Gottlieb's "Paradise" for sure.

The only 2-player game from that time I've even played is Paul Bunyan. It is a lot of fun to play head to head, especially when someone lights the 500 point roll under and the other player steals it. I will be interested in hearing of other 2-player games.

My 1967 Gottlieb Surf Side. It got traded to Odin because I couldn't come up with enough money at the time. Do I regret it? Yes and No. I regret that I had to trade off something I liked very much to get something I wanted even more. I don't regret that it went to a good friend like Odin. Will I seek out another one? You bet! Instead of writing a wall of text....You can hear me talk about it in a video I made a year ago.

Why just asking about 2 player pins and not all multi-players from the 60s?
Afraid of too many score reels to adjust?

We all know what O-Dins top 3 picks will likely be, Pit Stop, Magic Clock and Surf Side.

My wife is on me to get out the door now for quick day trip to Silverton, so I will have to come back to this topic after I get back.

Gottlieb's '65 Thoro-Bred is a pretty good game, particularly when competing with a friend.

Williams '64 Oh Boy is a pretty good game too. Again, more so in a friendly competition.

Seems like these 2 player games were 'designed' for exactly that, at least some of them.

San Francisco. It's a great 2-player because you can leave the arrow in a position that can either hurt or help the other guy. Really fun, even with the gobble hole. Great artwork too.

Pit Stop hands down. First one we play every night. And it is not just a great multiplayer, it also gets played as a single player. Often.

My friend Bob got a little frustrated after I beat him twice last night so he put a little magic on it after we were done.

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I'd send my Surf Side and Capersville to Rat and get rid of most of my single players before Pit Stop would ever be moved from it's spot.
Same with Magic Clock, Serenade, Jolly Roger, and El Toro. They aint leaving.

But they've all earned their keep including Dodge City.

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Saturday night is here, time for some Dodge City!

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If you have more than two players, a four player game comes in handy.

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Actually my favorite 2P of this era is Keeney's Arrowhead
great artwork and one of the first games to have drop targets.

Sold my Wild Wild West about 10 years ago. Big mistake, really miss the game and would of looked nice next to Dodge City.

You know my address. Send them on over!

You wouldn't want to know what I have planned after STI picks them up.

I could suggest Wagon Train and Melody Lane, only because they are the only two I have owned that fit the criteria of 1960's two player. They were not keepers for me, but I don't remember why they are still not in the collection. Its a time and place thing too, I have found in my flavor for pinball fun. In time, two player 1960 pins will be the thing.

My Wagon Train is a one player. But a good one at that.

I just sold my Lucky Hand to fund a Pleasure Isle. Hands down this is not only one of the best 2P pins out there,, it is one of the best pinballs of any player amount. Double backbox animation, 3 bells, progressive scoring, and its's one of 3 known 2P add a balls by Gottlieb. Lancers and BIg Top being the others. New York is NOT a true AAB.

It is my 2nd highest rated EM only behind Cowpoke. I was Lucky Enough to play a Flipper Cowboy today, that is one helluva pin and equal to Cowpoke, basically same game with different backbox animation and smiliar artwork.

He said he's not interested in AAB's at this time

Paradice - my buddy has one and it's a great game (and he said it will never leave his place)

Would like to try Surfside some day too......

That's a beautiful sight.

yeah good luck finding a 2P AAB. Paradise is the replay version, I bet it is a real nice game and if it's anything like Pleasure Isle, it's a KEEPER

Gotta go with the Williams El Toro... This is the most "physical" machine in my collection. It's like you have to drive this machine without power steering... And with the holdover feature, people go crazy when they see that red extra ball light!

Third one from the right.

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See what we're up against.

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this is one of my pride and joys..such an awesome game to play and a stunner to look at.

I'd like to try out Pleasure Isle too - sounds like a fun game. As long as ruleset is tough to achieve and game times aren't long............

Yeah you are correct. Memory fades.

I'll send you and rat Surf Side and Capersville and Alex and Hoov King Pin and Classy Bowler. I gotta do something. I think.

"Lariat", not "Lancers". Agree. "Pleasure Isle" is maybe one of the best EM pinball machines ever made. I have a spare body for one. I'd love to Frankenstein a single player wedgehead version out of it one of these years. Wouldn't that be cool?!!!

GTB Big Top is a true AAB 2 player pin, but still very good game IMHO;
as is my BLY Loop the Loop (true AAB model).

Replay pins 2P model favs for each MFR are:
GTB ThoroBred
BLY Star Jet
Midway RaceWay / Flying Turns
CCoin Gunsmoke
But with WMS it is harder to decide
since they had so many more good 2P pins
Like El Toro, Jumpin' Jacks, Pretty Baby, TomTom, Eager Beaver and Pit Stop
But to be honest I have not had a whole lot of time playing most of the above,
Probably less than 20 plays each on most of these pins.
Actually never have played Eager Beaver, even though I own two of them;
so basing some of that on PF layout and play potential.

I'd be interested in that Eager Beaver if you decide to part ways with it.

I sold mine 2 days ago. Game times lasted forever and I was just not playing it at all. I think I may have put 50 games on it total in a year period.

Looks like Marshall Dillon was a pretty good shot tonight.

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I have three favorite 2P's in my collection and can confidently recommend all three.

Gottlieb Pleasure Isle
Bally Star-Jet
Chicago Coin Hula-Hula

These are the most played EM's in house right now.

IMO GTB Scuba, as it tracks player playfield objectives separately. There is a particularly intense final game video on Scuba, I think on the Papa site.

Bally Star Jet looks interesting, would love to find one pop up locally.

Yeah. Fat chance, but ya never know!

Star Jet has AWESOME first-rate genre-defining eye candy artwork, but the gameplay is a little too simplistic for me. Lock/unlock and "not drain" is about all there is to it.

Would advise against Wild Wild West. Has those "lane blocking kickouts" like Zig-Zag/Wing-Ding and Grand Slam which I personally hate. Slows play... not fun.

Paradise is super strong. Beautiful, best game with that side->side->side->kickout mechanism, backbox animation, insert projector roto target (just cool), bells, and the first game designed with return lanes. Hard to beat dat!

Surf Side... well yeah... of course I have some experience with this one after restoring O-Din's machine and adding cabaret lights, new lamp sockets head-to-toe, etc. It is, thus far, the best 2-player EM I have ever played. 100x point theft and potential for extra balls just makes it a nail-biter to the bitter end (with lots of yelling). But... the Achilles Heel is a correspondingly weak 1-player experience. With no one to steal points from, you'll have to "earn and burn" the multipliers yourself. Which isn't as fun.

I get why they added another reel on "Lariat" from "Wild Wild West" but man it just looks ugly to me. Probably because it uses the same art (although I do like the "extended" art), but it just doesn't look right, looks out of place and too plain with the extra reel being accomadated. Not like I'll ever own one anyways, hah! Different head sizes too? Looks like they went up to the next generation of head size, which I believe is different, correct? I do like the looks of Wild Wild West though.

Pit Stop looks cool.