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Elvira and the Party Monsters

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Elvira and the Party Monsters
Backglass of Elvira and the Party Monsters pinball.jpg
Manufacturer Midway
Release dateOctober 1989
SystemWilliams System 11B
DesignDennis Nordman, Jim Patla
ProgrammingMark Penacho
ArtworkGreg Freres
Music Chris Granner
SoundChris Granner
Voices Cassandra Peterson (Elvira)
Production runapproximately 4000

Elvira and the Party Monsters is a 1989 pinball machine designed by Dennis Nordman and Jim Patla and released by Midway (under the Bally label). It features horrorshow-hostess Elvira. It was followed in 1996 by Scared Stiff and in 2019 by Elvira's House of Horrors , both also designed by Nordman with art by Greg Freres.

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Design

Most of the game was designed by Dennis Nordman, but after a motorcycle accident near the end of the design stage, Jim Patla completed it. [1]

The game is a combination of three game ideas:

  1. Monster Mash, with dancing Boogie men was conceived of by Dennis Nordman when he observed finger puppets with dancing arms at Halloween in 1984.
  2. Greg Freres conceived of Party Monster as a follow-up to Party Animal which had released in 1987.
  3. Roger Sharpe, working as Williams marketing director, thought of using Elvira as a theme [2] [3]

The marketing slogan "Elvira is No Cheap Date!" referring to the new .50/.75/1.00 pricing scheme. [4] Elvira and the Party Monsters was manufactured shortly after the merger of Williams and Bally. Although the game uses a vaguely Bally-style cabinet and flippers, all the rest of the game hardware are completely made up of Williams parts. The machine uses a System 11B CPU and associated board setup. [5] It includes rubber bogeyman characters and coffins that open during play. [6]

Backglass design

The games designers are shown on the backglass, with Dennis Nordman as the werewolf, and Jim Patla as Dracula. [1]

The arms of the creature from Creature from the Black Lagoon are shown on the backglass, three years before the Creature from the Black Lagoon pinball machine. [7]

Reception

At the AMOA 1989 awards, Elvira and the Party Monsters won the best in show award. [8]

Digital versions

This pinball machine was included in the Atari Lynx game Pinball Jam alongside Police Force . [9]

Elvira and the Party Monsters was available as a licensed table of The Pinball Arcade for several platforms [10] until the loss of the Williams license in 2018. [11]

References

  1. 1 2 Shalhoub, Michael (2012). The pinball compendium: 1982 to present (revised and expanded 2nd ed.). Atglen, Pa: Schiffer Publishing. pp. 114–115. ISBN   978-0-7643-4107-6.
  2. ↑ Nordman, Dennis (November 11, 1989). "The Creation of Elvira and the Party Monsters" (PDF). Cash Box. Vol. 53, no. 18. pp. 6, 8.
  3. ↑ "Pinball designers: the faces behind the games". Play Meter. Vol. 16, no. 7. June 1990. p. 62.
  4. ↑ "Internet Pinball Machine Database: Midway 'Elvira and the Party Monsters'".
  5. ↑ "Pinball Archive Rule Sheet: Elvira and the Party Monsters".
  6. ↑ Beck, Barbara (1989-12-08). "Pinballs: the Zing is Back!". Philadelphia Daily News. p. 51. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  7. ↑ Freres, Greg (2007). "The soul of the game" (Interview). Interviewed by Jim Jansen.
  8. ↑ "Stars turn out for a memorable night". Play Meter. Vol. 15, no. 10. October 1989. pp. 56–57.
  9. ↑ Pinball Jam game manual. Atari Corporation. 1992.
  10. ↑ Sarkar, Samit (2012-10-29). "The Pinball Arcade gets two Elvira tables on PS3, Vita". Polygon. Retrieved 2025-06-11.
  11. ↑ Lawson, Aurich (2018-05-08). "The Pinball Arcade is losing its classic tables; grab them while you can". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2025-06-11.
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