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The Simpsons Pinball Party / IPD No. 4674 / February 14, 2003 / 4 Players

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Manufacturer:

Stern Pinball, Incorporated, of Chicago, Illinois,
USA (1999-now) [Trade Name: Stern]

Date Of Manufacture:

February 14, 2003

Model Number:

PINBALL-SIMPSON, PINBALL I-0077

Common Abbreviations:

SPP, TSPP

MPU:

Sega/Stern Whitestar

Type:

Solid State Electronic (SS)

Serial Number Database:

View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site)

Theme:

Licensed Theme - Comic

Notable Features:

Upper Mini-Playfield. Flippers (5). Drop targets (3). Multiball (3 ball and 5 ball). Captive Ball (1). Bumper caps in the shape of nuclear cooling towers. Auto-plunger/manual-plunger arrangement.

Actual measured weight: 260 lbs (includes legs).

Toys:

Homer's head moves on playfield, with lamp inside. Itchy & Scratchy figures. Comic Book Guy figure. Bart figure. Television -- a 3-color digital LED dot matrix display. Living room "couch" (3 ball lock) on upper playfield.

Design by:

Keith P. Johnson, Joe Balcer

Art by:

Kevin O'Connor, Margaret Hudson

Dots/Animation by:

Mark Galvez

Mechanics by:

Wesley Chang, Ray Tanzer

Music by:

Dan Forden

Sound by:

Chris Granner

Software by:

Keith P. Johnson, Dwight Sullivan

Notes:

100% of speech was by Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright and Hank Azaria, custom recorded for the game. Cabinet and Backglass art was done by Matt Groening's team.

On Test: December-27-2002
Press Release: January-06-2003

Photos in:

GameRoom, Vol. 15 No.3, Mar 2003

Rule Sheets:

The Simpson's Pinball Party Rulesheet (Mar/07/2003), by Bowen Kerins

Owners List URL:

http://www.pinballrebel.com/game/pins/tspp/tspp_owners.htm (External site)

Easter Eggs:

Available at Cows and Easter Eggs (External site)

ROMs:

4 MB

ZIP

PinMAME Romset (5.00)

[Stern Pinball, Inc.]

247 KB

ZIP

PinMAME Romset (5.00) French

[Stern Pinball, Inc.]

247 KB

ZIP

PinMAME Romset (5.00) German

[Stern Pinball, Inc.]

247 KB

ZIP

PinMAME Romset (5.00) Italian

[Stern Pinball, Inc.]

247 KB

ZIP

PinMAME Romset (5.00) Spanish

[Stern Pinball, Inc.]

Documentation:

339 KB

PDF

Instruction Cards (Multi Language)

[Stern Pinball, Inc.]

20 MB

PDF

Manual

[Stern Pinball, Inc.]

Files:

3 KB

TXT

Press Release

[Stern Pinball, Inc.]

Images:
(click to zoom)

Translite 1024x811 [Yancy Blaylock]	Playfield 731x1600 [Yancy Blaylock]	Mode Sign 447x644 [Yancy Blaylock]	Itchy & Scratchy Targets 1024x768 [Yancy Blaylock]	Middle Lane 1024x384 [Yancy Blaylock]
Kwik-E-Mart 807x893 [Yancy Blaylock]	Itchy & Scratchy 600x800 [Yancy Blaylock]	Playfield - Detail 1024x580 [Yancy Blaylock]	Couch (Ball Lock) 1024x660 [Yancy Blaylock]	Mini Playfield from Above 1024x768 [Yancy Blaylock]
Mini Playfield 1024x768 [Yancy Blaylock]	Lower Playfield 1024x1057 [Yancy Blaylock]	Early Playfield Drawing in Pencil 600x1317	Translite 600x450 [Stern Pinball, Inc.]	Flyer, Front 887x1153
Flyer, Back 887x1153	Machine 250x299	Playfield 1024x1365 [Marc Alexander]	Bare Playfield 640x1363	Cabinet - Front 1024x768 [Scott Ifkovits]
Cabinet - Left 1024x768 [Scott Ifkovits]	Cabinet - Right 1024x768 [Scott Ifkovits]	Inside Backbox 860x900 [Kim Mitchell]	Under Playfield 1200x1600 [Kim Mitchell]	Inside Cabinet 1200x1600 [Kim Mitchell]
Illuminated Translite 1200x859 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Backbox - Left 499x1600 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Cabinet - Left 1200x581 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Backbox - Right 595x1600 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Cabinet - Right 1024x524 [Jean-Pierre Renault]
Cabinet - Front 1024x669 [Jean-Pierre Renault]

Source:

rec.games.pinball

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