Pinball Tricks and Tips:

This section is dedicated to tips, tricks, strategies, walk-thru guides and Easter Eggs for pinball games. Click a letter to see the games that start with that letter or scroll down to see more information about a particular game.

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Explanation of abbreviations:

xL: Press left flipper button x times

xR: Press right flipper button x times

xS: Press start button x times

B: Press both flipper buttons

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The Addams Family

During Attract mode, with no credits, press the following sequence:
Cows: 7L, 1S, 14R, 1S, 20L, 1S (View picture). DOHO can be seen on the chainsaw blade which the cow on the right is holding.
Design Team: 13L, 1S, 1R, 1S, 2L, 1S

The Addams Family Gold

The same as above, plus:
Cows2: 12L, 1S, 5R, 1S, 4L, 1S (View picture).

Apollo 13

 
Somewhere, there´s a hidden Video mode.

Attack from Mars

 
Sometimes when you shoot the Big-O-Beam, a cow is displayed and a female voice says: "Would you look at the size of that cow?!" and a moo is heard.
Sometimes when you shoot the Tractor Beam, a cow is beamed up. (View animation).DOHO is also seen in this animation.

Whenever one of these animations appears, hit the Launch button repeatedly for lots of mooing sounds. Do this for both of the ramps and then the next Video mode will be Cow Attack Video mode, where the
saucers has been replaced with mooing cows.

At very rare occasions one of the saucers in Saucer Attack Video mode will be replaced with the number 3. The smart bomb (see below) has no effect on the "3" and nothing happens when it reaches the ground, it just disappears below the horizon. The programmers added this easter egg as a "homage" to a bug in the ST:TNG video mode which replaces the items in the tunnels with a "3".

Shoot the same Martian during Martian Multiball five times consecutively. Skull from No Fear appears saying "Again!"

Smart bomb: Press Launch button during Video mode to clear screen (works only once).

"Eat at Eddy´s" can be seen on the backglass (designer Brian Eddy).

One of the default names in the Buy-In Score list is MOO.

The woman on the backglass is the secretary who worked in the reception at the WMS factory.

There are two  flipperbutton codes on AFM, one to see the credits and one to play Cow Attack video mode instead of Saucer Attack. Don´t know the codes yet, though.

Batman Forever

After a certain # of slingshot hits, after a 3 second lag, a giant bat will appear on the screen and screech at you.  If you hit the trigger then you will get 50M extra points.

Big Bang Bar

During Attract mode, with no credits, press one of the following sequences:
S, L, R, S, L, R
S, L, R, S, 2L, R
S, L, R, S, 3L, R
S, L, R, S, 4L, R
S, L, R, S, 5L, R
You will now get a secret message.

Big Guns

There is a champagne glass on the translite, by the land separations.
There are many anachronisms on the translite and playfield.

Black Rose

Sometimes when the ball is in the jet bumpers, you can spot cows fencing on the display.

Sometimes when the Unlimited Millions round is started, you see many small cows.

Sometimes when you manage to achieve a Combo Shot, cows walk across the screen, moo´ing.

When hitting a broad-side and getting "Polly says", hit both flippers alot and it will say "Polly killed - 2 million points".

In sound test the last sound clip is labeled cow and a moo is heard.
 

Breakshot

Capcombo: Shoot around the Mini-loop, and then backwards around the right orbit to the rollover-lanes. You will now see a moose kick a cow in the behind.

The playfield ball rack lights intermittently spell out T, O, N, Y (Tony Defeo was one of the engineers). TONY also flashes during attract mode.
A flipper button sequence (which I don´t know of) encodes Tony´s birthday and starts a freak-out mode with video animation (involving Tony´s face), lights and solenoid pops.

At the end of a game, hold both flippers before and during the moose animation for a fun sound effect.

The names PATLA and GOLEN appear on the playfield below the flippers near the figure of a woman. Jim Patla designed the game and Emil Golen programmed it.

Champion Pub

The 14th collected jackpot is a "Cow of a jackpot!".

Sometimes when the Barfly gets swatted, it will be a Cowfly and a "moo" is heard.

If you hear an insect buzzing when the heavy bag is hit, quickly hit the launch button. This will give you a Barfly, Cowfly or Bobfly. 100k and a Smart Punch is also awarded.

The boxing man assembly was modeled after programmer Duncan Brown.

Circus Voltaire

Some of the obstacles in the Video mode are cows.

One of the judges in the bonus sequence is a cow and another judge is called DOHO.

Sometimes when you hit the Ringmaster, a moo is heard.

A cow sometimes fly away as debree in the DMD animation for hitting the Ringmaster. Other debrees are bolts and pigeons.

There´s a cow on the backglass, above the acrobat to the right.

The Attract mode sound is a moo.

Enter MOO for initials in the high score table and the Ringmaster will pop up and say "moo!". (Game ROM rev. 2.0 home)

Sometimes the 1´s digit on the display flips to a skull, a cow, a frog from Scared Stiff or a Tommy Ticket (from Ticket Tac Toe).

In the Attract mode´s history of the circus, a cow is mentioned in two places.

John Popadiuk can be seen as the Fabio-looking acrobat on the backglass.

In Attract mode, press one of these codes:
B, 3L, 10R, 19L, 1R (that spells CJS)
B, 16L, 1R, 2L, 1R (PAB)
B, 13L, 15R, 15L, 1R (MOO)
B, 18L, 3R, 19L, 1R (RCS)
B, 7L, 7R, 3L, 1R (GGC)
B, 6L, 18R, 14L, 1R (FRN) Will perform a system reboot.
B, 13L, 1R, 2L, 1R (MAB, works only on 2.0 ROMs)
B, 3L, 19R, 19L, 1R (CSS, works only on 2.0 ROMs)
Please note that the L & R are reversable on all the codes to this game.

Congo

During the Satellite Transfer, the first six or seven hits will get you various pictures of gorillas, diamonds and the like.  The eighth hit gives a cow that moo´s.  The next hit gives a duck that quacks, probably the Peking duck from Shadow.  After that comes the picture "move your car" from CFTBL, with the appropriate sampling.  Then follows the "Here's Your Hotdog" picture without the original sampling.

Start a game just before midnight to enable "Midnight Madness".

Corvette

 Before you plunge the ball into play, hit a flipper button to make the motor shake with a revving sound.

One of the tracks is the Holstein Track, and Holstein is a breed of cow.

When you start the "Catch me if you can"-sequence a car with one of four women drives up on the screen, but at rare occasions a cow drives the car instead, with the text "Moo" at the bottom of the screen.

Hit 2L, 1R, 2L before plunging. The control gate near the LT1 roll-over lanes will open, allowing the plunged ball to go to the upper flipper for a shot at the side ramp, or loop.
Hit 2R, 1L, 2R to close the gate again.

Creature from the Black Lagoon

When the P-A-I-D targets are completed for the first time, keep your eyes on the lower right corner of the display when the animation is finished.

One of the awards you can get from the Snackbar is a hamburger.

Flipping the flippers when...
...the Snackbar opens awards "No more bad food" and the snackbar blows up.
...the Snackbar guy gives you the meny awards the quote "Come here, punk".
...the display reads "Knockout" after Video mode will give you a violent animation.

Just to the left of the Snackbar guy in the animation you can read HI DO HO.

When you shoot F in FILM (you get the picture with 2 people kissing) DOHO can be seen in the lower right corner of the display.

Between the flippers there's a Cadillac with the name "Trudeau" on it. This is the name of a designer.

When you tap both flippers when the project team is listed in the DMD you get the following message after all the members have been shown.
TO WHOM I OWE
A LOT, THX DAD

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF MY MOTHER

HELLO
CHRISTINE

There are two sound clips that are never used in the game, and they were apparently put in by the programmers just as jokes, never to be found. 
They are:
   * (HAL-type voice) "I'm sorry, Jeff.  Only five percent of available
     RAM can be accessed at this time."  (Not sure about the %)
   * (Boomy Announcer) "Jeff!  You are a weenie!"

Cue Ball Wizard

When in Curtain Video mode you can either find a moose/antilope worth 10M or a cow pie worth nothing. You can also find the head of Elvis Presley worth 20M, "You found the King, darlin´".

A weak ramp shot will get the quote, "What kind of cow pie shot was that?"

Cyclone

A duck can be seen on the backglass and two cows can be seen on the playfield, near the "X" adv. light.

When using the trigger buttons as flipper buttons, all Combos made gives an extra million to the bonus.

Pressing both thumb buttons on the handles...
...during Multiball awards the next Jackpot as Secret Jackpot.
...when getting "Big Points/1M" at the top lock awards an "Eat at Joe´s" animation and 5M.
...and triggers when getting "Big Points/1M" at the top lock awards "WAG" and 10M.
...right after Simon has been captured the third time awards a 10M Capture bonus.
...right after hitting the second Retina Scan awards a gruesome animation and a 10M Smithers bonus.
...right after getting the U-Look-Gr8-2Day awards a 10M Feel Great bonus.
...in AcMag mode awards an exploding cow and a free AcMag award.
...when draining through an outlane during "Capture Simon" mode before Simon is captured  awards a "Simon Captured".
The 8th AcMag award is an exploding cow.

A cow can be seen on the rotating icon panel for the top lock´s mystery award.

Getting the ball up the left inlane and into the Retina Scan saucer awards a 10M Huxley bonus.

With a ball in the shooting lane, press the launcher button on the left handle 4-5 times. Lenina Huxley will now say "What I wouldn't give for some action!" This only works once per game.

When you enable any multiball there's a DO on the bottom left of the display and a HO on the bottom right.

 When you shoot the Fortress multiball there's a DOHO in the display (on the right side in the hill). (View picture).

Dirty Harry

When having the "Body Armor", drain the ball during "Meet the mob". When the ball is launched back all the mobsters will have cowheads.

Start a game just before midnight to enable "Midnight Madness".

Dracula

Hit the Start- or  Launch button when Dracula crosses his eyes.

Press both flipperbuttons when the Renfield animation is shown and he says "Master..." to award an extra 5M.

DOHO can be seen on the display when you shoot a coffin lock.

Doctor Who

With the Transmat not fully powered, hit the Transmat target. This will at random show a cow in a doctor-outfit and a "moo" is sounded.

Press the following sequence in Attract mode: 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R for a "secret message".

Click here to go back to the top menu.

Before you plunge the ball into play, hit a flipper button several times. This makes some of the flashers flash and explosions are heard.  (This can be done at the start of each ball).

Fathom

The oxygen tank of the diver on the playfield near the bumpers has "Pemberton" written on it. This is Ward Pemberton, a designer.

Fire!

In the barn there´s a cow moo´ing.

A "moo" is also heard on coin-drop and when pressing start.

Fireball II

In attract mode, the grid of bonus lights spells out "GAYTON CJ". The game was designed by Gary Gayton. It is unknown why "CJ" also appears.

Fishtales

Press the start button 3 times when the "skeleton fish" is crossing the display. This gives you a Fishbone bonus worth 10 points.
The person in the displays during the 10 point Fishbone bonus is someone named Russ who went to school with Dot Matrix artist Scott Slomiany.  Reported to be an avid fisherman.

Stuff on the backglass:
The fishermen are artist Pat McMahon and designer Mark Ritchie.
The cap on McMahons´ head has "MAX" on it, a slightly used nickname for him.
The fisherman in the water filled waders (wearing a baseball hat) is Carl
Biagi - a Mechanical Engineer on many of Steve Ritchie's games.
The man being thrown out of the boat has "DUCK" on his right shoe.
The man being thrown out of the boat has "SKALON" (mechanical man Jack Skalon) on his left shoe.
There's a beercan just above and to the right of the second boat with CG (Chris Granner) on it.
There's a bag in the boat with the initials MP (Mark Penacho) on it.
The worm is Jim Patla. "It kind of fit his personality at the time" -Brian Eddy.
On the side of the boat it says "imadv8" meaning "I am a deviate".
The name of the boat is "Crazy Johnny", named after John McMahon (Pat´s brother?).

Stuff on the playfield:
The plastic lightshield near the right fish-targets shows a bug with a parachute. On this parachute "BUZZ" is written and a "3".
There's a "3" on a plastic lightshield near the left outlane, it shows a fake fish with hooks attached to it. These hooks are double hooks, forming a "3".

Flash

"Constantino" appears between the third and the fourth display (above the "4" and below the tower) on the backglass.

Flinstones, The

 
DOHO can be seen in the following places:
In the animation where you spell CONCRETE.
In the Match animation.
During Water Buffalo mode, on the side of the stage.

Funhouse

The High Score initials are sometimes replaced with "RUDY".

The red button is held by Rudy on the backglass.

On the backglass, the man with the boy on his shoulders is artist John Youssi. The boy is his son, who also modeled for the inspiration of Rudy.
 
 

Secret Mania: When the animation with your car outside Donut Heaven and three police-cars is shown, shift down twice. Now all targets will be worth 5M for 20 seconds.

Hello World: With the ball in the shooter lane, press the following sequence: 3L, 1R, 3L, 1R, 3L, 1R, 3L, 2R.

Godzilla

The sentence "Save Ferris" can be seen on the backglass as a homage to actor Matthew Broderick.

To see the credits, press the following sequence: 2L, 2R, 2L, 2R.

Goldeneye

In the Intro-sequence where Bond draws his gun at you, draw faster than him using the gun.
This leads to a vide variety of animations where James either...
...falls over dead,
...gets blown into tiny bits,
...is chased away by the giant head of Xenia Onatop,
...is flattened by a falling pinball game,
...is chased by Q in a wheelchair "Oh, grow up 007",
...is chased by a cow,
...is chased by the T-rex from Jurassic Park,
...is chased by a "MULTIBULL",
...is pursued by a flaming comet-like skull,
...drops his clothes (except his briefs, of course),
...or runs away from 4 bouncing pinballs ("Balls Draining" animation).

In the animation for starting Tank Multiball, the letters POW can be seen in the center of the smoke.

Guns N' Roses

When a match is achieved, wait until the animation has finished completely.

Sometimes when you enter the lit Hurricane ramp, you can see a picture of  a cow accompanied with a moo, you can also get a picture of a huge eye.

Sometimes the unlit Ferris Wheel will get you an inchworm or four ducks.

Watch the background during the Shoot Again animation, the top right figure is a cow and DOHO can be seen to the left of it.

DOHO is written vertically on the crate to the right in the match animation.
DOHO can be seen on the road sign in the Dr. Jones loop animation sequence.

During two-ball multiball, shoot the captive ball 5 times to award the item "The Fish Of Tales".

During "Find Marion" mode, after finding Marion, the shoot out scene can be ended in two ways;
either shooting the mode start hole, or pulling the gun trigger. After completing the shootout sequence, a face of a woman can be seen on the side of the building in the background.

Indianapolis 500

COW is spelt with the Spanner Targets.

The last souvenir is a cow.

In Wrong Turn you can see a cow in the farmer animation.

Sometimes a cow appears on the Pit Stop, being refuled/milked. You can also see this cow intentionally:
1. Advance the speedway light to Quick Pit, using the right ramp.
2. Light the Award Speedway light on the right loop.
3. Shoot the right loop.
4. Hit the Launch button rapidly when the animation starts. The cow appears!

Achieve a high score and enter the initials MOO to hear a mooing sound.

DOHO is spelt with the Spanner Targets, and is also sometimes seen in the skid/crasch animation in the Video mode.
 

In the Attract mode, press the Extra Ball button when the display shows "In memory of Joe Joos jr.".
(Joe Joos jr. is the designer of many cool toys in pinball, i.e. the 5 bank target, catapult arm, Thing, and the ferris wheel).

Watch the Keno card when you enter your name for a High Score.

Tapp the Extra Ball button while starting...
...Pinbot Poker to make Pinbot pull out an ace of clubs from his sleeve.
...Keno to get Pinbot to make all 25 squares match for 99,000,00.
...Slot machine to get Pinbot to change reels to "Light Extra Ball".
...Roll the Dice to get Pinbot to flip the dice to 12 x Dice Bonus.
...Casino Run to hear a cow moo, and now each shot to "spin the reels" during Casino Run changes the first bomb into another award (only works once per Casino Run).
...End of Ball Bonus (with 2x to 5x) to get an extra bonus multiplier.
These cheats are not sure to work all the time, but when they do you´ll hear Pinbot saying: "Look over there", "Look Hally's Comet", or "Look there's Rudy".

Cow: Sometimes a cow face can be seen on a reel during Casino Run.

On the backglass three star constellations can be seen, forming the letters "CFD", "DAD" and  "VLK".

Start a game just before midnight to enable "Midnight Madness".

During Midnight Madness each shot you make shows a message in the display like: Bang, Zap, Crash, but also a "Moo!" is displayed and sometimes a "DOHO".

Cow 1: Sometimes during Midnight Madness a "Moo!" can be heard and seen on the display when a switch is hit. This only occurs once per multiball and +/- 50 % of the multiballs.

Cow 2: Wait long enough during attract mode and then press either one of the flipper buttons or the launch button. At random occasions you may hear a "Moo!".

Shoot the outer loops several times in a row and Skull from No Fear appears in the display screaming "again!".

Tournament Mode: press and hold both flipperbuttons for about 5 seconds during attract mode, then watch the display.

Crazy Bob operates the 3x3 matrix.

 "3" appears near the lower jet bumper.

On the backglass, the joker is artist John Youssi.

Press the red buttons when...
...you shoot the Sniper Tower to recollect the value and the sniper smacks into a wire fence.
...the Safecracker guy opens the safe and smiles.
...Judge Dredd speaks into a C.B. and tells you to "get the Extra Ball".

The criminal in "35 years for arms dealing" is the girl getting kissed from "Creature from The Black Lagoon".

The criminal in "15 years for auto theft" is the snackbar operator from "Creature from The Black Lagoon".

Hidden audits: In Attract mode when the display reads "CREDITS", press 1L,1R,1L,1R,1L quickly. This will show audits about played Super Games.

When the Time Machine clock shows 3:33, hit both flippers 3 times to start the Secret mode.

Sometimes when the crane hits the car targets, DOHO comes up on the display.

Push Start button during Saucer Attack Wave to clear the screen. The Saucer Attack Video Mode can sometimes be replaced with Cow Attack Video Mode, just as in Attack From Mars.
I don´t know how this is triggered, though. It might just be a random occasion.

Crazy Bob is the owner of the junkyard.

Start a game just before midnight to enable "Midnight Madness".

Sometimes a cow will appear in the Video mode. Since the cow appearances is a Williams/Bally joke and this being a DataEast game the cow is worth 1M if you shoot it!

In the Attract mode, the instructions for the Video mode is: "Help Murtaugh make hamburger."

 

Press the following sequence in Attract mode: 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R for a "secret message".

Lost in Space
Press the following sequence: 2L, 2R, 2L, 2R to see the credits.

To put the pin in Wizard mode hold the right flipper button and press start.
To put the pin in Tournament mode hold the left flipper button and press start.

There is a Champagne glass on the translite.

The birthdays of people and family members associated with the making of the game show up on the display when the game is slam tilted or power cycled.  These birthdates show up only on the actual birthday.
These are the messages as they appear on the segment displays. The only way to make these appear is to slam tilt the game OR enter and then exit test mode. This isn't the way it was intended to work. When games are hooked up to a debugger the power up message does not appear so the happy birthday message would come up on power up. When a game is on a ROM the power up message comes up and prevents the happy birthday message from happening. This was never noticed until after production, so it ended up more hidden than intended.

1-1      "HAPPY NEW YEAR"  "HAPPY NEW YEAR"
1-1      "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"   ;Co-game designer         "JOHN TRUDEAU"
1-1      "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Co-game designer  "PYTHON ANGHELO"
1-13     "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Ex-WMS pinball & video programmer     "MARK PENACHO"
1-16     "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Friend of Brian Eddys´  "STEVE SEIP"
2-1      "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Did the manual   "JIM NICKEL"
2-1      "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Electrical engineer on project  "MANU JAYSWAL"
2-18     "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Programmer  "LARRY DEMAR"       ;head of pinball engineering
 3-11     "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Brian Eddys´ sister    "MICHELLE EDDY"
4-17     "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;French Distributers Son  "BRUNO"
4-20     "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ; "BRIAN EDDY"
5-5      "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Mechanical engineer on project    "ZOFIA BIL"
5-23     "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Brian Eddys´ Mom  "MOMMY"
6-14     "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Brian Eddys´ Dad     "DAD"
6-20     "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;French distributers daughter "SYLVIE"
 7-17     "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;A WMS pinball programmer at the time "*- PFUTZ -*"
Note: This date is wrong. It's a couple of months off (day is right)
8-22     "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Friend of Brian Eddys´ "SCOTT SMITH"
9-20     "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Mechanical engineer on project (evil twin) "ZOFIA BIL"
9-28     "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Sound and Music designer   "DAN FORDEN"
10-3     "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Playfield cable designer  "LOU ISBITZ"
10-5     "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Friend of Brian Eddys´ "STACIE LISON"
10-6     "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Distributer of WMS pinballs  "DIDIER"
11-25    "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Playfield cable designer not at WMS anymore"PAUL JOHNSON"
11-28    "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Sound and music engineer  "RICH KARSTENS"
11-30    "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;French distributer  "DIMITRI"
12-19    "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"    ;Brother of Mark Penacho (see above)  "GARY PENACHO"
12-25    "MERRY CHRISTMAS"  "MERRY CHRISTMAS"

 SUPER SECRET HELLO MESSAGE  If you page through all of status report 10 times you will see the following message:  "-> HI SCOTT <-" "-> HI STEVE <-"

OLD MCDONALD HAD A FARM
Ball in plunger lane from a ball start (won't work if you land in the lane while playing)...Hold the right flipper for at least 45 seconds.  Hold the left flipper for at least 45 seconds.  Hold BOTH flippers for at least 45 seconds and you will hear a small  BEEP sound to show that you did it correctly.   Now, Tap out the song starting with the right flipper.  Note: You must sing along or it will not work!

R - OLD.....L - MAC.....R - DON....L - ALD....R - HAD ...L - A...R - FARM.....Display will show:
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

L - AND...R - ON ....L - THIS .....R - FARM ....L - HE....R - HAD ...L - A Display will show (and the cow will moo):
COW. With a MOO MOO here and a MOO MOO there.HERE A MOO THERE A MOO EVERYWHERE A MOO MOO
Note: The timing between the RLRLRL is sensitive so tap consistantly as you sing or it will not all come up. You must also start the second verse while the EEEIIIIEEEIIIOOO is going on or you will not see the second part. Remember, time your taps as you would if you were singing it. You can do it as many times as you like by starting from the beginning of the song once it finishes. Once you shoot the ball into play you can't do it again until the next ball (must go through full sequence again).

The Bride that is on the side of the cabinet (both sides) has a human head drawn on the side of her breast plate. I don´t know who this is supposed to be.

"Christensen" appears in the fur of the tiger on the backglass, below display number 4 (artist Dave Christensen)

One of the items you can shoot with the catapult is a cow.

A cow is seen on the backglass.

The peasants says that the King has taken their cows.

Default initials for Grand Champion and Multiball Madness Champ is MOO.

Enter the initials MOO in the High Score list to hear cows moo´ing.

Shooting ramps consecutively will make Skull from No Fear appear. No fear is also one of the catapult attacks.

Sir Psycho declares "Again!" (from No Fear) randomly during castle demolition.

Mortal Kombat lines: shoot the right ramp two times in a row for "Toasty!", three times for "Fatality". Sometimes "I challenge you!" is heard.

Push Fire button during video mode to clear the screen of birds.

Catapult three cows. The next time you get the video mode (and this will probably be the second video mode, activated after say 40 or 50  FIRE's) it will be save the calves,
where the children are replaced by calves.

The designer's name appears on a plastic lightshield near the right drop target bank "BY WW WELCH" (Wally Welch).
"P. BY EMIL G" appears on a plastic lightshield near the skill shot rollovers.
"MAD MAX" appears on a plastic lightshield near the "1" target.

During Attract mode, press one of the following sequences:
"Secret message": 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R.
3L, 1R, 3L, 1R, 3L, 1R, 3L, 1R.
4L, 1R, 4L, 1R, 4L, 1R.
1R, 1L, 1R, 2L, 3R. Watch the small DMD! After entering this code three times, enter 1R, 2L, 1R, 3L, 3R.

In the game there is a "Cow palace" venue.

In the Mosh Pit Multiball animation you can see a cow skeleton on the left side of the screen.

A DOHO is seen in the graveyard when Igor finds a part for the monsters body.

Elvira, Elvis, a second Dracula and Wonder Woman can be seen on the backglass.

With a game started, press the following sequence: B, 11L, 1R, 5L, 1R, 6L, 1R. If entered successfully Lyman Sheats will say "Totally" and your next award at the "venue" scoop will be "Lyman´s Lament".

"Christensen" appears on the champagne bottle on the right side of the backglass (artist Dave Christensen).
 

Press the following sequence in Attract mode: 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R for a "secret message".
 

Crazy Bob is the hot dog vendor.
Start a game just before midnight to enable "Midnight Madness". During this round a cow might appear on the display.

"Mad dog Christensen" appears on the car on the backglass.

During Attract mode, press the following sequence:
Message: B, 8L, 1R, 5L, 1R, 5L, 1R, 6L, 2R

Achieve a high score and enter the initials MOO, the skull will now say "moo" after your credit award.

Press and hold the Extra Ball button at the beginning of Air Challenge and hit the Skydive when it´s still at 25M. You are now awarded 50M and a MK3 hint.

During Attract mode, press the following sequence:
Design Team: B, 16R, 1L, 13R, 1L, 12R, 1L
Once entered you have to wait 5 minutes until you can do it again.

The default high score for "holes in 1" have the initials "MOO".

The red button is held by Buzz on the backglass.

There is a mock reflection of you playing the game, in the pinball, that is used as a separator between the words pin and bot on the translite.

On the backglass there is a comet which has a face, kind of like the pinball Comet.
 

To see information about the Stern crew that tested and developed this game, in the attract mode, press both flippers to clear the memory, then press the left flipper 7 times, right flipper once, left once, right once, left 13 times, right twice.

Click here to go back to the top menu.

A cow is held by the big Martian on the backglass.

One of the animals that you must shrink in the Big-O-Beam mode is a cow.

A plane on the backglass has the text "P2K" and "Gomez" on the side.

A cow can be beamed up in "Alien Abduction".

In the animation for regular multiball a Saturn-like planet whizzes by. On the rings of the planet stands a cow.

Mortal Kombat line: in the Secret Weapon mode, get the martians life bar down all the way and the words "Finish Him!" appear.

In Attract mode, press the following sequence: B, 1R, 1L, 2R, 1L, 3R, 1L, 1L

Ripley's Believe It Or Not

Two in-game quotes are an obvious loan from earlier Pat Lawlor (the designer) games:
Shoot into the BOZO hole when unlit and you will hear "It´s not plugged in man!" taken from The Addams Family.
The tilt quote is "Skate with the penguins at your own risk in The Ripley Zone!". Quite similar to the tilt quote in Twilight Zone!

Riverboat Gambler

Before you plunge the ball, press and hold the Red and Black buttons. then press Pass 3 times, Black 3 times, Red 3 times, Green 3 times.
The display will now "shimmer", and when you press Black and Red at the same time it will say "Hello World".

Road Show

There are two cows in RS. One is on the Picture Plate souvenir, and the other on the far right of the backglass, on top of the hill.

There are also two DOHO´s: Watch the barbed wire on the far right of the backglass. No. 2 appears in the background of the New York mode, in the windows of one of the buildings.

Construction Mania: When you visit Bob´s Souvenir Bunker and the display shows the bunker with the sign "Uranium Ore $3 a Chunk" in the window, quickly hit both flippers twice.
All targets are now worth 3M for 20 seconds.

Secret Skill Shot: Plunge (or use the flippers) the ball into Bob´s Bunker before hitting any other switches. This awards "Bob´s Lotto" worth 500k.

Secret Video mode: Enter the High Score list (the daily High Score list will do as well) and press the following combination instead of your initials: B, 3R, 2L, 2R, 1L.
This only works if the billboard at Bob´s Bunker has displayed
"Hidden Video Mode: BRRRLLRRL" when visited. This isn´t really a Video mode but a cool thing nonetheless!

Fun Message: B, 8L, 1R, 5L, 1R, 5L, 1R, 6L, 2R. (works in attract mode as well as during gameplay). This code is also used in No Fear and ST: TNG, knowing this makes more sense to the message!

Achieve a high score and enter the initials TED.

The High Score initials are sometimes replaced with "TED" or "RED".

Sometimes the billboard at Bob´s Bunker reads "Frenzy? Bwa ha haa!".

Ted is heard saying "Officer Steve Speed!" during the Ohio mode where quotes from Getaway is used, a game designed by Steve Ritchie.

The red button is held by Pat Lawlor himself, sitting in a Corvette with the license-plate "Game Biz".

The "Rubber Nose" souvenir resembles the face of Roger Sharpe.

Roller Coaster Tycoon

During Attract mode, press the following sequence: 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R.
 

S

Safecracker

The red button can be found on the backglass held out through Bob´s getaway rental van. It is also seen on one of the tokens that are awarded from the machine.

Bob´s Getaway Rental van can be seen on the playfield, above the spinning disc, and the top left plastic reads: "Bob´s Getaway Rental. Call 555-FAST".

One of the "?" awards is a cow head.

One of the Candy 2000 codes is MOO, which gives you a Vault letter.

Enter MOO in the high score list to hear a cow. This sound is also available in the Test Menu.

The letters BCM can be seen in the animation for when you enter the board game via the cellar entrance.
The letters are to the far right on the DMD and can only be seen in the beginning of the animation.
In the same animation you can see a DOHO on the sewer lid.

Turn on your machine on October 24 (or set the date and power cycle your machine) to see and hear a birthday greeting on the DMD: "Happy Birthday Amanda and Ryan".

Scared Stiff

The animation for Meat Head shows a cow mooing.

During Attract mode, press one of the following sequences: B, 3L, 15R, 23L, 1R (that spells COW!).  (View picture).
                                                                                          B, 13L, 15R, 15L, 1R (MOO)
                                                                                          B, 13L, 1R, 2L, 1R (MAB)
                                                                                          B, 3L, 10R, 19L, 1R (CJS)
                                                                                          B, 6L, 18R, 14L, 1R (FRN, performs a system reboot.)
Please note that the L & R are reversable on all the codes to this game.

When Drac says "Hurry, stop the spider!" the display usually shows a spider crawling up the web. But if instead the display shows the number 3 crawling up the web, then press the startbutton 3 times.
This awards an extra Spider Spin.

Achieve a high score and enter the initials MOO. (View picture).

In Attract mode, watch the list of Elvira´s Favorite Stiffs. Sometimes DOHO is displayed as the oldest stiff at the bottom of the list.

There are three video tapes on the backglass:
"Corn Man from Mars" was Pat McMahan's name for the Martians that Doug Watson designed for Attack from Mars.
"Black Thursday" refers to the day everyone was laid off at WMS.
"Curse of the Zombie Cows". Them cows again!

One of the deadheads, Bad Head, is playfield designer Steve Ritchie.

The cat in the backglass was drawn from a photo of designer Dennis Nordman's wife's cat, Chelsea.

With your machine set to the correct date, power up on any of these days for a birthday fanfare:
Mike 3/16/65  (Mike Boon, software)
Cameron 9/18/73  (Cameron Silver, software)
Alan 2/22
Eydie 1/5  (Mike Boon's wife)
Heather 5/14/96
Tania 12/5
Paul 11/11/57  (Paul Heitsch, sound/music)
Lindsey 9/24/86  (artist Greg Freres' daughter)
Lauren 8/30/89  (also Greg Freres' daughter)
Also listed in the ROM but not functional - Damien 5/22.

Shadow, The

Get the quote "Anyone for Peking duck?" by doing one of the following:
Pull the trigger at the beginning of each mode (does not work on Duel of Wills and Hotel).
Pull the trigger at the end of Duel of Wills.
The quote is also heard during the Extra Ball animation, during the quote "I know" in Who Knows award, when you get a Scene Bonus of 2M, when the ball is in the Battle Field popper.
The quote is only heard once per playfield location.
The quote is said by three different people and when you´ve heard all three, start a scene to start The Secret Laughing mode (Observe the duck on the right, quacking.).

During normal play, the mist behind the score digits sometimes forms a cow or a duck. Pull the trigger to hear them!

When you drain fast through an outlane after just have hit a target, a bunch of cows walks across the screen, moo´ing.
The same cows appears if you either get the new Shadow Loop Champ or get 8 or 9 loops.

Pull the trigger in the Video mode to clear the screen for a few seconds, but watch out when the Purba´s return! This only works once per Video mode.

Pull the trigger in the Mongol Hurry Up to end the mode and award 3M.

Silverball Mania

On the backglass there's a figure of a woman standing between the player numbers 1 and 3, and between player numbers 2 and 4.
This woman is holding a ball on which you can see a face. This face resembles the face of artist Kevin O' Connor.

"O Connor" and "Patla" appears on the drawing of a Wizard pinball machine on the backglass.

Simpsons, The

Bart quotes: "Don´t have a cow, man!", "Cowabunga!"

Simpsons Pinball Party, The

During Attract mode, press the following sequence: 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R.

Sopranos, The

During Attract mode, press the following sequence: 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R for a "secret message".

South Park

Press the following sequence: 2L, 2R, 2L, 2R to see the credits.

Spy Hunter

A set of targets spell out A-G-E-N-T-G-K. Agent GK: Greg Kmiec designed this game.

Starship Troopers

Press both flippers when you're getting briefed by the military officer. That guy is then history!

Press the following sequence: 2L, 2R, 2L, 2R to see the credits.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

During Attract mode, press the following sequence:
B, 8L, 1R, 5L, 1R, 5L, 1R, 6L, 2R: Steve Ritchie games.
B, 1R, 5L, 1R, 1L, 1R, 6L, 2R: CHANGE RULES AS NEEDED. -DAMMIT
B, 1R, 6L, 1R, 7L, 1R, 3L, 2R: HI TED
B, 1L, 1R, 1L, 1R, 6L, 1R, 5L, 2R: HELLO DOC X
B, 1L, 1R, 1L, 1R, 6L, 1R, 7L, 2R: THE BORG ARE REAL PARTY ANIMALS (with graphic)
B, 1L, 1R, 8L, 1R, 9L, 3R: HI ZAP
B, 2L, 1R, 1L, 1R, 3L, 1R, 5L, 2R: HIYA SEXY I LOVE YOU (with graphic)
B, 2L, 1R, 5L, 1R, 9L, 1R, 4L, 2R: HI DAN
B, 2L, 1R, 6L, 1R, 1L, 1R, 4L, 2R: HI BILL
B, 3L, 1R, 3L, 1R, 3L, 1R, 3L, 2R: HELLO WORLD
B, 3L, 1R, 3L, 1R, 9L, 1R, 1L, 2R: HI TRACEY
B, 4L, 1R, 9L, 2R, 7L, 2R: MATTHEW C. CORIALE (with graphic)
B, 5L, 1R, 9L, 1R, 4L, 1R, 9L, 2R: HI CAB
B, 6L, 1R, 9L, 1R, 6L, 1R, 9L, 2R: HI DOHO
B, 1L, 1R, 4L, 1R, 7L, 1R, 7L, 2R: HELLO XAQERY I'VE MISSED YOU
B, 8L, 1R, 1L, 1R, 1L, 1R, 8L, 2R: SUPER GAME RULES
B, 8L, 1R, 1L, 1R, 4L, 1R, 8L, 2R: HI GEORGE
B, 9L, 2R, 8L, 1R, 9L, 2R: HI JASON
B, 9L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 3L, 2R: HI TEX
B, 9L, 1R, 8L, 1R, 7L, 1R, 6L, 2R: GOOD LUCK LED

Secret Mission: When the Shuttle ramp is entered and the display shows "Holodeck 3 is Ready", pull the gun trigger three times. Every target is now worth 1M+odd number.

Hidden Poker game: When you have the choice of 25M or Shuttle Simulation in the Holodeck, hold the trigger and press the right flipper button.

Secret Video mode: Press the following sequence: B, 1R, 2L, 1R, 4L, 1R, 8L, 2R.
When you have the choice of 25M or Shuttle Simulation in the Holodeck, hold the trigger and press the right flipper button. The Hidden Poker game should now be replaced with a Breakout game.OUT!

Hidden Image: Shoot the ball into the Advance Rank/Command Decision hole when nothing is lit, then pull the trigger.
The display now shows a Limo driving away from a wall which has a DOHO graffiti on it.
You can also see this animation at the beginning of Multiball: Fire the first shot, miss the second and then hit both flippers.
This might only work on games with software revision LX-7.

Press both flipperbuttons when Data says: "If you had propelled the ball on the proper trajectory you would have been rewarded!" to award points. This is only said when losing a "bad" ball.

Star Wars Episode 1
In Attract mode, press the following sequence: B, 24R, 1L, 9R, 1L, 14R, 1L, 1R, 1L

In Attract mode, press the following sequence: B, 1R, 1L, 2R, 1L, 3R, 1L, 1L

The number of Points for Spelling Jar Jar is 19,992,510 (version 1.4). This is actually a date: 25-10-1999, the same day WMS announced the closing of their pinball branch (R.I.P).

Strikes and Spares

Artist Kevin O' Connor appears on the score list. His name appears on the backglass on the right of score display 2.

Supersonic

"G. Kmiec" appears on the jacket of the airline pilot on the top-left plastic lightshield.
 

T

Tales of the Arabian Nights

When you get Bazaar awards, quickly hit both flippers. Do this for three awards and the fourth award will be a cow worth 1M.

Start the Great Camel Race with Bazaar lit and when you make the first Symbol shot a moo is heard. Now shoot the Bazaar immediately and hit both flippers. There´s that cow again!

At very rare occasions the phrase "Move Your Car...pet!" can be heard.

Start Attract mode: keep right flipper button down, press left flipper button five times.

Stuff on the Backglass:

"Fullers II" at the bow of the sailing ship. Fullers II is a bar on the northwest side of Chicago.
"Karen LK Jack" at both sides of the bow of the sloop. Karen & Jack are the names on the dingy, they both bartend at Fullers II.
"Ketch u at Scotty's" on the beaker in the Sultans hand. Refers to Scott Ketchum.
He used to run Scotty's bar on Long Lake near Hayward in northwest Wisconsin.
"Freddy Jones" on the water pipe. Backglass artist Pat McMahon is a fan of theFreddy Jones Band, a local Chicago band
that has had some moderate success in the US.
"Bennet s" on one of the pots of gold just below the hero. Refers to Bennet Snyder, a plant worker who had more
than just a passing interest in belly dancers. He provided artist Pat McMahon with photos to aid in the costuming of the female figures.
"Maxi" on the other pot of gold. Actually just "Max", artist Pat McMahon´s nickname since grammer school.
"DZ" on the stirrup on the horse. Dave Zabriski, responsible for the music.
"JP" on the horses´ harness. John Papadiuk, game designer.
"J" on the thiefs´ jacket. J was the initial of the guy that artist Pat McMahon patterned the face after.

Stuff on the Playfield:

"taaSuts" (?) on the dagger on the ramp diverter plastic. Pat McMahon: "Think I misspelled this one. My spelling checker suggest tarsus, but I
consider a reference to a birds bone unlikely."
"Imax/Wade" on the Playfield at the base of the sword blade. "Imax", is actually just Max.(Pat´s nickname again.)
Pat McMahon: "I'm driving myself nuts trying to remember what, or who the hell Wade is."
"H.W. - the ball is wild" at the exit of the Jet return lane. A quote from Harry Williams.
"wade" near the head of the tiger in the loop. Wade is Wade Domet, a friend/mentor of John's from Toronto. Wade was on
the WCS94 backglass, he's shooting the ball in the net.
"DOHO" to the left of the right slingshot.
"zab" to the right of the left slingshot. Refers to Dave Zabriski.
"Pop 2nd" under the right slingshot. This one together with...
"Duke lnk" under the left slingshot could make Popadiuk.

Cats are thanked  for their "feline support" during Attract mode.

Taxi

Drawn on the playfield near the right flipper there's a cow sitting in the side of a motorcycle combination.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

During Attract mode, press the following sequence: 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R.

Theatre of Magic

In the Secret Ball Lock animation, you can spot DOHO in the lower left corner.

When you start a game, hold the left flipper button. The first Basement Award will now be Digital Pinball where player 1 plays for 40M, all other players play for Extra Ball.

Holding the right flipper button at the start of a game will activate MK3 Symbols. Spell THEATRE to reveal the symbols.

During the Metamorphosis mode, the woman sometimes transforms into a cow. In addition to this, you can also see the woman transform into the snack-bar guy from Creature From the Black Lagoon.
In this case, he says "Here's your hot dog!"

Shoot the Trunk three times in Hat Magic mode to make a telephone appear on the screen. "Move your car" is heard from it.

Tommy

Tommy mode: Hold the Buy-In button when starting a game to play an entire game with the blinders on.
After you've finished each BIP, press both flippers at the same time for a 1M - bonus award. Timing on this is tricky. It has to be performed at the end of your bonus count and before the next screen.

Twilight Zone

When you are awarded a replay, the three reels on the display spins to spell RE-PL-AY. Watch the left and center reel, where the cows are. The right reel reads "The Stunt Cows".
To see the animation in slow motion, click here.

Flipper bonus: When you are awarded a replay on your outhole-bonus, press both flippers when the first reel has stopped. This will give you a 5M flipper bonus.

During Attract mode, press the following sequence to see the Design Team:
5R, 1L, 1R, 1L, 5R, 1L

DOHO can be seen in the animation for the Jet Bumpers, look carefully at the radiator grill on the right car.

Quotes from older Pat Lawlor pins are heard during "Fast Lock", in reverse chronological order:
The Addams Family: Cousin It blabbing. Hitting lock: Cousin It: "Aaaah!".
Funhouse: "Hey, it´s only pinball!". Hitting lock: Rudy: "Gulp...ptooey!".
Whirlwind: "Return to your homes!". Hitting lock: "Do not panic".
Earthshaker: "It´s sunny drive time!". Hitting lock: "Ooh, Gimme shelter!".
Banzai Run: "Welcome race fans!". Hitting lock: "Go for the hill!".

Hit The Clock six times during "Clock Chaos" to hear Rudy from Funhouse: "Quit playin´ with the clock!".

Twister

Cow Multibull: Shoot the orbits 9 times to start a 5 ball Multiball.

U

Click here to go back to the top menu.

V

Vector

'Team Alpha' appears on a plastic lightshield near the flipper on the upper playfield. Team Alpha are the designers. (Kmiec, Golen, Freres, and 3 more)

The red button is held by Pat Lawlor himself, driving the Storm Blasters van on the backglass.

Whitewater

Cow 1: During Attract mode, with no credits, press the following sequence:
3L, 1S, 15R, 1S, 23L, 1S

Cow 2: During Bigfoot Hotfoot, the fifth item in Bigfoot´s Cave is a cow.

Cow 3: When the cow in Bigfoot´s Cave has been collected, getting the Mystery Canyon as a Whirlpool Award will show a picture of the Spirit pulling a string on the legless cow. A loud "moo" is heard.
This picture can also be seen very briefly in the Vacation Bonus award.

Cow 4: When you shoot "Disaster Drop" there's a display effect where you see a splash of water coming at you. At the end of the effect, when the water splashes, there it is: in the lower left corner of the display.
You have to look very carefully because you can only see it in a fraction of a second.

On the backglass, the man with the surprised look on his face is artist John Youssi.

WHO?Dunnit

Start a game just before midnight to enable "Midnight Madness".

During Attract mode, with no credits, press the following sequence:
B, 8L, 1R, 5L, 1R, 5L, 1R, 6L, 2R

One of the three random opening murder cases starts with a DMD-animation of a girl in a shower. Watch her shampoo bottles as the letters D, O, H and O are spelled out.

Watch the backglass as DOHO is written on the note in Nick Spades´ hand.

Tournament Mode: press and hold both flipperbuttons for about 5 seconds during attract mode, then watch the display.

World Cup Soccer

Shoot up one of the ramps when "Buy Ticket" is flashing. The display will show a ticket which reads "DOHO AIR".

World Poker Tour

Press the following sequence in Attract mode: 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R, 2L, 1R for a "secret message".

X

Xenon

Someone told me that HUDSON appears on the other side (near the left flipper (near the head of a robot). I don't know who Hudson is, I know that Paul Faris did the artwork so I don't think it's likely that Margaret Hudson's name appears on this playfield.

Y

Click here to go back to the top menu.

Z