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.

DMD (1991-Present) Solid State (1976-1991) EM (Before 1976) The Addams Family Banzai Run Spanish Eyes Attack from Mars Black Knight Wild Card Bram Stoker's Dracula Black Knight 2000 Fireball Black Rose Centaur Cactus Canyon Cyclone The Champion Pub Diner Circus Voltaire Dr. Dude Creature from the Black Lagoon Earthshaker Doctor Who Eight Ball Deluxe Fish Tales Elvira and the Party Monsters Hurricane F-14 Tomcat Indianapolis 500 Fathom Jack Bot Fireball Judge Dredd Firepower Junk Yard Firepower II Medieval Madness Fun House Monster Bash The Getaway: High Speed 2 No Fear Gorgar No Good Gofers High Speed The Party Zone The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot Red and Ted's Road Show Paragon Safe Cracker Pin*Bot Scared Stiff* Sorcerer Star Trek: The Next Generation Space Shuttle Tales of the Arabian Nights Swords Of Fury Terminator 2: Judgment Day Taxi Theatre of Magic Whirlwind Twilight Zone Xenon White Water WHO Dunnit World Champion Soccer (Dog Soccer!)

First of all,. 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.

Attack from Mars and Medieval Madness

Cactus Canyon

Monster Bash

Scared Stiff

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Tales of the Arabian Nights

Twilight Zone

Black Knight 2000

Fun House

Taxi

Fathom and Eight Ball Deluxe

Fireball

Honorable Mentions

The Addams Family is the most popular pinball machine of the 90s. It’s perfect (but you’ve probably played it a lot).

Circus Voltaire is rare, like Cactus Canyon, so Pinball Arcade presents a great opportunity to play a (perfectly working) version.

Theater of Magic and White Water (and to a lesser extent, Doctor Who and WHO Dunnit) have their fanbases. They are great DMD games. Not Medieval Madness great, but great.

Dr. Dude is delightfully stupid.

But there are plenty of great games from the Solid State era you should also grab. Here are some of the machines you should definitely pick up before they are gone. You can purchase whole seasons (Season 1 is highly recommended, lots of hits.) or packs of two games to get just what you want. Here’s whatThese two games from the late 90s represent peak Bally/Williams design -- and they are pretty similar: They share a central bash toy, a satisfying fan pattern of ramps and loops, and deep, complex rulesets. Attack from Mars and Medieval Madness are so great that they were the subject of full-on remakes in the past few years. These are the Ocarina of Time and Half-Life 2 of pinball.Best feature: Pinball players refer to “flow,” or the nature of ramps, loops and other things that return the ball to the flipper gracefully, and quickly. These games have flow.Cactus Canyon has all of the great features of Attack from Mars and Medieval Madness -- with a mediocre art package and theme. Due to an extremely limited run of games, you’ll rarely encounter one in the wild (and it’s super pricey, fetching well north of $10K), so this is a rare chance to really learn this deep, awesome game.Best feature: Shoot the bad guys that pop out of the playfield to start Showdown multiball.Monster Bash is another favorite machine, but with perhaps an easier-to-learn ruleset compared to its contemporaries like Medeival Madness and Attack from Mars. This makes it a great starting machine for pinball players. The rules are simple: Hit shots to light each member of the Universal Monsters band. Ramps for The Bride, Loops for the Werewolf, a bash toy for Frankenstein… It’s easy to learn, and actually pretty easy to master.Best feature: The greatest theme in pinball, ever -- Monsters playing rock and roll.This is the second of three Elvira-themed pinball machines -- the third one was announced by Stern Pinball Inc. for a release later this year! Like Monster Bash, newer players can easily learn Scared Stiff. The objectives are all pretty simple to understand. Contains some pretty crude humor.Best feature: The crate! There’s an interactive crate you can hit a bunch and then break into for a multiball. It’s extremely satisfying.ST: TNG is from the early 90s Williams line of “widebody” machines with a wider playfield. The best of these are Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure (not available in The Pinball Arcade) and Twilight Zone, but Star Trek is no slouch. With an awesomely 90s art theme, cast callouts, and great toys and shots, it is one of the best integrations of license, ever. It’s also kind of difficult to wrap your head around, making it an ideal candidate for the tutorial mode of The Pinball Arcade.Best feature: Occasionally, when you drain a ball, Data will start babbling stats. You can cut him off by hitting both flipper buttons with a very curt Picard-delivered line, “Thank you, Mr. Data.”Tales of the Arabian Nights may not have the best theme, but, like Cactus Canyon, it’s a rare game from the golden age of pinball, and a ton of fun. It’s rules are a bit opaque, but the tutorial should help you learn the rules. Otherwise, just hit the genie a lot.Best feature: Tales of the Arabian Nights has a lot of great sounds and animations despite being an unlicensed theme. A lot of love went into this game.Often topping lists of best machines, Twilight Zone is designer Pat Lawlor’s follow-up to the incredibly popular, groundbreaking Addams Family. It improves on that game in many ways, but also feels a bit bloated with features. There are dozens of modes, multiballs, toys, ramps, magnets -- it's simply crammed with stuff. Luckily it's a widebody, like Star Trek: TNG, so it has plenty of room.Best feature: The Power Ball, a white, ceramic ball that’s lighter (and much faster) than a standard pinball, will occasionally show up to throw off all of your shots and cause mayhem.Black Knight 2000’s future-medieval-psychedelic theme, focus on speed, and fantastic upper playfield make it a great game -- when it works. I’ve played countless beat-up BK2K’s in my time, and playing one that remains forever finely-tuned is truly magical.Best feature: The theme song. (Listen to it in the embed above.)It may not have a DMD and fancy graphics, but Funhouse plays like the best of the 90s golden era games. It’s a terrifying theme, but putting up with a spooky mechanical mug is worth it for the perfect game design that Funhouse offers. Funhouse has some really creative shots, including multiple secret entrances.Best feature: Shut ‘Rudy’ the foul-mouthed carnival barker up with a shot to his open mouth and he reacts accordingly.Another great game for beginners, Taxi has a simple theme: Pick up 5 passengers. Each passenger is tied to a different shot or goal. Things get more complicated from there, with a shot timer adding pressure, and separate goals for multiball and big points drawing your attention away. In Pinball Arcade it feels like you can play Taxi forever. It’s a good feeling -- but don’t get used to it. In real life, Taxi can be mean.Best feature: Every shot is obvious, and usually easy to make. Taxi feels good to play.A certain type of pinball fanatic is obsessed with drop targets: The little plastic targets that drop into the machine, oh-so-satisfyingly. I’m not one of those fanatics, but those I know really get worked up over the in-line drop targets in Fathom and Eight Ball Deluxe. If that sounds boring to you, then you can probably pass on these. But as far as early Bally Solid States go, it doesn’t get any better than this pair.Best feature: So. Many. Drop targets.Out of all the 'olde tymey' games available in Pinball Arcade, Fireball is easily the best. With multiball, flippers that change position, and a spinning disc, Fireball is loaded with fun features, unlike most of its 1972 contemporaries. It’s the only early 70s machine I actively seek out when exploring large collections.Best Feature: The “zipper” flippers are super cool: Tiny flippers that actually slide in towards each other to protect your ball from draining. A single, accidental hit to targets will separate them again.If you have extra quarters to burn, go for these games:Note that the Bally and Williams games were only briefly available on Switch and now are not, but they are all still available on Steam, iOS, and PS4, and Xbox One -- until June 30. To be clear: If you buy the games you want now, you can keep them indefinitely. Go go go!

Samuel Claiborn is IGN's Managing Editor and both fixes and breaks pinball machines in his garage. TCELES B HSUP to follow him @Samuel_IGN on Twitter.