Retro Replay Review

Gameplay

The first few minutes make the contrast clear. Harley-Davidson Third Edition wants you to build speed, work the ramp, and gradually line up its bigger multiball opportunities. Taxi is more immediately chatty and playful: plunge into the Spinout skill shot, start collecting passengers, and keep an eye on the route to the Jackpot. Both are accessible enough for a quick session, but they have very different ways of pulling you into another game.

Harley-Davidson is the more demanding table once you decide to chase a serious score. Its Stop Light, Speedometer, and Harley multiballs each ask for a different kind of progress, which gives a good run structure without making every ball feel identical. Repeating the ramp shot to build speed can become a pressure point; miss when you are trying to advance that target and the table can feel unforgiving. Still, that friction is part of why finally starting one of those modes feels earned.

Taxi is the better pick when you want goals that are easy to understand at a glance. Picking up Pin*Bot, Gorbie, Dracula, Lola, and Santa Claus turns the table into a compact checklist, with Santa lighting the Jackpot. The figure-eight ramp and rolling taximeter give you regular reasons to take familiar shots, while the Spinout skill shot adds a welcome moment of nerve before the ball properly enters play. It is a lighter table than Harley-Davidson, but not an empty one.

The pack works because it gives you one table for deliberate setup and another for fast, repeatable fun. Harley-Davidson may test your patience as you pursue its modes, whereas Taxi makes it easier to shake off a bad drain and launch again. If you already enjoy the recreated-table approach of Pinball Arcade, this is a nicely varied pair rather than two versions of the same idea.

Graphics

Harley-Davidson keeps its motorcycle theme front and center, with the stop light, speedometer, and motorcycle targets giving the playfield a clear road-trip flavor. Taxi is more cartoonish and character-driven, built around the cabbie premise and its odd passenger lineup; Pin*Bot, Dracula, Santa, and the rest make its objectives easy to associate with the table art.

Story

Neither table tells a conventional story, but each has a simple theme you can follow ball to ball. Harley-Davidson casts you as a rider traveling across the US, and its road-oriented targets make that framing feel appropriate instead of pasted on.

Taxi has the stronger comic premise. You are a driver trying to pick up five wildly mismatched fares, and the whole thing culminates in lighting the Jackpot. A pinball machine hardly needs narrative depth, yet Taxi’s bizarre passenger list gives the scoring chase a memorable bit of personality.

The licensed Harley theme is carried by renditions of “Born To Be Wild” and “Bad To The Bone,” which fit the ride-and-speed focus naturally. Taxi leans on its own absurd cast rather than a bigger narrative, and that directness helps: you always know what your next small objective means.

Overall Experience

This is a compact but well-chosen two-table pack. Harley-Davidson Third Edition gives committed score chasers several multiball paths to learn, while Taxi delivers a more relaxed layout with a satisfying passenger-collection loop. You do not need to love either vehicle theme to appreciate the difference in tempo.

Give Harley-Davidson time before writing it off. Its better moments come when its separate goals begin to connect and you are intentionally steering a ball toward the multiball you want. Taxi clicks faster, making it the table you may return to when you have only a few minutes but still want a complete, lively pinball round.

For the strongest value, come in wanting physical-table pinball with distinct rulesets rather than a huge campaign. Taxi is the instant crowd-pleaser; Harley-Davidson is the table likely to reward persistence. Together, they make Table Pack 5 an easy recommendation for anyone who wants one breezy classic and one more structured score attack.

Retro Replay Score

7.8/10