Operations Manual (January 1992, includes schematics, OCR searchable) Promotional Video (at YouTube) (External site) The Addams Family Rulesheet Version 2.0 (Jan/27/1995), by Brian DominyĪvailable at Cows and Easter Eggs (External site) Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book A-F The Pinball Compendium 1982 to Present, page 150 New York Times 143, January 28, 1994, pp. (Cabinet)Ĭompressed Air December 1995, pp. "Now there's some `thing' special in pinball!"Ĭhicago Tribune April 5, 1992, pp. "A pinball experience for the whole family!" It happened all the time with changes from testing to production. So we changed the art for later plastics, but in order to use the ones already in house we put the sticker on them. During early play testing we noticed that people could not figure out how to open the vault. The art for the plastics had to be approved and sent for production 3 weeks before prototype games were built. Pictured in this listing is a plastic for the bookcase having text that is not seen on production games. Another possibility is that Odd parts were sometimes assembled to get the last few games of any run out the door. That's the area where games with problems were kept until the techs could get around to fixing them for shipment. Yes, there are mis-matched cabinets out there, probably orphans on the "hospital" line at the factory. Once the change was made, they just kept making them. That's because you do not just make 1 cabinet when you are doing screen print production, you make many. Larry, you are correct that the final few games were made with the Gold. The inside of the game was signed by every worker on the line that day, and is in the possession of Gene Cunningham. That game is the one we all had our picture taken in front of, and then on the cover of Replay. Pat Lawlor comments further on these Later Production games: The way our line worked, the cabinets and backboxes were created separately then joined later and this created a logistical problem for keeping gold with gold and blue with blue along with the likelihood that we had more spoilage in backboxes than cabinets (or the other way around) meant that a small number of games were mis-matched. Larry Demar talks about how Later Production games could exist with mixed gold and blue cabinet art: Each "Gold" machine includes a certificate signed by the members of the design team and a gold plate on the lower right front of the machine containing the machine number. These machines had many more Gold accents, such as the metal ramps, gold legs and bolts, gold lettering, the vault plastic, the bumper caps and Thing's box. Then, in 1994, The Addams Family was put back in production with a special run of 'Gold Edition' machines to further commemorate this machine becoming the best selling flipper game of all time. The legs, metal trim, and lockdown bar are not gold. Included in this listing are pictures of one such example of this "Later Production" version having the mixed gold and blue. At least their lower cabinets were gold, even if their backboxes were still made in blue. This change caused a number of games made subsequent in this original run to also have gold cabinets. Designer Pat Lawlor wanted to commemorate the actual record-breaking game from the production line and arranged to have it made in a gold cabinet. This game broke all previous sales records for flipper games. One earlier form of "auto-flipping" appears on Williams' 1953 'Palisades'. 'The Addams Family' has a flipper that not only is controlled by the player's flipper button but also is caused by the game programming to flip at certain points in game play. Upper right playfield has "Thing", a large plastic hand that comes out if its box to magnetically pick up the ball and take it below the playfield.Īctual measured weight: 255 lbs (includes legs). Magnets under the lower playfield activate as "The Power", an earned feature during play to affect ball movement. Bookcase, when active, rotates to reveal a lock hole. First ever optical target bank (in the bookcase). One of the four flippers doubles as a game-controlled mini-flipper. View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database () (External site)įlippers (4), Pop bumpers (5), Slingshots (2), Ramps (2), Kick-out holes (2), Dual left inlanes. Midway Manufacturing Company, a subsidiary of WMS Industries, Incorporated, Internet Pinball Machine Database: Midway 'The Addams Family'
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