So has Street Fighter!

(I actually want that game. )

Pop Bumpers added randomization to make the game harder...

...but cheap drains aren't a good thing anymore with so many games going in home collections.

So therefore (and yes I know Williams also did this allready) the Pop Bumpers are mostly completely packed away in a seperate area where they just get trough ans allways come out the same way. Just like someone above wrote with Star Trek.

You can do something with the code but for gameplay it's just 'keeping some balls busy in multiball' or 'maybe the pops fire the ball up again trough the jet lanes'.

And yes, TNA's single Pop was completely different!

Yes, Maiden or Houdini are great exaples to mix that classic formula up a bit.

Because three is more then two and less then four, wich is too much!!!

When I bought my first pin, I wanted one with three Pops, because... well it's just the way most pinball are and I would be missing something if it hasn't pops.
Also if you're new into this, it is quite a spectacle when they rapidly fire, bouncing that heavy ball back an forth in milliseconds.

Now I'm five years into the hoby, see that mostly all modern games have the pops tucked away where they serve no sense in any way and wonder in despair why they didn't use that "BOM" cost for anything more meaningful.

That said I like how Houdini, Iron Maiden and Jurassic Park placed a shot right trough the pops and broke up the "same-old-same-old" formula.