If you saw my previous post HERE where I swapped out the dull sports themed backgrounds of cheap, dime store, handheld pinballs from the 60's and 70's (with much prettier vintage pin-ups!), well, I've made another one out of an old football game. And this time I've brought in the late, great Vincent Price for something a bit spookier and fun. Fans of the 1974 British horror film classic, Madhouse, will undoubtably recognize the face under all of that monstery make-up. And no, the film is still tons more exciting than the game, but it looks extra cool how everything lined up with the score cups. Now, play ball!
3 comments:
That works surprisingly well, even the 250/150 lining up with the cheeks (or maybe a cool villain mustache!)
I love that poster; it fits in so well with a site that does a lot of horror comics; all the kind of things you'd see featured on a cover: monsters, screaming women, candles, skulls, spiders, haunted houses, graveyards!
You could sell that Price pinball game online for a hundred dollars minimum and it would be bought in an hour!
I do believe you have stumbled onto a goldmine, Karswell- monster mini games. Recycle old pinball games with new monstrous backgrounds for the monster kids that grew up and can buy what they want, without having to ask for an advance on their allowance.
From now on I'm going to be sizing-up the score cup alignment potential when I see any vintage advertising, but I think this one is going to be hard to top. This Madhouse art just seems made-to-order for pocket pinball. Be so great if there was a way to play with a tiny googly eye instead of that ball bearing.
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