Every game I own is brutal. And that's what I strive for. It may be a toss up between Big Daddy, Trade Winds, Pinky, and Wms. El Toro for the most brutal here.

I can play a three ball game of Flash Gordon after an hour in the garage playing the short flipper EMs and it seems like child's play, relatively speaking.

I can't think of any games made in the last 25 years that I would call brutal, period.

Edit- but I am yet to play TNA

When did this multiball enhancement begin?

Not all. I find most 70s EMs with three inch flippers very easy. Just like most other recent games with long flippers and inlanes.

But shorten the flippers and take away those inlanes, and you will be transported back to a time when your pockets were emptied rapidly.

Then you still end up with the early SS era, but would probably get the same responses you got in most of this thread because people would like to think the games they own are the toughest, but most, not all, around here don't seem to have a very well rounded collection or knowledge of games new and old.

Balls A Poppin!

First one with ball locks like we know today-
1963 Bally Star Jet. A game that looks pretty brutal itself.