Twilight Zone Pinball Machine
Used twilight zone pinball machine. The machine is a wide body machine, designed by Pat Lawlor and based on the TV series of the same name. It was first released in 1993 by Midway (under the Bally label). This game is part of WMS’ SuperPin line of wide body games alongside Star Trek: The Next Generation and Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure.
Following the huge success of The Addams Family pinball game. Midway gave Lawlor full creative control over the design of his next game, and the result is an unusually complex machine.
Game Features
- The playfield explodes with excitement when the space-age Power Ball unleashes its fury
- Play to win the Power Ball being held in reserve by the innovative Gumball Machine
- Superpin features MagnaFlip flipper power and a large playfield for a whole new world of challenging features
- Buy In – players can buy an extra ball at the end of a game; all scores and game features commence at the level where gameplay last ended
- Players Battle The Power in the Power Field with the industry’s first magnetic flippers
- Game play becomes frenetic when The Clock allows players to play with time
Among its noted features include: ( used twilight zone pinball machine )
- A working gum ball machine (which deposits balls)
- A working analog clock (used as a timer for various modes)
- The Power field (a small separate play field where the ball is propelled by magnets rather than flippers)
- The “Powerball”, a white ceramic ball which is lighter than a regular steel ball and is non-magnetic.
In addition to adapting the theme music from the original TV show, the game’s main background music is an interpretation of the 1982 hit “Twilight Zone”, by Golden Earring. Tim Kitzrow provided the voice of Rod Serling.
This game was originally supposed to be the first game to use Williams / Midway’s DCS Sound System, but the DCS board was still in development when the game was released. Furthermore, it instead used the Yamaha YM2151 / Harris CVSD sound board.
Twilight Zone is currently the top-rated electronic pinball machine of all time on the Internet Pinball Machine Database.
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