#Zaccaria pinball machines for sale driver

name to this and Circus would be remembered as one of the greats of its era. If Zaccaria had any licensing outreach in the 70s, they could have attached the Ringling Bros. But, if you want to hone your Zaccaria EM skills, all the basic shots are on display here. Jordi thought the table was perfectly fine, but he wasn’t as impressed by the pair of spinner shots either. It’s certainly not going to WOW everyone. It’s also one of the more sloggy tables, since grinding-up points requires repetitively shooting the same lanes over and over and over, which is to say nothing about dealing with the bumpers when you’re short either the I or U in C-I-R-C-U-S. It’s got its problems: the outlanes are absolutely brutal no matter what mode you’re playing in, but that’s typical of Zaccaria anyway. It makes Circus a deceptively deep table and one of the best for teaching new players primary angles.Ĭircus is a ton of of fun. It’s one of the most surprisingly challenging shots in all of Zaccaria Pinball, and one you’d never see today, where instead a designer would almost certainly make it a cellar instead. However, you can also get an extra ball if you fully charge the points AND have lit all the C-I-R-C-U-S letters, which lights the special on the Bonus. Hitting this shot banks the points you’ve charged-up for the spinners, and resets your progress if you’ve not yet lit the extra ball special. The straight-away angle makes shooting it at the correct speed to not hop over it incredibly difficult. #3: the Bonus Score Value saucer, laid along a dead-center angle with a backboard to catch the ball, is one of the most difficult saucer shots we’ve had to experience since starting The Pinball Chick. The center roll-over doubles the value of the multiplier. The challenge comes from gaining control of the ball, as either spinner feeds the roll-overs that lead to the bumpers. You take aim at either spinner, both laid along primary angles, and the value increases.

#Zaccaria pinball machines for sale driver

Unlike Aerobatics, there’s a clear driver here: the left spinner lane has a free ball attached to it if you charge-up the value enough. Really, Circus is electro-mechanical in-name-only. #2: The intuitive layout is perfect for introducing people to the late EM era of pinball. But the bright Blue/Red/Yellow/Green scheme here is distinctive and charming.

It terms of layout, it’s not all that different from some of their other tables, especially Moon Flight. Having a name like “Circus” with no flare or pomp is typical of their output, but at least this one looks memorable. Zaccaria is (in)famous for its generic, broadly-themed tables. It’s worthy of being Certified Excellent by The Pinball Chick team.Ī few things strike me about Circus. If Oscar can get away with naming Firepower #2 of 100 Pinball Arcade titles, we can let Eala slide with that one.īut then, during our final play-through, the rest of us (except stuffy-old Jordi) admitted we underrated Circus. Originally, we all rated it GOOD except Eala, who fully conceded that childhood nostalgia bumped it to GREAT. In the case of Zaccaria’s 1977 release Circus, it made a massive difference. Before I put my fingers to the keyboard, we always make one final run through each table in a set. It’s a big effort that takes part in phases. A lot of people can’t fathom just how much time we put into these tables prior to writing any review on them.