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Family Guy.
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Jersey Jack, 2017
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Williams, 1989
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Stern, 2007
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Quoted from insight75:You seem to have a soft spot for Family Guy. I wonder why. lol
Bias aside, I think it’s Lawlor’s best Stern, one of Stern’s most B/W “feeling” games, and it has great code/rules, great Thiel sound, and tons of custom callouts.
I honestly love most of Lawlor’s games…except TZ lol.
Quoted from Hammerhead:I get that, but FG is almost 100 spots higher than Shrek. Theme is definitely a deciding factor but you can't attribute that much of a spread just because the theme speaks to you more.
Three reasons, I think.
1. FGY is “the original”…Shrek is “the copy”. People might just rate FGY & ignore Shrek because it’s the same.
2. There were more FGY’s made, so more owners & location players were exposed to it.
3. Theme. Pinsiders prob just like FGY more than Shrek in general.
Shrek does have its own rave coming up, though lol
44D003EF-03CA-42B5-B13E-773CDAFAA526 (resized).jpegQuoted from JWJr:NGG would be there with better (working) rules
I consider myself someone that understands rules pretty well, especially 90s games. I’ve had NGG for a really long time & never noticed anything not working. l guess there’s some points exploit that tournament players don’t like…but for normal people, it has really fun rules & functions as expected. Lyman hated it, though - he told me it was a toxic asset 
Quoted from yancy:One of my favorite Lyman memories involves NGG. A friend and I were playing it at Rick Schieve's party. Lyman seemed bemused/annoyed that we were enjoying such a crap game. It's been far too long to recall the exact conversation, but it was something like, "how can you guys stand to play that thing with all the bugs?" I was like "what bugs?" He said that for later multiballs a gopher can get stuck in the up position, blocking the lock for the rest of the game. I just kinda shrugged like, never happened to me.
Lyman waited for us to finish and was like, "here, let me show you." He fired up a game and blasted through to the bug without missing a shot. After bashing the stubborn gopher several times, he said something like, "see? game sucks," let the ball drain and walked away. It was way more good-natured than I'm making it sound, we all had a laugh.
Haha...yeah, he just hated that game. He even hated the "clanky" noises that the Gophers always make as the pop up, jiggle, and pop down.
I like colorful games with personality, and Gofers definitely has that. I love the music...one of the best and most varied soundtracks of a 90's game. The main tune is like Danny Elfman/Weird Al accordion music, then there's Dance Party techno, the Chicken Dance, and some Satriani-level guitar rock. Plus it shoots fast and flowy, the slam ramp is super fun...it just all around puts me in a good mood to play it.
Quoted from metallik:Despite all that, the flow and atmosphere have made it a keeper for us. The post SJ metal music is awesome.
That’s why I love it. It’s fun, has great music & tons of personality. I’ve never noticed any of those bugs, so yay for me on that front, too! 
How come NGG never got a “Home Rom” with the bugs fixed?
Quoted from sanctumwear:I'm guessing it was ignored early because it was a bad seller. They were being sold on closeout for $1800-$2200 for years. I remember them still being listed on ebay nib for under $2500 in the early 2000s.
So was CV, but that got a Home ROM....but, I guess that was due to Cameron Silver wanting to do it.
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