The Addams Family (pinball machine)
The Addams Family , released in March 1992, is the best-selling pinball machine of all time. The pinball machine was designed by Pat Lawlor and Larry DeMar and manufactured by Midway and Bally respectively . It is based on the film of the same name from 1991. The actors Raúl Juliá and Anjelica Huston spoke separate sentences for the pinball machine, which the device plays. So far, over 20,000 pieces have been sold.
overview
The only aim of the game is to collect as many points as possible. However, there are two central mechanisms:
- Tour The Mansion : The Addams Family mansion is located in the middle of the playing field and has twelve windows. Each window corresponds to a different room that the player can enter and collect points in different ways.
- Vault Multiball : There is a blue bookcase in the upper right area of the playing field. If it is hit often enough, the bookshelf rotates so that the safe behind it can be hit. Multiple hits in the safe trigger a multiball mode.
Other goals and mechanisms are:
- Bear Kicks : A ramp in the upper center of the playing field awards one or two "Bear Kicks", points, rooms in the villa or additional balls.
- Staircase Ramp : A ramp on the left side of the playing field through which the player can collect an increasing number of points and letters in the word “THING”.
- Graveyard : Five bumpers that increase the “graveyard value” that is collected elsewhere in the game.
- Train Wreck : A dead end street in the upper left section that awards points, supports the graveyard scoring and unlocks extra balls.
- Grave : Five targets in different places on the playing field, over which letters with the word "GRAVE" are collected.
Special Collectors Edition / Gold Edition
The pinball machine was so successful that in 1994 Bally produced a thousand copies in a Gold Edition. Even before production began, Bally received 1,000 orders for the model. For the Gold Edition, certain parts were built in gold, such as the legs, lockbar, ramps and the bumper caps.
Web links
- The Addams Family on the Internet Pinball Database
Individual evidence
- ^ Adam Ruben: Pinball Wizards: Jackpots, Drains, and the Cult of the Silver Ball , 2017, ISBN 161373591X , p. 107 in the Google book search
- ^ The Addams Family. In: The Internet Pinball Database. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
- ^ A b Michael Shalhoub: The Pinball Compendium 1982 to Present . 2nd Edition. Schiffer Publishing ltd, ISBN 978-0-7643-4107-6 (English).
- ↑ Midway 'The Addams Family Special Collectors Edition'. In: Internet Pinball Machine Database. Retrieved April 24, 2019 .