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* ''High Speed'': The first game to feature a full vocal song.
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* ''High Speed'': The first game to feature a full vocal song.song, as well as the first "Jackpot" bonus in a pinball game, that carried over from game-to-game.
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* ''[=Pin* Bot=]''
** ''The Machine: Bride of [=Pin* Bot=]'' (the first table with a billion-point reward)
* ''Roadshow'': This game featured the voice of Carlene Carter.
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** ''[=Jack*Bot=]'': ''[=Pin*Bot=]'' [-[[RecycledInSpace WITH A CASINO THEME!]]-]
*''Roadshow'': This ''Red & Ted's Roadshow'': The SpiritualSuccessor to ''[=FunHouse=]'', this game featured the voice of Carlene Carter.
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* Larry [=DeMar=][=DeMar=] ("L.E.D.")
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* Keith P. Johnson ("Keefer")
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* ChristmasMode
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* DoctorWho
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* DoctorWhoSeries/DoctorWho
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\"Don\'t move!\"
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* ''[[{{Terminator}} Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'': One of the first games (but not the first game) to feature a dot-matrix display. Also, isntead of the traditional plunger for launching the ball, you actually "shoot" the ball using a gun-like device.
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* ''[[{{Terminator}} Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'': One of the first games (but not the first game) to feature a dot-matrix display. Also, isntead instead of the traditional plunger for launching the ball, you actually "shoot" the ball using a gun-like device.gun trigger, and sometimes it'll even ''shoot the ball automatically'' (if you lose the ball early, or whenever you trigger multiball).
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moving Trivia.
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* [[{{ptitlezbs18uz6sqww}} Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Eugene Jarvis, Larry [=DeMar=], Ed Boon, and Dan Forden started their careers on pinball games before being well-known in video games.
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* {{Defender}}: Based on Williams' own video game.
* {{Joust}}: The first pinball machine with 2 player simultaneous play (with both players on either end of the machine). It's believed that only 500 were made.
* Mr. and Mrs. {{Pac-Man}}
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* {{Pac-Man}}
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* ''[[{{Terminator}} Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'': One of the first games (but not the first game) to feature a dot-matrix display.
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* ''[[{{Terminator}} Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'': One of the first games (but not the first game) to feature a dot-matrix display. Also, isntead of the traditional plunger for launching the ball, you actually "shoot" the ball using a gun-like device.
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* ''Black Knight'': The first multi-level pinball game
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* ''Black Knight'': The first multi-level pinball gamegame, which also introduced Williams' trademark "magna-save" feature.
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* ''High Speed''
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* ''Gorgar'': The first "talking" pinball machine
* ''HighSpeed''
* ''The Machine: Bride of [=Pin* Bot=]'' (theSpeed'': The first table with game to feature a billion-point reward)full vocal song.
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* ''Champion Pub''
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: You might get an extra chance if you manage to lose the ball immediately after launching it.
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* [[{{ptitlezbs18uz6sqww}} Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Eugene Jarvis, Larry [=DeMar=], Ed Boon, and Dan Forden started their careers on pinball games before being well-known in video games.
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* ''Medieval Madness'': The spiritual sequel to ''Attack from Mars'', which features TinaFey ([[SaturdayNightLive yes]], ''[[{{ptitleolsdue4jfzga}} that]]'' [[MeanGirls Tina Fey]]) as one of the voices.
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* ''Medieval Madness'': The spiritual sequel SpiritualSuccessor to ''Attack from Mars'', which features TinaFey ([[SaturdayNightLive yes]], ''[[{{ptitleolsdue4jfzga}} that]]'' [[MeanGirls Tina Fey]]) as one of the voices.
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Many people collect pinball machines as a hobby. Similarly, it is common to simulate them with computer programs. WindowsXP even included such a game. Electronic Arts' Pinball Construction Set was popular in the days of eight-bit home computers.
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Many people collect pinball machines as a hobby. Similarly, it is common to simulate them with computer programs. WindowsXP even included such a game. Electronic Arts' Pinball ''Pinball Construction Set Set'' was popular in the days of eight-bit home computers.
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* Batman: Three games. Batman, Batman Forever, and Dark Knight.
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* Batman: {{Batman}}: Three games. Batman, Batman Forever, ''Batman'', ''Batman Forever'' and Dark Knight.''Dark Knight''.
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* Elvira: Elvira and the Party Monsters and Elvira's Scared Stiff.
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* Elvira: Elvira ''Elvira and the Party Monsters Monsters'' and Elvira's ''Elvira's Scared Stiff.Stiff''.
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* Playboy: Three of them, by Bally, Data East Pinball, and Stern Pinball
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* Playboy: Three of them, by Bally, Data East Pinball, Pinball and Stern Pinball
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* {{Superman}}: One of twelve pinball games made by {{Atari}}.
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* {{Superman}}: One of twelve 12 pinball games made by {{Atari}}.
* ''Roadshow'': This game featured the voice of Carlene Carter.
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* ''3D Ultra Pinball'': {{Sierra}}-published PC pinball series that eschewed realism in favor of creating a unique PC pinball experience.
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* ''3D Ultra Pinball'': {{Sierra}}-published {{Sierra}} published this PC pinball series that eschewed realism in favor of creating a unique PC pinball experience.
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* Trope2000: ''Black Knight 2000'' (the sequel to 1980's ''Black Knight''), and Williams' "Pinball 2000" platform.
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* Trope2000: {{Trope 2000}}: ''Black Knight 2000'' (the sequel to 1980's ''Black Knight''), and Williams' "Pinball 2000" platform.
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* SpaceCadet, the best known simulation, since it is distributed with WindowsXP.
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* SpaceCadet, ''3D Ultra Pinball'': {{Sierra}}-published PC pinball series that eschewed realism in favor of creating a unique PC pinball experience.
* ''SpaceCadet'', the best known simulation, since itis was distributed with WindowsXP.Windows 95 through XP. Also included as part of ''Full Tilt Pinball!''
* ''SpaceCadet'', the best known simulation, since it
* ''ProPinball'': Quite possibly the greatest series of pinball simulations ever made.
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* ContinuingIsPainful: Bonuses, missions, combos and similar reset if you lose a ball.
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* ContinuingIsPainful: Bonuses, missions, combos combos, multipliers, and similar such reset if you lose a ball.
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* [=~Everything's Better With Spinning~=]: There are squares that you spin to score. They are called, appropiately, 'spinners'.
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* [=~Everything's Better With Spinning~=]: There are squares that you spin to score. They are called, appropiately, appropriately, 'spinners'.
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* InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt - Averted, because somebody has to maintain the game.
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* InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt - Averted, [[AvertedTrope Averted]], because somebody has to maintain the game.
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* PinballScoring - The trope namer.
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* PinballScoring - The trope namer.TropeNamer.
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-->TheWho, ''[[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Pinball Wizard]]'', from the RockOpera ''{{Tommy}}''
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-->Ever since I was a young boy, I've played the silver ball\\
From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all\\
But I ain't seen nothing like him in any amusement hall\\
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball.\\
From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all\\
But I ain't seen nothing like him in any amusement hall\\
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball.\\
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-->TheWho, ''[[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Pinball Wizard]]'', from the RockOpera ''{{Tommy}}''
From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all\\
But I ain't seen nothing like him in any amusement hall\\
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball.\\
-->TheWho, ''[[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Pinball Wizard]]'', from the RockOpera ''{{Tommy}}''
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: 1989's ''Black Knight 2000'' was known for having one of the best soundtracks ever for a pinball game, composed by Brian Schmidt, [[MortalKombat Dan "Toasty!" Forden]], and the game's designer, Steve Ritchie. Another contender is 1993's ''Twilight Zone''.
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* [[EltonJohn Captain Fantastic]]
* Playboy: Three of them, by Bally, Data East Pinball, and Stern Pinball
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* ''Eight Ball'': Whose artwork was based on [[HappyDays Fonzie and Pinky]].
* ''Flash''
* ''Flash''
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* ''Medieval Madness'': The spiritual sequel to ''Attack from Mars'', which features TinaFey (yes, that Tina Fey) as one of the voices.
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* ''Medieval Madness'': The spiritual sequel to ''Attack from Mars'', which features TinaFey (yes, that ([[SaturdayNightLive yes]], ''[[{{ptitleolsdue4jfzga}} that]]'' [[MeanGirls Tina Fey) Fey]]) as one of the voices.
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Seriously. Thousands of pinball games. Go check IPDB.org. There's more than 5000 on record and they register another 30 or so new items every month.
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Hundreds of pinball tables have been created. Most tables have a theme of some kind. Many tables use a [[LicensedGame license of some kind]] as the theme. It is not rare for pinball games to have the real actors for the license helping out with voice clips specifically for the game.
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** Capcom's Flipper Football also has an Adult Mode, where the referee uses very colorful language and a number of four-letter words. "Hey! Let's talk about your sister!" It only gets better from there...
** A lot of the post-1995 Williams/Bally games also have a Midnight Madness mode if you start a game at midnight.
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* ExcusePlot: You are smashing a ball around; it's hard to write a story about that. [As Brooke Shields' 1978 film TILT would indicate.]
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* ExcusePlot: You are smashing a ball around; it's hard to write a story about that. [As that.
** As Brooke Shields' 1978 film TILT would indicate.]
** As Brooke Shields' 1978 film TILT would indicate.
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* Batman: Three games. Batman, Batman Forever, and Dark Knight.
* BigBuckHunter
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* BigBuckHunter
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* Elvira: Elvira and the Party Monsters and Elvira's Scared Stiff.
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* NBA
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Sorry, the thing on Atari Pinball got me started. This game actually existed!
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Atari Games' 1979 Hercules measured 93 inches long, 39 inches wide, and 83 inches high. It used a pool table cue ball for the pinball. Sometimes this would be an 8-ball.
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Brooke Shields really did make a movie about pinball, which has quite a number of tropes in itself.
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* ExcusePlot: You are smashing a ball around; it's hard to write a story about that. [As Brooke Shields' 1978 film TILT would indicate.]
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Atari made twelve pinball games between 1976-1983. They can still lay claim to the largest pinball machine ever made: Hercules!
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* {{Superman}}: The only pinball game made by {{Atari}}.
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* {{Superman}}: The only One of twelve pinball game games made by {{Atari}}.{{Atari}}.
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* [[{{Pokemon}} Pokémon Pinball, regular and Ruby/Sapphire editions]]
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* [[{{Pokemon}} Pokémon [[{{Ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Pokémon Pinball, regular and Ruby/Sapphire editions]]
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*[=~Everything's Better With Spinning~=]: There are squares that you spin to score.
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*[=~Everything's Better With Spinning~=]: There are squares that you spin to score. They are called, appropiately, 'spinners'.
