Checkpoint (pinball machine)

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Checkpoint is a pinball machine from Data East from 1991, in which a dot matrix display was used for the first time .

description

The device was designed by Joe Kaminkow and Ed Cebula. The artwork on the theme of car racing is by Paul Faris. Checkpoint is one of the few pinball machines from Data East that did not use a license topic from film and television. So far 3,500 pieces have been produced.

The game is started by turning an ignition key and a shaker motor makes the pinball vibrate during the game. With a shot over the ramp in the right part of the playing field, the speed of the ball is recorded and shown on the display as well as verbally.

particularities

Checkpoint was the first pinball machine to use a dot-matrix display, a feature that is still standard more than 25 years later. However, the display was only half the height of the displays later used by all manufacturers. Data East produced other devices with the smaller displays before also using the higher display. Checkpoint was also the first pinball machine in which the player could choose a music genre before starting the game. There was a choice of rock, rap, country, soul, jazz or classical music.

Others

For the pinball machine Operation Desert Storm , Data East only exchanged the graphics on the playing field and housing, otherwise it is identical to Checkpoint.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Data East 'Checkpoint'. In: Internet Pinball Machine Database. Retrieved May 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Michael Shalhoub: The Pinball Compendium 1982 to Present . Ed .: Schiffer Publishing ltd. 2nd edition. Schiffer Publishing ltd, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7643-4107-6 , pp. 171 (English).
  3. ^ Adam Ruben: Pinball wizards: jackpots, drains, and the cult of the silver ball. Chicago Review Press, Chicago, Ill 2018, p. 171; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Seth Porges: Top 8 Most Innovative Pinball Machines of All Time , Popular Mechanics , August 5, 2008
  5. ^ Data East 'Operation Desert Storm'. In: Internet Pinball Machine Database. Retrieved May 2, 2019 .