Pinside's Top 100 (without Stern) (2024)

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I am always looking at the Pinside Top 100 and looking out for other machines that were not manufactured by Stern.

So I wondered what the current Top 100 would look like if Stern machines were removed from the list.

Here it is,

Pinside Pinball Top 100 (without Stern)

1. Medieval Madness (Williams, CGC)
2. Attack From Mars (Bally, CGC)
3. Monster Bash (Williams, CGC)
4. Twilight Zone (Bally)
5. Cactus Canyon (Bally, CGC)
6. The Big Lebowski (Dutch Pinball)
7. Pirates of the Caribbean (JJP)
8. Indiana Jones (Williams)
9. Willy Wonka (JJP)
10. The Adams Family (Bally)
11. Guns n’ Roses (JJP)
12. Star Trek The Next Generation (Williams)
13. Tales of the Arabian Nights (Williams)
14. Rick and Morty (Spooky)
15. Theatre of Magic (Bally)
16. Scared Stiff (Bally)
17. Dialed In (JJP)
18. Scooby Doo (Spooky)
19. Wizard of Oz (JJP)
20. Alien (Pinball Brothers)
21. White Water (Williams)
22. Cirque Voltaire (Bally)
23. Alice Coopers Nightmare Castle (Spooky)
24. The Hobbit (JJP)
25. The Shadow (Bally)
26. Creature from the Black Lagoon (Bally)
27. The Godfather (JJP)
28. Funhouse (Williams)
29. Toy Story 4 (JJP)
30. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Williams)
31. Total Nuclear Annihilation (Spooky)
32. Whirlwind (Williams)
33. Haloween (Spooky)
34. The Getaway HS2 (Williams)
35. Congo (Williams)
36. Centaur (Bally)
37. Alien (Heighway Pinball)
38. World Cup Soccer (Bally)
39. Fish Tales (Williams)
40. Heist (Multimorphic)
41. Revenge from Mars (Bally)
42. Fathom (Bally)
43. Big Bang Bar (Capcom)
44. Legends of Valhalla (American Pinball)
45. No Good Gofers (Williams)
46. Indianapolis 500 (Bally)
47. Elvira and the Party Monsters (Bally)
48. Judge Dread (Bally)
49. Guns N’ Roses (Data East)
50. Eight Ball Deluxe (Bally)
51. Flash Gordon (Bally)
52. Pinball Magic (Capcom)
53. High Speed (Williams)
54. Swords of Fury (Williams)
55. Pinbot (Williams)
56. Quicksilver (Stern Electronics)
57. Road Show (Williams)
58. Taxi (Williams)
59. Tales from the Crypt (Data East)
60. Hot Wheels (American Pinball)
61. Champion Pub (Bally)
62. Jurassic Park (Data East)
63. Black Knight 2000 (Williams)
64. Oktoberfest (American Pinball)
65. Bride of Pinbot (Dutch Pinball)
66. Houdini (American Pinball)
67. Doctor Who (Bally)
68. Terminator 2 (Williams)
69. Firepower (Williams)
70. Banzai Run (Williams)
71. Seawitch (Stern Electronics)
72. Paragon (Bally)
73. Medusa (Bally)
74. Black Hole (Gottlieb)
75. Diner (Williams)
76. Dirty Harry (Williams)
77. Bride of Pinbot (Williams)
78. Safe Cracker (Bally)
79. Demolition Man (Williams)
80. NBA Fastbreak (Bally)
81. Johnny Mnemonic (Williams)
82. Earthshaker (Williams)
83. Goldeneye (Sega)
84. Baywatch (Sega)
85. Stars (Stern Electronics)
86. Time Machine (Data East)
87. Joker Poker (Gottlieb)
88. TX-Sector (Gottlieb)
89. Baracora (Williams)
90. Who Dunnit (Bally)
91. Star Gazer (Stern Electronics)
92. The Who’s Tommy Pinball Wizard (Data East)
93. Batman Forever (Sega)
94. Ultraman (Spooky Pinball)
95. Black Knight (Williams)
96. Stargate (Gottlieb)
97. Sorcerer (Williams)
98. Radical (Bally)
99. Corvette (Bally)
100. Space Shuttle (Williams)

*Stern Electronics are included

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TNA is massively under-ranked...

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VeeMonroe said:

TNA is massively under-ranked...

I would sure agree with that.

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Thought I was going to see a top 100 with the sterns removed, i.e. to show how many in the top 100 arent sterns.

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Fantazia2 said:

Thought I was going to see a top 100 with the sterns removed, i.e. to show how many in the top 100 arent sterns.

Currently there are 37 Sterns in the Top 100, I removed these and moved everything else up a place until reached 100.

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CGC are doing well on this new list, just shows you if they up their game they could take a bigger slice of the market.

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Awesome. I doubt that pinball would be as strong in popularity if it hadn't been for Stern though.

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Happypin said:

CGC are doing well on this new list, just shows you if they up their game they could take a bigger slice of the market.

Im not sure CGC currently deserve that much patting on the back, the games would likely still be in the same slots with out their remakes.

But let's wait and see where Pulp Fiction ends up.

Have they done any other original games?

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Centaur is rightly top classic .

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Well what can i say SO many brilliant games down the bottom end..........in my opinion anyway.

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Happypin said:

CGC are doing well on this new list, just shows you if they up their game they could take a bigger slice of the market.

For sure and Pulp Fiction will be near top I think when that gets released. Hopefully we get to see another pin from Raw Thrills and CGC after PF Pinside's Top 100 (without Stern) (17)

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I've owned about 15 of the top 30 there. I got more fun out of CFTBL, Fish Tales, WH2O, Shadow, WCS etc. than I did IJ, AFM and TZ.

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