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  1. By Flipcommons AI Descriptions (MachineModel)
    description
    *Party Animal (Bally Wulff)* is the German-market licensed build of [[person:dennis-nordman]]'s 1987 *[[model:party-animal]]*, produced by [[manufacturer:bally]]'s German subsidiary [[manufacturer:bally-wulff]], a Berlin firm[1] that Bally had acquired from its founder [[person:gunter-wulff]] and renamed.[2] As Bally's European arm, the Berlin house turned out its own editions of several [[corporate-entity:bally-midway-manufacturing-company]] solid-state pinballs — among them *[[model:fireball-classic-bally-wulff]]*, *[[model:eight-ball-champ-bally-wulff]]* and *[[model:special-force-girls]]*. Its Party Animal was offered with two translites — a plain beer stein on the bar version and a "Dads Rootbeer" stein on the home version[3] — mirroring the American original.
    1.
    Wikipedia — https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally_Wulff
    Die Bally Wulff Games & Entertainment GmbH ist ein deutscher Hersteller von Geld-Gewinn-Spiel-Geräten mit Firmen- und Produktionssitz in Berlin
    2.
    Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally_Manufacturing
    The company expanded internationally in 1974 when it acquired German company Guenter Wulff-Apparatebau, which was renamed Bally Wulff.
    3.
    Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #3293
    Two translites available: bar and home version. Bar version has a plain beer stein while home version has a stein with "Dads Rootbeer" printed on it.
  2. By Flipcommons Catalog
    game_format
    Pinball
    Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #3293
    Flippers (3), Ramps (2), Out Holes (3).
  3. By Flipcommons Catalog

    This is Bally Wulff's own edition of Bally Midway's 1987 Party Animal (model:party-animal): the corporate entity is already bally-wulff, and the machine carries the same name and the same distinctive bar/home root-beer-stein translite as the US original. Bally Wulff was Bally's licensed German subsidiary and built European production runs of Bally Midway solid-state pinballs (see the manufacturer and licensed-build tag descriptions), so this is recorded as a licensed build of the US Party Animal. Merged under the party-animal title — OPDB catalogues only the US machine (group G42Zz), so a single title contradicts nothing there.

    model_relationship
    Target machine
    Party Animal (Bally 1987)
    Relationship type
    Copy
    License status
    Licensed
    slug
    party-animal-2 → party-animal-bally-wulff
    title
    Party Animal → Party Animal
  4. By Flipcommons Catalog

    Splitting the garbled 1980s-party-theme into its two constituent themes.

    theme
    Theme
    Party
    theme
    Theme
    1980s
    theme
    1980's Party Theme
  5. By IPDB

    Garbled theme value concatenating '1980s' and 'Party'; being split into those two proper themes.

    theme
    1980's Party Theme → 1980's Party Theme
  6. By IPDB
    gameplay_feature
    Gameplay feature
    Ramps
    Count
    2
    gameplay_feature
    Gameplay feature
    Flippers
    Count
    3
    ipdb_id
    3293
    month
    6
    player_count
    4
    technology_generation
    Solid State
    theme
    1980's Party Theme
    year
    1987
  7. By Flipcommons Catalog
    corporate_entity
    Bally Wulff (1972-1991)
    ipdb_id
    3293
    month
    6
    name
    Party Animal
    player_count
    4
    slug
    party-animal-2
    technology_generation
    Solid State
    theme
    Theme
    1980's Party Theme
    title
    Party Animal
    year
    1987