We had heard that Steve Ritchie had helped out on this game during Nordman's convalescence. Steve Ritchie gave us his comments:

I didn't really do that much work on Elvira. Dennis' original whitewood work was very close to what Elvira is today. I smoothed it out a bit here and there, but Greg Freres assumed the duties of team leader on Elvira, and I worked with him to get the game in production. This is what I remember to be true, but you should confirm this with Dennis.

Dennis Nordman adds his comments:

My whitewood was essentially finished when I crashed but Steve, Mark [Ritchie], and Jim Patla stepped in to get it finished and refine some areas. Patla took over the management duties and Mark and Steve helped out. My memory tells me that Jim Patla did much of the work and I think I listed him as part of the design team for this reason. Mark Penacho was the programmer.

Artist Greg Freres tells us that for the backlass characters of the Wolfman and Dracula, he used photos of Dennis Nordman and Jim Patla, respectively. He also used artist Tim Elliot as a photo model for the Frankenstein pizza delivery guy.

Production Run Records for Elvira and the Party Monsters:
Production Start Date: Sep-5-1989
Production End Date: Nov-17-1989
Production Run Quantity: 4000
First ship date: Sep-5-1989
Last ship date: Dec-7-1989

It's just a test to check the trapline against the rout. No idea how many would have been made. It was done at Lenc Smith and then sent to us at Willy for approval. It was common practice, sometimes it was run without the white; just black on wood.

I showed the Party Animal to Greg Freres and he agrees. That’s a registration check at Lenc Smith. We would not have seen these since they happened at Lenc Smith and were intended to check screens before running quantities.

On "trapline" – yes, the term is still in use and not specific to any one company.

We asked Roger Sharpe about the reason for this change. He replies:

Suffice it to say that we did have some limited run of machines featuring a 'blonde Marilyn' — and I don’t know if these were for international only. However, we were informed that there were rights that needed to be secured in order to use Marilyn and the decision was made to just alter the artwork so that the female character was renamed ‘Lola’ for the main production run. If memory serves, and I can’t say with certainty—there might be games that were manufactured with a brunette Lola and then a redheaded Lola.