Trivia / FunHouse (1990)

• Referenced by...:
  • Red & Ted's Road Show is essentially an updated Spiritual Successor. It features two talking heads, a clock-like "Miles" system, and a left plunger Skill Shot.
  • Twilight Zone references it twice:
    • Hitting the clock enough times during Clock Chaos prompts a sound clip of Rudy saying "Quit playing with the clock!"
    • The "Fast Lock" quick multiball mode also features sound effects and music from the game, among other Pat Lawlor tables.
  • Certain sound effects from this game are re-used when the player makes combos in The Addams Family.
  • Both Demolition Man and Johnny Mnemonic play a sound bite of Rudy yelling "Frenzy?!" upon starting their respective frenzy modes.
  • Rudy cameos in one particular mode in World Cup Soccer.
  • In No Good Gofers, finishing multiball without getting a jackpot, then starting up again prompts Buzz to say "Oh no," a reference to one of Rudy's quotes.
  • One ticker message in Monopoly reads "Hey, it's only pinball," a direct quote from Rudy.
  • In Safe Cracker, one of Candy 2000's quotes when locking a ball is "I'm not happy with you now," which is yet another Rudy quote.
  • The dummy in Rollercoaster Tycoon can also say "I'm not happy with you now" during certain modes.
  • One of the things Pin*Bot says when cheating in Jack*Bot is "Look, there's Rudy".
  • In Medieval Madness, if you defeat the left troll first during "Trolls!", the right one can quip:
    "Hey! What did I ever do to you?"
  • Pat Lawlor himself appears to quote the game when a player tilts in Dialed In!.
    "Hey, it's only pinball!"
• Similarly Named Works: The Game Show Fun House (1988) and Fun House (Album) by The Stooges are entirely unrelated to this table.
• What Could Have Been: The prototype game had a few significant differences:
  • There was an additional S-T-E-P target located just to the right of the mirror scoop: the five targets would have spelled S-T-E-P-S (with the P being the extra target, and the second S being where the P target is in the final game).
  • In addition to the Mystery Mirror, Quick Multiball could also be lit via the top Crazy Steps hole. Both methods would have required an additional shot to activate (similar to Whirlwind). The Steps award would be changed to a flat 500,000-point bonus (likely to avoid skilled players from running Quick Multiball repeatedly), and the mirror was updated to award the mode immediately.
  • There was originally no award for full-plunging the Crazy Steps. It was later updated to start the Superdog mode on a full plunge, likely to avoid the Steps being worthless for players who hadn't lit any of the three holes.
  • Funhouse was originally going to include a mechanical clock, but it was scrapped due to it being unreliable, as well as cost and time constraints. The mechanical clock was redesigned and eventually used in Lawlor's later game, Twilight Zone.
  • In the DOS version of Eight Ball Deluxe, Rudy was shown in the room. Players could click on him to reveal that Amtex was developing this as the next pinball game, alongside Royal Flush. Amtex went under after Royal Flush released for PC, and the game didn't see a digital release until 2008, when Pinball Hall of Fame featured classics from Williams.

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