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Best 1 Williams The Addams Family

The Williams The Addams Family pinball machine, released in 1992, is a highly sought-after collectible. Designed by Pat Lawlor, it achieved record sales with over 20,000 units produced. Featuring an Addams Family theme and a dynamic DMD display, the game offers a challenging and immersive play exper...

2 Bally Monster Bash

The Bally Monster Bash pinball machine released in 1998 is notable for its unique combination of horror icons and a rock-themed gameplay experience. Featuring six Universal Monsters – Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, the Wolfman, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Phantom of the Opera, and Bride of Fra...

3 Bally Tales of the Arabian Nights

The Bally Tales of the Arabian Nights pinball machine released in 1996 is notable for its immersive fantasy theme inspired by One Thousand and One Nights. John Popadiuk’s design incorporates vibrant artwork and complex gameplay centered around a magic lamp and genie mechanic. It's particularly appea...

4 Stern Lord of the Rings

The Stern Lord of the Rings pinball machine recreates the epic journey from *The Fellowship of the Ring*. Released in 2003, it’s notable for its detailed recreation of Middle-earth environments and gameplay inspired by the film's quest elements. Steve Ritchie’s design features iconic scenes and soun...

5 Bally Cactus Canyon

Bally's Cactus Canyon is a Wild West-themed pinball machine released in 1998 near the end of Bally and Williams' production of traditional dot-matrix display games. Designed by Tom Kopera, it features gunfight, train, mine, and saloon objectives organized around an unfinished rule set. Only a limite...

6 Williams The Getaway: High Speed II

The Getaway: High Speed II is a 1992 Williams pinball machine designed by Steve Ritchie as a sequel to the 1986 game High Speed. Its police-chase theme is expressed through road imagery, an electronic soundtrack, and playfield objectives centered on escaping pursuit. A prominent Supercharger mechani...

7 Bally The Champion Pub

The Champion Pub is a boxing-themed pinball machine released by Bally in 1998 and designed by George Gomez. Its playfield includes a mechanical boxer that the player strikes with a pinball, a jump-rope mechanism, and a speed-bag feature, integrating physical boxing exercises into its rule set. It us...

8 Bally Black Rose

Black Rose is a pirate-themed pinball machine released by Bally in 1992 and designed around firing cannons, sinking ships, and completing voyages. Its playfield includes a prominent ship mechanism, ramps, targets, and a broadside feature in which the player aims and fires a cannon to advance toward...

9 Williams Congo

Congo is a pinball machine released by Williams Electronics in 1995 and licensed from the film adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel. Its playfield uses a jungle expedition and diamond-search theme, with ramps, multiball modes, a volcano feature, and a mechanical gorilla figure that can interact wi...

10 Data East Tales from the Crypt

Data East Tales from the Crypt (1993) is licensed from the HBO horror anthology series and features an animatronic Crypt Keeper figure as the central playfield toy.

11 Data East The Who's Tommy

Data East's 1994 Tommy pinball is licensed from The Who's 1969 rock opera and the 1993 film adaptation, featuring songs from the album throughout gameplay.

12 Sega Star Wars Trilogy

Sega released Star Wars Trilogy in 1997, based on George Lucas's original three films, with digitized speech and a ramp layout referencing all three movies.

13 Stern Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Stern Pinball's 2003 licensed table based on the Arnold Schwarzenegger film sequel, featuring T-850 sculpts and in-movie voice clips.

14 Stern Indiana Jones

Stern released Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure in 2008, based on the Harrison Ford franchise, with distinct gameplay modes tied to each of the four films.

15 Stern Batman

Stern Pinball's licensed DC Comics table, one of several Batman editions produced in the 2000s and 2010s, featuring the Caped Crusader's rogues gallery.

16 Data East Rocky & Bullwinkle and Friends

Data East Rocky & Bullwinkle and Friends (1993) is licensed from Jay Ward's classic animated television series, featuring the cartoon duo across comedic multiball modes.

17 Sega Independence Day

Sega released Independence Day in 1996, based on Roland Emmerich's alien invasion blockbuster starring Will Smith, with a destroyer saucer as a playfield toy.

18 Stern Big Buck Hunter

Stern Pinball's table adapting the Big Buck Hunter arcade franchise, blending the popular video game's hunting theme with physical pinball mechanics.

19 Sega South Park

Sega released South Park in 1999, based on Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Comedy Central animated series, featuring voice clips from the show's cast.

20 Data East Maverick

Data East Maverick (1994) is licensed from the Warner Bros. Western comedy film starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, and James Garner as card-playing adventurers.

21 Data East WWF Royal Rumble

Data East WWF Royal Rumble (1994) is licensed from the World Wrestling Federation and features wrestlers from the annual Royal Rumble pay-per-view event as its theme.

22 Gottlieb Gladiators

Gottlieb released Gladiators in 1993, based on the American Gladiators television competition series that had premiered in syndication in 1989.

23 Stern Sharkey's Shootout

Stern Pinball's circa-2000 underwater-themed table featuring shark and sea creature targets alongside a shooting-gallery-style ball lock mechanic.

24 Gottlieb Waterworld

Gottlieb released Waterworld in 1995, tied to the Kevin Costner post-apocalyptic film of the same year, then among the most expensive films ever produced.

25 Stern Striker Xtreme

Stern Pinball's soccer-themed table released around 2000, offering goal-scoring ramp shots and penalty-kick modes tied to international football culture.

26 Bally Harley-Davidson

Bally Harley-Davidson (1991) is a licensed machine themed around the iconic American motorcycle brand, featuring engine sounds and biker imagery throughout.

27 Data East Michael Jordan

Data East's 1992 Michael Jordan pinball is an NBA-licensed machine themed around the Chicago Bulls star during his peak championship dynasty years.

28 Gottlieb Barb Wire

Gottlieb released Barb Wire in 1996, based on the Pamela Anderson action film, and it was among the last machines the manufacturer produced before closing.

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