Elvira and the Party Monsters

Elvira and the Party Monsters is a 1989 pinball game designed by Dennis Nordman and Jim Patla and released by Midway (under the Bally label), featuring horrorshow-hostess Elvira. It was followed 1996 by Scared Stiff, also designed by Nordman.

'Elvira and the Party Monsters'

Manufacturer	Midway
Release date	October 1989
System	Williams System 11B
Design	Dennis Nordman, Jim Patla
Programming	Mark Penacho
Artwork	Greg Freres
Music	Chris Granner
Sound	Chris Granner
Voices	Cassandra Peterson (Elvira)
Production run	approximately 4000

Description

The marketing slogan "Elvira is No Cheap Date!" referring to the new .50/.75/1.00 pricing scheme.^[1] Elvira and the Party Monsters was made shortly after the merger of Williams and Bally. Although the game uses a vaguely Bally-style cabinet and flippers, all the rest of the game hardware are completely made up of Williams parts. The machine uses a System 11B CPU and associated board setup.^[2]

Digital versions

A game cartridge called "Pinball Jam" was also produced for Atari Lynx, which includes two pinball games, Police Force and Elvira and the Party Monsters. This version of the table includes a scrolling 2D screen, a two-ball Multi-Ball, and more or less self-censored Elvira quotes.^[3][2]

Elvira and the Party Monsters was available as a licensed table of The Pinball Arcade for several platforms^[4] until the loss of the Williams license in 2018.^[5]