You have a time machine with room for you and a pinball machine. It's set for 1982. When you get there you're going to wheel it into the most radical 1982 pinball arcade; your old stomping grounds, and blow everyone away with a glimpse of future technology.
What modern pin would best dazzle a crowd of dozens of young boomers with mullets and teen gen x'ers and why?
Either Godzilla LE or Rush LE, both themes they would know so that makes it even more about the pinball tech.
Guns n Roses CE would be a great one because it would be a few years before Appetite for Destruction came out so all the music would be new to them and that pin's light show would be almost beyond their comprehension.
Nobody was listening to GNR in 1982 obviously so I think Kiss, AC/DC, Rush would impress a 1982 arcade crowd, possibly Black Knight Sword of rage sitting next the original Williams.
Any movie based title after 1983. Just to scare and confuse them for years after I’ve gone back to my own time.
I’m only pretending to bring a pinball machine. But really it’s sacks of cash printed in 1979, and I’m calling a stock broker. Then I’m grabbing a Leftover NIB Star Gazer, coming back to now, and having the biggest unboxing party in the history of the world. I’ll have the first game broadcast on ESPN, because I have a time machine! Finally I’ll go back and eliminate my parents before I was born, destroying the last vestiges of this timeline in the biggest paradox ever devised.
(Dude, don’t give me a time machine, just sayin)
Really any game will impress
1982, no auto launchers, ramps only took you to a second level, you only had physical ball locks, no interactive toys, magnets only caught your ball not throw them back at you
Cirquis Voltaire
Earthshaker
Godzilla
Revenge From Mars, of course! And I’d tell them “all the pins are like this in the future”. Because I’m a time-traveling troll.
Quoted from SpyroFTW:Dr Who
Which would be very confusing, since by 83 we still would have been on Peter Davison, so who’s these other two chaps and why does one of them look like that guy from Arc of Infinity? J/k
Think I would have to pick Rick and Morty.
Good light show and music
LCD which would have been amazing in 82
Lots of “wtf did he just say” moments with cursing at 100%
Either a decked out Adams Family or a fully modded Tron. Imagine if designers got a glimpse of these machines for ideas in the early 80's and where we would be today.
Quoted from LTG:Guns & Roses
Not sure if that would have dazzled people or have annoyed them? 
I would send a WOZ or a GNR just so they would have an idea of what a overstuffed potato looks like and they could learn from it for future games
Quoted from koji:TNA would be interesting.
WOZ also
Someone also mentioned BKSOR already.
Houdini is another option.
WOZ would certainly impress them visually, but they would be very familiar with the pace of the game.
BKSOR, on the other hand, would blow them away with its powerful flippers and lightning fast ball speeds. Was anything in 1982 even close?
Quoted from Electronmagic:WOZ would certainly impress them visually, but they would be very familiar with the pace of the game.
BKSOR, on the other hand, would blow them away with its powerful flippers and lightning fast ball speeds. Was anything in 1982 even close?
By 1982, WMS was into Sys 7 Flippers which are pretty good... but yeah, if we are going pre Sys 7, then the closest for speed would be classic Stern by virtue of PF design that just seems to lead to fast gameplay. IMHO-
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