

Congo is one of the best looking games with led's I have ever seen. I searched hard for mine for 7+ months before I found a super nice one with no fade and a perfect playfield. This game will never leave my collection. I disagree with most on the artwork and theme as I love both and think its an awesome looking and sounding game. The volcano shot kicks ass and the overall gameplay is fast and full of flow.

Seems Congo is the opposite of underrated these days.

Gotta love that valcano shot though.

EDIT Horrible horrible movie for sure. Kill off Bruce Campbell in the first couple minutes, pshaw!

One of my favourite layouts and a great sound package but let down I think by a slightly monotonous rulesheet.

IF congo was Indiana Jones or some other "good" theme, it'd be 5K+ easily.
I'm glad that it isn't a good theme for many reasons and will be getting one someday.
Congo with my Shadow, lovin' it!

Congo was written by Michael Crichton who had a series of great sci-fi books. Congo is one of them.

The movie has Bruce Campbell, Ernie Hudson, and Tim Curry - who just happend to be in The Shadow as well. It isn't a bad movie - I dare anyone to go back to the early 90's and find some that are better. Most films from that era did not age too well.

Indiana Jones? The first one was great, second one was so-so and the last two were turds.

I will never understand how people can't separate the movie from the pin. Even though Congo was a cheesy movie, the pin is awesome. So just because the movie sucked you can't like the pin? Dumb.

Congo is flat out fun love it! Glad to hear it all worked out for you enjoy!!

I played this a week ago and i as well, walked away saying I want one.

I really enjoy Congo. I'd love to own one!

I enjoy the way the game progresses naturally rather than via shot or mode completion like many other games. There are lots of cool things to achieve.

I also really like the creative use of diverters. There are a lot of shots and combos packed into the top half of the PF.

I'm a real sucker for rewarding rollovers and Congo has two. ZINJ inlanes light mystery and AMY rollovers start the cool Amy super award mode.

The mine search video mode is interesting when playing multiplayer due to the fact that other players watching can remember the position of the point awards. The locations only reset when someone reaches the end.

Cool super skill shot, too. Possibly my favourite of any game I've played that has them.

Who cares that it is underrated? I don't really need another's approval to pick up and enjoy a pin. Don't care if someone calls it a turd. Congo is a really fun game.

And it was really nice to be able to pick one up for less than $2K.