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| Manufacturer: | Sega Pinball, Incorporated, of Chicago, Illinois,
USA (1994-1999) [Trade Name: Sega] |
| Date Of Manufacture: | June, 1998 |
| Model Number: | 64 |
| Common Abbreviations: | GC |
| Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) ![[?]](/graphic/question.gif) |
| Production: | 10 units (approximate) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | Billiards |
| Notable Features: | 3 Ball Saves. Has Left Post, Right Post, and Up-Post between flippers, all operated by a second set of flipper buttons.
Goal oriented play: Player must complete a task checklist and then the games ends. The faster the player completes the checklist, the more timer points they score. Various shots may pause the timer (depending on configuration and tournament rules). Once the checklist is complete, the game is done.
Maximum of five balls per play. Draining ball five ends the game, although completing the checklist on an earlier ball also ends the game as noted above.
Also described as having "Minimum Assured Scoring": If a player completes a specific set of objectives, they are guaranteed a specific score. This can be used to make the players score appear to be much greater than it really is, giving the player the illusion that a mediocre final score is close to an excellent final score.
Designed by Sega Pinball and Incredible Technologies, the makers of the well known "Golden Tee" golf games. Like Golden Tee, this game was designed to be linked to other games and tournaments across the country, with prizes awarded to high scorers. |
| Design by: | Jon Norris |
| Art by: | Morgan Weistling |
| Dots/Animation by: | Kurt Andersen |
| Mechanics by: | Rob Hurtado |
| Music by: | Kyle Johnson |
| Software by: | Lonnie D. Ropp, Orin Day |
| Notes: | Compare the playfield layout to Bally's 1981 'Eight Ball Deluxe', upon which this game was reportedly based.
Kelly Packard was a cast member of Baywatch, and was reportedly chosen to be featured in this game because she looked good on the backglass and cabinet and would attract players; she appears to have no direct connection to pinball or billiards.
Shown at ATEI in 1999, Golden cue's rules were not completed and the game was not officially released by Sega; only a few test games were made, and it was later redesigned into Stern's 2000 'Sharkey's Shootout', and Kelly was dropped from the game. |
| ROMs: | 1 MB | ZIP | PinMAME Romset | |
| | 1 MB | ZIP | ROMs | [Sega Pinball, Inc.] |
| Files: | 111 KB | PDF | Instruction Card USA | [Sega Pinball, Inc.] |
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| Average Fun Rating: | ![[ 8 stars - Click for comments ]](stars/8stars.png) 7.9/10 (93 ratings/63 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ]
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| Manufacturer: | Sega Pinball, Incorporated, of Chicago, Illinois,
USA (1994-1999) [Trade Name: Sega] |
| Date Of Manufacture: | January, 1995 |
| Model Number: | 36 |
| Common Abbreviations: | MSF |
| MPU: | DataEast/Sega Version 3b |
| Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) |
| Production: | 3,000 units (approximate) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | Celebrities - Fictional |
| Notable Features: | Flippers (3), Ramps (1), Multiball, Automatic plunger |
| Toys: | Frankenstein creature model throws balls toward flippers or bumpers. |
| Design by: | John Borg |
| Art by: | Paul Faris |
| Dots/Animation by: | Jack Liddon, Kurt Andersen, Scott Melchionda, Marc Raneses |
| Music by: | Brian Schmidt |
| Sound by: | Brian Schmidt |
| Software by: | Neil Falconer, Orin Day, John Carpenter |
| Notes: | Fred Young did voice characterizations on this game.
Watch the video sequences repeat to see Sonic The Hedgehog as a Frankenstein creature with scars.
This game uses the larger 192x64 pixel DMD.
This game features Edgar Winter's classic song "Frankenstein" as one of the theme songs.
Although 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein' is a 4-player game, it played a role in the development of the 6-player feature used on subsequent Sega games. Programmer Orin Day tells us about the use of 6-players in Sega games: The 6-player display code was prototyped as a "proof-in-concept" on the Frankenstein display, but was first released in Baywatch. The Frankenstein multiball start display effect was repurposed in attract mode to promote this 6-player feature. Baywatch and Batman Forever also had this feature. When we switched back to the 128x32 display for Apollo 13 and subsequent games we also switched to the Whitestar hardware system. It's my recollection that at that time we coded both the game and display to take six players. It was removed from the system at the time of Sharkey's Shootout, no games after that had it (with the exception of NFL, which was a derivative of Striker, and any games from earlier in the catalog like South Park which were remanufactured). |
| Marketing Slogans: |
"Sega Pinball creates a monster hit!"
"Collections so good, they'll bury the competition."
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| Photos in: |
Fangoria 140, March 1995, pp. 49-52. pp. (Backglass)
The Pinball Compendium 1982 to Present , page 199
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book A-F
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| Rule Sheets: |
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Guide Version 1.0 (Sep/11/1995), by Hehman
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| ROMs: | 2 MB | ZIP | PinMAME Romset | |
| | 532 KB | ZIP | PinMAME Romset (German) | |
| | 2 MB | ZIP | ROMs | [Sega Pinball, Inc.] |
| Documentation: | 43 MB | PDF | English Manual (pages 1-66 which excludes schematics, OCR searchable) | [Sega Pinball, Inc.] |
| | 68 MB | PDF | English Manual (pages 67-93 which are the schematics, OCR searchable) | [Sega Pinball, Inc.] |
| | 9 MB | PDF | French Manual Supplement (white pages only, OCR searchable, no schematics) | [Sega Pinball, Inc.] |
| | 12 MB | PDF | German Manual Supplement (white pages only, no schematics) | [Sega Pinball, Inc.] |
| Files: | 10 KB | PDF | Frankenstein Rule Sheet By PAPA (PAPA-5) | [Enver Haase] |
| | 1 MB | ZIP | Instruction Card | |
| | 29 KB | PDF | Instruction Card USA | [Sega Pinball, Inc.] |
| | 2 MB | PDF | Solenoid, Switch, and Lamp Matrix Charts | [Sega Pinball, Inc.] |
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| Average Fun Rating: | ![[ 7 stars - Click for comments ]](stars/7stars.png) 7.1/10 (34 ratings/25 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ]
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| Manufacturer: | Stern Pinball, Incorporated, of Chicago, Illinois,
USA (1999-now) [Trade Name: Stern] |
| Date Of Manufacture: | September, 2000 |
| Model Number: | 72 |
| MPU: | Sega/Stern Whitestar |
| Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | Billiards |
| Notable Features: | Flippers (3), Pop bumpers (3), Drop targets (8), Spinning target (1). |
| Toys: | "Mystery Ball" reminiscent of Magic 8-Ball. |
| Concept by: | Dwight Sullivan |
| Design by: | John Borg |
| Art by: | John Youssi |
| Dots/Animation by: | Mark Galvez |
| Mechanics by: | John Borg |
| Music by: | Kyle Johnson |
| Sound by: | Kyle Johnson |
| Software by: | Dwight Sullivan, Keith P. Johnson, Lonnie D. Ropp |
| Notes: | Playfield adapted from Bally's 1981 'Eight Ball Deluxe'.
Fred Young did voice characterizations on this game. |
| Photos in: |
Pinball Memories, page 219
The Pinball Compendium 1982 to Present, pages 261-262
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| Owners List URL: | http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/4492 (External site) |
| ROMs: | 2 MB | ZIP | English Roms (2.11) | [Stern Pinball, Inc.] |
| | 2 MB | ZIP | French Roms (2.11) | [Stern Pinball, Inc.] |
| | 2 MB | ZIP | German Roms (2.11) | [Stern Pinball, Inc.] |
| | 2 MB | ZIP | Italian Roms (2.11) | [Stern Pinball, Inc.] |
| Documentation: | 22 MB | PDF | Game Manual (with paginated schematics) | [Stern Pinball, Inc.] |
| | 441 KB | PDF | Instruction Cards (Multi Language) | [Stern Pinball, Inc.] |
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