If Stern released a game like this today people would be going crazy. Instead we get a starfighter on a spring and groot that opens it's mouth.

Sold mine because we couldn't stand the music. Loved the gameplay but got tired of playing it with the sound off.

It's kind of a love/hate game and it's mostly attributed to the terrible audio. Were it a DCS game, it *might* have helped it but at least for me, the sound is the #1 killer of it and theme is #2 killer of it for me anyway. Other than that it shoots as good as most 90s Williams.

I agree that the shots are great but I'd disagree about the strategy. It has 7 doctors but they're not balanced and most of them just don't really do anything. Game becomes a lot of "sonic booms all day" or "video modes all day" etc. Regardless, there's still a lot to love on the game too, the three layer toy and the multiball are absolutely radical. Overall it's not a game that I'd personally be owning long term though.

I had my eye on a dw on craigslist but the guy wants $3900 for it and the cabinet looks very faded. What should one like that go for if playfield is decent?

That’s high, 3k should be about right. I just sold a loaded one - Colordmd, pinsound custom mix, lit speaker panel, every mod, for 4200

There was no such thing back when I owned it....

A most excellent game.

Most annoying, unbalanced multiplayer game ever created. If you mute it and play it by yourself, I guess it’s tolerable.

^^^^agreed. Sold mine a few years ago for $1550 and it sat for weeks. A can’t believe what they are selling for now.

Why would you mute it the music is kick ass. I am a tournament player and I don't think the game is unbalanced.

Adding pinsound and all the custom tracks, and new pinsound speakers (wired for stereo) and subwoofer, made a big difference IMO. My favourites are the 2 funky 1970s versions of THAT theme tune. ColorDMD helps too. One of the best PF mechs around, I reckon.

As for the theme, the programme goes from strength to strength, so there will always be big interest in it. Indeed, such is the success of the programme, there's a good case for a new machine

Love me some DW, mine is never leaving

I love Doctor Who. I hope to find one this year. I really like the pinsound 'metal' theme.

Well, you are wrong. It’s certainly unbalanced for players 2,3 and 4.

How explain if it is so unbalanced why was it used last year or the year before during Indisc Papa circuit event. do you mean shooting the stand up to lock a ball.

It's not bad but the Sonic booms are just to valuable to be ignored.

I owned it for 10 years, it’s a fun and pretty difficult game, lots of risk/reward shots. I never liked the sounds of the game, though. It’s been gone about 6 years and to this day, the music is still stuck in my head.

I totally agree with you the law but you can put big rubbers on the H hang on shot to make it hard to feed the side ramp.

This is an excellent game to just play and have fun with it. The sonic boom ramp is SUPER fun, Doing those loops. The selection of the doctors is a totally unnecessary, fun extra feature (what other games does this?), the video mode (set on hard) is really fun, and the mini play field is completely superior to that in any other game.

The game is a pretty quick shooter but it is a perfect 5-minute game. With the right lighting changes and the Pinsound soundtrack (that really is important), the game lives dramatically on. Lots of “one more game...” Wish I still had mine...

I think that's what papa does... The most insanely hard one I've ever played.

Thanks for the referral to pinsound. Until reading about it on this thread, I thought it was just a rotten dog-like replacement sound board for people who couldn’t take care of their machines.