Considering also the white airplane, the Acid Queen inserts, and the pre-production Union Jack, Eric said that everything points to believing this is a prototype game. He did not know if the serial number P7.103 meant a prototype but after seeing the bare metal habitrails on this playfield instead of chromed production ones, he offered his best belief that the serial number was a ' cabinet prototype number'. He did not specifically recall this game or the white airplane but he did say that the 'P' on the airplane meant ' prototype' and the 545-5483-00 is a part number, and the signature below it would be Ed Cebula who would sign off on the part. We contacted Eric Winston, one of the Data East tech engineers who brought Tommy to life, for his comments. The inside of the cabinet is tagged ‘S/N P7.103’ and the upper playfield has a plain white airplane with markings on it. The entrance to the VUK has two unused drilled holes not found in production. Pictured in this listing is a game with 3 pop bumpers and which has a playfield matching the one in the manufacturer’s flyer, showing the Union Jack with fat white stripes and the hard-to-read Acid Queen inserts, two details that were changed for production games. Reportedly, these prototypes may have had EM chime units. Another was used in the 1993 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, this special machine was rigged for "autoplay" and had no backbox, electronics were cabinet-mounted. The game made its debut at the Hard Rock Cafe in Dallas in October of 1993, one of these games fell off the truck and was destroyed. Lonnie D. Ropp, Lyman F. Sheats Jr., John Carpenterġ0 pre-production prototypes were made for promotional use in conjunction with the off-Broadway productions. ![]() ![]() Joe Kaminkow, Ed Cebula, Lonnie D. Ropp, Lyman F. Sheats Jr. ![]() Unlimited buy-in balls per player (operator option).Ĭaptain Walker's airplane, Raising/Lowering mirror. Flipper blinders extend from under metal apron to cover flipper area from player's view. View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database () (External site)Ĭelebrities - Fictional - Licensed Theme - Musicalįlippers (3), Pop bumpers (3), Multiball (6). AMA.→ Oct 19th – 22nd: The 38th Annual Pinball Expo in Schaumburg, IL. I'm fairly new to the industry but if anyone has any pinball questions I'll try to answer them. ![]() Pops are great but sometimes you just want to get on with the game.Įdit: Thanks for the gold. I made a feature in my code that disables pop bumpers if the player holds both flipper buttons down. The coil slowly heats up after being activated so many times and eventually weakens (or burns out in extreme cases) These situations usually resolve themselves within a minute or two even when perfectly balanced like this. (Moving the bumper a few mm, angling the rubber slightly away, or using a rubber configuration that doesn't center on the bumper and thus self corrects toward it) It is likely it came up in testing and was ignored or deemed "a feature." It was a different time. Any number of tiny design changes could have prevented this. This particular issue tends to occur in 80s and earlier games. Pinball is a game of millimeters and single degree angle differences.
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