Probally depends on wat you grow up with, I grew up with mostly Williams and love there games so each to there own, there's plenty to choose from now from all manufactures.
Peter
Absolutely - These are only opinions, so everyone is "right". A Williams title that NEVER gets a mention is "World Cup". I used to love the gameplay. The cabinet was predominantly white - in fact the whole game "stood out" from the BLACK Williams titles of the era.
I guess I lean to the Bally from when I was young. Williams and Gottlieb (SYS1 and SYS6) were terribly unreliable, and their route days were restricted before they were removed from locations. You could leave a Bally Star Trek or Mata Hari in one place for a year, and it still earned well nd rarely broke down. GTB System 80s didn't last long, and Williams SYS7 (Black Knight in particular) took off in a "big way". This was the start to Williams dominance in the mid to late 80's - Pinbot was a HUGE earner. Ballys were nowhere to be seen, in fact operators didn't even bother with the COOL Ballys like "Dungeons and Dragons", "Escape from the Lost World" and "Blackwater100" - These are all VERY collectible today, but were not part of the scene in Australia during their years of production.
All manufacturers had a period where they dominated the market for a period of time. I think the mid 70's to the early 80's was Bally's heyday, but I have found that Bally games post 1971 are also excellent machines. My personal collection now has many Ballys from this era and I simply love them !
ALL pinballs are awesome, but I've always loved Ballys.
