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Re: Your least favourite pinball machine to play?
« Reply #15 on: October 24, 2012, 08:42:04 PM »
I agree with nick pure strikes back sucks balls.  If the backglass wasn't Awsome I'd scrap it instead of restore it

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Re: Your least favourite pinball machine to play?
« Reply #16 on: October 24, 2012, 08:46:30 PM »

Interesting nominations. I find it difficult to dislike a title, but clearly there are some really strange designs. I love Dungeons and Dragons, Blackwater 100, Transporter and Atlantis. All Midway games. All rare. But I can't stand Special Forces. But I know there will be someone who loves it !

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Re: Your least favourite pinball machine to play?
« Reply #17 on: October 24, 2012, 09:28:48 PM »
I can't think of any machines I really don't like but one that did disappoint was Lord of the RIngs. I had the opportunity recently to play this game and was ready to love it! I loved the movies, loved the pics I'd seen of the machine and wanted nothing less than to play it and find that it was the most awsome game I'd ever played. Unfortunately I found the actual game play quite boring and after a couple of games I'd had enough. Having said that, if I had the opportunity again I'd definatly give it another go because I think it looks great and I'd really like to like it.

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Re: Your least favourite pinball machine to play?
« Reply #18 on: October 24, 2012, 09:29:36 PM »
If the backglass wasn't Awsome I'd scrap it instead of restore it

Worth having just for that great backglass for sure Daniel.
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Re: Your least favourite pinball machine to play?
« Reply #19 on: October 24, 2012, 09:46:23 PM »
This hobby provides so much variety and as many have pointed out, one man's pleasure is another's poison. For me Spring Break (Gottlieb/Premier) is my least favourite and judging by the amount of coin I collected from the cashbox for my then employer I'm guessing I was not alone in my assessment.

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Re: Your least favourite pinball machine to play?
« Reply #20 on: October 24, 2012, 09:48:26 PM »
Firepower2  ^.^ what a dissapointment after the original....
Firepower, F14 Tomcat, Terminator2, Twilight Zone, No Fear, TAF, Hyperball, Sttng....

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Re: Your least favourite pinball machine to play?
« Reply #21 on: October 24, 2012, 10:00:33 PM »
I am a Steve Ritchie fan but Stellar Wars is my least favourite machine of all time (apologies to collectors who have one). People say that SW grows on you but luckily the only thing that grows on me is hair. Paragon is probably the only wide body I enjoyed.
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Re: Your least favourite pinball machine to play?
« Reply #22 on: October 24, 2012, 10:13:12 PM »
umm, some games are so crap they are good, and i often find that.
 however i have two i have played this year and hated,
One i remembered being so much better when i first played it along time ago,
I played it for the first time in years a few weeks ago and i was wondering why i didnt like it,
The music was more annoying than i remember and the game play wasnt what i remembered to be, wont say what it is because that will be two popular games that are held highly (way to controversial) lol .so that i dont annoy to many people I will the just say the other title however, sorry guys ACDC.

I think maybe i am more angry about these games as i had high expectations. where i have played crap games with low expectations and enjoyed them.
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Re: Your least favourite pinball machine to play?
« Reply #23 on: October 24, 2012, 11:08:17 PM »
A couple come to mind for me, Twilight Zone is one i did a shop out job on a few years ago, had it at my home for a month so i had plenty of time to play test it, couldn't get into it much at all. I played VERY SAME TZ on site several years before hand, same deal.

Terminator 3 which i played at Newcastle pinfest, i couldnt get into either, though i didnt really put a lot of time into getting to know it while there, so maybe if i'd been able to spend more time on it things might've been different.

From the point of view of games i own (or have owned) Klondike probably got played the least, sold it a few months ago to Andy (AP member greenechidna). though i must admit i do miss it a bit since its been gone.. at least i can still see it and play it when i visit him  *%*

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Re: Your least favourite pinball machine to play?
« Reply #24 on: October 25, 2012, 11:06:53 AM »
Orbitor 1 for me - I bought one back from the dead, but wished I had not bothered...

First few games are fun, then you realise the chances of hitting what you are aiming for are close to nil.  Interesting concept poorly executed.

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Re: Your least favourite pinball machine to play?
« Reply #25 on: November 02, 2012, 01:46:48 PM »
fj , so much to do, I couldn't cope.

I think there's only 4 targets and a couple of spinners. I think it might be an easy game to maintain as there is nothing on it. Might as well get a plank of wood and roll a ball on it
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Re: Your least favourite pinball machine to play?
« Reply #26 on: November 03, 2012, 03:22:43 PM »
IJ4 and ACDC
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Re: Your least favourite pinball machine to play?
« Reply #27 on: November 03, 2012, 07:33:24 PM »
Attack from Mars and Flintstones.

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Re: Your least favourite pinball machine to play?
« Reply #28 on: January 09, 2013, 12:25:27 AM »

Bally Future Spa - a plodder at best. Artwork is horrific and not even 5 pop bumpers can save this machine.


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Re: Your least favourite pinball machine to play?
« Reply #29 on: January 09, 2013, 05:33:12 AM »
Sorry, but my Addams Family didn't do much for me, even with Gold software - whatever that does......  Owned it for 2 years and could never enjoy it as it had, in my opinion, too easy a set of rules. [the kids did though, only dues to the hand nicking the ball  ::) ]   Only good thing with it was that when I sold it, I made a decent profit on it  <.>