Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Sources agree (4 fields)
- credit
- George Christian — Design IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- technology_generation
- solid-state IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 4 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 6595 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (7 fields)
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- IPDB Bally used
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Bally Manufacturing Corporation used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB This pin game was never produced. Designer Greg Kmiec tells us a little about it:Simon Whitewood was an idea of Norm Clark. It was a 4 player game designed by George Christian. It was pretty much a standard pinball game layout with 4 colored inserts in the center of the playfield of the same size as the ones on the Simon handheld memory game (red-yellow-blue-green). Another smaller version of these 4 lights were in a box-like enclosure (complete with lights and switches) attached to the lockdown bar. The player would advance the bonus and capture the ball in a saucer to start a video mode. The video mode was the memory game "Simon." This mode would display on the playfield by showing sequences to the player and having the player repeat the sequence by pressing the buttons on the lockdown bar. Points were awarded for a successful sequential SIMON repeat. The sequences kept getting harder and harder. Either the playfield SIMON sequence advanced to include an additional step for every successful sequence and the player kept playing SIMON until unsuccessful or the ball kicked out after every SIMON sequence (correct or not) and the player had to requalify the SIMON game. It was supposed to be similar to Pac Man Pinball. The concept was flawed from the start: too slow to build up a challenging sequence, too much pinball playing downtime, and too much player thinking involved. Imagine playing a SIMON game at a bar. The whitewood was scrapped. My statement of SIMON taking inspiration from MR & MRS PAC-MAN PINBALL probably does date the SIMON game after MR & MRS PAC-MAN PINBALL. (The SIMON whitewood was probably developed within one year of MR & MRS PAC-MAN PINBALL.) Kmiec told us that Simon happened before Bally moved to Bally/Midway. Available Bally documentation does not mention this game. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog bally-manufacturing-corporation used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog simon used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Simon used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog simon used