Tag: Cine Star Retro

Cine Star Retro (Zaccaria Pinball Table Review)

CINE STAR RETRO

A NEW TABLE ADDED TO THE RETRO PACK IN 2025

Matt on Cine Star Retro: The closed-off layout is too easy. It doesn’t use all of the space, the drop targets inexplicably don’t stay down and are worth an increasingly inflated value, and the saucer drops the ball into the drain in simulation. But, this table is actually controllable and fun to shoot. Why not open up the top with another bumper and two more lanes? Then switch the spot targets with the drop targets.

The first of thirteen tables added to the infamous Retro pack in the year 2025 is, for all intents and purposes, shooting school. There’s no outlanes or slingshots, and besides a slightly enlarged drain, no antagonistic elements or angles. The only defensive aspect of the table is that the rails have a tendency to run fast. Hey, schools make kids run, right? But grabbing rebounds in Cine Star Retro is a cinch since you get to set the terms with minimum chaos. So what’s the point of the table? The five drop targets and eight spot targets are set along common angles that makes this an ideal table to quickly teach players both a shooter’s stroke AND conversion shots. Angela, Oscar, and Dash couldn’t get over the lack of stakes, but Cathy and Sasha enjoyed the scoring system’s progressive values of the drop targets and Jordi loved the lack of vacuum outlanes and the uncluttered, wide-open playfield. “What’s not to love?” Jordi said, though Oscar especially was annoyed by the lack of risk/reward. Our biggest knock is an undervalued kickhole that’s not worth the risk, but this wasn’t the disaster Dave predicted when he first saw it.
Set: Zaccaria – 40 Retro Tables
Table Type: Sharpshooter
Cathy: GOOD (3 out of 5)
Sasha The Kid: GOOD –
Angela: BAD (2 out of 5)
Oscar: BAD
Jordi: GREAT – (4 out of 5)
Dave: GOOD
Matt: GOOD –
Dash: BAD
Scoring Average: 2.75 – GOOD
Final Average: 2.66 – OKAY
A Pinball Chick Team 🥶POLARIZING TABLE🥶
🏆Cathy ranks #2 in 5 Ball Simulation (Former Record Holder)
🏆Jordi ranks #3 in 3 Ball Simulation – Post Update Highest Score
🏆Matt ranks #4 in 5 Ball Arcade – Post Update Highest Score
🏆Sasha the Kid Ranks #5 in 5 Ball Arcade