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Beautiful pin, hard pin, but is it fun? Replay value high? How deep is the ruleset? Is it really similar in layout to TOM? What is the value on a fully shopped TOTAN? Thanks!
 
How nice, the software did away with my sweet all caps title. Not much of an acronym without caps. TOTAN is what it should read. Tales Of The Arabian Nights.
 
I've never played it but I LOVE the look of it. IIRC, they are fetching quite high prices- $5000 maybe fully shopped???
 
One of those unshopped has been at the local auction here a few times. I think it went for under $3000 but I think it was shill bid and the owner ended up with it every time.
 
Its on the pinball game for ps3/xbox. I love it. Have not played a real one but its good enough my wife says she wants a real one lol.

The spinning lamp posts can do some crazy stuff to the ball so makes for a lot of randomness when you shoot that if youre not careful.

I think its a pretty deep game. 6 modes have to complete all to fight the genie to complete the game. Fighting the genie is a bunch of shots with a time limit IIRC. Also has a bunch of side modes and a "hidden" harem multiball that is really hard to get in emulator...probaby next to impossible in real life without tilting the machine lol.

I finished the whole thing on the emulator. Its an awesome ruleset imo. I like it a lot. Great insert layout too makes the attract mose and bonus countdowns really nice looking.
 
you guys and your acronyms that you don't document.....

pinside calls it about 2500 and all their other prices seem reasonable.
number 8 with theater of magic being 11.

I loved playing this game in person with the spinning lamp and nice long round ramp shots.

it's super fun on xbox360. i'll choose it over the others on most occasions.

if i were interested in a high price pin. this would be the one. I think it has great sounds too.
 
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I got one a few weeks ago, paid $3500 plus $390 to ship it. It is in very nice condition and 100% working, very nice cab,good art and great playfield. I have 12 Bally/Williams dmd pins and this one if my favorite, well worth the money. I think any decent totan for between 3k and 4 k is a deal, more for a HUO machine. BTW its 7 modes = 7 tales not 6 plus 3 ball Geni and 2 ball Harem multiballs. The fight with the Geni at the end is a 4 ball unlimited multiball but the hard part is no auto launcher so you have to keep manualy re-launching balls into play. Kind of a nice twist for a multi mode. Bad ass music and sounds with a awsome skill shot feature.
I hunted one for a year before I got a good machine for a price I could live with.
 
Totan is not a $2500 pin anymore unless it's a total POS. I own both TOM and TOTAN. Both games were designed by the same guy. He also did CV. I like TOTAN more than TOM. It is becoming a hard game to find these days.
 
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yes I agree, it is not a $2500 pin, Id say 3k to 5k is more like it. What I cant figure out is why medevil madness fetches such a high price when they made more of them than CV and TOTAN's, dont add up. The price I paid for my TOTAN and CV together is cheaper than I can get a MM??????
production numbers,
MM = 4016
totan = 3128
CV = 2704
 
Beautiful pin, hard pin, but is it fun? Replay value high? How deep is the ruleset? Is it really similar in layout to TOM? What is the value on a fully shopped TOTAN? Thanks!

It's not a very hard pin. It is fun to play and I think the replay value is there. Ruleset is deep enough, but flawed, which adds to it's ease. It is similar to TOM in that orbit shots and long windy ramps are everywhere. Value is $3,000-$4,000 depending on condition.

If you get down to the cities, there is a local collector who has one, along with a bunch of other sweet games, and I am sure he would let you play it to try it out.
 
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Beautiful pin, hard pin, but is it fun? Replay value high? How deep is the ruleset? Is it really similar in layout to TOM? What is the value on a fully shopped TOTAN? Thanks!

It has a reputation of being one of the easiest pins that you can buy.
 
Had one, traded it for a TZ. Kinda on the regret trading it side. One of the best light shows EVER. Disappearing magnet ball is cool. As many others day here, it's an easy game to play with good flow and nice looping ramps.
 
It's a pretty and fun game, but the hardcore collectors and tournament players who seem to decide what's what don't like it due to it's easiness. That's what's kept its prices down...the "Pinball Elite" don't care for it. Perhaps some anti-arabic sentiment as well. It has a hype wave every so often, and crazy people will spend 5k on it....but it's really a 2500-3500 game.
 
I had one for a while, nice looking pin. Gameplay put me to sleep. "shoot for the yellow targets" Or just shoot bazaar and collect all the gems that way. Zzzzzzzz. Seriously though the game is amazing to look at, but the replay value wasn't there for me. I had it next to Black Rose in the lineup, and Black Rose saw much more attention. All the serious points come from just hammering the lamp over and over.

I forget who it was, but on the Tilt bonus disc there is a sit down interview with a few WMS employees (might have been Larry Demar and someone else) and the topic comes up about making simple games people would understand. The WMS guys mention TOTAN real quick with sort of a chuckle, I take it they didn't much care for it.
 
I had one for a while, nice looking pin. Gameplay put me to sleep. "shoot for the yellow targets" Or just shoot bazaar and collect all the gems that way. Zzzzzzzz. Seriously though the game is amazing to look at, but the replay value wasn't there for me. I had it next to Black Rose in the lineup, and Black Rose saw much more attention. All the serious points come from just hammering the lamp over and over.

+1 to all of this.

IMO not the best game in a smaller collection if you are a serious player. Great looking pin, however, that offers some good gameplay and I'd consider it mixed in with some deeper ruleset games
 
And this is why you will never see a TOTAN in a PAPA tourney.

...and, tournament players and their tastes tend to have a factor in determining collector demand/quality. For instance - I love No Good Gofers....I think it's just as fun and cool as the expensive WPC95 games. However it stays in the low 2k value ...apparently it's got some scoring bug that I've personally never noticed...but I guess that kills it for the hardcore tourney guys.
 
The general consensus is that TOTAN has unbalanced scoring. There are a few select shots you can make and rack up big points without having to do much else in the game, kind of like the repeated center ramp shots in Fish Tales that make tons more points than actually trying to accomplish the main objective of catching fish and telling tales and playing the other features.

Like many of Jpop's games, the main appeal seems to center around the look and artistry of the game more than the actual gameplay.
 
Like many of Jpop's games, the main appeal seems to center around the look and artistry of the game more than the actual gameplay.

...and there's nothing wrong with that in a varied collection. It's kinda how I see my Cirqus Volatire. It's more flash than challenge, but sometimes that's the pinball experience I want.
 
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