I understand that everyone may have a favorite for this reason or that reason, but as far as pure skill based pinball Addams Family and Twilight Zone are the two best. Out of the two tables I would have to choose Twilight because it has much more variety and there is not a game out there that gets you as hyped as when you tour the door and achieve wizard mode. One table that I never hear mention of that I would put up there was the Star Wars table from the late 80’s or early 90’s. Have you seen any of those floating around retro? I was talking to a buddy of mine about pinball the other day and I was telling him about how you could play the Star Wars game forever without dying. The left outlane had a kickback that wasn’t too hard to relight, the flippers were relatively close together, and if the ball went down the right outlane you could punch the ball between the flippers. The best part was when the ball went down the right outlane an animation started and it says Nooooooo, we would save the ball through the flippers and say Yes! I went to college in Lexington in 93 and I got paired up with a roommate from Texas, we became best friends. In the age before cell phones we called each other and picked a meeting spot where we could find each other, so of course I chose the arcade at the mall. While we were there of course I couldn’t resist playing Star Wars but what was crazy is that I put in 50 cents and when I walked away there were 25 or 27 credits on the game that I put on there over 2 or 3 hours and 5 or 10 people were gathered around watching. I felt like a super turd for keeping him there for so long and on the tenth or so time I asked him if he was sure he didn’t mind me continuing to play he responded “are you serious, this is the best thing I have ever seen!” Instant best friends after that, what a memory!
Hey Daniel Harris, you clearly have no idea who I am or how bad I can crush you on any and every obscure crap table that you and your pinball nerd brethren think is cool because nobody else knows that it even exists. You might share my opinion about Twilight Zone if you were remotely capable of touring the door 3 or 4 times in one game but the fact that you probably have only seen the wizard mode on RU-vid videos obscures your poor judgement. Anyone can be partial to a particular table due to a multitude of reasons ranging from accessibility to nostalgia to theme to affinity to certain shots. The fact that you refer to someone as a noob due to their choice of table simply exhibits that you are some kind of pinball snob or internet troll or both. Thankfully little weasels like yourself were nowhere in my vicinity while I was crushing tables far and wide and filling up every Machine with my initials from the bottom to the top. In the future if I care to hear your opinion I’ll tell you what it is first and then you can repeat it back to me.
Attack from Mars was my main reason for going to the local arcade from 15 to 25 when it closed. My high score was lost after it was repaired once. I miss that machine to this day ten plus years later
Pinball is insanely popular here in Seattle. I've seen twenty people lined up for Cactus Canyon! The remastered high definition version of the game recently released. I've played it and it's outstanding!
I was addicted hard to one game in particular. That was Bally's Creature from the Black Lagoon. Eventually I made 1 quarter go a very long way sometimes over an hour! Extra ball! Extra ball!
❤️Theather of Magic, Arabian Nights, Elvira Mistress of Madness (Scared Stiff)❤️, Apollo 13, Terminator 3, Playboy, The Adams Family, Star Wars, Taxi, The Simpsons...
I ave enjoyed pinball for over 65 years but now I feel its passed me. Of the games on this list I have play three. The others I have never seen except in videos like this. I do heartily agree with number has been one my favorites for years.
the games have definitely gotten more crammed with stuff to do..but pinball is still pinball..hit the flashing light, keep the ball alive, make your shots count..now if only I could pay attention to my own advice! Thanks for watching!
@@CaptNRetro happy daze.....have found a place with many of the newer games and an excellent selection of older ones. Downtown Tarpon Springs Florida at the Replay Museum. If you’re in the area must stop and check out.
Well, really as far as “Top Ten” tables lists go... it really isn’t fair to compare late model DMD tables with older System 11 or EM machines... or for that matter, in some respects the new LCD/OLED tables are a different animal from even the old dot matrix display games. The crazy complex toys and DMD of the late ‘90s are a whole different gameplay experience from the mid ‘80s tables, more so even than ‘80s tables are from ‘70s and ‘60s tables. More appropriate would be the rank “Top Ten” lists by era... some of these top ten in the video are the “post pinball bankruptcy” era (the “new pinball revival” era?) in the 2010s, and can’t really be called “greatest ever” yet. Not enough time has passed to see if the infatuation and fad experience has yet worn off... case in point, the Avengers game. It won’t be remembered as “all time.” 🤷🏽♂️
Black Hole is definitely on a “Top Ten” list all time... pre-DMD ‘80s machines. It was innovative for its time and competition. It’s traditional pinball, with a non-traditional multi-tiered playfield. With outstanding gameplay. But comparing it to like, say Medieval Madness, is to compare a Nintendo NES game to a Playstation 2 game... they are not the same animals.
Dang Attack from Mars at 6 now, that’s one of my all time faves next to medieval madness But I played the hell out of that thing as a kid at the restaurant near my house
Since the making of this video AIQ (Avengers Infinity Quest) has dropped all the way down to #13, it was #2 in this video, crazy to think it was ahead of JP?!
Hey Capt. there is a Deadpool machine on Craigslist in Denver for $5400 I was hunting when you mentioned it in the background video and it was the next machine on the list lol
AIQ is great (I own it), but not a top 10. PinSide ratings are bogus because people who buy the machine need to justify their purchase and inflate the ratings. There's tons of 10.0 ratings on machines for that reason alone. Kick out all 9.9 and higher ratings, and ratings with no comment explaining why they rated the machine the way they did, and you'll see a much different picture.
This is like comparing PS2 games to PS4 or PS5 games. It’s not that the new games are better or worse... it’s that Medieval Madness was the best game of its era and competition. You can’t compare, say Zelda on N64 to the new Zelda games and say the new one is “better...” objectively, most advancements in gaming are improvements, but the games of the time must be ranked by their era- if they still remain fantastic to play despite not being as advanced in technology as the newer games, chances are they are the “best” examples of the games at the time.
My Williams Indiana Jones machine has really dropped off the list. Still it is a keeper as I bought it for $1200 10 years ago, except for the faded cabinet the rest of it is a 9.. of the 16 games I own the only one still on the list is the Twilight Zone conditoin 8 in my bank at home, another keeper I picked up 8 years ago for $1000 which was the last one i bought.. My collection is probably worth about $65,000, Machines now days are just too expensive to consider buying any more.
Everything new I find ugly. That Deadpool game just looks like a mess to me. Wish I had that Iron Maiden pinball. Great band. First thing I'd do, though, is make Eddie look a little less like Lord Zedd.
And with STERN INFINITY QUEST game... They should let THANOS take over gameplay with the infinity stones.. Well now you're high scored gone backwards with the time stone... And reality stone.. There's suddenly magnets under the playfield... That will try to mess up your gameplay.. And reality stone.. Your high scores suddenly goes backwards... Mind stone.. Your high score don't mean nothing and wiped out. Because he can. And sole stone.. you now have unlimited free life..
This list is bullshit. Stop listening to everyone else's opinion and go play them. William's Indiana Jones isn't even on your list! Where's Adam's Family? I could go on...
@@CaptNRetrofirst uh hi didn’t think you see this second what’s wrong with black rose it’s dope pirate theme pinball machine I will admit it’s no pirates of the Caribbean’s but still
@@jaywilliams8730 nothing wrong with it.. I love that game.. I’m a huge Bally guy.. and it clicks a lot of boxes for me.. but this list is compiled by user ratings over at Pinside.com and I don’t think Black Rose has cracked the top 50.. there are a lot of amazing pinball machines and Pirates are a big theme and have been throughout many decades.. I dig a good pirate flick and pin too!
Black rose is sexy machine I love that machine i played it at a six flags long time ago I am glad it’s on the ps4 fx3 pinball because Williams pissed me off when they took away twilight zone from normal pinball arcade for the ps4 they are assholes for doing that
I like your enthusiasm but there's no way Jurassic Park should be number three. It's a jam fest with confusing rules and tight budgets shots. I got the new guns and roses, that should definitely be in there
Jurassic Park and Elvira don't deserve a spot but Iron Maiden and Deadpool definitely do. Heck, Deadpool's ruleset and layout are so good it could even be number one!
