Elvira and the Party Monsters

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Elvira and the Party Monsters
Backglass of Elvira and the Party Monsters pinball.jpg
Manufacturer Midway
Release dateOctober 1989
SystemWilliams System 11B
DesignDennis Nordman, Jim Patla
ProgrammingMark Penacho
ArtworkGreg Freres
Music Chris Granner
SoundChris Granner
Voices Cassandra Peterson (Elvira)
Production runapproximately 4000

Elvira and the Party Monsters is a 1989 pinball game designed by Dennis Nordman and Jim Patla and released by Midway (under the Bally label), featuring horrorshow-hostess Elvira. It was followed 1996 by Scared Stiff , also designed by Nordman.

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Design

Most of the game was designed by Dennis Nordman, but after a motorcycle accident near the end of the design stage, Jim Patla completed it. [1]

The marketing slogan "Elvira is No Cheap Date!" referring to the new .50/.75/1.00 pricing scheme. [2] Elvira and the Party Monsters was made shortly after the merger of Williams and Bally. Although the game uses a vaguely Bally-style cabinet and flippers, all the rest of the game hardware are completely made up of Williams parts. The machine uses a System 11B CPU and associated board setup. [3] It included rubber bogeyman characters and coffins that would open during play. [4]

Backglass design

The games designers are shown on the backglass, with Dennis Nordman as the werewolf, and Jim Patla as Dracula. [1]

The arms of the creature from Creature from the Black Lagoon are shown on the backglass, three years before the Creature from the Black Lagoon pinball machine. [5]

Digital versions

A game cartridge called "Pinball Jam" was also produced for Atari Lynx, which includes two pinball games, Police Force and Elvira and the Party Monsters. This version of the table includes a scrolling 2D screen, a two-ball Multi-Ball, and more or less self-censored Elvira quotes. [6] [3]

Elvira and the Party Monsters was available as a licensed table of The Pinball Arcade for several platforms [7] until the loss of the Williams license in 2018. [8]

References

  1. 1 2 Shalhoub, Michael (2012). The pinball compendium: 1982 to present (revised and expanded 2nd ed.). Atglen, Pa: Schiffer Publishing. pp. 114–115. ISBN   978-0-7643-4107-6.
  2. ↑ "Internet Pinball Machine Database: Midway 'Elvira and the Party Monsters'".
  3. 1 2 "Pinball Archive Rule Sheet: Elvira and the Party Monsters".
  4. ↑ Beck, Barbara (1989-12-08). "Pinballs: the Zing is Back!". Philadelphia Daily News. p. 51. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  5. ↑ Freres, Greg (2007). "The soul of the game" (Interview). Interviewed by Jim Jansen.
  6. ↑ Pinball Jam game manual. Atari Corporation. 1992.
  7. ↑ Sarkar, Samit (2012-10-29). "The Pinball Arcade gets two Elvira tables on PS3, Vita". Polygon. Retrieved 2025-06-11.
  8. ↑ Lawson, Aurich (2018-05-08). "The Pinball Arcade is losing its classic tables; grab them while you can". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2025-06-11.
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