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Average Fun Rating: | 7.9/10 (91 ratings/52 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manufacturer: | Midway Manufacturing Company, a subsidiary of WMS Industries, Incorporated, of Chicago, Illinois, USA (1988-1999) [Trade Name: Bally] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date Of Manufacture: | August, 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Model Number: | 50036 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MPU: | Williams WPC Security (WPC-S) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Production: | 5,001 units (confirmed) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Theme: | Car Culture | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable Features: | Flippers (3), Ramps (2), Engine-shaped ball shaker. Maximum 1 buy-in ball per player (operator option). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Toys: | Matchbox car racetrack. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Concept by: | George Gomez | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Design by: | George Gomez | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Art by: | Dan Hughes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dots/Animation by: | Eugene Geer, Scott Slomiany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mechanics by: | Tom Kopera | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Music by: | Paul Heitsch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound by: | Paul Heitsch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Software by: | Tom Uban, Bill Grupp | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes: | Designer George Gomez tells us about his original design for this game and of changes that were made prior to production: At the time Williams was making wide bodies and so my design began as a widebody, but it didn't get very far. No widebody whitewoods were ever built. I originally designed the game with drop targets and the code for this is still in the game. The decals said B-2-K which was the Callaway Turbo option. A 4-Speed shifter was bolted to the side of the game and was used to shift gears in the dragstrip mode. That code also is still there. Some of the prototypes were built with these features and somewhere I have photos. Numerous prototypes were built with the shifters and also I retrofitted one onto a production game. Numerous switches (ramp ends), flashers, and lights were removed, along with the targets and shifter, to get the game within the bill of materials budgets. Pictured in this listing is an example of the so-called "NCM" games, made for the National Corvette Museum located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. We were unable to reach Tom Uban for input about them, but designer George Gomez provided this information: Museum games were very early production games. They were not prototypes. The playfield that you refer to in the image is one of the 17 prototype games, several of these playfields went to the museum for display purposes. However, museum games did have the special NCM welcome message in the code, this may have been the only difference in those games, other than that they were very early in the production run. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Marketing Slogans: |
"A pinball worthy of the name CORVETTE." "With this dream machine, there's no limit to the fun." "Test drive it at the showroom nearest you. But be prepared.You don't take this CORVETTE for a spin. It takes you." "CORVETTE is a tour de force for pinball and Corvette fans alike." "Theres a new breed of dream machine loose on the streets. CORVETTE from Bally." "One Great American Legend Deserves Another." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photos in: |
Corvette Quarterly 8(4), Winter 1995, pp. 34-6. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rule Sheets: |
Corvette Rulesheet Version L-3 (Oct/10/1994), by Cameron Silver | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Easter Eggs: | Available at Cows and Easter Eggs (External site) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Additional Media: | Promotional Video (at YouTube) (External site) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ROMs: | 523 KB | ZIP | Revision L-1 Sound ROM | [Midway Mfg. Co.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
376 KB | ZIP | Revision LX-1 Export Game ROM | [Midway Mfg. Co.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
373 KB | ZIP | Revision PX-4 Export Game ROM (Prototype) | [Midway Mfg. Co.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Documentation: | 5 MB | English Manual | [Midway Mfg. Co.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
393 KB | Manual Amendment #16-9890 | [Midway Mfg. Co.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
858 KB | Operators Handbook | [Midway Mfg. Co.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
233 KB | TXT | Parts List | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Files: | 95 KB | JPG | Instruction Card | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
92 KB | ZIP | Reproduction Score and Instruction Cards (including French and German) | [Inkochnito] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
188 KB | Unit Disassembly For Repair #16-9887 | [Midway Mfg. Co.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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