PAF Top Ten Most Wanted Table Poll Series : #6 - Stern/Data East/Sega (Closed)

[cammanchee]

Here are the tables I voted for:

Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
High Roller Casino
Lightning
Monopoly
Nascar
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Secret Service
Sharkey's Shootout
Tales from the Crypt
Time Machine

I played quite a bit of Tales from the Crypt, but I especially played a ton of Time Machine growing up. I dumped god knows how many dollars worth of quarters into that machine and would really like to see that on TPA. It was one of my favorite pinball games at that time and I almost forgot about playing that pinball machine until I heard the magical "Back to the 70's" jingle and I immediately remembered that game. Boy did that bring back a lot of memories being at one of the local bowling alleys back in the 80's that always had a great selection of pinball games to play, along with people blasting a good selection of the music from the Jukebox. Those were definitely the days and one of the reasons why I enjoy TPA so much!!!

 

[bagheera369]

Rocky and Bullwinkle (cartoon childhood)
Laser War (like it when I played it)
Stargazer (Beautiful table, fun to play)
Seawitch (Want to play this)
Viper (If I wasnt getting Space Invaders, I want this, it looks cool)
Monopoly (Very fun game, stupid rotating flipper )
Sharky's Shootout (Looks cool, I like pool games)
Tales from the Crypt (fan of the show)
Freefall (interesting playfield, caught my eye)
Quicksilver (Beautiful art, never seen one in person)

I hope we good a good selection. I know everyone has their favorites, I wish we could get them all made.

 

[LanceBoyle]

Voted for the following:

Rocky & Bullwinkle -- Looks fun and we honestly do need some cartoon-themed tables. Dunno how it'll go with the licensing since there's already a Rocky & Bullwinkle table on PBFX, but I dunno.
Checkpoint -- Definitely seems like a good one, and it's historically significant to boot!
Freefall -- Goin' Nuts but much more interesting.
Hot Hand -- Definitely seemed more interesting to me than High Roller Casino.
Laser War -- This seems like a cool table, and the cheesiness of it definitely is a plus for me.
Monopoly -- Love the board game, looks cool, and it's Lawlor.
Nine Ball -- Same reasons as with Hot Hand except that replace High Roller Casino with Sharkey's Shootout.
RollerCoaster Tycoon -- Mostly the same reasons as Monopoly, although I've never played any of the RCT games. Will be interesting, though. I do have to agree about the sound being kind of annoying.
Tales from the Crypt -- Partly for personal reasons, as this was one of the tables that I used to play as a kiddo, and I remember it being quite good.
Viper Night Drivin' -- Racing-themed tables are generally great, and this looks good. I also mostly voted it to represent the sole Sega table on this poll.

HONORABLE MENTIONS
Secret Service -- Looked alright, and like a companion of sorts to Data East's later arcade game Sly Spy. Hell, I think even the flyers are rather similar.
Viper -- Playfield looked quite interesting.
NASCAR -- While it does look good, I felt that Checkpoint and Viper Night Drivin' deserved some of the love. I also wonder that, if FarSight don't manage to get the NASCAR license, they'll end up using the Euro version, Grand Prix.

It's a shame that this poll didn't have neither X-Files nor South Park, or any other Sega table for that matter, but since pretty much 90% of the Sega pins are expensive licenses, I understand.

 

[SK0881]

Great, but very difficult poll. I've finally made these decisions:

Checkpoint (Data East, 1991)
High Roller Casino (Stern, 2001)
Monopoly (Stern, 2001)
NASCAR (Stern, 2005)
Seawitch (Stern, 1980)
Stingray (Stern, 1977)
Striker Xtreme (Stern, 2000) - That would be a perfect addition to WCS '94!
Time Machine (Data East, 1988)
Trident (Stern, 1979) and
Viper Night Drivin' (Sega, 1998)

 

[Pinballfan69]

Hmm not what I expected but We already had the premium poll and there are plenty of Sterns I would love to see in the premium pack. Even so there are some interesting tables.

Laser War looks really cool. Kind of reminds of the old TRON movie with the Florescent colors.
Catacomb looks interesting because of the randomness of locking the ball as there isn't a clear shot at the holes.
I haven't voted yet as I still am looking into all the games available but for now

Monopoly
Roller Coaster Tycoom
Laser Wars
Time Machine (PAPA got me interested in that one)
Nascar
Catacomb

 

[Drathro]

no simpsons or TMNT?

Ha, I wanted those as well.

 

[lettuce]

No Batman, lethal weapon, or hook either :-(

 

[gooche77]

Do we get to see the winners of all previous fan polls, soon?

 

[Kolchak357]

Do we get to see the winners of all previous fan polls, soon?

All will be revealed on September 6th I think.

 

[Robbied13]

Rocky & Bullwinkle
Catacomb
Laser War
Meteor
Monopoly
NASCAR
Roller Coaster Tycoon
Seawitch
Tales From the Crypt
Viper Night Drivin'

Too bad TMNT didn't make the cut! Fun game. Thanks PinWiz for the time and trouble of doing these polls.

 

[Kolchak357]

A bunch in here I've never played. So I had to rely on vid and reputation on some of these but here are my 10 in no special order.

1. Rocky & Bullwinkle - love the theme and artwork
2. Catacomb - beautifully art and nice backbox feature
3. NASCAR - probably the worst use of DMD that I can think of, but it's a fun pin to play and my wife loves it
4. Seawitch - easily my favorite classic Stern
5. Tales From The Crypt - cryptkeeper's laugh is annoying but this is a very good pin with a kickass multiball
6. Sharkey's Shootout - EBD with a few extra toys. What's not to like?
7. Laser War - this just screams 1980's to me, in a good way
8. Secret Service - some kind of wacky kitschy appeal to me
9. Quicksilver - odd yet appealing art, great sound especially during end of ball bonus
10. High Roller Casine - I'm into the casino theme so it just gets in

Near misses for me included the following:
Monopoly - that spinning flipper makes it slip out of the top ten for me
Lightning & Time Machine - wish I could have found a way to squeeze them into the top ten, but I couldn't
Viper Night Drivin' - there is just a little something missing from this pin that I just can't place my finger on

 

[dandomcon]

I have regrets that there is no Batman, TMNT, Lethal weapon, or Hook either! :-(
My only favorite table in this Poll is Rocky & Bullwinkle!
Vienna (Austria)

 

[Mick Morry]

Rocky and Bullwinkle (cartoon childhood)
Laser War (like it when I played it)
Stargazer (Beautiful table, fun to play)
Seawitch (Want to play this)
Viper (If I wasnt getting Space Invaders, I want this, it looks cool)
Monopoly (Very fun game, stupid rotating flipper )
Sharky's Shootout (Looks cool, I like pool games)
Tales from the Crypt (fan of the show)
Freefall (interesting playfield, caught my eye)
Quicksilver (Beautiful art, never seen one in person)

I hope we good a good selection. I know everyone has their favorites, I wish we could get them all made.

I wish they could make every table they have shown us in the polls too. Not one bad table being shown to us so far. Hopefully TPA goes way over the initial 100 tables they have been mentioning would be made in the various interviews we have been seeing. A top 300 sounds much better. LOL

Then we can have all the best tables from the 1960's to the present.

 

[westofrome]

No World Poker Tour, really?

 

[Rudy Yagov]

Only voted Checkpoint because it doesn't appear to be grtting a lot of attention.

I played one at an arcade that was set up next to a TAF.

That TAF didn't get a single quarter out of me because I spent them all on the Checkpoint.

Weird thing is, there's not that much to it. It's just well made and it has shots that feel right, plus two drop target banks. Got a pretty good soundtrack too, with a choice of tracks at the start of the game.

 

[smbhax]

Oh man those old Sterns are great. Especially Stars. : ) But don't take my word for it--take Bowen Kerins'!

[video=vimeo;45770563]http://vimeo.com/45770563[/video]

 

[Nightwing]

No World Poker Tour, really?

This is just an educated guess,but I'm theorizing that it was left off due to the table being programmed on the SAM system,which Farsight so far hasn't been able to properly emulate.

That's my guess anyway...

 

[Lazareth]

Voted.

 

[Pinballfan69]

Oh man those old Sterns are great. Especially Stars. : ) But don't take my word for it--take Bowen Kerins'!

Interesting but I don't like those old games with no Multiball. It's personal preference.

 

[pseudokings]

TFTC and Monopoly 1 and 1A for me.
Rocky & Bullwinkle and RCT after that.
Then Time Machine.
Had to vote for the only Sega, because it's the only one, and yet Sega is still in the poll title.
Rounded out with High Roller and 3 old-school with good art - Seawitch, Stingray, Catacomb.