12/6/2023 0 Comments 1978 playboy pinball machineSlogan: Played with instead of Playboy's traditional "Entertainment for Men", the pinball reads "Entertainment for All".Shameless Fanservice Girl: Again, pretty much everyone in the game.Sex Sells: The main appeal of the game.Real Song Theme Tune: The main game tune is Cy Coleman's "Playboy's Theme" from the TV show Playboy After Dark.No Name Given: The five Playmates, who are simply Miss March, Miss May, Miss January, Miss July, and Miss September.Nipple and Dimed: Played with in the "Sexy Girl" conversion, with some of the women revealing everything but their nipples, and others going completely topless.Fanservice: Unsurprisingly, just about all of the characters, save for Hugh Hefner and (probably) Granny. Millionaire Playboy: Hugh Hefner, natch.Lilliputians: Playboy's "Femlin" mascot appears around the cabinet and playfield.Game Mod: The "Sexy Girl" conversion kit.Five-Token Band: The five Playmates to be collected, which consist of three Caucasians, an African-American, and one Asian.Double Entendre: A message on the playfield reads, "It takes steel balls to play pinball.".Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Femlin on the backglass is straddling a champagne bottle.The Cameo: Granny and Little Annie Fanny (two recurring cartoon characters from the magazine) are seen in the pool on the backglass.As Himself: Hugh Hefner, Patti McGuire and Sondra Theodore.Arc Number: Five - there are five keys for the Grotto, five dropdown targets to hit, and five Playmates to collect.The Playboy pinball and the Sexy Girl conversion kit demonstrate the following tropes: The kit replaced the scantily clad Playmates with even racier nude art, while the Playboy logo on the playfield was replaced with an embedded slide projector that displayed photos of models in various states of undress during gameplay. In 1980, Arkon Automaten of Germany released Sexy Girl, a conversion kit for European markets starring model Ann Pennington. The game itself doesn't need or have much of a plot: Collect the keys to the Grotto, hit the dropdown targets, and collect five Playmates for bonus points and extra balls, all while Patti and Sondra watch from the playfield. The backglass depicts Hugh Hefner with Playmates Patti McGuire and Sondra Theodore, who are hanging out at Hugh's grotto with an assortment of Playboy characters. Unlike the magazine on which it's based, this game makes no qualms about being all about the scantily clad women. Appropriately enough, the first machine (serial number #0001) was presented to Hugh Hefner himself, who placed it in the Mansion's game room. note Fourth-best, after The Addams Family, Eight Ball, and Flash. Designed by Jim Patla with artwork by Paul Faris, it eventually sold over 18,000 units, making it one of the best-selling pinball tables ever. I play it for the Specials, honest! Playboy (Bally) is a licensed arcade pinball game released by Bally in 1978.
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