Well whether you knew it or not, the most popular and most widely sold Pinball Machine of all time is 'Addams Family'. This comes as no surprise to pinball enthusiasts, but it may surprise someone out there. The pinball machine is based off the 1991 movie 'Addams Family', which led to the March of 1992 release of this machine. It is produced by Bally Midway, and in total there were 20,270 units sold.
The pinball game itself features all kinds of cool things from the movie, such as real character voices from the actors of the film. There is no real single player goal based story gameplay, but there are things in the game that are objectives. One of the objectives is the 'Vault', which represents the Family Vault from the movie. The Vault in the pinball game is located in the top right corner of the playfield, and can be opened in a certain way. Its very hard to get you ball in the 'Vault' once opened, buts its cool feat if you can.
Its hard to put your finger on why it was so popular, but it was just a combination of many factors. Around that time, pinball machines sort of saw a slight resurgence in popularity due to some innovations. Some of the improvements were based of the increased video and audio functions of pinball games. The 'Addams Family' pinball was very fun and featured really cool things in the gameplay. It featured 'Things' hand, which would grab the pinball under certain circumstances, and there was a electromagnet in theplayfield that cause the ball to do strange and random things. It was just a perfect storm of a very popular and fun movie, and some great technologies that allowed for cool and fun gameplay.
The game itself is really fun and there a lot out there, but they do sometimes come at a decent price, depending on the quality of the machine. You can look up more information of the 'Addams Family' pinball machine on IPDB, and you can also check out all the pinball machines that pop up in online auctions.
Well whether you knew it or not, the most popular and most widely sold Pinball Machine of all time is 'Addams Family'. This comes as no surprise to pinball enthusiasts, but it may surprise someone out there. The pinball machine is based off the 1991 movie 'Addams Family', which led to the March of 1992 release of this machine. It is produced by Bally Midway, and in total there were 20,270 units sold.
