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This game received 341 approved Pinsider ratings and currently rates 7.761 /10
Score breakdown
Score breakdown in the 4 main categories:
Game design: 7.858
Artwork: 7.687
Sounds/Music: 7.085
Other Aspects: 7.904
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8.578/10
13 days ago
Milwaukee, WI
This is a solid game. The Scarecrow’s crane is one of my favorite toys, adding a ton of challenge and replay value. There’s a lot going on above the platform, but without feeling cluttered. Solid.
8.920/10
64 days ago
Underrated pin is easy for beginners and guests but deep enough for more experienced players. Shots are fairly easy to make, which may not present enough of a challenge for some. Strong theme, well integrated. The upgraded sound package is a must. Once you have that, the cabinet, dark color scheme, toys, and creative shots make this a fun pin to play or own. Has the original crane toy redone in BM66. Lots of multiball modes (at least 4) keep the action busy. With LEDs, game looks great. Just a very fun, easy to understand pin with cool, dark theme and some cool gimmicks. Music is pretty good and the cabinet looks fantastic. Playfield artwork is so so. Overall, a very good pin somewhat better than its rank because early sound package was pretty bad. Fun mods too. Not to be confused with the "home" version Stern tried to sell at Costco for a whopping $700 discount. They removed 3 of the main toys (the upper playfield, the Batmobile teeter-totter and the rotating biscuit barrel). They only made 48 of those, but I saw one at the Chicago Expo this year. It's much simpler and less fun. That was Stern's solution to the pinball lull of that era, strip down a game and offer it for a few hundred less? Genius.
7.432/10
88 days ago
Halton Hills, ON
Excelent looking cabinet and translite and soso playfield photoshop art, game plays fast and furiously, the crane is a cool toy that can change the gameplay dramatically. I think alot of space was wasted on the giant joker cylinder and the right side pathway.
Overall a fast fun tournament game that is visually appealing.
Overall a fast fun tournament game that is visually appealing.
5.384/10
8 months ago
The crane is cool, but otherwise this game doesn't do it for me. It has wide open, easy to hit shots if you like that, and it's a very, very long playing game in my experience. Batman '66 takes what's good about this game and makes it better in just about every way. Not a game I care to play much.
8.280/10
10 months ago
This is a fun game, mostly because the shots are fun to make, the crane is cool, and the batmobile shot is fun to make. The modes and mini games aren't very intuitive, the lighting is always dark, and the joker toy really has no point to it. I'd like to take one home and put some brighter lights into it though. It would be a pretty good one for home with some modifications.
7.662/10
11 months ago
The dark knight is such an excellent and fun game. There is a lot to do on it and it's really fun to complete everything on it. It looks great and the music is really good. The Multi-balls are really fun to stack. I would definitely recommend this game.
Sydney
8.076/10
1 year ago
Ipswich
Batman is a pretty good game with three very strong toys - the Joker, the Batmobile, but most of all that Crane! The audio, animation and art are all suitably Batman-themed, but some of the callouts aren't too hot. The game doesn't have a huge amount of flow as the ramp leads to the mini-playfield which slows the ball down, but the progression towards multiball, and the stacking of multiballs to get more lucrative jackpots are the fun elements that make the game shine. The modes are all a bit samey, but it's great to get more variety in there for the seasoned players that want to completely absolutely everything. I probably wouldn't own Batman as the lastability isn't quite there, but definitely worth a play whenever I get the chance!
Brussel
6.366/10
1 year ago
Such a missed opportunity, amazing theme equally as good as Spiderman yet Gomez dropped the ball big time with the playfield design, teeter totter ramp and upper playfield are terrible and do nothing but highlight their repetitive nature and slow the game down.
However! There is the crane, possibly one of Sterns best playfield toys and the 3 different levels of code Lyman created for it makes each mode feel fresh and unique from the last. The joker can although the mech itself suchs the shot through the drop target and into the lock is a great shot.
All in all this game is like 2 face half of it is good and half of it is downright bad!
However! There is the crane, possibly one of Sterns best playfield toys and the 3 different levels of code Lyman created for it makes each mode feel fresh and unique from the last. The joker can although the mech itself suchs the shot through the drop target and into the lock is a great shot.
All in all this game is like 2 face half of it is good and half of it is downright bad!
7.000/10
2 years ago
The gimmicks are good, the best use of the basic Stern table I've seen. It feels like Star Trek and Metallica bought an erector set, though, from a creativity standpoint. It makes up for its lack of creativity with a nice build quality though. Probably the best of that era at stern. Fun to play but not super fun.
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