![]() As you might imagine, it’s entirely casino focused, with a working roulette wheel on both the main floor and also up on the display board, and you’ll end up activating both in the course of the action. High Roller Casino deserves to be in this pack because it’s one of the earliest tables that Stern made once they revived back in 1999. This table is gorgeous, no doubt, and having it in this collection makes it much easier to watch the action than on an actual machine, but that doesn’t diminish the fact that it can be a nightmare to try and play when you aren’t totally zen into the game. As a result, you feel like you only get to use half the table most of the time, and, when the ball disappears up top, you have to be on tenterhooks, waiting for the ball to finally reappear because it may come rocketing your way. But over half the table is dedicated to a revolving Mustang model that obscures the vision of the top bumper set and creates a lot of reflection room for wild shots. Sure, the music is pretty driving, fluctuating between sock hop and rally race, and I love the fact that the table boasts the ability to activate eight different “game modes” that all revolve around driving. This table, which boasts a ton of gaming modes and has up to six balls on the table at once, is something that becomes incredibly chaotic in no time at all. Mustang comes in at number five, a table based entirely around the muscle car that helped shape the 60s and still holds a strong place in the hearts of Southern folk to this very day. Definitely a fire and forget in the pack. ![]() There is a nostalgic thrill of hearing the digitally crackling voice of the phantom over the simulated speaker, but it’s not enough to keep unenthusiastic gamers involved. The result is that players who are less familiar with pinball will find themselves out a ball almost immediately, since there is a lot of fast shooting from the top to bottom. Since this is a faithful recreation of an older table, it doesn’t have a lot of bells and whistles, and also does not have ball save for fast launches. Boasting little more than a single imagine of the Phantom and Christine in a provocative post, the gameplay is set simply on racking up a score that’s based mostly on the bumpers at the top and, on occasion, activating the ramps on the side at the right times. This table, based around the novel and not the musical, takes on an incredibly dark and foreboding tone throughout, and the play is equally as dismal. ![]() ![]() I realize that, in my other review, I stated the tables only went back to the mid-90s, but I am not a pinball wizard and cannot know the dates of every single table forever, especially when I haven’t played them yet. The Phantom of the Opera table comes in as both the oldest and the worst of the set, having originally premiered in 1990 when it was still bearing the branding of Data East. ![]() However, it’s important to note the tables in this second DLC set, because they are of a much broader age range than the first, and, as a result, varying quality. At first, this seems like a no brainer situation: four versus six, you’d want to get more. The second set of DLC tables for the Stern Pinball Arcade is a doozy, coming in at six tables for the same price as the first DLC set, which has only four. ![]()
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