What game has the most barren open playfield?
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Quoted from CoachBacca:^^^This is the correct answer, you can now close the thread.
What if we modify it to say "Comparatively for it's era..."?
Port St. Lucie, FL
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Orbiter... took me forever to figure that out. With the glare and the lettering I thought it was Dr. Bitbat
Edmonton, AB
Quoted from Bandit78:For standard designed machines I would go with Bally Air Aces.[quoted image]
I’d take one of those over Toledo, looks similar except for stand ups instead of drop targets
AFM or LZ. Both are pretty much empty playfields. Looks like they were made with left over pieces from a box.
Quoted from eman4277:Orbiter... took me forever to figure that out. With the glare and the lettering I thought it was Dr. Bitbat
Yeah I've never really liked Dr. Bitbat myself, it feels more like a novelty game. The sparse playfield and weird ball flow get old.
Quoted from eman4277:Orbiter... took me forever to figure that out. With the glare and the lettering I thought it was Dr. Bitbat
Quoted from jgreene:Yeah I've never really liked Dr. Bitbat myself, it feels more like a novelty game. The sparse playfield and weird ball flow get old.
What in the hell?
Quoted from DropGems:Orbitor 1 da goat
Orbiter has drop targets and a spinner at least.
Darling? Like shoot the newton ball setup is pretty much it. It's like Williams had some contest for the most barren playfield they could come up with.
Quoted from CaptainNeo:AFM or LZ. Both are pretty much empty playfields. Looks like they were made with left over pieces from a box.
LZ has 4 ramps, 3 flippers, 2 saucers en 4 banks of targets that's not very empty
Quoted from Gornkleschnitzer:I think Chicago Coin's "Hi-Score Pool" wins, sorry guys. Aside from a couple of rollover buttons, there is absolutely nothing on the playfield above the flippers. The entire game is just rollunder gates below lighted pool balls.
Photos stolen from IPDB.
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Its a novelty game like pitch and bats though.
Quoted from SonicZone:Zodiac (Williams, 1971)
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zodiac wins. I've played this many times. it's fun , but big open space. it's like a pitch and bat field. Orbitor 1 has more on it, than zodiac
Quoted from SonicZone:Zodiac (Williams, 1971)
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Zodiac looks near identical to 4 Aces, which I have.
Interesting! Upon closer inspection, I see that Zodiac moved the flippers even further down. Weird choice, playfield does have a lot less going on
Quoted from Electronmagic:Bally Ro Go
Rogo actually has quite a few switches all along the two lanes outside the horseshoe. It's quite a neat effect, since some of the shots are to try to bank up these lanes, lots of 10pt hits is cool. Bonus collect kickback, Extra balls, Massive bonus totals, kickouts, controlled gates.
You may not like it, but it's not barren.
https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/bank-a-ball
1950 Bank-a-ball. One of my favourites actually.. but if you are looking for a wide open barren playfield, it's the perfect theme implementation 
Bally 1936 'Pockets'. Beautiful game but extremely boring. I do not miss it. https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1834
Quoted from snakesnsparklers:Dr. Bitbat is my new favorite pinball name!
I agree with this. It is so underrated. Gets no love at all
Quoted from snakesnsparklers:Dr. Bitbat is my new favorite pinball name!
It's hard to unsee..lol.
Quoted from PanzerFreak:Led Zeppelin white wood
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looks like the LE
The problem with Orbitor 1 is that the entire playfield is a "device" (a thing which affects the ball's movement) and as such one could assert that 100% of the pf is "populated"!!!
Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:What in the hell?
The greatest game of all time
aeac7552a144347a488bf6e8855e66533857c559 (resized).jpegQuoted from DanQverymuch:The problem with Orbitor 1 is that the entire playfield is a "device" (a thing which affects the ball's movement) and as such one could assert that 100% of the pf is "populated"!!!
agreed. Orbitor 1 never feels empty when playing it. I've had mine for 15 years. Only sold it, when I bought a better one to replace it with.
Quoted from Bandit78:For standard designed machines I would go with Bally Air Aces.[quoted image]
Really fun game though!
Quoted from ecmurrayf1:Stern Star Wars was a barren disappointment. Such a wasted license.
It is a pretty basic layout, but really fun gameplay.
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