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Scared Stiff

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This game received 790 approved Pinsider ratings and currently rates 8.454 _/10

8.454

Top 100 ranking

This game ranks #35 in the Pinside Pinball Top 100.

Score breakdown

Score breakdown in the 4 main categories:

Game Design: 8.364

Artwork: 8.765

Sounds/Music: 8.173

Other Aspects: 8.457

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8.355

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7.580/10

6 years ago

SJS

Stones

Pinside member

Smithville, MO

10y 139K 3,065 31

One of the best machines for the humor. Flow is pretty good on this machine. I find it too be a little repetive.

7.542/10

6 years ago

FXS

sulli10

Pinside member

Morristown, NJ

13y 129K 2,572 33 61

Fun but not deep game. I liked the call outs the first 200 times I played. Great theme , good shots, like the ramp shots mostly. Glad I owned one. Sold and do not miss it at all 12 months later

sulli10 has owned this game in the past.

9.820/10

6 years ago

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CaptainPlungeroo

Inactive member

6y 18,500 2 22

Fun ramps and challenging shots. Scared stiff has all the trappings of a classic pin.

8.540/10

6 years ago

FAD

DrDQ

Pinside member

Easton, PA

7y 67,550 273 6 31

Gorgeous game. Well done theme with lots of humor. Nice feeling shots, with some good flow. But perhaps a little to repetitive with a lot revolving around the crate shot.

9.640/10

6 years ago

CCS

Mad_Dog_Coin_Op

Mad Dog Coin Op

Redondo Beach, CA

6y 118K 2,829 14 14 1

In my opinion, Scared Stiff is the best 2 flipper game ever built. The only downside I see is the factory took out a lot of the gimmicks when it went into production. Play a machine that has all the missing stuff added back in and you are in pinball heaven. Combine that with the adult mode and you can't go wrong.

Mad_Dog_Coin_Op currently owns this game.

7.964/10

6 years ago

ROB

aerobert

Inactive member

8y 57,800 489 2 57

A classic horror theme that always seem to work. Great ramps, fun modes, good looking lamps. What's not to like?

Plus boobs...

8.756/10

6 years ago

MIK

mjfisher

Pinside member

Boronia

10y 53,800 242 24 18

My wife's favourite pin - probably because she's good at it. Love the artwork, love the gameplay, sound and humour. If it had a deeper ruleset and wasn't so easy it would be perfect.

mjfisher currently owns this game.

8.272/10

6 years ago

AND

androspl

Inactive member

6y 23,550 53 15

Very nice pin, too easy for my taste but gives a lot of fun
I love Elvira theme and her comments during gameplay. Very likable.

androspl edited previous rating on December 27, 2017.

6.257/10

6 years ago

BW

KingBW

Pinside+ Frequent

8y 116K 3,141 102 1

A fun game with some funny adult humor - that is what makes it great. The gimmicks are ok. The sound quality is pretty bad - definitely need one of those pinsound upgrades. Would play a few games on it at a location if I see it.

9.440/10

6 years ago

JWO

JeremyON

Pinside+ Frequent

7y 49,150 62 39 3

Scared Stiff is the perfect implementation of the Elvira theme. Lots of adult innuendo that would only make adults blush. Very good fan layout, but I'm always looking for extra flippers on a game of this caliber. The spinning spider slows gameplay somewhat, but I always like a good backglass animation implementation. May be a little too sexy for some.

8.251/10

6 years ago

AK

Coolpinballdino

Pinside+ Frequent

9y 188K 4,796 477 2

I always thought scared stiff was overrated it has good artwork and music but I don't like the rules I think they are simple.

8.000/10

6 years ago

LFS

Pinside+ Frequent

6y 72,300 208 30

Lots of fun to play, with funny (though repetitive) call-outs and entertaining results for successful shots. Deceptive because it looks fairly simple and the goals seem like they should be easy to achieve; yet, many of the shots and goals are rather harder to get than you think. The spinner in the backglass is a nice gimmick. One shortcoming is lastability: I think that the call-outs, shots, and rules/goals don't have enough depth, variety, and surprises to make the game sustainable in a home collection for an extended time of more than a few years. All-in-all, my personal opinion is that this game is slightly overrated. It's a fun, standout game but maybe not entirely deserving of quite as a high a ranking as it gets. (I suspect that the risque side of Elvira and her double entendres add some cache that the game wouldn't otherwise get.)

8.844/10

6 years ago

MLP

tabascoman77

Pinside member

6y 46,150 4 110

After the awesome table that was "Elvira and the Party Monsters", she returned with "Scared Stiff", a fine table to be sure, but a slight step down from its predecessor.

The design is eye-popping. The playfield is brilliant and colorful with a 60's grindhouse horror cinema feel to it. This is capped by a coffin/crate in the center of the table and a giant ramp covered by the skeleton of a dragon's neck and skull. The music matches the theme but gets really repetitive very quickly. The frogs screaming each time you hit one is not great audio because you seem to hit them every five seconds.

Elvira has her usual double entendres but they're more innocent this time around and some of the others seem forced and too scripted ("Nice bone...eh, us"; "Oh! I'm having multiple jackpots!"; "How 'bout another ball?") to be truly memorable.

"Stop the Spider" is also repetitive and wrecks the flow of the game. Sorry. I've never liked it. It's just an annoying feature that gives you repetitive tasks to accomplish ("Fish Head" for the 173rd time in ten minutes?!) and makes it feel like something completely separate from what you were just doing.

Aside from that, the gameplay is very smooth. It's fairly easy to hit the ramps and I love the light show during the multiball event, though it just sort of "happens" without much fanfare.

Great ball drain sequence (no pun intended).

I just like the first Elvira game better. It was beautifully simple whereas this game is needlessly complex and repetitive.

8.432/10

6 years ago

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ClarkAdkerson

Pinside member

Ennis, MT

7y 39,800 8 15 8

I loved this game the first time I played and I loved it the last time I played it. Genius to have that crate be easy and fun for beginners, but not to mean too much in terms of score (unless you keep hitting it). The game just feels solid. I wish the rules were a little deeper...maybe have completing all of the tales mean a little bit more in the long run. Getting to the scared stiff mode is great, but beating it is a little to easy. This is another game in my collection that everyone loves right way. It just makes sense and is flat out fun to play. A classic.

ClarkAdkerson has owned this game in the past.

8.263/10

6 years ago

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freakandgeek

GameRoomStore

Brunswick, GA

12y 58,800 535 7 15

Gorgeous game...just wish it had a little bit more in terms on longterm interest. Got tired of it pretty quickly. Got another one 5 years later and same deal.

The game just does not have legs like Elvira does.

Could have been a top ten all time based on art and theme. But the rules and layout just are not at the same level.

freakandgeek has owned this game in the past.

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