I'm curious what games and how many used the knocker during game play as a regular sound effect not when getting a special, a replay, or extra ball as is usually the case.
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Quoted from ForceFlow:TAF comes to mind.
Nothing tops seance for knocker use during the game.
Quoted from Aurich:Nothing tops seance for knocker use during the game.
Agreed, even Josh Sharpe talks about that during one of the C2C postcasts. How well the old Bally/Williams games integrated sound and DMD with the game play to give the feeling to the games that made them great.
Quoted from Aurich:Nothing tops seance for knocker use during the game.
I don't know man. The drum roll sound effects on Ali Baba are pretty cool.
I guess I'd also like to know what was the first game to have a knocker and when did it start being used when a replay was awarded.
Anyone?
Quoted from o-din:I don't know man. The drum roll sound effects on Ali Baba are pretty cool.
ali-baba.jpg
That does sound pretty cool!
Quoted from Aurich:That does sound pretty cool!
That is why I started this thread. I thought it might be wired funny until I looked over the schematic and found that flyer. It is not used for replays on that one. I've got a Buccaneer from later in '48 that uses the knocker for replays so maybe that was the beginning of the knocker until they figured out what it would best be used for. Still I'm not sure.
1) Genco 1950 Flying Saucers
Knocker used for 10,000 point scoring, described as a rapping sound instead of a loud knock
http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=906
2) Chicago Coin 1951 Thing
Knocker activates during game to parallel story line of a 1950 song of same name.
http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2531
3) Bally 1956 Balls-A-Poppin'
Small knocker pops when points are scored.
I enjoy the novelty mode on my Neptune. Having it "pop" every couple of seconds or several times a second makes it unique for me.
I leave the match function with the knocker for awarding a free game turned on just because the sound is always cool to hear!
So does anybody know what was the first game to have a knocker? And I'm not refering to backglass artwork.
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