Mr. and Mrs. Pac Man is a good game - Margaret Hudson's art, sound package, skill shot, etc. But it would be even better if the video mode wasn't so predictable. Prediction: A code update will fix that and then it will enjoy a surge in popularity.

I think that the linear Bally flipper design that Vid1900 and others hate is just fine. Yeah I know, it has more mass to move than the older design, but in a side to side test in my Centaur I can tell no performance difference. There is a different feel to the linears, but that was part of the original game and I don't want to mess with it if I don't have a good reason to.

With the Arduino/BSOS platform you can do that yourself, and still have the new deeper rules. Someone will do it.

Agreed that the original sounds often can't be beat. The pseudo-random white noise and other effects in Silverball Mania and other Ballys with the -51 sound board: I will never tire of that. It is so right. And I imagine a better amp and speaker will only improve it.

Well, good news: With the free open source BSOS project, all the Bally and Stern classics can be updated, and with CD quality sound (whether that's just a good re-sampling of the classic sound, or literally anything else). Dick Hamill started it. There's no stopping it now.
Williams System 3 through 9 coming soon.

You can do it all yourself, or buy a PCB kit and/or a ready to install setup from several vendors.

Shameless plug: https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shops/1304-roygbev-pinball

The appeal of a buttplug? Do I really have to explain that?

Josh Fruhlinger of The Comics Curmudgeon said this about it, and I agree:

"In the last few years of Charles Schulz’s life, the strip was loopy and sentimental; but the stuff they’re repeating now reminds us that for most of its history Peanuts was about loss, failure, and longing for things you can’t have. Almost everyone in the strip had such doomed romantic feelings: Lucy for Schroeder, Sally for Linus, Peppermint Patty for Charlie Brown, Marcie for Peppermint Patty, and so on. Charlie Brown’s unrequited love for the little red-haired girl is legendary, of course, and the rest of his life isn’t much better. His baseball team won only one game in the strip’s history, and then had to forfeit because their outfielder, 5-year-old Rerun, bet on the game. His baseball hero is always on the verge of being sent to the minors. He is bullied by his psychologist and is largely ignored by his dog, who refers to him as 'that round-headed kid.' They don’t mention any of this when they use him to sell insurance.

Snoopy is probably the only character in the strip who is generally happy, largely because of his ability to retreat into fantasy."

I like most of the System 1 Gottliebs, and I like keeping them original when possible. If the spider chips are good, the game can be fixed and bulletproofed with ground mods, connectors, power supply rebuild, and the diodes installed on the driver board. I like that the little four-bit cash register brain has to blink all of the displays every time the score changes.