Hello all,

  I was just thinking about this a while back and thought it would make a nice discussion... What are pins with the greatest background sound/music? Here are some of my favorites, and comments on them:

In Solid state pins:

Bally X's and O's. An OK pin... nice easy player... but that background sound is simple, yet powerful! As weird as this may sound, to me, it has a "2001-monolithic" feel to it!!! The story behind this one is that I remember a meeting at JVegas's place, where there was one, but it was set on chime sound. Got annoying after a while. I was playing it with JD3 and decided to change the dipswitch settings to put it on electronic sounds... WHOA!!!! what a difference!!! All of a sudden, the pin that no one paid attention to was getting some looks! ... JD3 bought it that night!!!  

Black Hole ... ESPECIALLY the sound during multiball! Simple yet cool!



In System 11-era pins:

Grand Lizard ... love the banging ritual drum sound! Gives it an eerie feel!

Swords of Fury ... Simply the best!!! Sounds like a John-Carpenter-movie theme!!!

Heavy Metal Meltdown ... sue me... I am corny and I like it! Ask Mikeman. I nearly drove him nuts cranking it up at Jim's place!!!  


In DMD pins:

My experience here is limited... but I did like the following:

TOTAN ... simply stunning sound all around. Just a treat to listen to AND watch!

ToMMy's AC/DC!!!!!  


I know I am leaving out tons... so let's hear em!

Quoted from Sparky

In System 11-era pins:

Pinbot !!!  (...nothing else even comes close ! )


Steph

for me only thing i can think of now, is sys 11 High Speed this was the game I was looking for originally when i did my basement over. I guess I played it so much when I was younger it was drilled into my head that simple little tune.
that and I enjoy Whirl Wind sounds as well.

The sound on "Lord of the Rings" does it for me.

                                                  flashman

Pinbot's sound is the high point of that game. It's all downhill from there.

Check out the sound for TX-Sector and RoboWar in PinMame. Very catchy. The RoboWar music is so intense it really makes me want that machine.

I also really like the music from Back to the Future. It changes depending on how many balls you have locked from one Huey Lewis tune to the next. Huey rocks.

Categorie sons bizaroide mais quand même a**é cool: Strange Science.

Categorie meilleur musique DMD: STTNG, TOTAN, IJ.

Et meilleur system 11: WW, Fire!, GL, Pinbot.

Et categorie a**é "stereo": Robocop

Guns N' Roses !   Of course the music is not original... but it still does it for me, love it !

I will have to go with High Speed as well, THIS IS IT ! Loved that game when i was younger, it was THE game back then. Played it at JD's place last week and took me 3 days to get the sounds/music out of my head again    

Quoted from Steph

Pinbot !!!  (...nothing else even comes close ! )


Steph

System 11? Come on, what about Black Knight 2000?  

The music in Who?Dunnit is a very catchy (Peter Gunn) and as for original music, I always enjoy the thumpin' beat of my Laser War (in stereo).

Sys. 11. Black Knight 2000. I'm not a fan of the game, but the music is simply awesome!

WPC - Shadow has one hell of a catchy tune. I also really like GetAway. The Grunge (?) by ZZ Top, I cann't help but get into that. I definately want another GetAway some day. Simple and fun.

Stern - simply love LOTR. Excellent music on all fronts and in all modes. True to the movie.  

Worst music on an otherwise great pin: White Water. What the hell were they thinking? Crappy is being kind. It sounds better once you start multiball or Big Foot Hotfoot, but the reg. tune is so sad.

Duane

Whitewater - funny enough it was the music that kept me away from that one when I had a chance....

No Fear.

But for setting the right atmosphere, ToM, TOTAN, MM and Shadow are a very good fit to their themes.

For Sys11 Dr. Dude for sure. It's just wacky 80's crap.