Well, I did it again. I found another one of these fun, old-timey, handheld vintage pinball games, and swapped out the snoozer sports theme background for something much more exciting (click HERE and HERE for more!) And in this case, we've been bitten by a ferocious fiend with the unforgettably, fearsome snarling face of Lon Chaney Jr. from the 1941 Universal horror film classic, The Wolf Man! I would really love to substitute the 5 pinballs inside with lycanthrope ending silver balls, naturally-- meanwhile, the iconic picture itself was ripped from the pages of my back-up copy of Denis Gifford's awesome, A Pictorial History of Horror Movies (yes, this copy was already falling apart, anyway!) And yes part two, the old saying still holds true:
"Even a man who is pure in heart and plays pinball by night, may become a Wolfball Wizard when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright..."
4 comments:
Ah. Good old page 123.
IMHO, the most iconic image from the entire early Universal monster cycle.
And it makes the game more exciting. It's not if you win or lose a sportsball game, but if you don't get 100 points you get ripped to shreds!
This is outstanding, this is as great as your hardback horror books, Karswell.
Which famous monster will be next to grace a mini pinball game? Godzilla? King Kong? Bela Lugosi's Dracula? Boris Karloff's/Jack Pierce's Frankenstein? The demon from Night of the Demon/Curse of the Demon? Freddy Kruger? Jason? Michael Meyers? The list goes on and on.
The way Wolf-Man's fingernails are poised over the red dots of the scorecard make him look like he's ringing me up on an old-timey cash register. Or maybe I'm running the register, and the little puppy's so short that I have to look over the counter just to see him? Surely he's buying a Slim Jim.
Anyway I love this game!
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