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Average Fun Rating: | 7.9/10 (75 ratings/59 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ] | |||||
Manufacturer: | Data East Pinball, Incorporated (1986-1994) | |||||
Date Of Manufacture: | April 11, 1994 | |||||
Model Number: | 500-5523-01 | |||||
Common Abbreviations: | WWF | |||||
MPU: | DataEast/Sega Version 3 | |||||
Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) | |||||
Production: | 3,500 units (confirmed) | |||||
Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) | |||||
Theme: | Licensed - Sports - Wrestling - Comedy | |||||
Specialty: | Widebody | |||||
Notable Features: | Flippers (4), Pop bumpers (3), Slingshots (2), 4-bank drop targets (1), 3-bank drop targets (1), Standup targets (6), Captive ball (1), Vertical up-kicker (1), Horseshoe lane (1), Elevated mini-playfield. Shaker motor activates when hitting targets. | |||||
Design by: | Tim Seckel, Joe Kaminkow | |||||
Art by: | Paul Faris, Markus Rothkranz | |||||
Dots/Animation by: | Jack Liddon, Kurt Andersen, Scott Melchionda | |||||
Mechanics by: | Tim Seckel | |||||
Music by: | Brian Schmidt | |||||
Sound by: | Brian Schmidt | |||||
Software by: | Neil Falconer, Orin Day, Lyman F. Sheats Jr. | |||||
Notes: | First prototype game was a narrow-body game. Game kept changing as wrestlers left WWF for other organizations. Many custom voice samples from wrestlers. Included in this listing are pictures of an Early Production game. The apparent differences from later production games are itemized below, and seem to be evident in the flyer: 1) The plastic above the ramp in the upper left playfield indicates 'Lite Mode Start' instead of 'Banzai'. 2) The wide plastic along the back wall of the playfield does not have the yellow banner indicating 'Let's Rumble'. 3) The mini-playfield has the text 'Increase Jackpot' on the wood above a red insert instead of having the words 'Multi Ball' appearing directly on the red insert. This Early Production example has mylar that was rough-cut. If this mylar was really hand-cut at the factory, it could indicate this machine was a prototype of sorts. Its serial number was not obtained to assist in identification. This machine has French coin chutes possibly pointing to its first export destination. Also pictured in this listing is a game identified by Orin Day as a Test Game, having the Early Production plastics as listed above and also having three large round magnets in the lower playfield area that were to activate during multiball. The playfield was missing a bank of standup targets and three screw holes underneath showed the targets were once there but had been removed, with wires clipped, and aligned with the vacant hole were six factory dimples, each highlighted with a red marker pen. When we first showed the pictures to Orin, we asked him if this was an Early Production game and, if so, why were the magnets removed during production? He replied: My recollection is that early WWF games did have the mag If Orin's second recollection is correct, then there may be games that had exported to Japan with uninstalled magnets packed inside the cabinet even if there was no easy way to subsequently wire them to the finished playfield or to activate any nascent software coding for them, if the coding was not already excised before exportation. We assume the playfield underside would have had the large round cut-outs for these magnets, like the example shown in this listing of a blank playfield that has them. Research would be needed to investigate these assumptions. Separate from the Test Game, Orin also commented on the prototype translite and prototype cabinet, shown in this listing courtesy of the PinGame Journal: These are pictures of a true proto We previously listed the Manufacture Date as May, 1994. This game was produced from Apr-11-1994 to Jun-17-1994. | |||||
Marketing Slogans: |
"(Various features) all combine to make WWFRR the main event for street and arcade championship collections! We needed more space to contain this cage match of pinball mayhem." "WWF Royal Rumble is sure to beat the competition and be the heavyweight champ!" "Lets get ready to rumble!" | |||||
Photos in: |
The Complete Pinball Book, page 240 The Pinball Compendium 1982 to Present, pages 182-183 Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book G-R | |||||
Rule Sheets: |
WWF Royal Rumble Rulesheet Version 3.0 (Jul/10/1994), by Michael Dunn | |||||
Owners List URL: | http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/2820 (External site) | |||||
ROMs: | 269 KB | ZIP | French Game and Display ROMs | [Data East Pinball, Inc.] | ||
267 KB | ZIP | PinMAME Romset (1.03) | ||||
1 MB | ZIP | PinMAME Romset (1.06) | ||||
1 MB | ZIP | ROMs A1.01 | [Data East USA, Inc.] | |||
Documentation: | 6 MB | English Manual | [Data East Pinball, Inc.] | |||
11 MB | German Manual | [Data East USA, Inc.] | ||||
Files: | 154 KB | Instruction Card | [Data East (Stern)] | |||
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