your least favorite pinball tables?

[ComputerSpaceFan]

At a party a couple of years ago I managed to play Williams Junkyard and I must confess I was not that impressed. Maybe it has its fans but I didn't find it all that enjoyable.

 

With the recent Pinball Arcade being released and having lots of downloadable tables as DLC in the coming months it made me wonder if there are other tables I should avoid getting.

 

Surely there must have been some duds released over the years.

What are your least favorite pinball tables to play?

 

(apologies to anyone who already saw this same question of mine in another forum, I'm just sending it out to get as much feedback as I can)

[+save2600]

As someone who was literally born into the biz/hobby, gotta say my least favorite tables from ALL decades are some of the most popular ever!

 

Medieval Madness - horribly overrated and tremendously overpriced

Attack from Mars - cool theme, but too simple a playfield

the two P2K machines - boring after a few balls

Circus Voltaire - lame beyond words

Twilight Zone - awesome theme, just don't care for the gameplay

Slick Chick - as far as EM's go, this is wildly popular for some dumb reason - same people probably like pachinko machines and bumper pool

 

Pinball by the mid 90's got really lame IMO and I'd end up walking away from a game more often than not. Most of them were too easy and it was obvious the designers were trying to appeal to the LCD that way. They may be fun to play for a few minutes here and there, but I have no desire to add most pins from the 90's on to my collection. A little pricey, but have you heard of the Virtual Pinball game that's setup in a real pinball cabinet?

 

http://virtualpinball.net/

[S1500]

I don't like PinBot & his wife Bride of PinBot. BOP has too crowded of a playfield, and it seems no shot I make is enough to get it going. Regular PinBot just doesn't do it for me.

 

The Pin2K tables are way too dumbed down, playfield-wise in favor of the screen gimmick. Look how short the playfields are compared to regular tables.

[heberts811]

Popeye Saves The World is my least favorite. I saw it once at an arcade in Maine and I just didn't enjoy the gameplay.

[Cebus Capucinis]

DMDs are all hunks of junk! Solid State is where the BIG BOYS play!

[Austin]

I have only had the pleasure to play what has been brought into the local pinball place (so maybe a few dozen machines at most). My least favorite so far is probably Harlem Globetrotters. Even then I still enjoy it (sort of), but it's the one game in the place I don't really ever play unless it's in league or in a tournament.

 

Medieval Madness - horribly overrated and tremendously overpriced

Attack from Mars - cool theme, but too simple a playfield

the two P2K machines - boring after a few balls

Circus Voltaire - lame beyond words

Twilight Zone - awesome theme, just don't care for the gameplay

 

Admit it, you're just envious.

[+save2600]

Nope, not envious!

 

I have a friend that lives a few blocks away that just sold his TZ, AFM and MM. When we'd go over to their home for dinner, etc., those machines were rarely ever played. You go to any random pinball party in the midwest and that lineup is the obligatory cookie cutter de facto for collectors. Gets real old seeing the same few pins everywhere you go.

[Chuck D. Head]

Nugent (as in Ted) was a big dissapointment as play was nothing special and sounds should have "rocked" but didn't. Superman was a letdown, too much empty space.

[+FujiSkunk]

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Twilight Zone - awesome theme, just don't care for the gameplay

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Blasphemy!

 

I forget which table it was exactly, though it may have been F-14 Tomcat. One mini-game required hitting a specific target in a certain amount of time. If you failed, you not only lost the mini-game, you also lost your ball. That was annoying.

[S1500]

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Twilight Zone - awesome theme, just don't care for the gameplay

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Blasphemy!

 

I forget which table it was exactly, though it may have been F-14 Tomcat. One mini-game required hitting a specific target in a certain amount of time. If you failed, you not only lost the mini-game, you also lost your ball. That was annoying.

 

That's why I don't like Black Hole. If the gate is a certain state when you are in the mini-playfield, ball's gone once you drain out in it.