Why isn’t AMH considered boutique? Only 100 made so very few Pinsiders have spent any meaningful time playing.

Same could be said about the Heighway pins too.

Easy way to avoid that - just put the whole decade up without your bullshit arbitrary exclusions.

The fact that Big Buck Hunter keeps showing up on these polls shows how we have such different tastes. The game is so much fun But I respect the rest of the 99,99999999999% of the world population that hates it

I loved Big Buck when I had it. I got a trade offer for a NIB Metallica so I had to let it go. I do miss it .

Dont ya love the haters?

Damn Canadians are so unhappy!

I suspect the reason Full Throttle is hanging in there is because only 73 machines were ever made and very few people are really familiar with it. So by default, people vote its opposition and in this case something more familiar.
I'm not complaining just making a point.

Yeah, what's that aboot.

Not a complaint, just an honest question (hadn't seen your other post) since you said boutique games like AMH were excluded - unlike Heighway that mass marketed their games, albeit without much success.

Everyone has their own preferences, but Full Throttle was one of my least favorite games of the 2 dozen or so that I've owned over the years. Played it a few times on location at Pinball Wizard and thought I would like one in my collection.

I was wrong.

Ooh, I love a chance to be pedantic:

Then you must hate it too, because that percentage of earth's population would be about 1/1282 of one person. In other words, rounding off to whole people (much less painful), that is effectively 100%.

No big deal, it's easy to add too many nines. But if I have said it once, I've said it a million times, don't exaggerate!

I wouldn't worry about BBH, anyhow, Mick on a Stick's got this.

The Heighway pins weren't *meant* to be boutique. FT got utterly squashed by the early Alien announcement (and boy, was I pissed about that), but Andrew fully intended to sell as many as he could. There was no limited run number.

Seriously GB should be on this list.

Even I've played FT less than WWE, and I made the damn thing. FT has a decent layout and played well in the end. I did my best with the playfield graphics based on the little assets there were and improvising what I could (and sneaked in a couple of Easter eggs on of the plastics). But I never liked what the game was forced to be turned into and the treatment it got, and have too many bad memories of it. It reeks of design-by-committee and was zero fun to do.

Give me a chance though and I'd reskin FT and have it recoded with a theme that suits it that I'd actually like. I know exactly what it would be.

Avatar should not be in this list.

I thought that wacky bar theme was cool, like taxi or something.

Oh I still totally want to do that - the playfield would be a complete rearrangement though. Been on the design cards and tinkered away with for absolutely ages. It would retain the same gameplay ideas I had but with more on top, since it would be a three-flipper widebody; it would have a non-standard right inlane/outline area with two additional pop bumpers and a means back to the shooter lane for a kickback; it would have a lower 'wine cellar' mini-field with a new style of play, if I can fit it in without overcrowding the field; and it would have two player-controlled 'magic magnets' at the top section to give players total control over ball flow into areas and features they want (was a bit peeved when Oktoberfest was able to present something similar first).

As for why I'm doing weird niche games right now like Punny Factory and Sushi Mania that appear to have no market appeal on this board; it's like doing a small-team homebrew, as contract projects selling them isn't our remit so all we have to do is make them fun to play, it's an interesting creative challenge to come up with unique layouts with their own USPs on a small budget, and I'd rather have fun with making an off-the-wall brief work than make no games at all.