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The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard Pinball
The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard is a Data East solid-state pinball machine released in early February 1994. Based on the Broadway show, it combines four-player dot-matrix play with dual ramps and spinners, three flippers, music, a magic mirror and flipper blinders.
The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard: machine facts
- Manufactured
- 1994
- Players
- 4
- Display
- Dot matrix
- Type
- Solid State Electronic
- Flippers
- 3
- Theme
- The Broadway show The Who's Tommy
- Features
- Dual ramps and spinners, magic mirror and flipper blinders
A Broadway pinball theme
The machine is based on the Broadway show of the same name. Its Union Jack features represent scenes from the play, and the music played during each feature corresponds to that scene.
A contemporary trade report described the game as containing 21 songs with vocals by original Broadway cast members.
Designed for spectacle
The standard Data East-width playfield has three flippers, dual ramps and spinners, a dot-matrix display, a magic mirror and flipper blinders. The mirror spells TOMMY and can light the machine's multiball, while the blinders cover the flippers during selected features.
Union Jack features and multiball
The rules guide documents 12 Union Jack features, including Christmas, Cousin Kevin, Holiday Camp, Captain Walker, Smash the Mirror, Acid Queen, There's a Doctor, Tommy Scoring and Sally Simpson. Collecting all 12 starts the Pinball Wizard feature.
Tommy multiball is lit by spelling TOMMY at the mirror. The guide also documents staged jackpots, Tommy letter awards, super jackpots and a blind multiball phase.
A 1994 Data East production model
Catalog and technical records place The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard in Data East's 1994 production lineup. OPDB records a February 1994 manufacture date, while the contemporary rules guide identifies an official release in early February 1994 at PAPA-4.
The people behind the game
- Vocals
- Michael Ceveris, Paul Kandel and Anthony Barrile