Top 10 Pinball Machines of All Time (According to Pinside User Reviews AS OF 08/23/2026)

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  @GD1082 · 2 weeks ago

  Addams Family is still my favorite especially since Raul Julia died a few years later. Well played Thing, you're really on the ball!

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  @YouSeeSorrows · 1 month ago

  It&apos;s amazing to me that someone at Barrels actually said &quot;yes, lets only make 500ish of Winchester&quot; then follow it up with Bon Jovi 😆<br><br>A game that everyone is clamoring for..... then Bon Jovi, a game that literally nobody asked for.

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• DA

  @dapperdandy100 · 3 weeks ago

  Star Trek next generation was my all time favorite I could play for 30 minutes easily and it always seemed new

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• SC

  @ScottParisi · 1 month ago

  Good to see Todd Tuckey at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vZyII5APD4&amp;t=9">0:09</a>.

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  @shanehambrick7565 · 6 hours ago

  Great video. I haven&apos;t had the chance to play all of these but I always seemnto go back to playing Godzilla. It&apos;s just a fun game that keeps me engaged. Jaws was kind of a let down for me and Harry Potter has so much going on I get lost in it. Great game and super challenging. Hope to get a chance to play Winchester Mystery House some day

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  @ruenin74 · 1 month ago

  Godzilla has been my favorite since it was released, and I love me some 80s-90s machines. I haven&apos;t had opportunity to play Harry Potter yet, unfortunately, but even still, if I ever have the means, I&apos;m buying a Godzilla Premium.

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• CA

  @campxray_3410 · 1 month ago

  Nice review, opening comments were funny AF!

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  @raggeragnar · 10 days ago

  If I only could pick one, I’d go with ”Close encounters of the third kind” from 1978. Simple, yet callenging, very well balanced difficulty vs goals and perfect for both single and group play. Everyone can get really good at it, but few can master it. (I’m not one of them, unfortunately) Even experienced players likes it very much.<br>2nd on my list would be ”Simpson’s pinball party” 2003. 3rd would be ”Creature from the black lagoon” 1992.

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  @1alexjorton · 1 month ago

  Great video! What a time to be a pinhead

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  @nothanksnoname7567 · 2 days ago

  From this top 10, &nbsp;and as a Pinball casual newbie, I&apos;ve played Jurassic Park, Jaws, Attack from Mars, and Godzilla. Godzilla was alright, but didn&apos;t live up to the hype. Perhaps I need a lot of time with it to find its awesomeness. JP was okay, and I definitely needed more time with that one, but it also didn&apos;t hold that much fun for me, though I loved the call outs from the movie, except for when it repeated too often. Jaws was actually pretty good, and much more than I expected. But the best is Attack From Mars for pure, simple joy. Pinball doesn&apos;t need to be too complicated. Just rack up those scores higher and higher. And I assume it would be more fun to have one in your own home, where you can compete against your family and/or friends.

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  @deateeshortz · 1 month ago

  Loved this video! So true. I recently did a speedrun of the top 20 EM Pinball machines of all time according to pinside and was totally shocked by some of the machines (but generally like the list). The number 4 EM (of all time??) Firecracker... was according to like 9 people? Like some guy found a bunch of them in a barn and is just trying to inflate the value of them. hahaha. You are spot on!!! &nbsp;The games that are on this list that have been around for 30 years definitely have some legit clout. Godzilla is a monster. I own that game and still think it is the best. maybe I should join pinside and rate it LOL! I think you will see this trend continue with the newest games rapidly rising to the top, but it doesn&apos;t mean they are the best, as you pointed out. It just starts the conversation. Brilliant! Cheers, D

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  @hashtagPoundsign · 1 month ago

  This was enjoyable to see these pinball games. I know nothing about them, or pinside, so I have no real opinion of the ratings. I just remember the few places I would go to play pinball and they would all be older games from the 80s maybe one or two early 90s games. A fun fact about me, when I was a kid playing them, I didn&apos;t fully understand there was objectives. I just enjoy knocking the ball around. As I got older however... well I still didn&apos;t fully realize there were objectives. You could say I finally realized objectives after watching this. Which would be true. Still enjoy just knocking the ball around.