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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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5 | As 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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7 | A 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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9 | In 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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