Hardest Table in TPA

What's the hardest table in TPA?

  • Genie

    Votes: 8 8.5%
  • Big Shot

    Votes: 4 4.3%
  • Central Park

    Votes: 9 9.6%
  • Haunted House

    Votes: 7 7.4%
  • Gorgar

    Votes: 2 2.1%
  • Firepower

    Votes: 13 13.8%
  • Fish Tales

    Votes: 13 13.8%
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula

    Votes: 9 9.6%
  • Champion Pub

    Votes: 12 12.8%
  • Something else?

    Votes: 17 18.1%

  • Total voters
    94

mikehg

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Feb 5, 2014
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I went for FP, but could have as well been BSD. They're the two where I feel like I'm hanging on by a thread the entire game...

Diner's pretty savage too, but in a good way.
 

Dedpop

Active member
Jun 3, 2014
4,284
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Haunted House.
I just CAN'T.

Edit.
Just played it again for the 200th times...
I HATE this crap.
 
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Fungi

Active member
Feb 20, 2012
4,888
2
Fish Tales. The way those slingshots are tuned to just play catch until the inevitable outlane frustrates the hell outta me.
 

Iguana

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Jul 28, 2013
123
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BSD for me. Had a few hot games, but more often than not, its a drain-o-rama.

On the other hand I once felt the same about FT, but during a recent tournament, I looked for the rule set in an effort to attain a better score (link below). Long story short, my former dust-collecting table became one of my favorites. Current high score is 443M, one wizard goal to go. Essentially, it isn't too difficult once you master a few shots, and know where the big points are. I have all released tables, and FT is easily one of my top 5 favorites.

http://pinball.org/rules/fishtales.html
 

IGoFirstIndy

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Jul 12, 2014
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voted Dracula. It's so hard, but i love it and getting the stacked multiballs makes all the agita worth it.

Frustration wise i'd go with Flight 2000.
 

Reagan Dow

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Jul 23, 2014
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It wasn't on the poll but I must say Diner kicks my ass more then any other table. I voted Campion Pub though. Tough table with horrible flow.
 

JefferyD

Member
May 10, 2013
198
2
Cpub! I'm not one smidgen better at it now than I was when I plunged my first ball. Practice has not improved my abilities at all. It is my worst enemy.
 

Nat-1969

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Dec 27, 2014
87
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I vote for Haunted House..very close second Black Hole. I don't feel these games were designed to be mastered, they were made to gobble quarters because of their unique design "oh look at all the flippers on multiple levels!". Fish Tales was hard to get any of the wizard goals for me, but I don't have a hard tame breaking 100 million anymore which would have been the threshold for a free game.
 

Slam23

Active member
Jul 21, 2012
1,279
2
Other: Dr. Dude....this one escapes me for some reason, drain, drain, drain....but it could also be my inner resistance to playing this exceptionally stupid-themed table. Bad art, bad sounds, bad music, bad table!!
 

jbejarano

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Jul 6, 2012
893
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If I go by wizard goals, I'd have to say Genie. That 3,000,000 point goal isn't happening any time soon, (though there are other tough holdouts). The extra balls and specials you need to last long enough for that goal just seem to elude me most of the time.

If I go by length of game, it's probably Firepower. I love Firepower. It's sound effects are some of my favorite in the entire Pinball Arcade collection. But, those games just zip right by.

If I go by length of ball before drain, it's gotta be Central Park. That gaping maw between those weensy, little flippers and having more outlanes than Highway 101 make it the craziest drain monster of the bunch. The only reason the games last longer for me than Firepower is the surfeit of extra balls awarded by the machine.

If I go by my own performance against the leaderboards, I think it might be Medieval Madness. I'm sure it's that I just suck at that game for some reason. I tend to use #100 of the Weekly Leaderboard as a par score (and multiply it by some ratio to give me a challenge), and compared to every other table, everyone just seems to be better at this table than me. It might just be that more people are playing it, so the leaderboards are just naturally higher.
 

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