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| Manufacturer: | Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company (1932-1977) |
| Date Of Manufacture: | May, 1957 |
| Type: | Electro-mechanical (EM) ![[?]](/graphic/question.gif) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Specialty: | Not A Pinball
Gun Game
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| Notable Features: | 5 cent, 10 cent, or 25 cent play (operator adjustable). This is a coin-operated simulation of a 50-caliber machine gun holding up to 8,000 steel shots and shoots them at high velocity. It is electrically operated (no compressors or air hoses). The player can press the trigger for an automatic burst of three shots or hold down the trigger for a continuous stream of shots (initially advertised as up to a maximum of 133, 200, 266, or 400 shots; operator adjustable. Subsequently advertised as between 130 and 525 shots per coin). The rate of fire was initially advertised as taking one minute, twenty seconds to shoot 400 shots continuously but was subsequently advertised as taking about a minute to fire 150 shots continuously. Operators were advised that the ideal distance for targets is 24 feet away with minimum distance of 20 feet. The operator would clean and lubricate the steel balls using a separately-purchased automatic washing mechanism before loading the balls into the gun's hopper. |
| Notes: | The manufacturer announced this game in May 1957 (per Cash Box Jun-1-1957 page 59). This is not a gun game in a stand-alone cabinet. It was designed to be installed at carnivals, fairs, and other outdoor amusement parks, and set up as a line of multiple guns all pointing towards a target gallery. Three of these guns would be installed along a seven-foot width to allow for a safe spacing between guns. Five of these guns would be installed in a booth 15 feet wide. Operators could install a bank of these guns in mobile trailers. Each gun would have its own coin slot and was not intended to be played by more than one person therefore we list this as a 1-player game.
The demand for this game was very high, including demand from U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Post Exchanges worldwide. International demand was also high, in Canada, Belgium, Sweden, Mexico, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, and Italy (per Cash Box Apr-5-1958 page 84). We noticed the manufacturer had advertised this game in a French language section of Cash Box as Commando Mitrailleuse.
Sales of this game extended well into 1959. Chicago Coin worked in cooperation with trailer builders to custom-build any size trailer to hold an entire target gallery set-up of these games (per Cash Box May-16-1959 page 69).
As late as Cash Box May-14-1960 page 96, we saw reference to Chicago Dynamic Industries as having three divisions: Chicago Coin Machine Division, Commando Machine Gun Division, and Genco Products Division.
Chicago Coin was still promoting this game in Cash Box Nov-12-1960 page 61 in that it would be featured at an upcoming "Parks Show" (for The National Association of Amusement Parks, Pools, and Beaches; or NAAPPB) that was held in Chicago's Sherman Hotel on November 27-30, 1960.
The last date for which we saw this game still listed under "Manufacturers New Equipment" as "currently in production" is in Cash Box Apr-21-1962 page 59.
This listing is not to be confused with Chicago Coin's 1972 'Commando Machine Gun'. |
| Photos in: |
Cash Box, Nov-23-1957, page 67
Cash Box, Nov-30-1957, pages 71 and 83
Cash Box, Dec-7-1957, page 83
Cash Box, Apr-5-1958, page 67
Cash Box, Jul-5-1958, Part II page 89
Cash Box, Jul-5-1958, Section Internationale Francaise, page 5
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| Documentation: | 13 MB | PDF | Instruction And Service Manual | [Chicago Coin] |
| Files: | 2 MB | PDF | General Information and Prices | [Chicago Coin] |
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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) 7.0/10 (90 ratings/68 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ]
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| Manufacturer: | Sega Pinball, Incorporated, of Chicago, Illinois,
USA (1994-1999) [Trade Name: Sega] |
| Date Of Manufacture: | February, 1999 |
| Model Number: | 71 |
| Common Abbreviations: | SP |
| MPU: | Sega/Stern Whitestar |
| Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) |
| Production: | 2,200 units (approximate) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | Cartoon - Licensed - Juvenilia |
| Notable Features: | Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Slingshots (2).
Pressing flipper buttons 2x left, 2x right, 2x left, 2x right during attract mode will display the personnel credits on the DMD. |
| Toys: | Figurines of the various cartoon characters. Toilet on playfield "flushes" balls during multiball play. |
| Concept by: | Joe Kaminkow |
| Design by: | Joe Balcer, Joe Kaminkow |
| Art by: | Jason Dominiak, Dave Link |
| Dots/Animation by: | Kurt Andersen |
| Mechanics by: | Rob Hurtado |
| Music by: | Kyle Johnson |
| Sound by: | Kyle Johnson |
| Software by: | Neil Falconer, Orin Day, Lonnie D. Ropp |
| Notes: | Adult cartoon theme with puerile elements. The operator can address this by selecting one of three modes: 'G' for family areas, 'TV-14' for teenage areas, or 'TV-MA' for adult areas.
It has been reported the production run was 2,200 initially and either 242 or 600 on the second run.
In this listing is an Early Production game with serial number 146406 showing the upper right ramp decal and plastic that appear in the flyer. Included in the game was a large decal in the design of an arrow that the operator could use to cover up playfield artwork that might be deemed objectionable.
The DMD displays personnel credits at a certain point in the game if the player presses the flipper buttons in a prescribed way. Kevin O'Connor is listed there as one of the artists for this game but we removed his name from our listing after he told us:I shouldn't really have an art credit on SP. I may have done some early sketches but that's it. Dave Link was their sculptor outside contractor for toys on many games. |
| Photos in: |
The Pinball Compendium 1982 to Present, page 257
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| Rule Sheets: |
South Park Rulesheet Version 1 (May/18/1999), by Robert Macauley
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| Easter Eggs: | Available at Cows and Easter Eggs (External site) |
| ROMs: | 3 MB | ZIP | PinMAME Romset (0.9) | |
| | 3 MB | ZIP | PinMAME Romset (1.03) | |
| | 3 MB | ZIP | Prototype (Swearing) Roms (.90) | |
| | 3 MB | ZIP | Prototype (Swearing) ROMs - (.96 - More completed animations) | |
| | 3 MB | ZIP | ROM V1.03 | [Stern Pinball, Inc.] |
| Documentation: | 4 MB | PDF | English Manual (pages 1-26 only; pages 27-46 are missing) | [Sega Pinball, Inc.] |
| | 138 MB | PDF | Manual (English) | [Sega Pinball, Inc.] |
| Files: | 489 KB | PDF | Instruction Card Multi-language | [Sega Pinball, Inc.] |
| | 84 KB | PDF | Personnel Credits | [Sega Pinball, Inc.] |
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