History Pinball / CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

Digital versions of this table are available for ''Williams Pinball Classics'' by Encore Inc. and ''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade'' by [=FarSight=] Studios, but the latter case is no longer true as their license to all Bally and Williams tables expired on July 1, 2018. It later reappeared in ''[[VideoGame/ZenPinball Pinball FX 3]]'' on October 29, 2019.

* HomeVersionSoundtrackReplacement: The version of ''Creature'' for [=FarSight's=] ''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade'' does not have "Summertime Blues" and "Get a Job" for its game theme, due to licensing issues.

* OffWithHisHead: Jamming on the flipper buttons after KO'ing the peeping tom will result in a [[Franchise/MortalKombat Johnny Cage]]-style uppercut decapitation. (On a physical table, [[AdjustableCensorship Family Mode]] has to be turned off. However, this Easter egg is always disabled while playing the ''Pinball Arcade'' version.)

* SignatureLine: Everybody say it now -- "MOVE YOUR CAR!"

-->"Watch those hands, buster!" -- ''Tilt Warning''
-->"You're no gentleman!" -- ''When the player tilts''
-->"That's it! Take me home, right now!" -- ''When the player slam tilts the machine, resulting in a NonStandardGameOver''

** During "MOVE YOUR CAR!", the player tries to blow up a huge van that was blocking his view (using dynamite, a bazooka, a [[KillItWithFire flamethrower]], and ''[[NukeEm an atomic bomb]]''), but the van itself [[MadeOfIndestructium remains unscathed]]. Ironically, it'll move on its own when the mode is over (if you can't get the ball up the ramp in time, or you make all the shots).

Digital versions of this table are available for ''Williams Pinball Classics'' by Encore Inc. and ''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade'' by [=FarSight=] Studios[[labelnote:note]]However, the latter case is no longer true as their license to all Bally and Williams tables expired on July 1, 2018[[/labelnote]].

*** In the game's video mode, after knocking out the the peeping tom, hit both flipper buttons for a final blow that decapitates him. The announcer yells, "FATALITY!"
*** The player has the option to choke the snack bar attendant, after yelling, "COME HERE, PUNK!" The words "Choking Fatality" appears on the display.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The "Free Pass" ball saver.

* DamselInDistress: Kay during multiball.

* TheFifties
* FirstKiss: What the protagonist tries to get from his girlfriend.

* RealSongThemeTune: ''Creature'' has five 1950s songs for its main play theme: "Rock Around the Clock", "Get a Job", "Summertime Blues", "Willie and the Hand Jive", and "Red River Rock". Due to rights issues, "Get A Job" and "Summertime Blues" aren't in the ''Pinball Arcade'' version, which assigns one of each remaining song to each ball: "Hand Jive" for the first ball, "Red River Rock" to the second, and "Rock Around the Clock" to the third.

* ShoutOut:
** To ''Franchise/MortalKombat'':
*** In the game's video mode, after knocking out the the peeping tom, hit both flipper buttons for a final blow that decapitates him. The announcer yells, "FATALITY!"
*** The player has the option to choke the snack bar attendant, after yelling, "COME HERE, PUNK!" The words "Choking Fatality" appears on the display.
** The ''VideoGame/PacMan'' tune plays after scoring the "Snack Attack" hurry-up bonus.

Digital versions of this table are available for ''Williams Pinball Classics'' by Encore Inc. and ''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade'' by [=FarSight=] Studios.

* PunkInTheTrunk: Played for laughs with one moviegoer, who is trapped inside the trunk of his friend's car.
-->"I'm suffocating in here!"

** To a lesser extent, you know those ever-irritating drains on either side of the flippers? Get suckered into one of those, and you get a 50,000-point bonus to make up for it. "FOCUS!"

* DisproportionateRetribution: During "MOVE YOUR CAR!", the player tries to blow up a huge van that was blocking his view (using dynamite, a bazooka, a [[KillItWithFire flamethrower]], and ''[[NukeEm an atomic bomb]]''), but the van itself [[MadeOfIndestructium remains unscathed]]. Ironically, it'll move on its own when the mode is over (if you can't get the ball up the ramp in time, or you make all the shots).

Taking place [[TheFifties in 1954]], you and your girlfriend head out to the Starlight Drive-In Theater to watch ''Creature from the Black Lagoon''. While waiting for the film to start, you try to get food from the snackbar, play on the local playground, and steal a kiss from your girlfriend. You also have to deal with peeping toms and large vehicles that block your view.

* GoodBadBugs: The Snack Attack hurry-up underflow glitch can lead to scores near the Cap of 9,999,999,990. The hurry-up will sometimes wrap around to a value very close to that cap. A player with a low enough score can intentionally let the hurry-up run long enough so that collecting it will not make their score exceed that cap, and have a nigh-unbeatable high score.

* PinballScoring: The value of the (Super) Jackpots grow exponentially for each cycle completed in multiball - The Super Jackpot is worth double the regular Jackpot, and on the next cycle the Jackpot becomes the same value as the Super Jackpot. On top of that, they can be multiplied up to 4x, which would make even the first Jackpot worth a minimum of 160M and the first Super a minimum of 320M - Realistically they probably will be worth significantly more due to bumper hits.

* GoodBadBugs: The Snack Attack hurry-up underflow glitch can lead to scores near the {{Cap}} of 9,999,999,990. The hurry-up will sometimes wrap around to a value very close to that cap. A player with a low enough score can intentionally let the hurry-up run long enough so that collecting it will not make their score exceed that cap, and have a nigh-unbeatable high score.

* UniversalHorror

* SpellingBonus: To start multiball, the player has to spell F-I-L-M. This involves several subtasks, including spelling K-I-S-S (to light the extra ball) and P-A-I-D (to increase the bonus multiplier). In multiball, spelling C-R-E-A-T-U-R-E (by shooting the left ramp in multiball and hitting the switch in the pool above the right flipper area) increases the playfield multiplier while in multiball.

* GoodBadBugs: While the bonus multipliers are displayed as 2X, 4X, 6X, 8X, and 10X, in reality they are 2X, 4X, 8X, 16X, and 32X respectively.

* CutSong: "At the Hop" was to have been included as one of the songs, but it was removed from the final version, as it was too cost prohibitive. The voice clips for the song can be found via [=PinMAME=].

* ThreeDMovie: The game is set in a drive-in theater playing the movie [-IN 3D!-] The playfield also features a holographic Gill Man in the table that periodically appears and waves to the player.

'''Creature from the Black Lagoon''' is a 1992 pinball game designed by Creator/JohnTrudeau and released by Creator/WilliamsElectronics (under the Bally label). The name's a bit misleading, though; while it is named after [[Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon the film of the same name]], this game's setting is [[FramingDevice that of a 1950s-era]] DriveInTheater. Save for the 3D decal in the middle of the table and main multi-ball mode, there's virtually nothing to do with the movie itself.

** The ''{{VideoGame/Pac-Man}}'' tune plays after scoring the "Snack Attack" hurry-up bonus.

** Say it with me now: "MOVE - YOUR - CAR!"

* PinballScoring: The value of the (Super) Jackpots grow exponentially for each cycle completed in multiball - The Super Jackpot is worth double the regular Jackpot, and on the next cycle the Jackpot becomes the same value as the Super Jackpot. On top of that, they can be multiplied up to 4x, which would make even the first Jackpot worth a minimum of 160M and the first Super a minimum of 320M - Realistically they probably will be worth more like 300M and 600M due to bumper hits.

!!This pinball demonstrates the following tropes:

* DisproportionateRetribution: During "MOVE YOUR CAR!", the player tries to blow up a huge van that was blocking his view (using dynamite, a bazooka, a [[KillItWithFire flamethrower]], and ''[[NukeEm an atomic bomb]]''), but the van itself [[MadeOfIndestructium remains unscathed]]. Ironically, it'll move on its own if you can't get the ball up the ramp in time.

* SpellingBonus: To start multiball, the player has to spell F-I-L-M. This involves several subtasks, including spelling K-I-S-S (to light the extra ball) and P-A-I-D (to increase the bonus multiplier).

* MercyMode: The Snackbar targets can be spotted one at a time by shooting the snackbar. After a Jackpot has been scored in multiball though, it will no longer spot Snackbar targets and instead award an insignificant Snackbar Score.