This machine is far superior to the Stern body. Love the flow, the colors, toys, and overall feel of the game! I want one of these someday!

Super Jackpots make the scoring unbalanced.

Ij is certainly a personal favorite. I have owned mine since 1997 and still can't wait to turn it on and play. It is fairly straight forward in terms of the rules with ramp shots and loops a necessary skill to be successful. The machine would be on of my top recommendations for home use because it never gets old. Secondly, there is good parts availability so maintainability is fairly easy (once you get the trough upgrade!) The mini playfield (Path of Adventure) is a blast but can be tricky adjusting just right. Everytime I reinstall the POA I never know what I am going to get in terms of left and right limits. It is never the same. The one downside to this game is the Mode Start. This is a short shot for very powerful flippers and the ball likes to bounce out - even with a rubber cushion added. This greatly reduces the scoring potential given the modes are where the scoring happens in chunks. Overall, this machine brings great joy. If I only owned two machines, this would be one of them.

I played this game at PHOF and I must say that I was a little disappointed ... it just wasn't what I expected. I really wanted to like it - I even had it on my wish list however after playing it I have removed it.

tons of challenge.... never boring. great skill shots.

This game just draws me in. I can't put my figure on it why, but I dig this game..

Good game, great music, funny quotes, nice video modes, Excellent theme. Always a pleasure playing that pin. Still not #1 on my wishlist, for reasons I can't really explain. Because it's a Widebody, perhaps?

Again I am not a huge widebody fan but had to give this a try when I saw it at Disneyland. IT was a fun game and I visited the machine each day I was at the park. The machine itself has a cool design as it is like the box the holy grail was stored in. Game was cool but I won't search it out.

Love this game - it will never leave my collection. The theme and shot variations make this pinball my favorite machine of all time.

IJ does not live up to the hype that this game seems to get. This is the most overrated game from Williams in the 90's. It could be worse... but this is not Popeye.

The Pros: The sounds are great. The match/ replay with the knocker cracking the whip is perfect. Animations are sharp and well done. The 3 video modes coincide with each of the movies and are fun in their own right. The path of adventure is a great toy when working and adjusted properly. The DCS sound system on this game sounds GREAT! And the John Rhys-Davies quotes are the reason we hear him again in LotR.

The Cons: First, who is that on the BG? It certainly is NOT Harrison Ford. Did Doug Watson get in a fight with Harry's agent? Was he supposed to purposely mess this one up? I can't think of another reason because Doug is a great draftsman. One eye is about a 1/2 inch higher than the other. This is supposed to be Indiana Jones, not some bottom dwelling fish that has one eye move to the other side of it's head as it grows up. I think that this may be Harrison's mongoloid cousin Henry. You know... he posed for the Jungle Lord BG. Also, who play tested this game. The saucer rarely sticks when shot. The path of adventure is a fickle bitch if I ever met one. I'm looking for a game that plays as it should, not a needy girlfriend who needs constant maintenance just to shimmy from one side to the next. So... you get through all the modes and roll over every switch. 1 bil right? well maybe, if the game is feeling like giving you the award you just busted your hump for. So what do you do? You go for what works. Multiball and again and again and again... rinse and repeat. Hope that left flipper is strong so you can clear that right ramp. Or maybe you can go for the captive ball multi ball as well. An extremely complex and intricate game is now made up of 1-2 shots. Boring...

The Takeaway: Coming from a player's perspective, this game could have been magnificently brilliant. Why was it not brought to a finer balance to make the "journey" of the game worth it? Mark Ritchie and his team should have gotten the kinks out of the game, but they didn't and that's a real shame. The theme of this game is a great one and in some ways, the team did a good job in realizing this. However, the game play itself suffers badly. The good news is that this game is still head and shoulders above the Stern version of this theme. That's about it though and unfortunately.... The Stern version of IJ (throw it overboard arlready!) it isn't helping out the pinball cause. Overrated, overpriced and I'm over it as well. Coulda been awesome, shoulda been great... it's a fantastic game for the kids, Indiana Jones fans and collectors who enjoy spending 5 figures for an "A" list deck. Serious pin-players will get bored with the scoring strategies/bugs on this game right-quick.

Clarification:
The reason I am rating this game so low is because it is "exploitable" and has a scoring imbalance in the ruleset that takes away from the brilliant gem that this game should be. The game may look like, but it does not PLAY like a true "A" title. That is just how I feel about this deck. This is my opinion and only that. Take it for what it is.

HELLO... MYSTERY PROGRAMMER!!!

Update:
I got a chance to play a super dialed copy of this deck and I have to say that the game was a blast to play as long as we weren't looking at the score. There, I said it. Sometimes pinball is just about having fun. Scores upgraded in the name of having a great time playing pin!

Update v2:
This deck HAS to be tip-top to be playable. The mode saucer HAS to be able to hold an accurate shot to be worth shooting for. The PoA HAS to be working as it should to be worth playing. If you can get all of these things up and running as they should, this game opens up a bit more than most copies you will find in the wild. Even then, Soopa Jax are the way to go for the biggest scores in this table and while a few modes are worth points, the only ones that are really safe/worth it are Well of souls and the 3 vidja modes. There are points to be had in other modes, but the risk of playing them as compared to points to be had is not as valuable as other strategies.

Then again, you could just be playing this game for fun...

IJ is an awesome machine. Unlike other machines with simpler rule sets, this one just doesn't become boring and keeps you playing it over and over.

My favorite pin. Absolute blast to play.

This game is not very interesting to me, put 15 games on it on good location machine (clean fast working) I didn't enjoy this machine, I thought I would.. The theming is awesome, the mini PF is a great concept but not for me. I didn't like how tight the PF felt for a wide body, I did like the quick save on the right outlane more games should have done that. Otherwise, it's cool just not in my ballsack.

a clear 10/10... beautiful pin, challenging ramp shots, many many mini games and video modes, 6ball multiball, excelent sound and music - all said

My favorite movie series made into a pin designed by my favorite designer, Mark Ritchie. This game is one of the best games I've ever played, and I can't wait to own my own someday.

I remember playing this as a child, I was hypnotized by the lights and fast gameplay and just want to drop more coins, it was also after watching an Indiana Jones movie so I was a bit hyped, the games does have the right theme abd feels like getting in an adventure!

This game feels like a comfortable shoe that you want to keep wearing. I always liked to come back to this pin when I owned it. The wife loved the music which was a bonus. Great sounds and animation. Good flow. A keeper.

Awesome. Fantastic use of the theme, excellent sound and music, very fun game modes, including 3 video modes!

IJ is one of the best licensed games I have played. Its a rare game in that it captures the sounds, and environment of the movies so well, that you actually feel like you are in an Indiana Jones adventure. The use of the upper playfield (Path of Adventure) is quite good, though with some practice becomes pretty easy. At least you think this until you get to the wizard mode which requires you to keep all the balls alive while moving that platform around to hit all the switches. The many multiball modes, great video sequences, and excellent voice acting keep this game fresh and exciting on each play. The downside to this game for me is the start mode bounce out which causes some frustration. Though you can get around this with some hole re-work or just using a back hand shot, its the primary advancement for the game so it gets frustrating when multiple shots bounce out.

Nice game, had this for around 3 years before I let it go.
Thought that I missed it, brought it again to only sell 5 months later. lol

Owned it for a couple weeks. It's a nice machine, I do see the attraction. But I guess ultimately I'm not much of an IJ fan, so the theme kind of killed it for me.

Loved this pin at my old local arcade. Used to dump alot of quarters into this one, a classic in my book!!! Go Indiana!!!

Love the sound in this game.

This game is great and definetly deserves to be up there as high as it is in the rankings. I am an avid IJ fan growing up and this machine does not dissapoint. It is challenging yet not impossible and keeps making you come back for more. I hope to own one someday instead of dropping serious coin in one everytime I see it somewhere.

Put simply, the funnest pinball game that I've ever played. Everything about it, the field, the artwork, the sound just rings of fond memories. If only I had the money to buy one!