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Hype Index Updates: February 2023

Hype Index Updates: February 2023

Another month, another refresh of our Pinball Hype Index! We have now reviewed 41,235 pieces of content discussing potential pinball themes (covering about 7 full years of data). There are a total of 1,624 unique IPs tracked in our system (we have only published the top 200 or so in our public index).

Top 10 Pinball Themes for February 2023:

  1. Back to the Future
  2. Jaws
  3. Venom
  4. Evil Dead
  5. Harry Potter
  6. Beetlejuice
  7. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
  8. The Goonies
  9. Ozzy Osbourne
  10. Black Sabbath

Biggest Jumps (top 200):

  1. Wayne's World (+150)
  2. Galactic Tank Force (+41)
  3. The Godfather (+27)
  4. Christine (+18)
  5. Christmas Vacation (+17)
  6. Home Alone (+17)
  7. Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors (+13)
  8. Beavis & Butt-Head (+11)
  9. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (+11)
  10. Hello Kitty (+10)

Biggest Jumps (whole index):

  1. The Real Ghostbusters (+808)
  2. The Civil War (+758)
  3. Saved by the Bell (+685)
  4. MacGyver (+631)
  5. Kenny G (+562)
  6. Madonna (+499)
  7. Backstreet Boys (+499)
  8. Home Improvement (+430)
  9. MacGruber (+405)
  10. Batman vs Superman (+372)

Biggest Drops (top 200):

  1. Metroid (-6)
  2. Get Smart (-5)
  3. Tales of the Arabian Nights (-4)
  4. Universal Studios Monsters (-4)
  5. Hellraiser (-4)
  6. The Exorcist (-4)
  7. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (-4)
  8. Labyrinth (-4)
  9. Night of the Living Dead (-4)
  10. Kill Bill (-4)

Biggest Drops (whole index):

  1. Terrifier (-10)
  2. Tucker and Dale vs Evil (-10)
  3. Haunted House Party (-10)
  4. Re-Animator (-10)
  5. Gilligan's Island (-10)
  6. Scott Pilgrim (-10)
  7. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (-10)
  8. N.W.A (-10)
  9. Schitt's Creek (-10)
  10. Nickleback (-10)

Pinball Themes New to the Index:

  1. Anpanman
  2. Winnie the pooh
  3. King of the Hill
  4. NCIS
  5. The Last of Us
  6. Cypress Hill
  7. Dirty Smelly Hippies
  8. Weed Smoking Drop-outs
  9. 420: The Pin
  10. Ganga Queens
  11. Mari Jane
  12. Presidents of the United States of America
  13. Eric Church
  14. The Masters
  15. UFC
  16. Severance
  17. Streetsharks
  18. Zippo
  19. Weed Smoking Hippies
  20. X-Men (classic)
  21. X-Files
  22. Nsync
  23. O-Town
  24. 98 Degrees
  25. Drake
  26. Rihanna
  27. The Net
  28. Double Dare
  29. Legends of the Hidden Temple
  30. Nerf
  31. Diablo
  32. Spider-Man Animated Series
  33. Social Justice Warriors
  34. Wallace & Gromit
  35. Centaur 3
  36. White Water 2
  37. Krampus
Colin Alsheimer
Colin Alsheimer

Colin is the chief pixel pusher at Kineticist. He's a lifetime gamer who became enamored with pinball after taking in a family copy of the 1979 classic Joker Poker (the EM version). Since then he's bought, sold and repaired many machines, competed in all kinds of tournaments, and contributes to This Week in Pinball, the New England Pinball League, and Pin-Masters of New England. Previously, Colin spent over a decade working in marketing for agencies and tech startups. He also started and ran a music blog, happy hour website, and wrote a regular craft beer review column for Central Track in Dallas. Once aspired to be an artsy film director.

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