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"Why no love for number 2?"

By Mercury

10 years ago


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#18 10 years ago

We don't take much credence in the IPDB statistics.

Gottlieb made a lot of great em's. You can have 10 guys in a room and they'll all have a different favorite game. If you search the archives of Pinside or rgp for the top ten Gottlieb em's, that should be a pretty good indicator. Most guys go for the best playing games which have a great theme, great artwork, and most important, a great ruleset. Single player wedgeheads tend to have better rulesets than multi-players although games like Jack in the Box, etc., can be the exception. Having drop targets reset during a ball and not when the ball ends is an example. Several single-players have "progressive" rulesets where you achieve a goal such as 1-9, etc.. Multi-players can't carry features over from ball to ball like single players can. I'm not saying multi-players aren't still fun to play because I own some too.

#33 10 years ago
Quoted from Pin-it:

Yes Yes^
I believe that Em s today are much a kin to vinyl records ,not many people would have or own them or yet understand it, digital media does not have the same soul as the older analog counterparts , but there is something to say about how things were done prior to the digital switch ,granted the newer technology has advantages versus analog,and vice-versa but yet there is a cult following to some of the older technology,whether it be a memory from playing them in your childhood or a way to go to a simpler era, Like was said ^Em s have a different mindset from ruleset and repairing.
The artwork on pinball was cool back in the day ,just like the album covers of that era,it seems reversed to me ,you would think it would be a better marketing tool to have a theme that has no tie to a band or movie theme,just look at all the older pins that had no corporate entertainment meddling and have that free minded expression.
Em s are like a changing of the guard, things get lost over time,fortunately we have people that still want to keep onto the older Em s rather than throw them in the garbage.
Long live Em s and the people who play and work on them!
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#71 10 years ago

EM Hangout guys - go rate some EM pins.

I just did. Jacks Open not even in the top 100 - rated 252 - huh, what..........ok, I guess I'll give it a rating.

#73 10 years ago
Quoted from GreyScale:

I dig the EMs. I actually get more excited when I see them in the wild, because it is so rare to see them. In fact, I ran into a Kings and Queens recently and I enjoyed that machine just as much as anything else I've played these days.
And yes, everyone here rate the EMs, so that the Top 100 EMs can get a little more credibility.

Kings and Queens is a great game.......

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