Soccer ball on WCS seems kinda pointless and the magna save is surely useless on that game.

The GREY attack on Congo is really stupid

The skillshots and video modes in Ghostbusters.

The cliffys on Dialed In.

The ACDC lower playfield is fine as far as lower playfields go. That cannon can blow me though. Not only does it drains >50% of the time bouncing off the drops, but it completely blocks your view of the right inlane/outlane completely eliminating your ability to nudge save.

Agreed. Would have been way cooler if it had a controlled tilt like IJ from the factory

A.c. dc lower playfield. Love game hate lower pf.
Come to think of it, I I never met a lower playfield I liked.
Worst is black hole. Ball drainer.

I sold my CV when I realized bashing the ringmaster was just chopping wood.

Agreed on the lower playfield on AC/DC. Great game but that thing doesn't do anything for me

Don't have the game anymore, but the ramp on Raven.

You have to light it, then make a perfect shot to hit the super skinny thing and your reward is a 50/50 chance of getting a bonus multiplier.

No thanks, I'll just shoot the lanes up top.

EDIT: Damn I misread the title and thought it said Worst feature on a game you have. No, no, no....I do not love Raven.

It's mostly out of the way, and then offers a quick non-video-mode that's completely mechanical and fits the theme very well. When dialed in, each letter can be hit with a certain shot, so it's not just button mashing.

If we're dissecting flaws on Congo, the two bad ones are...

1) Satellite Transfer - The two largest standup targets become a frenzy with nothing else active on the PF and you're stuck either timing out the frenzy, or risking shooting those which are pretty much aimed SDTM... all for marginal points.
2) Perimeter Defense - I don't even know what I did when I light this, and I always hit it when lit by mistake, and then I see a wonderfully integrated PF insert light up a beautiful blue, hear an ape call out... and then see it was worth a measly 5 points. Don't even know why that's a target.

The lower PF also is active in Super MB which gives awesome simultaneous dual PF action.

You're just not using it right. When Betty's arm is down, a left ramp shot deflects onto the upper playfield, and can be nudged (with correct timing) into either the hole to the pops (handy for ACID RAIN or SELFIE mode) or off the top to the skill shot switch (to set up a side ramp shot).

I am apparently incapable of loving a machine with a shot I hate, as I can't think of one right off.

How about guns in place of shooter rods? Sure, they look cool with a nice finished, but that fades fast when you wack into one in a dark room.

True, but I've caught enough pockets on shooter handles to know they have their own issues. That said, I'm not a fan of games that drop the plunger entirely in favor of a push button. It's just not the same.

My main problem would probably be single shots that end up dominating the whole game, to the exclusion of most other strategies, because making repeat shots is so exploitable. See Hook, Black Rose, Gilligan's Island, Elvira, and some Python works. The unfortunate thing is that I love most of those games aside from that one shared pet peeve.

Gun launchers own

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The ability to move the rollover lane on the skill shot while the ball is in play on both Medieval Madness and Attack from Mars. That is awkward coding and everyone should be getting the skill shot on every pseudo-plunge. I’ve never owned either, and maybe that can be changed in the settings.

The playfield art on the Lord of the Rings is horrendous. That right ramp shot is also pretty bad.

All three are incredible games, but to me those are warts.

Eh. That skill shot is for teaching the most brand new people to the hobby what a "skill shot" is. The real skill shot is hold the left flipper and plunge. I like the way TNA handles this though. You get extra points if you don't move the lit lane after you plunge. Nice compromise.

Anyways, the paddle boat on Maverick kills flow in that game. It wouldn't be so bad if it would move faster, but I guess it wouldn't look like much of a paddle wheel boat if it was spinning fast.

I can think of 3 in LOTR. Ring shot(inconsistent but critical), path of the dead(slows game down), and gimli shot(when trying on purpose, never sticks). All three give some real ugh moments. That said, it's still a great game.

Theatre of Magic Plunger Ramp.
I wish somehow they could have designed that ramp/skill shot to connect to the orbit and have a plunge-orbit to the left flipper to a trunk hit for skill shot and an orbit- orbit trunk hit for a super skill shot.
Might not be enough room, maybe Pat Lawlor could have made that work.

Yes but then where would that pesky 3rd flipper go?

Definitely Skill Shot and Woodbury Skill Shot crap on TWD.

Flight 2000 Walker is a waste of space

He’d replace the useless Poof Target with a micro-mini flipper

That is a sweet looking gun on shadow. I once had IJ, Shadow and Dirty Harry at the same time-love the guns on pins- not a fan of the launch button

Power playfield on TZ.

The constant draining on AC/DC :p

Video mode on TOM. Just ugh.

The spinning coffee can on BDK...I would love to know what they abandoned when they couldn't get it to work.

I need details about that gun!

Totally agree

I was going to say video mode on Tommy but I’ll simplify it to all video modes on all games. Some are better than others but deep down...they all suck.

I bet you the video mode on GOT is worse than Tommy.

LOL because I have both games and the verdict is...I can’t pick because they’re both so shitty.

Transformers-upper PF is simply horrible but otherwise the game is a blast.

LOTR-Not only is POTD a horrible design feature but the 'Shire' drop is one of the worst design fails ever. Having a ball drastically fall off POTD onto Arwen plastic and then drop into Shire-what was Gomez thinking? I still believe a diverter is the way to go regardless of not adding extra souls in Shire. If they ever do a vault-they need to address this. Great game otherwise

Avengers-Hulk tie ups with arms, again not a good design. If you higher or lower too much it does not interact with ball properly. Meanwhile Hulk arms tie up balls and kill flow while you wait for a reset. Still love the game though

Ghostbusters-flipper gap is too extreme and I don't want to add carrot flippers or center post. Still love the game

GOT-Video mode, I mean C 'mon how long did someone take to program that? Like 2 hours? It is really bad and also the skill shot is meh. Still on my top 5 list

Houdini-Game I want to love but because of a bad design is a brick fest-should have made it a wide body or eliminated a lane. Shots are simply too tight.

AC/DC- lower PF was fun for the first couple times playing it, then it became a nuisance and annoying to me as it killed the flow of the game. Love the Pro

GOTG- Orb drop target pops ball up to glass abruptly, needs protector or plastic extension to help eliminate problem. Fun game great for the family

Rolling Stones- Mick on Stick-Really? Game is fun as hell to play and has great music but Stern simply cut one too many corners when they added Mick on a Stick-should have made 3 dimensional and not thin plastic. Still one of my favorite music pins

Now let's talk about pops. I am on my soapbox now.....I can't stand pops in most newer games. Often times they are in a position in upper right or something and they do absolutely nothing! Why are they there? Nostalgia? I like pops that actually do something on a playfield like on TZ with lower playfield pops that project the ball randomly and make you react. Almost all of today's design's have the ball enter pops-bounce around and then exit out of gate or lane-that is not what they were designed for, and are a waste of space.

Ghostbusters - Best looking pin out there, but the "Start Button" is the worst. Pressing it means you have to actually play the game.

The skill shot on Popeye. I actually love the game whilst most people hate on it. I think that skill shot wheel is just ridiculous!

I like it.

Hate the judges on CV. Wish there was an option to turn them off. Its what made me get rid of the game. Video modes are crappy too, but I can live with those since they come up way less often. Other than that, it's a pretty good game, IMO.

I still have bruises from my Shadow gun...

The music from Roadshow made me sell it...otherwise its a fantastic game

Without the lamp there's nothing in the game. Love the old throw back features.

When I first played DI, I actually thought something was broken because it didn't look like the ball should be up there - like an air ball that fell on some plastic traps.

I actually like the pops in TZ. Most games have pops up high where there is little risk of ball draining. I like the tension you get when the ball gets into the pops on TZ. It also influences which shots you take and some risk/reward. I love TZ but if I had to complain, I don't like the ball launch. The skill shot is pretty neat but you are basically punished for doing it. The alternative of doing a full plunge into a scoop doesn't seem like a clean way to start a ball. Rather see it launched around the orbit but that's really nit picking.

I also agree about Congo and the satellite targets. Completely pointless. You don't get that many points for it, you are locked out of everything else, and it's a dangerous shot.

Superdog on FunHouse. The points are absolutely worthless.