/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8080939
Some of them. But it's like the difference between Tetris and Super Mario 64. Super Mario 64 makes tetris look "limited and repetitive", but they're both great games.

>>7995661
A modern pinball machine has many ideas in it. An EM only has one or sometimes two. Often times an EM is bad because the idea is bad, but if the idea is good, then the single-mindedness of the game can be appealing.
Sometimes the idea behind an EM is something that probably wouldn’t be found in a modern game, because it’s an idea that doesn’t leave room for other ideas. For instance, the big kick out holes on Sing Along/Melody.

In some cases, like El Dorado, the simple idea leads to a complex and sophisticated variety of possibilities.

But yeah, there are a lot of EMs with mediocre gameplay out there.