Twilight Zone (1993)

It's 1998 - The very early stages of my pinball madness, I remember going online to look for my next pin to buy. I had just gotten a Doctor Who on loan from a friend and now I was ready to buy my own pin. I wanted a game that had all the featured. A pin with at least four flippers! Ramps! Magnets! Six ball multiball! The more flyers I looked at, the more features my next pin had to have. Along came Dirty Harry, The Shadow, Flintstones.. Nicely priced, but they just didn't cut it on my must-have-features list. After some weeks I figured that maybe I wanted too much, until my eye fell on a 1993 Bally machine: The Twilight Zone. I vaguely remembered the television show, some real freaky stories and that eerie tune: "tada dada tada dada". Yep, this could be it, I thought! » Click here to read more...

So what is it that makes this successor to the also very popular Addams Family rated the most popular pinball machine of all amongst us Pinsiders? Is it the mysterious theme and the great adaptation of it in a pinball machine? Is it the inspiring sound track by the Dutch band 'Golden Earring'? Or should we hold the numerous inventive toys that were invented by its creators accountable? » Click here to read more...

Bally's Twilight Zone must be one of the greatest pinball machines ever made. The amount of playfield toys must have been a true revolution, when it came out back in '93. And these features must have been an operator's nightmare if I try to imagine all the mechanical features that can break down and break down earnings. The gumball machine must have been one of them, I recon, after having been trough the trouble of de-assembling it. » Click here to read more...