PAF Top Ten Most Wanted Table Poll Series : #4 - Premium Licensed (Closed)

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With the Terminator 2 : Judgment Day Kickstarter campaign being officially funded later this evening and heading to The Pinball Arcade soon, we've decided to celebrate by bumping up the Premium Licensed Table Poll to give the pinball community the chance to vote on the Top Ten Premium Licensed Tables that they would like to see Kickstarted in addition to The Addams Family, which FarSight is currently aggressively pursuing.

Welcome to the fourth poll in the PAF Top Ten Most Wanted Table Poll Series featuring 30 carefully selected Premium Licensed Solid State tables. This poll will be active from July 21, 2013 - August 3, 2013 with the poll standings hidden from the public. The current poll standings will be visible to the public on Saturday July 27th, after which, the poll standings will be hidden once again for the remainder of the entire poll series. The Top Ten Most Wanted Premium Licensed Tables, as voted by the pinball community, will be revealed on Friday September 6, 2013.

The PAF Top Ten Most Wanted Table Polls are run exclusively by the Pinball Arcade Fans Forum and are not official FarSight Studios polls.

NOTE : Voting is open to forum members only, so if you haven't signed up yet, please take a minute to join the forum and begin casting your votes.

Below you will find links to gameplay videos and playfield pics of each table in this poll, so take your time and check out some of the tables you may have never seen or heard of before you proceed to select your Top Ten Most Wanted Premium Licensed Tables. Remember, you will have two weeks to make your choices, so no need to rush.

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Apollo 13 (Sega, 1995) Gameplay | Playfield
Back to the Future (Data East, 1990) Gameplay | Playfield
Batman Forever (Sega, 1995) Gameplay | Playfield
Congo (Williams, 1995) Gameplay | Playfield
Demolition Man (Williams, 1994) Gameplay | Playfield
Dirty Harry (Williams, 1995) Gameplay | Playfield
Doctor Who (Bally, 1992) Gameplay | Playfield
Elvis (Stern, 2004) Gameplay | Playfield
Flintstones, The (Williams, 1994) Gameplay | Playfield
Freddy : A Nightmare on Elm Street (Gottlieb, 1994) Gameplay | Playfield
Goldeneye (Sega, 1996) Gameplay | Playfield
Guns ‘N Roses (Data East, 1994) Gameplay | Playfield
Hook (Data East, 1992) Gameplay | Playfield
Independence Day (Sega, 1996) Gameplay | Playfield
Indiana Jones : The Pinball Adventure (Williams, 1993) Gameplay | Playfield
Johnny Mnemonic (Williams, 1995) Gameplay | Playfield
Jurassic Park (Data East, 1993) Gameplay | Playfield
Last Action Hero (Data East, 1993) Gameplay | Playfield
Lord of the Rings, The (Stern, 2003) Gameplay | Playfield
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Sega, 1995) Gameplay | Playfield
NBA Fastbreak (Bally, 1997) Gameplay | Playfield
Phantom of the Opera (Data East, 1990) Gameplay | Playfield
Shadow, The (Bally, 1994) Gameplay | Playfield
Simpsons Pinball Party, The (Stern, 2003) Gameplay | Playfield
Star Wars (Data East, 1992) Gameplay | Playfield
Stargate (Gottlieb, 1995) Gameplay | Playfield
Starship Troopers (Sega, 1997) Gameplay | Playfield 1 | Playfield 2
Terminator 3 : Rise of the Machines (Stern, 2003) Gameplay | Playfield
Who’s Tommy Pinball Wizard, The (Data East, 1994) Gameplay | Playfield
WWF Royal Rumble (Data East, 1994) Gameplay | Playfield

Congo
Freddy
Goldeneye
Indiana Jones
Jurassic Park
LOTR
Frankenstein
NBA
Simpsons
Stargate

Heh, I figured this would be the case after the announcement and the funded kickstarter.

This is going to take a while to complete though.

Also I like how The Addams Family is missing

It's like Christmas came early!

Congo --- great designer - bad movie
Doctor Who --- It's Dr. Who!
Frankenstein - Yes, another monster pin
The Flintstones --- we need more cartoon pins
Indiana Jones - classic
Johnny Mnemonic - I actually like the movie
Lord of the Rings - epic
The Shadow - another bad movie, but classic
Simpsons - we need this.
T3 - to complete Terminator series
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Actually, any of the other pins would be cool.

Pinwiz, do you think every one of those titles would require a kickstarter?

Kevlar said:

Pinwiz, do you think every one of those titles would require a kickstarter?

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Yes...each for their own reasons.

I predict a battle for the top three spots between The Simpsons Pinball Party, Indiana Jones and Lord of the Rings. Doctor Who and The Shadow will tough it out for the 4th and 5th spots. I'm not sure how I'm voting yet... I'm basing my predictions on what I've read here in the past.

Yeah, no point having TAF just for the reason mostly everyone would vote for it making it pick your top nine + TAF.

Which I wouldn't voted anyway. Never saw the big deal with that table. :shrugs:

Edit: Wow, no Twister?

Is it Christmas already???!!! I want them all! I think we all want them all.

This is not going to be an easy task. What a roster of epic tables to have to vote on! You have a solid donation from me for each and every one of them. I just have to figure out which ones I would prioritize on first. WOW! I LOVE where Pinball Arcade is going. Off to watch videos of the tables now. Woo-hoo! Great picks in your list btw smooverr!

Two questions...

(1) Is the omission of South Park intentional? If so, why?

(B) Is there really a possibility for Guns N Roses? If so... PSYCHED!

Thanks for the insights.

atlantis1982 said:

Edit: Wow, no Twister?

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Unfortunately, with only 30 slots to fill, Twister didn't make the cut...and I personally like Twister.

stevesabol said:

Two questions...

(1) Is the omission of South Park intentional? If so, why?

(B) Is there really a possibility for Guns N Roses? If so... PSYCHED!

Thanks for the insights.

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(1) Another table that also didn't make the cut.

(B) Of course...

By Far the easiest poll to vote on to date! (for me anyways)
I only had a problem picking #10

So,in order of my preference - my Top Ten are:

1) The Shadow - Easily my top choice. A hard,but fun to play table
2) Indiana Jones:The Pinball Adventure
3) Starship Troopers
4) Jurassic Park
5) Stargate
6) Goldeneye
7) Star Wars
8) Doctor Who
9) Lord of the Rings This is the only table in my top ten that I haven't played,and one of three that I haven't played in the entire poll (T3 & Elvis). Having said that - I think that we should have more Stern tables in TPA,and I've heard enough about this to give it a shot. (I do know there is an actual LOTR table fairly close to me - hoping to try it this week)
10) The Who's Tommy - Pinball Wizard

Tommy is an okay game - I put it in at 10 mainly because of its theme.

Just missing my top ten were:

ID4,BTTF,TSPP,WWFRR,NBA

I love the WWF table,but with the WWE/WWF licensing,not to mention the other licensing issues,I feel this is a long shot at best - but that would be my top pick out of those.

I'll be SHOCKED if NBA ever happens. Again licensing hell there.

I didn't vote for TSPP for three reasons:

I didn't care for it the first time I played it (closest pinball IRL to me,but it needs a lot of work to make it playable)
I did play one recently that was pristine,and I did have some fun with it - just not enough to make my 10.
Besides,most of you will vote it in anyways

The licensed pin I would have voted into my Top Ten without hesitation if it were here:
Star Trek by Data East

The licensed pin that surprised me by NOT being here on this list:
South Park by Sega

Verrrrry Interesting omission there...

Anyways,those are my choices.

Hate to say, this is going to be tough deciding on ten when I really care about is just two:

Doctor Who and The Shadow

Not really big on license tables; was more looking forward to Gottelib.

I just hope Hook will be noticed, great movie with fantastic music and great pin too.
A good KS could be a KS with multiple stretch goals grouping in that way all the "low-cost" licences (Congo, frankenstein... )

I think AC/DC is still in production, correct me if I'm wrong, so it'll be a while before we see that and Metallica.

Some of the ones I voted for include The Flinstones, Demolition Man, NBA Fastbreak,Guns N' Roses, Simpsons, The Who, Dr. Who, Elvis, Indiana Jones, and Back to the Future.

atlantis1982 said:

Not really big on license tables; was more looking forward to Gottelib.

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You'll get your wish in two weeks...I promise.

Belgarion said:

I just hope Hook will be noticed, great movie with fantastic music and great pin too.
A good KS could be a KS with multiple stretch goals grouping in that way all the "low-cost" licences (Congo, frankenstein... )

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I wonder if we here could come up with what we think are those "low cost licenses" could be. It'd make for some interesting conversation at the least...

Belgarion said:

I just hope Hook will be noticed, great movie with fantastic music and great pin too.
A good KS could be a KS with multiple stretch goals grouping in that way all the "low-cost" licences (Congo, frankenstein... )

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Yeah, I suggested that with regards to No Fear, Indy 500 and NASCAR. Speaking of, I'm wondering why NASCAR isn't on there...

GNR x 5
Simpsons x 5

(Since South Park, Family Guy, AC/DC and a couple of others didn't make the cut)

Didn't even need to look at the links for this.