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| Manufacturer: | Stern Pinball, Incorporated, of Chicago, Illinois,
USA (1999-now) [Trade Name: Stern] |
| Date Of Manufacture: | 2006 |
| MPU: | Sega/Stern Whitestar |
| Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) ![[?]](/graphic/question.gif) |
| Production: | 1 unit |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | Human Physiology - Medical |
| Specialty: | Converted Game
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| Notes: | This is a special conversion of Stern's 2003 'The Simpsons Pinball Party'.
Stern participated in its creation and, according to someone at Stern, only one was made and all of the artwork was done by Bruce Quast, Exhibits Manager of the Discovery Center Museum in Rockford, Illinois, which exhibits the game.
Bruce did all the replacement artwork (playfield, plastics, cabinet, and translite) after Stern sent a blank, white cabinet and blank playfield to the museum. After the art was completed by Bruce, it was sent for clear-coating and Stern assembled the final machine, including producing the custom playfield plastics.
Stern also participated by removing all references to Simpsons from the programming and by changing the mini-display on the playfield to scroll "BRAIN GAME" continuously. All sounds were replaced with simple electronic chime-like (i.e. classic electromechanical) noises.
According to the same person at Stern, one addition is that the game will randomly go into a "seizure" where everything locks up for around 15 seconds. A display effect was added for that occurrence, and a "special game over ... that tells you to let the next person in line play."
According to Chad Dentandt, who has played it: "It uses [the] 5 senses. ... A journey through the mind. And about every 10-15 games it actually shuts down, for about 10 seconds, to represent a seizure. An unwanted time out if you will. People then can get somewhat of an idea of what it is like." |
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| Manufacturer: | Stern Pinball, Incorporated, of Chicago, Illinois,
USA (1999-now) [Trade Name: Stern] |
| Date Of Manufacture: | February 14, 2003 |
| Model Number: | PINBALL-SIMPSON, PINBALL I-0077 |
| Common Abbreviations: | SPP, TSPP |
| 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: | Licensed Theme - Comic |
| Notable Features: | Upper Mini-Playfield. Flippers (5). Drop targets (3). Multiball (3 ball and 5 ball). Captive Ball (1). Bumper caps in the shape of nuclear cooling towers. Auto-plunger/manual-plunger arrangement.
Actual measured weight: 260 lbs (includes legs). |
| Toys: | Homer's head moves on playfield, with lamp inside. Itchy & Scratchy figures. Comic Book Guy figure. Bart figure. Television -- a 3-color digital LED dot matrix display. Living room "couch" (3 ball lock) on upper playfield. |
| Design by: | Keith P. Johnson, Joe Balcer |
| Art by: | Kevin O'Connor, Margaret Hudson |
| Dots/Animation by: | Mark Galvez |
| Mechanics by: | Wesley Chang, Ray Tanzer |
| Music by: | Dan Forden |
| Sound by: | Chris Granner |
| Software by: | Keith P. Johnson, Dwight Sullivan |
| Notes: | 100% of speech was by Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright and Hank Azaria, custom recorded for the game. Cabinet and Backglass art was done by Matt Groening's team.
On Test: December-27-2002
Press Release: January-06-2003 |
| Photos in: |
GameRoom, Vol. 15 No.3, Mar 2003
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| Rule Sheets: |
The Simpson's Pinball Party Rulesheet (Mar/07/2003), by Bowen Kerins
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| Owners List URL: | http://www.pinballrebel.com/game/pins/tspp/tspp_owners.htm (External site) |
| Easter Eggs: | Available at Cows and Easter Eggs (External site) |
| ROMs: | 4 MB | ZIP | PinMAME Romset (5.00) | [Stern Pinball, Inc.] |
| | 247 KB | ZIP | PinMAME Romset (5.00) French | [Stern Pinball, Inc.] |
| | 247 KB | ZIP | PinMAME Romset (5.00) German | [Stern Pinball, Inc.] |
| | 247 KB | ZIP | PinMAME Romset (5.00) Italian | [Stern Pinball, Inc.] |
| | 247 KB | ZIP | PinMAME Romset (5.00) Spanish | [Stern Pinball, Inc.] |
| Documentation: | 339 KB | PDF | Instruction Cards (Multi Language) | [Stern Pinball, Inc.] |
| | 20 MB | PDF | Manual | [Stern Pinball, Inc.] |
| Files: | 3 KB | TXT | Press Release | [Stern Pinball, Inc.] |
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