Spooky.

You missed Multimorphic.

This is such loaded question. You have to weigh price, materials, art, themes, wait times, pre-order payment amounts, risk, etc.
I could pick or not pick any one company on the list for one reason or another.

Showgirls

What about JPOP and Kevin. Until found guilty for the crimes, aren't they still in business?

Oh not as good as you I guess. TZ and AMH!! Sweet!! No more Gottliebs. I am sad.

IMO spooky and JJP deserve the love. With the edge going to JJP for the win!

I wanted to vote skitb

Stoner

None.

Seen a few pics of some of the games but haven't been able to play them. (AMH looks like a slam dunk for me personally)
Played some of the games and not interested.
Know the price of some and are less interested.

I really enjoy what Gerry is putting into Lexy Lightspeed, and purely based on game quality/innovation I'd probably give the win to Multimorphic with JJP pulling a second, however Spooky mixes incredible game design with this outstanding small company image which makes them extremely lovable, and their outstanding and friendly support makes me want to continue buying from and supporting them as much as I can.

Wow, my stomach started to hurt when I read the headline on the first page of the forums because I thought for certain the OP would have been Kaneda.

Anyway, I voted for Spooky.

Spooky hands down. Great service and product. I love my AMH.

Another vote for Multimorphic, always suprises me how many people don't know about them: they make the P3 Pinball Platform - first game Lexy Lightspeed. Maybe it's the multiple names that confuses people?

Homepin

Dutch Pinball. I love my BOP 2.0 and it's like they went into my brain and pulled out my dream game: Lebowski!

Spooky without question, these guys deserve a medal!

Heighway for me. I'm saving my money for one.

JJP is too pricey.

I wish I'd played Big Lebowski at Expo.

Spooky is too exclusive. I've never even seen one in real life.

I like Spooky the most. They just have that small town, easy going vibe that I love. It's like a little slice of pinball Americana! I gotta root for the little guys.

I think DP and Heighway will do great things. So will P3, their platform is next level stuff.

I think JJP went too big, too fast, but I hope he can turn it around. WoZ and TH are about as close to high art as pinball has come.

I wouldn't buy a thing from Rick. I just don't like the way he conducts himself or treats people who are his customers.

All in all, its a great time to be into pinball.

I love P3 because it's the only one that is innovative. but I can't justify the steep price tag to get one.

I love Spooky's business model and keeping games more reasonable.

I haven't had the pleasure yet to play one. Tell me they didn't put the usual Italian bottom on that one.

Considering Multimorphic isn't even listed this is pointless.

Then you shouldn't be making a poll on this topic.

OK I looked. Same lower playfield as everybody else. That's innovation.

hard to pick just one. All pinball is good. And each of them has some really great qualities. I own an AMH and a WOZ, and have a MMR on order. But would like to get an Alien and TBL. So all are pretty equal in my eyes.

Spooky by a mile.

Great 1st game out quick + total lack of bullshit/money holding/delays + price + great company & people = First place with second still back on the race track.

Man I totally want an Alien. I'm looking forward to its debut at a show.

Full Throttle is being delivered and is super fun to play. Andrew is also very open and doing a great job. While Spooky is great, I don't think Heighway is that far behind.

TPF!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope we see it.

My vote goes to whoever was making that pin3000 or whatever it was called.

homepin

yea, that's P3.

Lower playfield is interactive. Game has movable walls and scoops. So the game knows where your ball is and where it's headed. It can fawk with you if it was programmed to do so. Snag your ball, or reflect it back. Rotary multiball mech is pretty neat as well. They are changing a lot of mechanical aspects that are unique as well. Plus, some nice use of color changing LED's before anyone else was. Light up drops and standups that change depending on modes you are in.

but we can't vote for them because they were cut out of the running.

No not that one. Remember pinball3000? I can't find the thread.

Now I want a new game with traditional flippers. Not inverted like they have been using for years now. I think I may have to design it myself.

Bottom swaps out, you can put any configuration on there you like (watch below starting from 0:35):

That's innovation.

So it's kind of like lego huh? Build what you like? I still didn't see where you could swap flippers so they wouldn't be inverted.

Do it. Get Nimbles to help you make it. He can scrub coils and rebuild switches while the baby sleeps. Find a donor EM that's beat and take it apart and use the parts to make your own EM.

You know how they work. Put one together yourself. Design it on paper, and then hand cut the playfield. It's an EM, you can do all the routing by hand, nothing is too complicated.

Modify the score motor, wire the switch stacks, figure out the logic. Design the playfield and the scoring, and make it work.

Show the world how a 2" flipper game should play in 2016.

I double dog dare you!!!

But where would I figure out all the parts needed to make a whitewood? This thing will have reversed two inch flippers, subways, ramps, and a cathode tube display!

I've seen Gerry slide out the flipper mech thing before, and swapping in a new one of any configuration would certainly be possible (but you'd have to design/build it custom)

I think with it's design this platform could lend itself to customization. Thanks to Aurich, I have some plans.

As I have room for only one Pin and really like their modular system, open communication, vision and potential Heighway all the way for me.

Serious question for O-din.

I've seen you bring up the Italian bottom in several threads to lament the sameness of pinball over the last 40 years. I too love the oddball flipper arrangements of many older games. Variety is fun. Those tables exist.

However, it strikes me that the Italian bottom configuration was the result of a slow process of refinement. With that configuration, they finally got it just right.

I sometimes think that the call for "innovation" in pinball is unwarranted. I personally think that the fundamental configuration of the modern machine is pretty close to perfection.

Rethemed, reskinning, coding, magnets, mechs, ramps, drops, StandUps, gobbles, slings, etc etc can all be utilized in infinitely subtle configurations to provide new experiences. Frankly, that's what I want from pinball.

I see the appeal of other bottom end configurations for variety sake... But I feel like the modern bottom end is the distillation of all of that experimentation, refined in to the "best" compromise.

couldn't agree more. I hate those configurations that try too hard to be innovative at the expense of what works. Banana flippers or 4 flippers on the bottom that have an opening that drains the ball when you try to cradle.

As an owner of Kickoff, a game that has these.. It's somewhat fun occasionally to basically not be able to cradle IMHO. Would I have an entire collection like that, no.