Pinside rating
This game received 560 approved Pinsider ratings and currently rates 8.534 /10
Top 100 ranking
This game ranks 1st in the game group "Guns n' Roses (JJP)". The group itself ranks #24 in the Pinside Pinball Top 100.
Score breakdown
Score breakdown in the 4 main categories:
Game Design: 7.888
Artwork: 9.02
Sounds/Music: 9.008
Other Aspects: 8.408
Pinside staff rating
This is how we, the very knowledgeable (wink wink) Pinside.com staff & moderators rate this game. 3 of us have rated this game.
This title is part of group: "Guns n' Roses (JJP)"
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6.845/10
36 days ago
Colts Neck, NJ
The game is gorgeous. But the gameplay is lacking. The 30 mins of multi-ball per game get old fast. There is a reason why there are 50 for sale all 2000-3000 under the original price. Look at the ad they all have less than 100 games on them. If you want a beautiful trophy and you’re a GNR fan but you don’t play a lot of pinball. This is a great game for you.
10.000/10
48 days ago
Once you adjust the flippers and add fans, this is one of the best and unique pinball experience is available. There is no other machine more integrated to its theme. Despite what others say, once configured correctly, it is a phenomenal shooting machine. Also provides more variety than almost any other machine I have played.
9.720/10
49 days ago
Kongsberg
This game is superb if you like GNRs music. If not ....tough luck. The sound quality and songs are excellent. The light show is the best I have ever seen. Beautiful cabinet. Make sure you build up your patches collection before starting song. The award can be enormous. Cabinet and playfield finish is superb with the exception of some studs on the playfield that have just to short length/not enough threads. This can cause cracks around the whole. All in all: Love this machine.
Paris
8.412/10
4 months ago
Wow what a blast. This game is exactly how a music pin should be. Incredible light show on the playfield during the songs and live performances on the screen. I love that you have to earn a song to be played. I was extremely impressed with this pin and hope to add it to my collection soon. It’s not too difficult and plenty of multi balls to be had. Should be fun for new and experienced players.
6.869/10
4 months ago
Game sounds and looks good, but everything else is just a clunker. Rules are all kinds of messy, what you are supposed to do is not even really clear in the game as your playing, take a moment in a mode to cradle and see what to shoot... yep not seeing it. This game I've tried so many times over the past year as it's a permanent free play fixture at a local arcade, and it's just never clicked. Multiballs also just starting out of thin air, I swear I didn't do anything even and suddenly there's a multiball. The game just feels really sloppy and random.
Also this is an older JJP which has their trademark soft feeling flippers. Just lacks the snap of everyone else. It's a pretty game that feels like the band threw up all over it and they kind of gave up on the rules halfway through designing it. You would figure for a game still being sold by JJP, they would be interested in polishing it up but they clearly don't care.
Also this is an older JJP which has their trademark soft feeling flippers. Just lacks the snap of everyone else. It's a pretty game that feels like the band threw up all over it and they kind of gave up on the rules halfway through designing it. You would figure for a game still being sold by JJP, they would be interested in polishing it up but they clearly don't care.
9.740/10
6 months ago
If your experience with this game is like mine, it will go in phases:
Phase 1. Initial impressions of the game are "Wow!" and initial plays are super fun and the light show - yeah there just isn't anything else that can compare to the light show
Phase 2. It starts to get dare I say a little boring and a little repetitive and then you start seeing all the comments on the forums of 'where is the code update?', you convince yourself that this game is multi-ball crazy to a whole new annoying level, and then you step away from it for a few weeks and play other games.
Phase 3. You adjust everything, dial in all the settings, study the rule sheet and get a better understanding of the depth of the game. You start playing it again regularly and now for hours at a time. You start understanding the game and start being able to make the shots with ease, you get into the mini-games like coma and others.
Phase 4. You start noticing all of the details that have gone into this game, how well thought out it is, how incredible the art work is, and that light show! You wonder why the market for the game is soft and figure its because 5000 of the LE's was probably too many but at this point it almost doesn't matter because you've decided that this one is staying in your collection permanently. Oh yeah - and you also start thinking 'umm, when is that next code update please?' - could be a near perfect game with some code tweaks
I think in time this one will be one of the greats - but will need everyone to get through all those phases first - and a code update!
Phase 1. Initial impressions of the game are "Wow!" and initial plays are super fun and the light show - yeah there just isn't anything else that can compare to the light show
Phase 2. It starts to get dare I say a little boring and a little repetitive and then you start seeing all the comments on the forums of 'where is the code update?', you convince yourself that this game is multi-ball crazy to a whole new annoying level, and then you step away from it for a few weeks and play other games.
Phase 3. You adjust everything, dial in all the settings, study the rule sheet and get a better understanding of the depth of the game. You start playing it again regularly and now for hours at a time. You start understanding the game and start being able to make the shots with ease, you get into the mini-games like coma and others.
Phase 4. You start noticing all of the details that have gone into this game, how well thought out it is, how incredible the art work is, and that light show! You wonder why the market for the game is soft and figure its because 5000 of the LE's was probably too many but at this point it almost doesn't matter because you've decided that this one is staying in your collection permanently. Oh yeah - and you also start thinking 'umm, when is that next code update please?' - could be a near perfect game with some code tweaks
I think in time this one will be one of the greats - but will need everyone to get through all those phases first - and a code update!
7.990/10
6 months ago
This is the only Jersey Jack I own, and visually it's incredible. Whenever I have a guest over, they tend to try that one first. I also have two young girls, and it's the one they like to play the most, as do their cousins, so the lights and sounds are exciting for them, you just have to watch the bad words or adjust the settings. That being said, out of all my machines, it's my least favorite. I don't dislike it, but I also have Godzilla and Foo Fighters and for me there is no comparison. It is fun getting a song mode though and making it last.
Genk
7.584/10
8 months ago
The light show on the game is probably the best of all. The game play is pretty good. I hate the upper playfield. The side cabinet art is very unimaginative. The code could definitely be improved.
My rating stood at a 9.76 for over a year. I am revisiting the rating because JJP is now onto their next game and haven’t finished the code for this game. You can light special, but it doesn’t light, the scoring is very unbalanced between songs and albums and other modes(Tour, Coma, Slash, wizard modes). If they ever get around to fixing it as promised I’ll then rerate it.
My rating stood at a 9.76 for over a year. I am revisiting the rating because JJP is now onto their next game and haven’t finished the code for this game. You can light special, but it doesn’t light, the scoring is very unbalanced between songs and albums and other modes(Tour, Coma, Slash, wizard modes). If they ever get around to fixing it as promised I’ll then rerate it.
Zaragoza
4.379/10
9 months ago
I don't get the love for this one. It just feels loud and gimmicky. Wife and both wanted to like it and just couldn't get into it at all.
7.875/10
9 months ago
I am a bit surprised this game is rated as highly as it is. The art, animations, and callouts are all excellent, however I feel the rules could be so much better and the layout has some flaws. The skill shot is weak, and the plunge as a whole slows down an extremely multiball-focused pin. There is so much multiball in this game that it really doesn't feel rewarding like it does on a game like Dialed In/WOZ. It certainly is aiming for the "concert experience" rather than a shooters game.
9.558/10
9 months ago
Traded my Godzilla premium for this game, plus recieved a good chunk of cash. Godzilla was awesome, but it felt like a cheap toy compared to this game. I don't really know how else to describe it. & I'm enjoying this much more than I did Godzilla. I didn't really expect that but I'm just blown away by the total package here. On most machines gameplay dictates how I'm feeling about a game, which makes perfect sense. Yet on this game the art, light show & sounds/music are so captivating that this alone can keep me interested regardless of how good or bad I'm playing.
That is a pretty unique experience, not sure I've had that happen before. Maybe a bit on JJP's WoZ or Hobbit which I've had, but the gameplay wasn't as fast or exciting on those. Not even a huge GnR fan but I've always liked some of their songs & don't hate them. I'm finding that this game is more of an overall experience than any other machine I've played. The depth is great in terms of modes, so many songs, so many modes & various multiballs & some really fun in game hybrid video modes that work great especially with the large LCD. The smaller LCD on the playfield is great too because that is telling me what I need to do. Furthermore I know a code update is on the way for this game too, likely a large one given how long it has been since the last. Yet I don't really have complaints on the current code. Build quality is awesome. I love how so many of the inserts have sensors which is great as you don't need to have so many wires & parts coming up through the PF, making things very clean.
So at the time of writing this, the limited edition of this game is going for considerably cheaper than many Stern Premiums, & that certainly matters too as I feel I'm getting quite a bang for my buck. I wrote this same thing about Hobbit years ago now its value is likely where it belongs. This might happen to GnR too, especially after a nice code update. I should note that I also installed precision flippers on this game. Look awesome & it flips great. Can't really comment on default flippers as I did this upgrade almost immidiately. If you have an issue with flipper play, the precision flippers may be your solution.
That is a pretty unique experience, not sure I've had that happen before. Maybe a bit on JJP's WoZ or Hobbit which I've had, but the gameplay wasn't as fast or exciting on those. Not even a huge GnR fan but I've always liked some of their songs & don't hate them. I'm finding that this game is more of an overall experience than any other machine I've played. The depth is great in terms of modes, so many songs, so many modes & various multiballs & some really fun in game hybrid video modes that work great especially with the large LCD. The smaller LCD on the playfield is great too because that is telling me what I need to do. Furthermore I know a code update is on the way for this game too, likely a large one given how long it has been since the last. Yet I don't really have complaints on the current code. Build quality is awesome. I love how so many of the inserts have sensors which is great as you don't need to have so many wires & parts coming up through the PF, making things very clean.
So at the time of writing this, the limited edition of this game is going for considerably cheaper than many Stern Premiums, & that certainly matters too as I feel I'm getting quite a bang for my buck. I wrote this same thing about Hobbit years ago now its value is likely where it belongs. This might happen to GnR too, especially after a nice code update. I should note that I also installed precision flippers on this game. Look awesome & it flips great. Can't really comment on default flippers as I did this upgrade almost immidiately. If you have an issue with flipper play, the precision flippers may be your solution.
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