Steve Ritchie’s Black Knight is the machine that dragged pinball into the modern era. A second playfield stacked over the first, Magna-Save to claw your ball back from the outlanes, and a backbox that actually talked to you — in 1980, that was science fiction on legs. It’s loud, it’s mean, and it still holds up.
| FlipScore category | Score |
|---|---|
| Shots | 16 / 20 |
| Code & Depth | 15 / 20 |
| Theme | 18 / 20 |
| Build Quality | 14 / 20 |
| Resale Value | 18 / 20 |
| Total FlipScore | 81 / 100 |
The verdict: A solid A-minus. A forty-five-year-old machine you can still buy for under three grand that invented mechanics — Magna-Save, the dual-level playfield — that are still showing up on brand-new pins today. A genuine work of art that’ll sit in the man cave and be fun for the whole family. Hard to argue with that.
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