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Elvira and the Party Monsters

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This game received 332 approved Pinsider ratings and currently rates 8.026 _/10

8.026

Top 100 ranking

This game ranks #79 in the Pinside Pinball Top 100.

Score breakdown

Score breakdown in the 4 main categories:

Game Design: 7.888

Artwork: 8.37

Sounds/Music: 7.436

Other Aspects: 8.19

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9.028/10

6 years ago

MLP

tabascoman77

Pinside member

6y 46,150 4 110

I. Love. This. Table.

First played it as a teenager in an apartment complex gameroom and I absolutely fell in love with it. Aside from the game playing fast (and frustratingly draining to the left side all the time), it's still easy for even a novice to master.

The game has excellent audio that makes you shake your head and smile because it's SO Elvira and making well-timed shots or activating multi-ball only makes her that much more playful with one-liners like "Don't touch me THERE..." or "Ooooo, nice organ!" (with regard to an actual organ tune, not one's actual "organ" - heh). Music has about two or three tunes that play during different modes.

Hitting ramps are satisfying and the game features one of the best Multiball activation sequences next to The Twilight Zone.

One of the greatest tables I've ever played.

5.629/10

6 years ago

IAN

icallison

Inactive member

Seattle, WA

11y 22,750 1 101

I really do not know why, but I have never found this game fun. I actively avoid it in fact. I roll my eyes if I have to play it in tournament. It deserves credit.... just not from me.

8.455/10

7 years ago

WWW

Shadrac

Pinside member

8y 51,050 401 1 27

A classic. My first pin and maybe the best system 11 ever created. Great fun and a beautiful machine, if you can find one in good shape

Shadrac edited previous rating on March 30, 2020.
Shadrac has owned this game in the past.

9.540/10

7 years ago

T K

tthousand66

Pinside+ Addict

Grosse Pointe Farms, MI

8y 38,500 2 21 14 1

Pretty simple but fun rules yet a very difficult game to have a 30 minute ball. Sounds and theme are very appealing to me.

tthousand66 currently owns this game.

7.848/10

7 years ago

ALB

BertoDRINK1

Pinside member

Acworth, GA

8y 75,800 586 27 25

This pin was more fun than I thought it would be. I like the music and call outs. Flow was good. I would add one to my collection seems like it would not get old, the art work is silly but fun. Just a fun pin to me I enjoy playing it when I can.

9.011/10

8 years ago

MAL

mal7887

Pinside member

Tampa, FL

8y 33,300 30 5 20

I've owned this game for a little while now and I absolutely love it. It is absolutely my favorite system 11 game. The music is perfect for the time it was made. Light shows are some of the best of this era. Lights.... Organ! Scoring the 3 million shot gives you an epic organ score and light show. It just doesn't get old for me.

It would be really hard for me to let this game go.

mal7887 edited previous rating on March 25, 2018.
mal7887 currently owns this game.

9.166/10

8 years ago

JJB

Mope161616

Pinside member

New Lenox, IL

8y 37,900 134 9 21

I have owned this since about 1996 and would not get rid of it. It can be brutal to play at times. Maybe I am just a bad player. Nice organ!

Mope161616 currently owns this game.

8.038/10

8 years ago

JAM

jroakland

Pinside member

Oakland, CA

13y 60,050 106 7 111

great late 80's game,i dnt think it would be as good of a game if it didnt have elvira...wen starting a game i get tierd of hearing her say "lets party" other than all of the rest of the sound bites are cool and i love the organ, very fun game sweet multi ball..not much flow but still very playable to me...keeper in a bigger collection if i could only have one game i would pass on this and do s.s! if i get rid of tftc i would buy one ,only because s.s is so expensive(rather have s.s) all in all e.a.t.p.m is a good game

jroakland has this game on the wishlist.

6.049/10

8 years ago

GPS

onetaste

Pinside member

Adelaide Hills

10y 63,650 142 23 114

I get bored of this one pretty quick, thin gameplay.

8.660/10

8 years ago

DJT

Taxman

In Memoriam

11y 90,950 6,228 34 30

Great game. Good solid System-11 play. Best light and sound show when Multi-ball starts.

Taxman currently owns this game.

8.104/10

8 years ago

DAD

tiltmonster

Pinside member

8y 72,050 1,728 3 11

I love this Pin! It's just lots of fun, pretty simple rule set but it doesn't get boring. Colorful playfield, excellent back glass and cabinet artwork is great. Can be a slight drain monster if you brick shots but I suppose that's par for the course. This one won't be leaving my small collection.

tiltmonster edited previous rating on December 18, 2017.
tiltmonster currently owns this game.

8.863/10

8 years ago

ALX

achtungboyy

Pinside member

El Paso, TX

11y 75,150 252 98 131

Fun game, great system 11 game. Much prefer Scared Stiff. Great theme though. Want it in my collection someday

achtungboyy edited previous rating on October 09, 2015.
achtungboyy currently owns this game.

9.340/10

8 years ago

BTC

BadBrad97

Pinside member

Simpsonville, SC

12y 61,650 842 6 13

Everybody loves Elvira. The game is just fun to play. People seem to really like to play it at pinball parties. My only complaint is that sometimes it is a drain monster for some people and they get frustrated and stop playing it.

BadBrad97 has owned this game in the past.

9.400/10

8 years ago

WIN

Paksoi

Pinside member

Almelo

9y 16,400 10 1 18

Fast and fairly brutal, i was never particularly good at it but it had everything to keep me coming back and i played this for several years.

Beefed up Elvira's theme after you score the 3 million shot is just one of, if not the coolest single piece of music in all of pinball to me. At least it allways made me feel like a boss.

Shame it's so expensive, the money it goes for can get me at least two lesser regarded titles or even a full fledged dmd pin.

Paksoi has this game on the wishlist.

8.000/10

8 years ago

AMK

OrdealByFire

Inactive member

New Baltimore, MI

8y 23,650 57 43

This is a somewhat difficult table for a couple reasons. One being that the ball seems to like to slip out of play quite easily, and that it takes awhile to build a nice score on it. What you really want to do to score big points is to light up "ELVIRA", and of course, trigger multiballs. Consistently hitting the loops is probably the most effective way of racking up a high score on this table. Probably my favorite thing about Elvira and the Party Monsters is the look of the table and the sound -- one of the more memorable tables to play in the first Season Pass. I like this table because it not only appeals to amateurs, but more hardcore pinballers as well, which probably explains its ranking well within the Top 50 on Pinside.com (currently #43). Elvira is a "funstrating" game, meaning that even though it'll frustrate you time-to-time, it's a blast to play. I had no previous interest in Elvira or anything like that, but I wound up really enjoying this table.

7.186/10

8 years ago

AGB

Ramtuathal

Pinside member

Louisville, KY

8y 63,650 123 1 148

Bounce to an outlane. Bounce to an outlane. Bounce to an outlane. I'm done. Really, this game could be more fun if it wasn't so frustrating. It's one thing for a game to challenging, but I can't stand drain monsters. And the game is rather unforgiving too - no ball save in sight even though 2/3's of my plunges are doomed.

I like the campy theme, and the game is fairly easy to play if the ball can live for a few flips. The barbeque kickout is amusing and I think the boogie monsters are funny. The ramps are decent, but I've never been amazed by any games I've played of Party Monsters. It's not on my wishlist and I would only own one if I got it for a steal.

EDIT: The more I hold EATPM up to other games that are rated very highly, the more I realize that it really is a decent game. Still unforgiving at times, but plays better than many other games that get too much credit.

Ramtuathal edited previous rating on April 25, 2016.

7.983/10

8 years ago

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colonel_caverne

Pinside member

Biscarrosse

10y 80,800 3,262 3 72

Great theme and design. Great atmosphere too, it's that why i like this pin even if ruleset is shallow.

colonel_caverne has owned this game in the past.

8.252/10

8 years ago

MIC

RipleYYY

Pinside member

14y 87,050 4,377 2 34

all has been said already, one of the best sys11 ever created :)

RipleYYY edited previous rating on August 17, 2015.
RipleYYY has owned this game in the past.

7.498/10

8 years ago

CAD

retrotilt

Pinside member

Prosper, TX

10y 103K 67 12 58

This a decent playing machine that benefits from a great theme. The artwork is top notch on the playfield, cabinet, and backglass. The music is good, but a tad repetitive. The call outs are clever and entertaining, but they also can get a little repetitive. I have to give this machine props for some very clever humor and call outs. However, the "nice organ" joke was only funny the first 20 times I heard it. A little more variety in the call outs would've really helped.

As for gameplay, this is one of the better playing System 11 machines. The rules certainly aren't deep and most of the scoring relies on the ramp shots. The ball times can be really short and this machine can be brutal, but it definitely has a high "just one more game" factor. The scoring is a little unbalanced and the rules are little on the shallow side. Overall, I think this is a fun machine that has a perfectly executed theme that greatly brings the whole package up several notches.

retrotilt edited previous rating on September 27, 2016.

6.230/10

9 years ago

CDF

Collin

Pinside member

Columbus, OH

11y 116K 5,271 29 82

Elvira is just an OK game in my mind. The shots get repetitive, and the scoring isn't clever enough to make up for that. The art is OK, and sound is pretty decent. There's nothing in the overall package that makes it particularly fun for me.

I have a feeling this game's popularity has to do more with Elvira herself and the cheesecake theme than the actual game.

8.863/10

9 years ago

K K

snowvictim

Inactive member

Warsaw

9y 66,050 549 4 29

A pin that everyone will enjoy. One of only two alphanumeric pins that I enjoy.

Pros:
- nice toys
- spooky theme represented well
- obviously a good pin if it got its sequel pin
- few larger free spaces provide additional modding potential
- easy play, simple rules

Cons:
- sound quality, albeit still not bad considering release date
- tough maintenance
- alphanumeric display

snowvictim has owned this game in the past.

9.029/10

9 years ago

BB

Blackbeard

Pinside member

12y 106K 12,106 6 20

Found a super nice Elvira. Love the gameplay. One of Nordman's better pins, second behind Wh20 in my book. Wish it had a full orbit shot though.
The artwork on this backglass and pf is second to none. Just amazing. Love the theme and goofy factor involved. Not a huge fan of the boogy men. They look cheap and do nothing.. besides make me laugh, which is good I guess. Maybe something else could've been used in that part of the pf?
Overall a top system 11, if not the top. Up there with Taxi and Pinbot.

EDIT: been playing this thing a ton lately, moreso than my other pins. Just fun. I love going for the jackpot, which is easy to reach, but hard to make. Love the colors on this thing. THIS will not leave anytime soon.

Blackbeard edited previous rating on May 19, 2015.
Blackbeard has owned this game in the past.

8.300/10

9 years ago

MTB

mtbpinball

Pinside member

Harleysville, PA

10y 77,550 582 27

Elvira!

8.032/10

9 years ago

DAD

MrBellMan

Pinside member

Concord, CA

11y 87,150 1,894 4 11

I think the artwork, backglass and overall look of the game is better then Scared Stiff. Both are fun to play, but EATPM gets the nod for me. If the game is dialed in, it's a very challenging game. I hope to do a complete restore on my game some day.

MrBellMan has owned this game in the past.

9.560/10

9 years ago

MDM

papazit1963

Pinside member

Merced, CA

11y 62,900 1,076 9 12

Picked up an EATPM a couple of months ago, shopped it out, can't stop playing it! I love the theme, the artwork, sounds, light show. Great pin! MY only complaint is the Boogie men. Cute and funny the first few times, then you just want it to be over. But even that only takes a few seconds to finish. Had a small party with about 6 pinheads the other day, 6 pins to play and all we wanted to do was keep playing Elvira. Overall, a fantastic design.

papazit1963 currently owns this game.

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