Bally

Doctor Who

Pinside Rating

This game received 363 approved Pinsider ratings and currently rates 7.839 _/10

7.839

Top 100 ranking

This game ranks #113 in the Pinside Pinball Top 100.

Score breakdown

Score breakdown in the 4 main categories:

Game Design: 8.112

Artwork: 7.457

Sounds/Music: 7.237

Other Aspects: 8.051

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8.079

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6.041/10

13 years ago

WPG

guymontag451

Wedgehead

Portland, OR

13y 92,800 1,006 25 170

Fun at first, won't even look at one now. This pin finds me bored by my second ball. Not that its too easy per se, rather that it drains unfairly, and I find the scoring uneven. Plus it's kinda really ugly. No replay value for me. Must be missing something...or maybe I have been making excuses for this one for too long now. Not for me. Pinbot is way more fun imo, and BoP blows them both away, and they all seem about the same price range so I can't find the point. Sound quality is embarassingly bad.

9.913/10

13 years ago

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Bobaloo

Inactive member

Unknown

13y 2,500 7

Great game. It's getting older so finding one that lights up correctly can be tough but one of the funnest games out there bar none.

8.328/10

13 years ago

EMO

emo

Inactive member

Nailsea

17y 53,650 1,277 2 251

It's like two great games in one. You have the risky "expander", ball lock/multi-ball game and the fantastic flow combinations offered between the left lane and two ramps. I want one!

emo edited previous rating on September 26, 2011.

8.582/10

13 years ago

EDY

maxhead

Inactive member

Winterthur

14y 28,150 15 51 21

Very Hard and unfair to Play, this machine does not forgive you any faults :-) Lot of Fun and good durability..

maxhead currently owns this game.

9.042/10

13 years ago

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didouc

Inactive member

Albi

14y 21,250 2 14

Very good pinball and it's not expensive. A must have

8.726/10

13 years ago

RND

RawleyD

Pinside member

Roanoke, VA

14y 67,650 3,243 36

Great game that will never leave my collection. A true player that is difficult to master, and every shot ever so satisfying.

RawleyD edited previous rating on July 29, 2011.
RawleyD has owned this game in the past.

7.262/10

13 years ago

XOT

Outlane-Avoider

Pinside member

14y 77,300 570 268

Picked one of these up to play for a little while. Not my favourite game by a long way to be honest. Far too much orange/blue on the playfield and translite, plus the sound is harsh and garbled. The scoring and ruleset is complex and incomprehensible and it is a drain monster with lightning flippers fitted. The scoring is really unbalanced, I seemed to score well by making the WHO loops then onto Sonic Booms rather than going for multiball.
Well the game lasted 13 days in my collection, Glad to see it go.

Outlane-Avoider edited previous rating on December 13, 2015.
Outlane-Avoider has owned this game in the past.

8.647/10

13 years ago

JMG

drbond

Inactive member

14y 62,400 1,473 7 85

Barry Oursler's best DMD pin & ranks as his best design since Pinbot. The goal of the game is to rescue various regenerations of Dr Who & ultimately defeat Davros. Success will depend on precise shooting & video mode completion (Donkey Kong-esque moments of hazard jumping). Dr Who burrows heavily from Pinbot's visor idea with its amazing "Time Expander" mini-playfield. The playfield layout is a throwback to the golden era of the alpha-numeric (Black Knight loop ramp). Good light show, memorable VOX ("EXTERMINATE"), great dot animation, Sega Genesis-quality theme song rendition, & comic style PF art. Dr Who isn't perfect. Translite art is bad & VOX sound quality is garbled (so much that you will be irritated). Very hard game for beginners to understand with its complex rules. Time Expander center targets (like Pinbots' visor targets) practically beg players to commit suicide via bad shots, causing LOTS of SDTM drains. A generally affordable & great game once you get over it's nuisances.

drbond edited previous rating on August 23, 2012.

8.798/10

13 years ago

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chrysos1411

Inactive member

Limassol

13y 8,250 13 12

Rather challenging but sometimes frustrating. Not a very good backglass but fine theme music. I own it and it is a players game no doubt, but wouldn't recommend it for a small collection, unless you want a pin that will give you a run for your money every time...

chrysos1411 has owned this game in the past.

8.044/10

13 years ago

LEW

sleepygtr

Pinside+ Frequent

13y 67,550 337 8 31 1

Dr. Who is the ultimate tease - the very cool mini playfield is a sweet carrot but a trap at the same time - the novice becomes exasperated shooting at it while the wizard avoids it all together - manipulating the doctors, the w-h-o shot and the multiplier ramp are the keys to big scores... STAY out of the
middle!

sleepygtr edited previous rating on March 05, 2018.
sleepygtr has this game on the wishlist.

8.207/10

14 years ago

DEL

SealClubber

Pinside Moderator

14y 127K 11,060 246

The pop up ball lock mechanism is reminiscent of Pinbot but better. The PF is also better balanced and there's more to do. I love the Dr. Who theme song. This is a pretty fun machine. It does drain down the sides very easily, just like Pinbot. As much as I like Pinbot, I like this one better.

SealClubber edited previous rating on February 22, 2011.

8.375/10

14 years ago

RAY

bugray

Inactive member

Basingstoke

14y 54,650 697 97

Another one i want, one day it'll happen, it'll be a keeper. Very strategic, great rule set. The pre-dcs is prob only drawback.

bugray has this game on the wishlist.

8.660/10

14 years ago

EDH

TigerLaw

Pinside Moderator

Jennings, LA

14y 224K 20,100 24 240

I have had this game for 20 years; it has what I view as the best video mode in all of pinball (at least, the most meaningful video mode in terms of how it affects game play). The shots are tough and if you leave the lightening flippers on the game can be a drain monster. Fun game, but this gem from 1992 is starting to show its age somewhat sadly...be that as it may, it would never leave my collection.

TigerLaw edited previous rating on August 19, 2012.
TigerLaw currently owns this game.

7.658/10

15 years ago

HOP

hippochrome

Inactive member

Ottawa, ON

15y 32,650 2 2 53

This game has grown on me since rediscovering the TV series. Overall the game is designed very much like Pinbot, but with new rules, a DMD, and different theme (although, still space themed, and still with kick-ass music). I like Pinbot, so this game really works for me...even more so than Jackbot.

hippochrome edited previous rating on June 19, 2011.

6.459/10

19 years ago

JCS

jeffspinballpalace

JeffSPinballPalace

20y 242K 19,063 556

Somewhat fun game. Time expander rising from the playfield and screaming robot prove irresistible. Playing this game never fails to bring a smile to my face.

jeffspinballpalace edited previous rating on January 22, 2017.

9.420/10

21 years ago

RVM

robin

Pinside founder

Alkmaar

21y 192K 7,921 94

One might not notice at first glance, but Doctor Who is packing a whole lot of excellent gameplay. The ruleset is deeper than you'd think and while some games triple the price joined and then left my collection, the Doctor still manages to give me amazingly fun games after having owned it for over 10 years. Now THAT's last-ability! The Doctor is not for the novice pinball player though, you'll need good strategy and endurance to get the most scoring out of this game. Who-Loops? Bonus multipliers? Sonic Boom? Transmat power low? Exterminate, EXTERMINATE... Aaaargh, I LOVE this game!

robin edited previous rating on July 19, 2023.

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