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Some old EM have beautiful animations. One I remember is "Dancing Lady" (1966) with its ballerina. Old-fashioned but appealing. Others are really nice - will need to do some research!
More recently (1984), Zaccaria Devil Riders: a motorcycle performs loops each time the ball enters the upper playfield.
Quoted from RyanClaytor:Hi jlm33,
Re: old EM animations, I completely agree. I was actually trying to think of the name of the pin with a set of horses in the backbox. I think it might be hayburners. *looks it up* YES! I can't believe I remembered that.
Hi Ryan,
Great one! I wanted to find more and checked the Pinball Compendium 1930s-1960s for more examples. Here is a non exhaustive list, deduced from the beautiful pictures in that book:
1960 Williams Jungle
1966 Williams Casanova (a captive ball for extra bonus)
1966 Gottlieb Masquerade
1966 Gottlieb Cross Town
1967 Williams Apollo (Again, a captive ball for extra bonus)
1967 Williams Derby Days (Horses racing). I love that one: http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=667&picno=30195
I then realized one could use the Advanced search feature in ipdb, with speciality = Mechanical Backbox Animation:
No less than 173 matches, the first in 1935! Also helped me to answer your question concerning Zaccarias: Two other listed:
- Spooky (1987)
- Magic Castle (1984)
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