Best Pinball Game
Monster Bash Remake is a pinball machine released by Chicago Gaming Company in 2018 as a modern reproduction of Williams' 1998 Monster Bash. It uses the Universal Monsters theme, including characters such as Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. The game is designed for play...
Medieval Madness Remake is a modern pinball reproduction released by Chicago Gaming Company in 2015, based on Williams' 1997 Medieval Madness. Its fantasy theme centers on knights defending the kingdom by attacking castles and confronting trolls. The remake retains the original game's mechanical obj...
Avengers: Infinity Quest is a Stern Pinball machine released in 2020 and based on Marvel's Avengers. Designed by Keith Elwin, the table includes a Dr. Strange spinning disk, an automated Iron Man target, and rules built around collecting and using the Infinity Stones. It is intended for players who...
Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast is a Stern Pinball machine released in 2018 and designed by Keith Elwin. It uses the British heavy metal band's imagery, music, and recurring mascot Eddie as the basis for its playfield and rules. The table includes twelve songs from Iron Maiden's discography and is...
The Lord of the Rings is a Stern Pinball machine released in 2003 and designed by George Gomez. Based on Peter Jackson's film trilogy, the table uses scenes, characters, and music associated with The Lord of the Rings while presenting the story through modes, quests, and multiball objectives. Its pl...
Attack from Mars is a Bally pinball machine released in 1995 and designed by George Gomez. Its science-fiction theme presents a comic-style Martian invasion, with players defending Earth by targeting flying saucers and alien forces. The game combines a prominent saucer toy with animated dot-matrix s...
Monster Bash is a Williams pinball machine released in 1998 and designed by George Gomez. Licensed from Universal, it brings together classic movie monsters including Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolf Man, the Mummy, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and the Bride of Frankenstein. The central object...
Medieval Madness is a Williams pinball machine released in 1997 and designed by Brian Eddy. Its medieval fantasy setting assigns players the task of defending the kingdom by destroying castles, defeating trolls, and progressing toward multiball objectives. The table is distinguished by interactive c...
Twilight Zone is a Williams pinball machine released in 1993 and designed by Pat Lawlor. Licensed from the television series, it uses surreal imagery and story elements from The Twilight Zone alongside a ceramic Powerball, a working gumball machine, and a separate mini-playfield. The table presents...
Indiana Jones is a Stern Pinball machine from the 2000s, based on the Indiana Jones film series. Designed by John Borg, it uses film-related music, imagery, and story references while organizing play around four distinct multiball adventure modes. The table is intended for players who want a license...
Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure is a Williams pinball machine released in 1993 and designed by Mark Ritchie. It is licensed from the first three Indiana Jones films, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The table translates their...
Elvira's House of Horrors is a solid-state pinball machine released by Stern Pinball in 2019 and designed by Dennis Nordman. It is the third pinball game based on the horror-host character Elvira, following Elvira and the Party Monsters and Elvira's Scared Stiff. The machine uses a haunted-house set...
Total Nuclear Annihilation is a pinball machine released by Multimorphic in 2017 for the company's modular P3 platform. Designed by Scott Danesi, it uses a post-apocalyptic setting centered on the threat of nuclear destruction and presents that theme through physical pinball play and electronic game...
Cactus Canyon Remake is a pinball machine produced by Chicago Gaming Company in 2022 as a modern reproduction of Williams's 1998 Western-themed Cactus Canyon. It retains the original game's setting and core playfield concept while updating the electronics, display, software, and rules for contempora...
Theatre of Magic is a Bally pinball machine released in 1995 and designed by John Popadiuk. Its theme draws on stage illusion and magic, with a central playfield trunk serving as the machine's signature interactive feature and participating in several game rules. The table uses a dot-matrix display...
The Getaway: High Speed II is a Williams pinball machine released in 1992 and designed by Steve Ritchie as a sequel to 1986’s High Speed. Its driving and police-chase presentation uses a gearshift-style plunger, a dot-matrix display, and the Supercharger, an elevated loop whose magnetic accelerator...
Cirqus Voltaire is a Bally pinball machine released in 1997 and designed by John Popadiuk with Cameron Silver. Its futuristic circus theme is represented by a neon-lit ramp, a rising Ringmaster head, a magnet-based ball lock, and a dot-matrix display mounted above the playfield. The rules ask player...
Eight Ball Deluxe is a Bally solid-state pinball machine released in 1981 and designed by George Christian. Its cue-sports theme uses numbered drop targets, bonus-multiplier targets, speech, and shot combinations built around completing groups of billiard balls. The table is for players who prefer r...
Batman '66 is a licensed pinball machine released by Stern Pinball in 2016 and based on the 1960s Batman television series. The game combines period-inspired artwork and sound with a color LCD display, video footage, villain-centered modes, and call-outs associated with Adam West as Batman and Burt...
Dialed In! is an original-theme pinball machine manufactured by Jersey Jack Pinball and released in 2017. Designed by Pat Lawlor, it uses a disaster-themed story and integrates a smartphone-style playfield feature with Bluetooth connectivity, a camera, and player interaction through a phone, alongsi...
Banzai Run is a solid-state pinball machine released by Williams in 1988 and co-designed by Pat Lawlor and Larry DeMar. Its defining feature is a second playable playfield mounted vertically in the backbox, reached from the conventional lower playfield by moving the same ball between the two levels....
Black Knight 2000 is a solid-state pinball machine released by Williams in 1989 and designed by Steve Ritchie. It is a medieval fantasy-themed sequel to the earlier Black Knight machine and uses a dot-matrix display, electronic speech, music, and playfield features built around its combat theme. The...
Scared Stiff is a Bally pinball machine released in 1996 and designed by Dennis Nordman. Its theme draws on horror imagery and features the licensed likeness and voice of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, who appears throughout the game’s presentation and audio. The machine uses a dot-matrix display, hu...
Wizard of Oz is a licensed pinball machine released by Jersey Jack Pinball in 2013 and based on the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. It was one of the first major widebody pinball machines released after a long period in which widebody designs were uncommon. The game includes a full-color LCD display and...
High Speed is a solid-state pinball machine designed by Steve Ritchie and released by Williams in 1986. Its theme centers on a police pursuit, with play involving a traffic-light mechanism, ramps, multiball, and rules built around increasing speed and evading pursuit. The machine is significant in p...
Fish Tales is a fishing-themed solid-state pinball machine released by Williams in 1992 and designed by Mark Ritchie. Its playfield centers on fishing and outdoor-adventure imagery, with a fishing-reel mechanism used to lock balls for multiball, a captive ball, boat-related shots, ramps, and a rod-s...
Black Knight: Sword of Rage is a pinball machine released by Stern Pinball in 2019. It is the third machine in Stern's Black Knight series, following Black Knight and Black Knight 2000, and uses a fantasy medieval theme built around the Black Knight character. The playfield includes an interactive k...
The Machine: Bride of Pinbot is a Williams pinball machine released in 1991 and designed by Python Anghelo and John Trudeau. It is the second game in the Pin-Bot series and follows a robotic bride whose face changes as the player completes shots and stages of the game. The machine uses a Williams WP...
Originally designed by Python Anghelo in 1993 for Capcom, this sci-fi table was notoriously canceled but later reproduced in limited quantities due to high fan demand.
James Bond 007 is a Stern Pinball machine released in 2022 as a licensed game based on the James Bond film series. Stern's Pro, Premium, and Limited Edition versions use missions and imagery drawn from the films, while the 60th Anniversary Limited Edition was designed to celebrate six decades of the...
