# What’s the best pinball machine you ever played?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 16, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-best-pinball-machine-you-ever-played/344720 "2006-02-16T00:14:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-best-pinball-machine-you-ever-played/344720/61 "2006-02-17T02:04:00Z")

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> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> [The Simpsons](http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2158&depth=0&picno=2050) was another fun one.

I sauntered in to suggest this one. It was located in the cafeteria of my very small college campus. I never really watched the show, so I associate the music “The Siiiiimpsonnnnns…do do do dee do do do dee do do dee dee dee do do” with spending a handfull of quarters in between sessions of sitting in cheap plastic chairs, eating crappy hamburgers and stressing/cramming for finals.

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**Author:** ![BlueKangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@BlueKangaroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueKangaroo)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-best-pinball-machine-you-ever-played/344720/62 "2006-02-17T04:14:31Z")

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Man, this thread makes me want to track down that game again. This time, no stupid drinking age can keep me out!

Plus, other pinball goodness is clearly just waiting for me to discover it.

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**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-best-pinball-machine-you-ever-played/344720/63 "2006-02-17T04:53:26Z")

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> [@Who\_me?](#):
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> I don’t play pinball anymore, but when I did, it was rare for me to find a game I couldn’t beat. I can’t even remember some of the games I liked, but one that I did like was [8-Ball Deluxe](http://marvin3m.com/bally/8balldlx.htm).

“Quit talkin’ and start chalkin’.”

Good times.

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**Author:** ![little\_bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@little\_bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_bit)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-best-pinball-machine-you-ever-played/344720/64 "2006-04-12T17:12:28Z")

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> [@BlueKangaroo](#):
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> Man, this thread makes me want to track down that game again. This time, no stupid drinking age can keep me out!
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> Plus, other pinball goodness is clearly just waiting for me to discover it.

If you’re ever in Detroit, my friend owns a bar & I play Medieval Madness every Wednesday night… 😃

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**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-best-pinball-machine-you-ever-played/344720/65 "2006-04-12T18:42:18Z")

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I loved to play;  
Fun House  
Junk Yard  
Addams Family

There’s one that I used to play whose name I can no longer remember. It was an older pinball based on the movie metropolis. In the facedisplay with this female face whose features switched from robotic to human. IPDB doesn’t have any info on it…

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