Internet Pinball Machine Database: Data East 'The Simpsons'

Joe Kaminkow told us that 'The Simpsons' was supposed to be their first game to have a dot matrix display (DMD). However, President and CEO Joe Keenan worried that development of the DMD might not be ready in time for this game and problems occurring had they rushed it into production could put the company out of business. Their next production game, Data East's 1991 'Checkpoint', introduced the DMD to pinball machines.

We previously listed the Manufacture Date as October, 1990.
This game was produced from September 1990 to February 1991.

Photos in:

Pinball Trader, Issue 26, November 1990, page 23
The Pinball Compendium 1982 to Present External Link

, page 123
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book S-Z

Rule Sheets:

The Simpsons Rulesheet (Feb/26/1991), by Joe B Reeves

Easter Eggs:

Available at Cows and Easter Eggs (External site)

ROMs:

271 KB

ZIP

PinMAME Romset

31 KB

ZIP

PinMAME Romset (2.0)

271 KB

ZIP

ROMs

Documentation:

2 MB

PDF

English Manual (missing all schematics, pages 41-59)

[Data East Pinball, Inc.]

46 MB

PDF

English Manual (OCR, with schematics)

[Data East Pinball, Inc.]

94 MB

PDF

English Manual (with schematics, very high resolution)

[Data East Pinball, Inc.]

Files:

99 KB

PDF

Instruction Card

[Data East (Stern)]

Images:
(click to zoom)

Backglass 378x430	Cabinet - Front View 203x411	Playfield 364x542 [Russ Jensen]	Flyer, Front 606x791	Flyer, Back 606x791
Lower Playfield 1024x1017 [Christopher Wolf]	Upper Playfield 1024x999 [Christopher Wolf]	Backbox and Topper 1024x1430 [Christopher Wolf]	Cabinet - Full View with Topper 700x1100 [Allen Shope]	Cabinet - Front 460x465 [Allen Shope]
Cabinet - Left 700x465 [Allen Shope]	Cabinet - Right 700x465 [Allen Shope]	Backbox - Left 350x500 [Allen Shope]	Backbox - Right 350x500 [Allen Shope]	Cabinet - Rear View 350x500 [Allen Shope]
Playfield 700x1100 [Allen Shope]	Upper Playfield 700x465 [Allen Shope]	Lower Playfield 700x465 [Allen Shope]	Playfield - Detail 350x500 [Allen Shope]	Playfield - Detail 350x500 [Allen Shope]
Playfield - Detail 350x500 [Allen Shope]	Playfield - Detail 350x500 [Allen Shope]	Playfield - Detail 350x500 [Allen Shope]	Playfield - Detail 350x500 [Allen Shope]	Playfield - Detail 700x465 [Allen Shope]
Playfield - Detail 700x465 [Allen Shope]	Playfield - Detail 700x465 [Allen Shope]	Playfield - Detail 700x465 [Allen Shope]	Playfield - Detail 700x465 [Allen Shope]	Playfield - Detail 700x465 [Allen Shope]
Under Playfield 350x500 [Allen Shope]	Inside Cabinet 350x500 [Allen Shope]	Inside Cabinet - Front 350x500 [Allen Shope]	Inside Backbox 350x500 [Allen Shope]	Illuminated Backbox and Topper 700x900 [Allen Shope]
Stripped Playfield 490x959 [Mauro Costa]	Apron 987x449 [Mauro Costa]	Illuminated Backglass and Topper 1193x1560 [Billy Loretelli]	Illuminated Playfield 1200x1600 [Billy Loretelli]	Illuminated Upper Playfield 1200x1600 [Billy Loretelli]
Illuminated Lower Playfield 1200x1600 [Billy Loretelli]	Playfield - Detail 1200x1600 [Billy Loretelli]	Cabinet - Front 1200x1600 [Billy Loretelli]	Stripped Playfield 1200x2335

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