Paul Bunyan

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7.272/10
3 years ago
Wonderful art by Stenholm, particularly the backglass, possibly his best ever. Rich colors and character and humor. The game itself isn't too shabby, either. Six flippers(!), albeit the 2 inchers, so there's a lot of whacking and not too much aiming going on. Although you can cradle the ball with the upper four, maybe even the bottom two if you get a lucky bounce, but there's still not much to aim for. The upper two go back above the rollovers, the middle two either put it back into the pops or hit a standup target, the lower two you want to aim for the A-B-C bonuses. The rules are simple and don't provide for much strategy. A mediocre game in a mediocre year for pinball.
7.290/10
9 years ago
6 flippers for a difference. 2" sized flippers usually don't give you much opportunity to make skillful shots but with six of them chances increase. Go for the 500 pts. After that the sequence resets, unfortunately. Backglass is a hommage to the famous lumberjack.
7.455/10
10 years ago
Paul Bunyan may be the first single level playfield to have 5 separate pinball playfields included into it. Seriously. this may be the most densely packed pin-deck ever conceived.

The Pros:
The upper gate that can be shot from both flippers requires quite a bit of skill to hit. 500 pt's on this deck is no joke. So hit it if you can. The BG is a trip and the woman shaving him with the double headed axe always cracks me up. Seriously, the dude looks so happy! A surprising amount of shots to all 6 flippers and many of the shots alternate being lit or unlit for large amts of points if you can hit the targets/lanes/saucers. You'd better hone those 2" flipper skills, you're gonna need it as trapping the ball happens once in a blue (ox) moon.

The Cons:
Once the ball drops below the second set of flippers, your time is very short. In a 5 ball game I'm only able to get the ball up above the second set of flippers maybe once or twice. Those outlanes are deadly with few to compare. PF and cag artwork are criminally poor as compared to the BG.

The Takeaway:
If you have strong flippers and a good sense of rebounding off of eeety beeeety fleeepers, this game may be for you. If not, oh boy...
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