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Worst pin of all time (Poll)

By Arcadefan

5 years ago


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“Worst pin of all time (Poll)”

  • Shrek 24 votes
    10%
  • Freddy 31 votes
    13%
  • class of 1812 19 votes
    8%
  • Gilligan's island 50 votes
    22%
  • Xs and Os 35 votes
    15%
  • RoadShow 15 votes
    6%
  • POTC 15 votes
    6%
  • Big buck hunter 42 votes
    18%

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#1 5 years ago

your choice

#2 5 years ago

Some of my least favorites are Casanova, aces and Kings, and hardbody.

#4 5 years ago

Where's Punchy The Clown and why is Gilligan's Island on there?

#5 5 years ago

#vacationamerica

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#6 5 years ago

Roadshow, I only had it for 5 days and I put it up for sale...

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#7 5 years ago

TnA, just can't stand the game.

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#8 5 years ago
Quoted from PismoArcade:

Where's Punchy The Clown and why is Gilligan's Island on there?

Not enough people have seen a punchy the clown in person to have a real opinion. The designer its a redemption game that happens to have flippers and end of the day this was made for little kids. Judge the game based on what it was designed for, not by comparing it to things it wasn't. That aside I would still play it than a number of machines.

Really makes me wonder where the op got his list? BBH has a following. Shrek is a reskin of family guy which is a very good game. Class of 1812 has a following. POTC has a following.

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#9 5 years ago

Dude, class of 1812 is a blast! Road Show is a top 50 game. Rescue 911 is the worst solid state I have played and I enjoy System 3's.

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#10 5 years ago

None of the above

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#11 5 years ago

Yeah, seems like a trolling list. Where are the traditional haterbox choices like Hercules, Jubilee, and Raven?

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#12 5 years ago

Where's F-14?

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#13 5 years ago

You misspelled Street Fighter II about 8 times on your little list there...

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#14 5 years ago

Is POTC hated? I always throw a buck in one when I see one.

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#15 5 years ago

This makes no sense.

#16 5 years ago

I haven't played all of these, but it seems to me Raven doesn't get much love & should be on the list.

#17 5 years ago

Bugs Bunny .... but only because Hercules is an oddity, and should not be considered.

I know one guy who just doesn’t believe that about Bugs....poor fella!

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#18 5 years ago

IJ4, by a landslide

#19 5 years ago
Quoted from GravitaR:

TnA, just can't stand the game.

Is it because you expect it to play like a SS but it plays like an EM?

#20 5 years ago

Gottlieb Wipeout is my least favorite game.

Rob

#21 5 years ago
Quoted from Blitzburgh99:

Bugs Bunny .... but only because Hercules is an oddity, and should not be considered.
I know one guy who just doesn’t believe that about Bugs....poor fella!
[quoted image]

I like mine because its hated and rare with a cool theme! Haha

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#22 5 years ago

Judge Dredd. Worst game ever. What a load of crap. Two weeks, gone.

#23 5 years ago
Quoted from jake35:

I like mine because its hated and rare with a cool theme! Haha

I've never played one, but the game intrigues me since it's so elusive. Does it have multiball, or is it a single ball game?

#24 5 years ago
Quoted from Blitzburgh99:

Bugs Bunny .... but only because Hercules is an oddity, and should not be considered.
I know one guy who just doesn’t believe that about Bugs....poor fella!
[quoted image]

And have you even played one yet?

#25 5 years ago

I legit enjoy POTC, Shrek and BBH. I would probably like Roadshow better if I wasn't trash at it. I'm not super familiar with many of the games on this list. Freddy is kind of stupid though.

Orbiter 1 is fun maybe twice.

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#27 5 years ago

Worst poll of all time?

#28 5 years ago

Dude how could you make a list and topic like this and some how leave popeye off? Several of the games you have listed are not even close to worst of all time

#29 5 years ago

I'm going to go for the gold and say Disco Fever!

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#30 5 years ago

Motordome.

Awful, Just awful.

#31 5 years ago

Were obviously going to stay above the belt here and not attack just about every EM ever! lol

#32 5 years ago
Quoted from gmkalos:

Were obviously going to stay above the belt here and not attack just about every EM ever! lol

There are a ton of fantastic EMs and many of them have layouts that are far more creative than the very samey layouts we're often seeing now.

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#33 5 years ago

....if you say so. I'd put just about any EM up against a Raven and a newb would think Raven was futuretec! lol I have a few EM's I will always love but swatting at a pinball with those little flippers (which most of them have) is just silly to me sorry. And let's not even get into the reliability differences.

#34 5 years ago
Quoted from DaveH:

Judge Dredd. Worst game ever. What a load of crap. Two weeks, gone.

JD was perhaps the one game you would see being routinely parted out because the parts were worth more than what a whole working game could be sold for (15-20 years ago).

rob

#35 5 years ago
Quoted from Blitzburgh99:

Bugs Bunny .... but only because Hercules is an oddity, and should not be considered.
I know one guy who just doesn’t believe that about Bugs....poor fella!
[quoted image]

Until today I've never bothered to go to the bottom of the Pinside list, and I have to go all the way up to Motordome at 343 before I find one that I haven't played. What a rogues gallery...

Hercules is the only pinball that I've ever played that stopped me at one game, it was so clunky and awful. Bugs Bunny could be fun if I could understand what the hell I'm meant to do. I remember Punk as being a shocker, and Flash Gordon as being so difficult it was essentially unplayable.

But the worst pinball ever is the one on route that is never maintained and has a dodgy flipper...

#36 5 years ago

Shaq Attaq springs immediately to mind as a clear favourite. Almost can't give it away and I don't think I have switched it on since (reluctantly) dropping it into the collection years ago.

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#37 5 years ago

Algar

#38 5 years ago

Supreme. Who pays this much money for an AD?

#39 5 years ago

None of the above. Lousiest one I've ever played is probably Motordome, an unreadable design mess.

Hercules is legendarily terrible too (hilariously so for being the first taste of pinball many visitors would get at Expo for years and years), but has its so-bad-it's-good charms for looking, feeling and playing like something out of The Flintstones.

#40 5 years ago
Quoted from Blitzburgh99:

Bugs Bunny .... but only because Hercules is an oddity, and should not be considered.
I know one guy who just doesn’t believe that about Bugs....poor fella!

None of the games on the list the op has offered work for me but, Please don't bring that useless (meaningless) top one hundred ratings out as if it had any real bearing on what is a good game or bad game.

#41 5 years ago

says the man with a HRC......
Sorry, but IJ4 is not the worst until there is HRC.
I would say, IJ4 is not top 10 but also not flop 10.

#42 5 years ago

No "worst of" list without Williams 1973 Darling pinball machine on it can be taken seriously.

#44 5 years ago
Quoted from ImNotNorm:

Worst poll of all time?

It’s in the running... along with some of the other threads OP has started.

#45 5 years ago

I'd take a Motordome over Ghostbusters any day even if they were the same price.

#46 5 years ago
Quoted from Metengo:

says the man with a HRC......
Sorry, but IJ4 is not the worst until there is HRC.
I would say, IJ4 is not top 10 but also not flop 10.

HRC is a clunky mess which is tied with Kiss for the worst callouts EVER. But the ruleset is a Keith Johnson gem. IJ4 has targets that do NOTHING. As in zero points. They're just there.

#47 5 years ago

Of the games in the poll? Class of 1812.
My personal choices: South Park and Big Guns

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#48 5 years ago

I think there should be separate threads/polls for worst B/W, worst modern Stern, worst classic Stern, etc....
IJ4 compared to almost any EM is way better IMHO.

#49 5 years ago
Quoted from ImNotNorm:

Worst poll of all time?

Pretty much:

Anybody ever played El Toro?
These posters don't know what "bad" is.

Correction: These 2 are solid candidates. Darling (and it's 3 dopplegangers) and Rescue 911 are bad, very very bad.

#50 5 years ago

There are a lot more than 355 games made. Pinside top 100 is a reference for beginners or a popularity contest, some of my favorite games are poorly ranked on this list. Everyone appreciates different things. I wouldn't put too much stock in that list. It is far from a be all end all.

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