WWF Royal Rumble (pinball)

This article is about the pinball machine released in 1994. For the professional wrestling event, see Royal Rumble. For the 1993 video game, see WWF Royal Rumble (1993 video game). For the 2000 Sega game, see WWF Royal Rumble (2000 video game).

WWF Royal Rumble
advertising flyer
ManufacturerData East
Release dateApril 1994
DesignTim Seckel, Joe Kaminkow
ProgrammingNeil Falconer, Orin Day, Lyman Sheats
ArtworkPaul Faris, Markus Rothkranz
MechanicsTim Seckel
MusicBrian Schmidt
SoundBrian Schmidt
Production run3,500

WWF Royal Rumble is a pinball machine designed by Tim Seckel and released by Data East in April 1994.

Design

WWF Royal Rumble was first designed as a "narrow body", but redesigned as a widebody after Williams released Indiana Jones. The main additional feature was the upper playfield with mini flippers.[1] It is the first of the two widebody pinball machines released by Data East.[2] The machine was designed a few years prior to release. This is the first multi-level game released by Data East.[3]

The original backglass featured more than 18 different wrestlers but by the time the game was scheduled to go into production, many of the featured wrestlers had left the WWF. The backglass was revised and the production version backglass featured only six wrestlers: Hulk Hogan, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Yokozuna, The Undertaker, Lex Luger, and Bret Hart.[1] The art on the backglass originally featured comically overly muscled men, but when the steroid scandal occurred in the WWF in 1993, they forced Data East to redraw the wrestlers to have more sleek frames.

RePlay announced the game with the headline A "Hulk" of a Pinball.[4]

Game objectives

  • Modes: Collect all 9 modes to begin the Rumble.[5]
  • Multi-Ball: Collect all 9 wrestlers by shooting ramps and orbits.
  • Jackpots: During Multi-Ball, collect lit Royal Rumble Jackpot in front of Ramps & Orbits. Collect all 9 wrestlers during multi-ball to light the Super Jackpot at the upper playfield.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Shalhoub, Michael (2012). The Pinball Compendium (revised and expanded 2nd ed.). Schiffer. pp. 182–183. ISBN 978-0-7643-4107-6.
  2. ^ Craig, Rob (October 2007). "The Wonders of a Widebody". GameRoom magazine. Vol. 19, no. 10. pp. 32–35.
  3. ^ Rossignoli, Marco (2011). The Complete Pinball Book. Schiffer Publishing. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-7643-3785-7.
  4. ^ "A "Hulk" of a Pinball". RePlay. Vol. 19, no. 9. June 1994. p. 53.
  5. ^ "What's New". Play Meter. Vol. 20, no. 8. July 1994. p. 127.
  6. ^ WWF Royal Rumble manual (PDF). Data East Pinball. 1994.
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