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Godzilla should be on the top of the list, it's a class above the rest

great video and series 👊 subbed

Too bad TMNT is so low on this list. THat game is fun, but hard!

The only pinball animal I care about is the Bally Williams cow. Been in more games than any other animal and ten for ten need Williams cow merch!

Believe Junkyard dog is named spike. If I’m remembering correctly there is a call out where the woman calls him spike.

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Thx finally some one who has an opinion about pinball tables and not just look up the 10 popular machines and just switch 2 to 1 or else. good job…enjoyed mostly the time when you are as the German s say „zwischen Baum und Borke sitzen“ ähhh wait „to be stuck between a rock and a hard place“ And then the facts pro and cons list Alan Harper style 5 to nada fun, future fun, competition s uspects spoken like a pro bibibeldibaldibum BUT I like “the other one more!”

This is great content!

What sandwiches do you like ?

Love this series. Keep up the nice work!

Always dig ranking vids; I love to hear the WHYs when people favor a given pin. I hope you know how crazy-lucky you are (not to _live_ in NYC, but) to have that much _access_ to even PLAY this full spectrum of pins, spanning its epochs. 😮‍💨 I’d have to do an aboriginal _walkabout_ to find some of these pins! 👀 I’m glad to see more towns opening pincades/barcades, pushing this renaissance right now. ✌️

I wanted one of those plaques so bad... you earned it!

Is this for the Pro line or Premium line model

3:49 - Big Guns 12:33 - Diamond Lady 16:40 - Hotdoggin 20:35 - Quicksilver 25:48 - Spectrum 32:58 - Extra Content & Outro

Ugh. What masochist put Spectrum in the tournament? It's on the IFPA banned list for a reason. Researching games you're unfamiliar with is great prep. Before going to Pinburgh, I spent months compiling a short strategy guide for games I'd never played before, and it helped immensely. And if you can't find info on a game, just watch a top player play it whenever you're free. At INDISC, I only needed 30 seconds of watching Keith Elwin play Rescue 911 to figure out what to do on that game.

Insanity. 😂 Comment for the algorithm!

It's just your opinion but overall I'd say this list is not very indicative of most people's preferences. Some crazy choices here.

I love your ranking videos. They are so in-depth that I learn a lot about these games.

Would consider myself a reaction based player. Love to play flowy, but learned to slow down and try to find shots and strategies during play. When you're a decent/good, but not a great player, it always helps to get a feel for the speed of the table, find out how the flippers are set up, and which shots/targets to avoid in order to be able to not get punished when you still miss and need to find certain shots for a while.

Very nice--enjoyed hearing you talk through these. I looove Star Gazer..

Loved this video! My work has a FF so I’ve been able to spend a hours on it and you are absolutely right, there are so many different things you can focus on but you never feel drowned by code. I also like that it doesn’t feel like a generic “band pin.” I love that you gave it to Driver, that game is a beast and is fun for casual and competitive play

Super looking forward to following your journey and learning from you. I started playing in spring of 2024, only two local IFPA tournaments so far, but won my second and looking forward to more growth. Wishing you the same!

Two excellent points on your video... making pinball more inclusive and bringing down the entry barrier on the skill level. I don't have an answer for these questions, but definitely agree this needs to be discussed.

The trouble with opinions is everybody has one. As soon as I saw Rush up there and The Munsters last I knew we were going to be poles apart. As for the Beatles...Unless you like the music, there is no reason to play this machine. It's basically a Seawitch with glitter thrown at it.

He hasn't competed in years, but Neil Shatz is still one of the best control players on the planet. His IC profile isn't public, but if you know where to look, he's still out there putting up epic scores.

I wanna see a 24 hour stream of you doing 4.000 drop catches now to put Escher bankrupt

I am honoured to be in the same category as mr Elwin

My Top Williams Bally 1. Medieval madness 2. Monsters bash 3. White water 🌊 4. The getaway 5. Star trek next generation 6. Cirques Voltaire 7. Theater magic ✨ 8. Indiana Jones 9. Arabian nights 10. Funhouse Honorable mention Bride of Pinbot

Often-times, the machine will determine the playstyle. Flipper hop is the bane of the flow player. For example, when playing Addams Family and shooting Ramp > Chair, if the inlanes are smooth and there's no Cliffy, and I can hit the chair on the fly 90% of the time, then it's better to stay on the fly rather than take the 90% chance of bringing the ball to rest successfully before even attempting a shot. But... if there's flipper hop, then the accuracy shooting on the fly might drop to 40% or worse. And then it's much better to use that 90% success rate at a ski-jump, inlane shimmy, post-trap, tip-pass, or live-post-pass, to bring the ball to rest and then another 90% to shoot the chair from a cradle. I used to always shoot Ramp > Chair on the fly like a flow player, but as the game gets older, flipper hop (or a Cliffy) becomes much more common, so now I almost always need to bring the ball to rest first, like a control player.

surprised to hear you like random video mode awards- but also choosing wisely in Indiana is not random- you just gotta pay attention. Chance is not your friend if you wanna slay.

Get used to remastered/vault editions, Stern is locked into that giant new factory. They have to keep the lines running with something that sells immediately. With the market slowing down, stern is going to rerun any game they think they can sell 500+ copies. Expect more Tron, Munsters, KISS, ACDC, even Ghostbusters. I just checked 3 distributor websites, and they all have full inventorys.. pros and Premiums of every game from the last 3 years. Cheers!

I'm looking forward to it. I remember Metallica always kicking my ass- now a fast fresh one will do that again.

Just to say: the artwork is good and all, but Dirty Donny is my favorite pinball artist

I love the way that there’s a big black gap on the left of the screen and the machine is on the right and THAT is where you chose to put your video window lol.

Bro 🤘 I love your videos man, I could listen to you talk about pinballs all day

I think the author you were looking for is H.P. Lovecraft. I am also unfamiliar with the band beyond the pinball machine, but I think the “symbol” on the standup might be the number 72-also on the guitar pick inserts-where the top strokes run together. Dunno why 72.

Original Metallica was not on spike 1. It was on the older SAM system. Otherwise nice video and this game looks great .

Cannot wait for this. Grew up on Metallica and this is beautiful

It’s a gas to see original owners freakin out because they can’t list theirs for $15k anymore. 😮‍💨

W splatoon background music

Realistically the reason the pinball community is so awesome is because there is no money in it. Everyone chasing dollar signs and clout is off doing something else. This unintentionally acts as a filter that sifts out douchebags and keeps the chill people who are (for the most part) just out trying to have a good time... I grew up skateboarding in the 90s and I watched a slice of heaven get polluted and ruined by the introduction of money. Once the money came we saw the rise of the "skate-jock". Skateboarding quickly went from being a fun way of goofing off with your friends to a pissing contest between lowlife-wannabes. The immediate spark you would feel when you met another skateboarder went right out the window once everyone started doing it. After all, why get excited when you meet another person who does the exact same thing as every other person? The moral of the story is that money ruins everything and I believe there's a certain level of gratitude we should have that it hasn't ruined pinball... yet. Cheers

Did not expect to learn like 5 new things ab Tron. So cool Escher did this. You def deserved to win the tourney with your play, 4 game final was brutal. Love this series!

This is great! Bro youre kinda nasty already. Cant wait to see you top rank

You got this bro you inspired me to get better

I sometimes compare pinball competitions to playing in a bowling league. If you're playing in a pinball league or a local weekly tournament, it's mostly to have fun and hang out with your friends that share your hobby in friendly competition while you strive to improve your game and see your "average" gradually improve. And if you get really good, you can test your skills against the "pros" on the "pro tour". But pinball is soooo much more fun and interesting than bowling -- it's not the same shot over and over; the games and the challenges are constantly changing. Bowling is on the decline, but there's still a million people that play in bowling leagues. Maybe we can slowly convert them all to pinball?

Pinball is better than chess! More noise, more lights, more multiballs! What was your rank in Rockt League?

fx3 gives me the cheap pinball fix i didn't know i was craving. Williams playfields are legendary

Nice videos. But one thing- the entry price of pinball is the coin drop, not a new game for your home. The whole point of a big giant crazy machine is that people need to come to it, not own it. Pinball creates its own scene. It's fringe for a reason, and thriving for now- let money flow somewhere else. You don't need to be elite to be a star on a Tuesday night, winning it all on ball three in round four. (but yeah go get those wpprs!)

The physicality and skill ceiling is the draw for me. Not only does pinball allow you a wide variety of competitive options, it also allows you to make a lot of mistakes and recover from them. On the demographic focus, something I do like about pinball is that because of its legacy, you often get people of different generations in the same round. Similar to in chess, nothing scares me more than facing a child prodigy. Pinball makes travel a lot more fun, visiting machines and other pinheads is like a side quest for every trip. Lastly, I think that on-location playing is the answer to game ownership. I recently did the math on how much I've spent playing in bars, and realized I would have owned 3 machines by now 😮

Hell ya. Don't let the group think dictate what you like. I definitely don't line up with pinsides top 100 either.