BATTLE RETRO
AKA COMBAT RETRO

We’re typically in agreement that most tables that were originally from the infamous Zaccaria Retro Pack are garbage from a thankfully bygone era. With that said, the table formerly known as Combat Retro and now known as Battle Retro (because “Combat” is more famous as an Atari game) is technically the second best among those twenty-seven pins. It earned that thanks to an average rating of a whopping 2.66 out of 5, earning it an overall title of OKAY. Fun fact: with the exception of the highlight of that set, the genuinely awesome Mystic Star Retro, Battle Retro is the only table that earned even a single GREAT vote. That would be from Oscar, who thinks the AtGames version is even better than the video game one. “Having an actual table to physically nudge will help all the retro pins to some degree, but if they’re quality tables, it’ll really help them. Battle might be THE table everyone new to playing on an AtGames machine should use to practice nudging a physical table instead of wiggling an analog stick. Play this early, and get a feel for how hard you can and can’t nudge. Battle is perfect for it because it’s a key to high scores, but also because games go so quickly and the scoring is low. You won’t ruin a long game by overdoing it and TILTing. The world record probably took around five minutes. I can’t give it a MASTERPIECE because lucky bounces off the bumpers factors too much into the final score. But if you want to show off one old-timey 1950’s pin, show off Battle.” Sasha, Angela, and Dave all consider everything positive Oscar said to actually be a negative. It is a luck based table. Not entirely, but enough that you need a lot of it. If that’s not for you, stick to the EMs and Solid States in Zaccaria Pinball Pack 1, because Battle Retro is almost as good as the Retro tables get.
Set: Zaccaria Pinball Pack 1
Type: Electro-Mechanical – Rebuild
Design DNA: World Champ by Gottlieb (1957)
Part of Zaccaria Pinball (Console/PC)
Vice Family High: Cathy “IGC” 4,380
Cathy: GOOD (3 out of 5)
Sasha the Kid: BAD (2 out of 5)
Angela: BAD
Oscar: GREAT (4 out of 5)
Jordi: GOOD*
Dave: BAD*
Scoring Average: 2.66 – OKAY – 🥶POLARIZING TABLE🥶
*Played on Zaccaria Pinball for Consoles/PC