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Average Fun Rating: | 7.6/10 (13 ratings/8 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manufacturer: | D. Gottlieb & Company (1931-1977) [Trade Name: Gottlieb] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date Of Manufacture: | June, 1960 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Model Number: | 168 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type: | Electro-mechanical (EM) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Production: | 1,150 units (confirmed) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Theme: | Music - Dancing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Specialty: | Mechanical Backbox Animation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable Features: | Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (6), Passive bumper (1), Slingshots (2), Standup targets (2), Kick-out holes (2), Gobble hole (1). Mechanical backbox animation (silhouettes dance). Maximum displayed point score is 7,990,000 points. Replay wheel maximum: 26 Tilt penalty: game over. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Design by: | Wayne Neyens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Art by: | Roy Parker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes: | Last Gottlieb game with bulb scoring. We previously showed a date for this game of May 1960. The new date is per Gottlieb documentation. See also Gottlieb's 1960 'Dancing Dolls (Extended Play Prototype)'. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photos in: |
Cash Box, Jun-11-1960, page 47 Pinball 1 Illustrated Historical Guide to Pinball Machines Volume 1, page 222 Encyclopedia of Pinball Volume 2, page 192 The Pinball Compendium 1930s - 1960s, page 129 The Pinball Compendium Electro-mechanical Era, page 115 Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book A-F | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owners List URL: | http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/634 (External site) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Files: | 2 MB | ZIP | Original Instruction/Score Cards and Score Cards (Availability limited by copyright) | [D. Gottlieb & Company] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Average Fun Rating: | 8.3/10 (545 ratings/325 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ] | |||||
Manufacturer: | Midway Manufacturing Company, a subsidiary of WMS Industries, Incorporated, of Chicago, Illinois, USA (1988-1999) [Trade Name: Bally] | |||||
Date Of Manufacture: | March, 1992 | |||||
Model Number: | 20017 | |||||
Common Abbreviations: | TAF | |||||
MPU: | Williams WPC (Fliptronics 1) | |||||
Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) | |||||
Production: | 20,270 units (confirmed) | |||||
Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) | |||||
Theme: | Celebrities - Fictional - Licensed Theme | |||||
Notable Features: | Flippers (4), Pop bumpers (5), Slingshots (2), Ramps (2), Kick-out holes (2), Dual left inlanes. One of the four flippers doubles as a game-controlled mini-flipper Actual measured weight: 255 lbs (includes legs). | |||||
Toys: | 'Thing' hand - ball capture device. 'Electric chair' | |||||
Concept by: | Pat Lawlor | |||||
Design by: | Larry DeMar, Pat Lawlor | |||||
Art by: | John Youssi | |||||
Dots/Animation by: | Scott Slomiany | |||||
Mechanics by: | John Krutsch | |||||
Music by: | Chris Granner | |||||
Sound by: | Chris Granner | |||||
Software by: | Larry DeMar, Mike Boon | |||||
Notes: | '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. One earlier form of "auto-flipping" appears on Williams' 1953 'Palisades'. This game broke all previous sales records for flipper games. 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 change caused a number of games made subsequent in this original run to also have gold cabinets. At least their lower cabinets were gold, even if their backboxes were still made in blue. Included in this listing are pictures of one such example of this "Later Production" version having the mixed gold and blue. The legs, metal trim, and lockdown bar are not gold. 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. 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. 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. Larry Demar talks about how Later Production games could exist with mixed gold and blue cabinet art: 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. Pat Lawlor comments further on these Later Production games: The record breaking game was #20,232. That game is the one we all had our picture taken in front of, and then on the cover of Replay. The inside of the game was signed by every worker on the line that day, and is in the possession of Gene Cunningham. Pictured in this listing is a plastic for the bookcase having text that is not seen on production games. Pat Lawlor explains why: The art for the plastics had to be approved and sent for production 3 weeks before prototype games were built. During early play testing we noticed that people could not figure out how to open the vault. So we changed the art for later plastics, but in order to use the ones already in house we put the sticker on them. It happened all the time with changes from testing to production. It was a normal part of the business. | |||||
Marketing Slogans: |
"A pinball experience for the whole family!" "Now there's some `thing' special in pinball!" | |||||
Photos in: |
Chicago Tribune April 5, 1992, pp. Sect. 5, p.1:2. pp. (Cabinet) Compressed Air December 1995, pp. 14--18. pp. (Game, Backglass) New York Times 143, January 28, 1994, pp. C1(L) col 1, continued on C26(L). Smithsonian 23(10), January 1993, pp. 96-103. pp. (PF-very cool!) Arcade Treasures, page 132 The Pinball Compendium 1982 to Present, page 150 The Complete Pinball Book, page 90 Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book A-F | |||||
Rule Sheets: |
The Addams Family Rulesheet Version 2.0 (Jan/27/1995), by Brian Dominy | |||||
Owners List URL: | http://www.chrisguk.somee.com/pinball/details.asp?table=taf (External site) | |||||
Easter Eggs: | Available at Cows and Easter Eggs (External site) | |||||
Additional Media: | Promotional Video (at YouTube) (External site) | |||||
ROMs: | 204 KB | ZIP | Revision H-4 Game ROM | [Midway Manufacturing Co.] | ||
193 KB | ZIP | Revision L-1 Game ROM | [Midway Manufacturing Co.] | |||
481 KB | ZIP | Revision L-1 Sound ROM | [Midway Manufacturing Co.] | |||
195 KB | ZIP | Revision L-2 Game ROM | [Midway Manufacturing Co.] | |||
194 KB | ZIP | Revision L-3 Game ROM | [Midway Manufacturing Co.] | |||
194 KB | ZIP | Revision L-4 Game ROM | [Midway Manufacturing Co.] | |||
212 KB | ZIP | Revision L-5 Game ROM | [Midway Manufacturing Co.] | |||
209 KB | ZIP | Revision L-6 Game ROM | [Unofficial] | |||
207 KB | ZIP | Revision L-7 Game ROM | [Midway Manufacturing Co.] | |||
187 KB | ZIP | Revision P-2 Game ROM | [Midway Manufacturing Co.] | |||
481 KB | ZIP | Revision P-2 Sound ROM | [Midway Manufacturing Co.] | |||
Documentation: | 4 KB | TXT | Game ROM History | |||
10 MB | Instructions Manual (French, undated) | [Midway Mfg. Co.] | ||||
11 MB | Operations Manual (January 1992, includes schematics, OCR searchable) | [Midway Manufacturing Co.] | ||||
1 MB | Operator's Handbook (January 1991, OCR searchable, has lamp and switch matrices) | [Midway Manufacturing Co.] | ||||
198 KB | TXT | Parts List | ||||
2 MB | Setting and Operating Instructions (German, undated, OCR searchable, pages 1&3 state this is add'l info to original manual) | [NOVA Apparate GMBH & Co.] | ||||
3 MB | WPC Schematic Manual (January 1992, OCR searchable) | [Midway Manufacturing Co.] | ||||
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Source: | Flyer | |||||
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Average Fun Rating: | 8.0/10 (47 ratings/29 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manufacturer: | Midway Manufacturing Company, a subsidiary of WMS Industries, Incorporated, of Chicago, Illinois, USA (1988-1999) [Trade Name: Bally] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date Of Manufacture: | October, 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Model Number: | 50038 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Common Abbreviations: | TAFG | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MPU: | Williams WPC (Fliptronics 2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Production: | 1,000 units (confirmed) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Theme: | Celebrities - Fictional - Licensed Theme | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable Features: | Flippers (4; 3 regular-sized, 1 "Thing Flips" game-controlled mini-flipper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Toys: | 'Thing' hand - ball capture device. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Concept by: | Pat Lawlor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Design by: | Pat Lawlor, Larry DeMar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Art by: | John Youssi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dots/Animation by: | Scott Slomiany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mechanics by: | John Krutsch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Music by: | Chris Granner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound by: | Chris Granner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Software by: | Larry DeMar, Mike Boon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes: | The original version of this game, Midway's 1992 'The Addams Family', broke previous sales records for any flipper pinball game. This Special Edition commemorates that event. Like the original, this edition 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. One earlier form of "auto-flipping" appears on Williams' 1953 'Palisades'. This edition has Gold accents, such as the metal ramps, gold legs and bolts, gold lettering, the vault plastic, the bumper caps and Thing's box. Each of the (only) 1000 "Gold" machines includes a certificate signed by the members of the design team and a gold plate, containing the machine number, on the lower right front of the machine. Machine #1 is property of Pat Lawlor himself. (see more information on Pat Lawlor and The Addams Family at http://www.patlawlordesign.com/playmeter.htm) We asked Pat if any playfields from the original 1992 run were used for this Special Edition. He replies: It's POSSIBLE that there were a few old playfields used for GOLD. But unlikely. Here's why. What many people will find unbelievable is that, at the end of the regular run of Addams Family, the remaining playfields that were not designated for parts sales were destroyed. Crushed in a large compactor. I personally saw racks of playfields go to the crusher. That's because Williams never ran second releases later. And that inventory would have had to have been stored somewhere in the building. It was more cost effective to write down the inventory than keep it. When the decision was made to do the Gold Run of 1000 games, new playfields were ordered and used. My game has a playfield made by Lenc-Smith [Manufacturing Company] in March of the build year. Impossible for the regular run! Now maybe a game was repaired with an old playfield from parts sales, but I do not believe that you could make a case that the entire run of Golds was old playfields. (My game proves that is incorrect). Larry DeMar points out that the Gold playfield is indeed different: The PMS values for several of the colors were changed to make them "hotter". Side by side, it is easy to tell apart playfields from the original run from the new run which used the same screens with different colors. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photos in: |
The Pinball Compendium 1982 to Present, page 150 Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book A-F | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rule Sheets: |
The Addams Family Special Collector's Edition Rulesheet Version 1.1.1 (Jun/10/19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owners List URL: | http://hem.bredband.net/b257182/TAFGlist.htm (External site) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Easter Eggs: | Available at Cows and Easter Eggs (External site) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ROMs: | 666 KB | ZIP | Revision 1.0 Sound ROMs [U15,U18] | [Midway Mfg. Co.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
230 KB | ZIP | Revision H-3 Game ROM | [Unofficial] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
225 KB | ZIP | Revision L-2 Game ROM | [Midway Mfg. Co.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
227 KB | ZIP | Revision L-3 Game ROM | [Midway Mfg. Co.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
241 KB | ZIP | Revision LX-3 (Export) Game ROM | [Midway Mfg. Co.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
414 KB | ZIP | U15 L-1 Sound ROM, 4MB Chip Version | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Documentation: | 3 KB | TXT | Game ROM History | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 MB | Operations Manual | [Midway Mfg. Co.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
220 KB | TXT | Parts List | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 MB | Spanish Manual (Español) | [Williams Electronic Games, Inc] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 MB | WPC Schematic Manual (Revised May 17, 1993) | [Williams Electronic Games Inc.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Files: | 2 KB | TXT | Differences between TAF and TAFG | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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