The two best-known and largest databases of ratings are the ones at Pinside here and at IPDB here . There are also other places, like Pinpedia and some others I forget.
Pinside's list is updated once a week and contains 165,000 ratings - you have to have rated at least 6 machines and the game has to have had at least 15 ratings. IPDB's one is also regularly updated (not sure how often) and again the games need 15 ratings to be included, there are about 32,000 ratings on there so it is a lot smaller but the main difference is that IPDB's list goes back a lot longer (there are also ratings for EM games on there) and tends to be a lot more static, with 'top titles' tending to stay around while the newer ones come and go. Pinside on the other hand tends to be chock full of machines from the last 5 years for a multitude of reasons. Sure, there are some troll voters who go in and give zeros just to annoy people, and plenty of folks spun_k fifteen to twenty grand on a new game and so they vote their collections all 10.0 as they cannot bear the idea that they are not universally loved (eg. Iron Maiden was #1 on pinside for a week, as presumably 15 new owners all voted it with a 10). Only a few titles make both lists consistently year after year after year. Deadpool and Iron Maiden, currently #5 and #6 on Pinside, are not even in the IPDB top 300.
Many more recent games made the list as they weren't featured at all on IPDB, presumably they still have less than 15 ratings so if *you* haven't, please go to IPDB and add a rating to help them find their place. I was quite surprised to see all of these ones missing:
Deadpool, Iron Maiden, Elvira House of Horrors, Elton John, The Big Lebowski, Jaws, Pirates of the Caribbean (new version), Stranger Things, Avengers, Wonka, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (new), Total Nuclear Annihilation, Galactic Tank Force, Godfather, Black Knight 3 Swords of Something, Toy Story 4, Guardians of the Galaxy, Rick and Morty, Venom, Guns N Roses (new), James Bond 007, Halloween, Alien, Led Zep, Game of Thrones, Heist, Weird Al, Munsters, Gay Batman, Alice Cooper, Valhalla, Beatles, John Wick..... probably some other decent new ones too that i've missed
I follow these with interest, and read the reviews, and leave my own, and even take notes of the standings of my own collection and past titles i've owned. Just for fun because i am a nerd. Like you, many of you. Every so often I combine these two main sites and average the scores to make an averaged list. So for example GZ is currently positions 1 and 1 so it's a shoo-in for the top spot, MM has 2 and 6, TZ has 9 and 2. These numbers change all the time but the overall top 20 are all well-known popular games. Here's the latest one of the top 100 (i've owned 32 of them), some may surprise you:
COMBINED SCORES OCT2024
1 GODZILLA 2
2 MEDIEVAL MADNESS 8
3 TWILIGHT ZONE 11
4 ATTACK FROM MARS 17
4 MONSTER BASH 17
6 LORD OF THE RINGS 26
7 INDIANA JONES 27
8 STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION (1993) 29
9 THE ADDAMS FAMILY 32
10 THEATRE OF MAGIC 37
11 TALES OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS 42
11 SCARED STIFF 42
13 STAR WARS (2017) 51
14 WIZARD OF OZ 53
15 WHITE WATER 55
16 CIRQUS VOLTAIRE 59
16 SPIDERMAN 59
18 STAR TREK (2013) 64
18 CACTUS CANYON 64
20 DIALED IN! 69
21 CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON 70
22 THE SHADOW 74
22 FUNHOUSE 74
24 THE SIMPSONS PINBALL PARTY 80
25 BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA 85
26 AC/DC 86
27 METALLICA 87
28 FISH TALES 90
29 THE GETAWAY HIGH SPEED 2 93
30 TRON LEGACY 97
31 THE WALKING DEAD 98
32 FLASH GORDON 103
33 CONGO 104
34 NO GOOD GOFERS 110
35 WHIRLWIND 112
36 KISS 114
37 REVENGE FROM MARS 116
38 GUN N ROSES (1994) 122
39 JUDGE DREDD 124
40 RED & TED’S ROADSHOW 125
41 HIGH SPEED 130
42 WORLD CUP SOCCER 131
43 JURASSIC PARK (1993) 133
44 CENTAUR 136
44 TERMINATOR 2 136
46 SWORDS OF FURY 144
47 IRON MAN 149
47 PINBALL MAGIC 149
49 THE HOBBIT 151
50 PINBOT 153
51 RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT 154
52 ELVIRA PARTY MONSTERS 155
53 BRIDE OF PINBOT 158
54 TAXI 159
55 DINER 160
56 AEROSMITH 161
57 TALES FROM THE CRYPT 161
58 GHOSTBUSTERS 167
58 BLACK KNIGHT 2000 167
60 INDIANAPOLIS 500 169
61 DEMOLITION MAN 170
62 JOKER POKER 177
63 STARGATE 181
64 BLACK ROSE 189
65 FATHOM 190
65 EARTHSHAKER 190
67 THE WHO’S TOMMY PINBALL WIZARD 191
68 8 BALL DELUXE 195
69 TIME MACHINE 197
70 DOCTOR WHO 199
71 CHAMPION PUB 200
72 STAR WARS (1992) 201
73 BANZAI RUN 202
74 BLACK KNIGHT 203
75 BAYWATCH 205
76 WHODUNNIT 211
76 SAFE CRACKER 211
78 FIREPOWER 213
78 PARAGON 213
80 BATMAN DARK KNIGHT 214
81 SORCEROR 226
82 FAMILY GUY 228
82 BATMAN FOREVER 228
84 BLACK HOLE 230
85 JOHNNY MNEMONIC 232
86 CENTAUR II 234
87 JUNKYARD 235
88 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN (2006) 239
89 CYCLONE 240
90 CORVETTE 241
91 MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN 248
92 FLINTSTONES 254
93 SLUGFEST 259
94 XENON 263
95 TRANSFORMERS 264
95 MOUSIN’ AROUND 264
97 GOLDENEYE 265
98 NBA FASTBREAK 266
98 EMBRYON 266
100 RADICAL! 267
So at any time in the future, those totals will probably hold if you want to know where your game stands - if the combined total is under 100, that's the top 30. Combined is under 200, that's top 70. Under 270 is the top 100. And I've done the numbers all the way to the end so, for example, scores up to 400 are top 150 pins, up to 500 is top 200. The table at the end of the list of games that made both lists is #218 Star Trek (1979) with 575 points.
Just an indication, not the same as my own list, or yours, or anyone's. But interesting to nerds.
I intend to revisit this thread in October 2025 and post the new top 100
Pinside's list is updated once a week and contains 165,000 ratings - you have to have rated at least 6 machines and the game has to have had at least 15 ratings. IPDB's one is also regularly updated (not sure how often) and again the games need 15 ratings to be included, there are about 32,000 ratings on there so it is a lot smaller but the main difference is that IPDB's list goes back a lot longer (there are also ratings for EM games on there) and tends to be a lot more static, with 'top titles' tending to stay around while the newer ones come and go. Pinside on the other hand tends to be chock full of machines from the last 5 years for a multitude of reasons. Sure, there are some troll voters who go in and give zeros just to annoy people, and plenty of folks spun_k fifteen to twenty grand on a new game and so they vote their collections all 10.0 as they cannot bear the idea that they are not universally loved (eg. Iron Maiden was #1 on pinside for a week, as presumably 15 new owners all voted it with a 10). Only a few titles make both lists consistently year after year after year. Deadpool and Iron Maiden, currently #5 and #6 on Pinside, are not even in the IPDB top 300.
Many more recent games made the list as they weren't featured at all on IPDB, presumably they still have less than 15 ratings so if *you* haven't, please go to IPDB and add a rating to help them find their place. I was quite surprised to see all of these ones missing:
Deadpool, Iron Maiden, Elvira House of Horrors, Elton John, The Big Lebowski, Jaws, Pirates of the Caribbean (new version), Stranger Things, Avengers, Wonka, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (new), Total Nuclear Annihilation, Galactic Tank Force, Godfather, Black Knight 3 Swords of Something, Toy Story 4, Guardians of the Galaxy, Rick and Morty, Venom, Guns N Roses (new), James Bond 007, Halloween, Alien, Led Zep, Game of Thrones, Heist, Weird Al, Munsters, Gay Batman, Alice Cooper, Valhalla, Beatles, John Wick..... probably some other decent new ones too that i've missed
I follow these with interest, and read the reviews, and leave my own, and even take notes of the standings of my own collection and past titles i've owned. Just for fun because i am a nerd. Like you, many of you. Every so often I combine these two main sites and average the scores to make an averaged list. So for example GZ is currently positions 1 and 1 so it's a shoo-in for the top spot, MM has 2 and 6, TZ has 9 and 2. These numbers change all the time but the overall top 20 are all well-known popular games. Here's the latest one of the top 100 (i've owned 32 of them), some may surprise you:
COMBINED SCORES OCT2024
1 GODZILLA 2
2 MEDIEVAL MADNESS 8
3 TWILIGHT ZONE 11
4 ATTACK FROM MARS 17
4 MONSTER BASH 17
6 LORD OF THE RINGS 26
7 INDIANA JONES 27
8 STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION (1993) 29
9 THE ADDAMS FAMILY 32
10 THEATRE OF MAGIC 37
11 TALES OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS 42
11 SCARED STIFF 42
13 STAR WARS (2017) 51
14 WIZARD OF OZ 53
15 WHITE WATER 55
16 CIRQUS VOLTAIRE 59
16 SPIDERMAN 59
18 STAR TREK (2013) 64
18 CACTUS CANYON 64
20 DIALED IN! 69
21 CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON 70
22 THE SHADOW 74
22 FUNHOUSE 74
24 THE SIMPSONS PINBALL PARTY 80
25 BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA 85
26 AC/DC 86
27 METALLICA 87
28 FISH TALES 90
29 THE GETAWAY HIGH SPEED 2 93
30 TRON LEGACY 97
31 THE WALKING DEAD 98
32 FLASH GORDON 103
33 CONGO 104
34 NO GOOD GOFERS 110
35 WHIRLWIND 112
36 KISS 114
37 REVENGE FROM MARS 116
38 GUN N ROSES (1994) 122
39 JUDGE DREDD 124
40 RED & TED’S ROADSHOW 125
41 HIGH SPEED 130
42 WORLD CUP SOCCER 131
43 JURASSIC PARK (1993) 133
44 CENTAUR 136
44 TERMINATOR 2 136
46 SWORDS OF FURY 144
47 IRON MAN 149
47 PINBALL MAGIC 149
49 THE HOBBIT 151
50 PINBOT 153
51 RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT 154
52 ELVIRA PARTY MONSTERS 155
53 BRIDE OF PINBOT 158
54 TAXI 159
55 DINER 160
56 AEROSMITH 161
57 TALES FROM THE CRYPT 161
58 GHOSTBUSTERS 167
58 BLACK KNIGHT 2000 167
60 INDIANAPOLIS 500 169
61 DEMOLITION MAN 170
62 JOKER POKER 177
63 STARGATE 181
64 BLACK ROSE 189
65 FATHOM 190
65 EARTHSHAKER 190
67 THE WHO’S TOMMY PINBALL WIZARD 191
68 8 BALL DELUXE 195
69 TIME MACHINE 197
70 DOCTOR WHO 199
71 CHAMPION PUB 200
72 STAR WARS (1992) 201
73 BANZAI RUN 202
74 BLACK KNIGHT 203
75 BAYWATCH 205
76 WHODUNNIT 211
76 SAFE CRACKER 211
78 FIREPOWER 213
78 PARAGON 213
80 BATMAN DARK KNIGHT 214
81 SORCEROR 226
82 FAMILY GUY 228
82 BATMAN FOREVER 228
84 BLACK HOLE 230
85 JOHNNY MNEMONIC 232
86 CENTAUR II 234
87 JUNKYARD 235
88 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN (2006) 239
89 CYCLONE 240
90 CORVETTE 241
91 MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN 248
92 FLINTSTONES 254
93 SLUGFEST 259
94 XENON 263
95 TRANSFORMERS 264
95 MOUSIN’ AROUND 264
97 GOLDENEYE 265
98 NBA FASTBREAK 266
98 EMBRYON 266
100 RADICAL! 267
So at any time in the future, those totals will probably hold if you want to know where your game stands - if the combined total is under 100, that's the top 30. Combined is under 200, that's top 70. Under 270 is the top 100. And I've done the numbers all the way to the end so, for example, scores up to 400 are top 150 pins, up to 500 is top 200. The table at the end of the list of games that made both lists is #218 Star Trek (1979) with 575 points.
Just an indication, not the same as my own list, or yours, or anyone's. But interesting to nerds.
I intend to revisit this thread in October 2025 and post the new top 100
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