The Pinball Arcade, an app that has been digitizing real-life pinball machines from past decades, is losing the licenses to Bally and Williams machines, which means some of the best tables ever made will no longer be available as of June 30, 2018.

The Pinball Arcade isn’t only a place to play great (and rare!) machines, but also a perfect tool to learn the complex rules behind each game. The Pinball Arcade’s tutorials take you through every shot in the game, explaining skillshots, multiballs, and modes. I’ve spent hours learning machines this way before heading to the local bars or arcades — and learning the games virtually has saved me many pounds of quarters.

First of all, here are the games leaving The Pinball Arcade. The leftmost column generally will have the most value for players, as games from the DMD era, so-called for the orange dot-matrix displays capable of displaying video-game-like graphics, feature the most complex rules and playfield layouts.

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Source: IGN.com The Best Games Leaving The Pinball Arcade