Top 5 Greatest Pinball Machines From Data East (SDTM, 2025)
Top 5 Greatest Pinball Machines From Data East (SDTM, 2025)
THE TOP 5 GREATEST PINBALL MACHINES FROM DATA EAST SDTM lists the best of the best from Data East. COMMENT on your favorite pinball game from Data East. Do you agree with the SDTM Top 5? Remember...
Highlights
- Data East games were the newest games on location (laundromats, bowling alleys, arcades) in the late '80s and early '90s
- Last Action Hero has magnets, kickbacks, drop targets, and a crane as core mechanics
- Jurassic Park has a single ramp that diverts, not multiple ramps
- Tales from the Crypt was designed by John Borg
- Tales from the Crypt features reactive inks, wire ramps, a tombstone that opens another shot, and a door knocker
Notable quotes
“They feel very akin to those times when Bally Williams was the Nintendo, you know, Super Nintendo, and Sega Genesis was kind of the Data East of its time.”
“Data East are still: they're a little softer, but Data East were always still snappier than Bally Williams.”
“Last Action Hero...doesn't get the love that it deserves, but it's still Arnold. It's still got a lot going.”
“The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard...objectively, this would be most pinball players' probably collectively their number one Data East of all time”
“It's not an easy game to run through, and it really isn't...Simple, dude. It brings back the movie stuff.”
“Tales from the Crypt...it just fits to pinball so well. It's creepy and kooky. Just the ramps, the wireforms, everything.”
Entities
- Bally/Williams· company
- Data East· company
- Sega (pinball manufacturer)· company
- Addams Family· game
- Attack from Mars· game
- Independence Day· game
- Jurassic Park· game
- Last Action Hero· game
- Lethal Weapon 3· game
- Tales from the Crypt· game
- The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard· game
- Straight Down the Middle· organization
- Chuck W· person
- Eric· person
- John Borg· person
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