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2[[caption-width-right:350:"How 'bout another ball?"]]
3''Elvira and the Party Monsters'' is a 1989 Creator/WilliamsElectronics pinball (released under the Bally label), designed by Creator/DennisNordman and Creator/JimPatla, with art by Creator/GregFreres.
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5As the title indicates, this LicensedPinballTable features Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark hosting a [[MonsterMash rockin' party for an assortment of ghouls, ghosts, and monsters]]. There's pizza to eat, punch to drink, a sizzling barbecue, dead heads to wake, dancing boogie men, and a monster water slide to ride. Of course, with Elvira around, there's also plenty of innuendo and suggestive humor to make the party really memorable.
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7A video adaptation of the pinball was included in the game ''Pinball Jam'' for the Platform/AtariLynx, along with an adaptation of ''Pinball/PoliceForce''. A digital version of the game was available as part of [=FarSight=] Studios' ''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade'' collection before their license to all Williams and Bally tables expired on July 1, 2018.
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9In 1996, the sequel ''Pinball/ScaredStiff'' was released.
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12!!This pinball demonstrates the following tropes:
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14* AdjustableCensorship: Arcade operators could configure the game to remove the saucier voice clips. In addition, the pinball included a "modesty decal" to cover up the boobs on the backglass.
15* AntiFrustrationFeature: Score poorly on the first two balls, and the Extra Ball will be lit at the start of ball 3.
16* AsHerself
17* AutobotsRockOut:
18** The regular game music is bouncy if unspectacular, but multiball starts a full-blown rock show (with synchronized playfield lights) that goes up to eleven if you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe1zqOSWdv0&t=3m43s score the Jackpot.]]
19** Alternately, spell ELVIRA and make the ''three million shot'' for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe1zqOSWdv0&t=5m39s "Elvira's Theme,"]] a twenty-second lightshow extravaganza.
20* BackFromTheDead: The Dead Heads.
21* BlandNameProduct: "Gravestone Pizza" could be seen as this for the RealLife Tombstone Pizza company.
22* TheCameo: Assorted monsters and creatures seen in the game include:
23** {{Cyclops}}
24** DemBones
25** FrankensteinsMonster
26** TheGrimReaper
27** {{Mummy}}
28** WolfMan
29* CelebrityStar
30* {{Combo}}s: Consecutive shots to the left ramp will award increasing numbers of points and then E-L-V-I-R-A letters.
31* CreatorCameo: On the backglass, Dennis Nordman is the Wolfman, while Jim Patla is Dracula.
32* DoubleEntendre: Elvira ''without'' double entendres? Is that even possible?
33-->'''Dracula:''' "Lights! Organ!"
34--->''(organ music plays)''
35-->'''Elvira:''' "Oooh, nice organ!"
36* Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark
37** BeehiveHairdo
38** HotWitch
39** MsFanservice
40* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: The skull has eye sockets that light up as balls are locked.
41* LicensedPinballTable
42* MonsterMash: The point of the game.
43* NavelDeepNeckline: Elvira's black dress has the plunging neckline she's famous for.
44* OurVampiresAreDifferent: And they grill up some serious burgers.
45* ProgressiveJackpot: There is one in the traditional sense for shooting both ramps in multiball, as well as the E-L-V-I-R-A shot mentioned below.
46* PunnyName: Just about everything on the playfield, from "Wake the Dead Heads" to the "Monster Slide".
47* ReadyForLovemaking: Elvira adopts such a pose on the cabinet art.
48* RiseFromYourGrave: The coffins, which have both Elvira ("Chief Kook") and Dracula ("Chief Cook").
49* ShoutOut:
50** On the backglass, Elvira has a barbecue fork with the phrase "I [heart] SMARKIE" on it. WordOfGod is that "Smarkie" is a reference to Elvira's RealLife husband/manager Mark.
51** "Yo, Travis!" on the Deadhead tombstone is a reference to an old pinball-playing friend of Elvira's.
52* SpellingBonus: Spelling E-L-V-I-R-A lights a three-million-point shot. The lights [[ProgressiveJackpot carry over from player to player and game to game]].
53* VampireVords: Dracula's dialog, naturally.
54* WolvesAlwaysHowlAtTheMoon: Done when the player starts multiball.

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