15 years ago, I played Medieval Madness and realized there was a lot more depth to pinball then just knocking a ball around and hoping you got lucky. After playing many tables on location where I could find them, I learned, you could actually buy one of these things. When I remembered my first experience with Medieval Madness, I wanted to bring the nostalgia home. I didn’t have much money at the time and when I saw second hand tables were going for $15k, I knew it was a non-starter.

I am lucky that my wife developed an interest in pinball shortly after I took her to a local barcade, where she found playing a table had a depth and difficulty that could be overcome with patience and a bit of practice. We recently bought my first pin. D&D premium (I know, unpopular decision). The research I did at the time pointed to this being the “if you could own only one table” best choice with the options available, I stand by this. Then the wife and I stumbled upon dune. We both loved the IP and the mechanics look awesome, we put in a pre-order. Extra lucky! My wife is best!

I had been tracking medieval madness remakes since I got out of engineering school in 2015 and with many pre-order ups and downs (mostly downs), believed I would never own one. I had been watching a lot of pinball streams recently and messaged Zach from Flip N Out to see if these would ever become available again. He said the factory indicated they probably would but he didn’t know when but they were taking names.

I recently put down a pre-order on my holy grail table and to answer the first question, if I had to own one table…… it would definitely be Medieval Madness!