F1 Tomcat is just vanilla fan layout

This website has its Lips glued firmly to Williams pinball logo.

Williams can do no wrong and by pinside and Podcaster standards is that if a Williams machine sucks they just dismiss Gottlieb as even worse.

Toy Story 4... Too soon?

Darling/Jubilee suck hind tit.

Way too late, actually. Post #7 about 15 hours ago...

I played Popeye for more than an hour the first time I saw it. Not the best pinball, but it has some redeeming qualities. I never understood the flak it gets.

Square pinballs are the worst.
Don't roll very well.

I forgot I own that game until I saw your post. It’s at my friends house. I’ve actually never played it before. I replaced the flippers tho.

I actually like orbitor, it's like Jedi pinball there's one at the PPM, I play a few games on it when I go to fix it night (about once a month) so I'd disagree about replayability. It's fun for what it is. I also like spy hunter, play it whenever I can, never seen one not sell quickly when they come up.
For me, Jubilee, buggs, Popeye, GNR, dolphin and raven are some of my least favorite pins.
But sometimes someone who loves a shitty title will convince you it's fun, so you never know
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Well 10 years later they did get the deal with Barb Wire...
And technically Brooks and Dunn but the company died half way through that build

Im gonna stick with the game I always list in these kind of threads, Gottlieb Nightmare on Elm St. The most disappointing, lame playing, waste of a great license game.

I want to stick up for Street Fighter II. Yeah the code is pretty simplistic and there aren't many great shots but the theme overall is awesome and the car bash toy was a fun idea. It's not a great pin but I don't think it's worst ever by a long shot.

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I don't think this type of thread is helpful.

Funny, maybe?

But kinda mean to some companies and designers.

I removed my comment.

Uhhhh, no. Just no.

Scuba? I'm surprised, it's not bad, have owned my $100 one for years. Just surprised it's mentioned, as there are so many worse games out there. Darling, good god is that horrible. Big Ben, horrible. Spy Hunter, definitely up there as the worst. Baby Pac, garbage (searched for one forever, got it, hated it). I actually hated my Family Guy, couldn't get rid of it fast enough. Stern Rolling Stones, horrible. There are definitely a lot of crap games out there.

back to the future

Irishbastard said best

Each manufacture has made scrub games and will continue to. Suspect many were ruined by the bean counters with cost reduction measures or re-themed last minute. Some just crap that should of never left white wood stage but they made it anyway because they needed something and rushed it out the door. I just wonder what games didn't make it. Would they be fun and make in the top 100 pinside list.

These pinballs are pretty bad.

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Ah i see you placed an order for Carbons from Ball Baron?

Rapid Fire, no, just no. I wanted to like it but could not even stand playing for a minute

Time Fantasy, Could not get into this game either

I love so called Boat Anchors!

WNBJM is very special and totally under appreciated piece of art with a very addictive rule set.
Gilligan's is simply " The BEST game ever"
BBH is just the best multiplayer fun with the best call outs
All games have a certain appeal to someone and you should never judge until you have played.

However there can only be one worst game ever! Thunderbirds or I call Blunderturds.
Its no secret I dislike the owner but this does not effect my judgement of any game. Hate the player not the game.
I have never ever walked away from a game while still on first ball. Not even BBBB had that.

I’ve owned about 70 games from every era. My absolute least favorite game that I have owned is Stern Harley Davidson. I think it’s annoying, poorly designed and just not fun.

Best thing about Popeye is the negative hype about it. I bought one and I’m not disappointed by it at all

With Colour DMD it really is special and dare I say best dot matrix animation!

My daughters favourite pin, and a good example of how a family friendly pin should be made.

Think about when it was made (1980s) and the target audience (arcade operators). Very unique features (the spinning bumpers and the moonscape playfield) grab attention - and the first quarter. The "blast to play" combined with quick ball drains means the second quarter comes quickly as the customer tries to do better against this new challenge. And 10 minutes later it's ready to repeat with the next guy's pocket change because there is never an A-level player running up a 30 minute game. I'd guess it earned well in a high-traffic location and maybe could still do so today. Like SantaEatsCheese , I've had fun on this game when it was displayed at Allentown (thanks to whoever brought it ... in 2019 I think).

-Rob
-visit https://www.kahr.us to get my daughterboard that helps fix WPC pinball resets or my replacement Type 1 sound board for Williams games

In my own collection, IJ pinball adventure is the worst. I don’t know why this game is so popular. The ramps are Houdini level difficult and yes, my skills suck. But I tried. For 20+ years. I know, sad.

Anyone remember this one? lol. I don't think it ever made it to production.

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It did not... Unfortunately, neither did the SkitB game before it.

Didn't miss much.

Cosmic Carnival has to at least been an honorable mention in this category, no?

I have almost every single WPC DMD. To me, IJPA is the best of them. I play it the most. Love it so much we have two of them and we will be doing full restorations on both of them shortly.

Not everyone is going share my opinion of it. But, it’s an a-list pin and deservedly so.

You tried to hit the ramps on IJ for 20 years and you can't?

Umm...wow.

I like our popeye. IMHO, it’s biggest issue is that, more often than not, the objective isn’t apparent nor are the rewards for completing them.

Games with sub- mini- playfields. AC/DC premium and Congo, looking at you. I know they are popular, have owned both. The senseless sub- playfield destroys the flow.

Not puffing this game, but it is severely underrated and hated on for NO reason. I LOVE playing this game. It NEVER gets old hearing "Fight the road kings" and then trying to hit jackpots.

There are different strategies with risk/reward, etc. and its a killer theme imo. Just a cool ass pinball machine. And they're CHEAP.

Its simple, like HS, and i actually prefer it TO hs.

Yeah, I've played it... I meant unfortunate more as in the pre-order buyers lost their asses and the Predator theme was wasted.

The ones that come in new Stern's! Sorry late to the thread.

I always thought Dr Who sucked... cool theme tho.

I’m biased, but I agree. Scuba is very fun head-to-head. Solo I can see why it wouldn’t last long in a collection

Top 1 on my list of underrated games. Sold it at PinFest and already miss it. First Chris Granner classic too.

Yeah Road Kings is a pretty decent game tbh. Saying Road Kings sucks is a very 2010 opinion (or earlier I dunno, I wasn't paying attention too much earlier than that)

You do know that the Phantom of the Opera wasn't just a broadway show right? It was a book from 1909. The broadway show came out in 1986, the pinball machine 1990. 4 years later feels a bit late to ride coattails. By your logic, Andrew Lloyd Webber was just making a shameless cash-grab himself. I'd say it was an adaptation of the story itself, not a rip off of the musical.

WWE with the huge ring upper PF is bad.

Sounds like Tommy to me

I see what you did there.