DW Pinball Machine

[ToddKent]

I was going through some of my old video tapes and found a shot of the Doctor Who pinball machine that I ran across a few years ago. Here are some stills I exported from the footage that I thought I'd share:

I found this in Carlsbad, New Mexico of all places. I googled it and found a wiki page and this promo video from the company that manufactured the game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIyneuOUapM

Apparently pinball machines have storylines (I had no idea) and this one involved a Master/Davros team-up which leads to the first seven Doctors joining forces to fight them...or something.

Anybody remember this?

 

[wamdue]

who knew Pinball Machine had so much plot,

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Most of the Doctors have 70's hairstyles goin' on.

Where's the Master, on the bottom part?

 

[Messianni]

Woah, Peter Davison apparently has a bit of a 70's rock-thing going on.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

There was an arcade in Lynchburg, Virginia that had that pinball machine in the early 90s. I spent a lot of quarters on it. When you got a new ball, you "retrogenerated" -- you started out as the seventh Doctor with the first ball, and you could choose which Doctor you retrogenerated into. Then the Doctor on the front (picture #2) would light up, depending upon which you'd chosen.

Good times, good times indeed.

 

[23skidoo]

I have actually come across this machine on a couple of occasions in recent years; it's still in circulation in some arcades, though mostly of the "bus depot" variety, I find.

The promo video was quite interesting -- it seems to have been written by a fan. I thought the machine came out in the 1980s, but it's "only" from 1992!

Alex

 

[Cutter John]

I remember those back in the day. I suck at pinball, but I always loved just looking at it.

 

[knine]

They had one of these at the student arcade / bowling alley at Weber State University back when I was going there in the late 90's.

 

[starsuperion]

groovy

 

[diankra]

Haven't seen it for five years or more.
There was a Doctor Who game on the viilage pub trivia machine until a few months back (Beat the Daleks, Cybes, Sontarans, etc). Disappeared in the last update, probably because kids were disappointed that it didn't involve Rose, Martha or anything from the 2005-plus series, and old school fans wanted there to be some Doctor Who questions in it!
There are more Who questions in the Charley Boorman: By All Means Necessary game on the same machine. Seriously. One question asks you who was a first Doctor companion, and the right answer is Sara Kingdom!