1982 Bally Mr. And Mrs. Pac-Man Pinball Machine! Gameplay, artwork, ruleset

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Joe's classic video games back with another cool pinball machine video for you this evening This is the iconic We'll call it that Bally's 1982 Mr. And Mrs. Pac-man pinball machine really interesting game Very weird would be a good word for it everything from the look to the way it plays to The voice in it. It's kind of creepy You would think Pac-man is supposed to be Cutesy, but it's kind of creepy. So we'll get to that here shortly. But uh We just got this one finished up and it came out pretty good. We're happy about it it's not in a It's not mint shape or anything like that. But all in all it looks pretty good So we'll look it over a little bit if you've never seen this one. It's a really interesting machine Like I said came out in 1982 early 1982 Very colorful game got all kinds of stuff going on in it. I Believe I may have my May have my numbers wrong, but I think in 82 the pinball Industry was kind of going through some stuff. They weren't doing all that great, but Cool side art now all of this is faded. The pink is faded badly. That would have been a bright pink originally It's faded almost to white And they're all pretty much like that you don't find hardly any of these that Still have the pink going on Stenciled the first thing you notice is this weird back box. We'll talk about that in a minute. Look at that. Very strange looks cool Here comes the creepy voice Oh That's part of it one of them So he's knocking it to the ghosts Like I said, this was 1982. This is before baby pac-man. So they actually did it in order They did things the right way. We should be proud of them They got married and then they had a baby in October of that year baby pac-man was born But I wonder when jr. Pac-man came out. I probably ought to look that up Anyway, it has this big maze in the middle of the play field. It's weird and they can spell things like Bali It's got a bunch of drop targets in the middle art everywhere And it's cool back glass. So what's the what's the story with that back box? If you haven't heard you've heard the story, of course, you know it But if you haven't heard it back in the day Williams and Bali were in this big Fight business Competition where they were trying to win the pinball market and Williams came out with this interesting game called Hyperball and so hyperball was just I've never had one But if we get one, we'll film a video hyperball had a really open play field and you just I think it had flippers It might have had like a gun finger, but I think it's flippers. But basically you shot balls in a new Holes that were around the edge of the play field and it had a big Almost like a It's hard to explain but like just a perfectly flat play field that they could display things underneath the way lights lit up and things Like that. Well, anyway, it's a real fast-paced game hyperball and Williams thought it was gonna be like the greatest thing ever They thought they had invented a new type of game that was gonna sell huge So they thought that they were gonna make 50,000 of them, which is big in pinball terms Most pinball machines would sell six seven thousand Games if it was a fairly decent title, so they thought they were gonna sell 50,000 of these This was Williams. So Bally found out about it and Bally said, oh hell we got to do that I mean if we don't do one of those we're gonna get left behind So they made a basically a copy of it, which was very similar called rapid fire. And so rapid fire They made a special cabinet for it that looked similar to the hyperball cabinet and it had a weird cabinet with a Weird kind of shape that the display went in and then it had this little back box like this that sat up on top of it Of course, it was a different color with different art and stuff, but that's just stenciled on and they also made a ton of them So they made like 20,000 of these damn back boxes these weird little short back boxes that aren't tall enough for this game Rapid fire and then you know what happened next Hyperball only sold about 5,000 units and then rapid fire. They only made about 5,000 units So they were left with all these little tiny back boxes that they didn't have anything to do with So they thought man, what are we gonna do? so they were working on this game and they decided that they would all they would alter the Now if you look the cabinet is the same the body of the cabinet is the same It's just like a regular one But they would make this little box here to put the displays in and they would use up some of those back boxes So they made about 10,000 of these which so it's sold pretty good really And they still didn't use them all up. They still had a bunch left over. So they went back to the well and pulled out one of their Popular titles that they had already remade once or twice eight ball deluxe. We got a back glass up there on the wall So eight ball deluxe was a full-size game as you can see, that's a full-size back box back glass Eight ball deluxe had been a really big selling game as was eight ball And so they made a special edition of this because hell they could always sell more eight ball deluxe as everybody loved that game So they made a similar cabinet to rapid-fire and Put the little back box on it again They still didn't sell them all they still had some left over. So then they made They had made a game called centaur which was a big pretty big game and people wanted some more So they made a special edition of centaur that they called centaur to that used the little back box, too And they finally used them all up. We think there might be some still floating around somewhere, but We think they used them all up, but I sold about 10,000 of this one and it has the weird back box because of their fiasco with rapid-fire that Them and Williams both were involved in But it really kind of gives the cabinet a really cool look Looks neat. I like it a little different 1982 folks, that's what was going on. So we'll check out the playfield. Another thing you see here is this got a display Under the playfield that you can see all the time between the flippers and it's got the big maze in the middle You've got a third flipper up there You got a couple pop bumpers. You got three drop targets up there For drop targets there for drop targets there and if you look close behind the drop targets, there's a little pac-man Targets that you can hit after the drop targets fall and then up here at the top is an interesting little saucer The ball can go in either way So if the ball comes up this way this plastic piece kind of diverts it around it falls in and then it knows By the switches and things that the ball came this way and it kicks it back out that way If the ball comes in that way it knows by the switches that the ball went in that way and it kicks it out this way so pretty interesting it works both ways and there's a really crazy skill shot up here that will show you here in a minute, but uh The whole game it's it's it's one of those games that's a kind of It's not symmetric And it doesn't flow really well So you don't have like long looping shots like you're doing a lot of the Williams games and some of the Valley games, too It's it's more You know, you got to kind of hit the shot that you want to make so, you know plays a little different This isn't considered like one of the most One of the most highly rated pinball machines. It's not a dog in my opinion, but it The the theme is one of the best parts of the game we'll just put it that way really cool theme So anyway, we'll read over the instructions because as you know The games are always more fun to play Whenever you know how to play them so Instructions dropping top three targets twice opens the gate So that's the three up there The gate is right here and so it saves the ball that the book if the gates closed like that Fall down and you'll lose it Pac-man feature Ball and saucer when qualified starts pac-man play six moves or more to qualify When pac-man is played trying to see if these people are coming in or outside When pac-man is played right flipper button moves the yellow pac-man to see it here moves pac-man right flipper Left litter left flipper button moves the directional arrows clockwise Pac-man direction. Alright, so this is kind of hard to figure out whenever you walk up. You kind of have to pay attention to it It says on the display time to beat maze is completed and pac-man moves. So you earn moves as you play Through so see how it says here all targets down add five moves All targets down add five moves once you get up to six moves it makes it where basically you're qualified to start the maze if you want and so This light says when flashing qualifies maze. So if you land in that saucer there Whenever that lights flashing you start the maze, which is kind of like a video mode And then you've also got one up here same thing Qualifies maze when flashing so if that light is flashing and you land in the saucer up at the top that we were talking about The weird one and you can go either way you can go through it Go to it this way or to this way. You just need to get in the saucer. Did you get in the saucer? It starts the maze. Well when it starts the maze, you're the yellow one Which is pac-man and you start out I believe in the middle And oh, that's a safety zone. I didn't pay any attention to that and You have this thing above it the pac-man direction So one of these will be lit if you hit the left button it changes the direction So see how the left one was lit there and then if you hit the right button you move in that direction So you've got a certain number of moves pac-man moves depending on how many you have you can move around now if you go to A square where the adjacent one is the red one. That's the ghost see the ghost chasing pac-man So if like if you're here and the ghost is here if you move down here He'll get you and whenever he gets you he goes gotcha which is creepy, but We'll play it in the dark here in a minute. We'll turn it up real loud. So it'll scare you to death So that's the maze. All right Pac-man aggressive so, you know about the power pellets when lit pac-man eats the red monster light for 50,000 points When not lit monster eats and subtracts one pac-man. So the one pac-man is the five lights right there You don't lose your ball. You just lose lose one of these lights here All right special one replay for pac-man targets when special light is lit So if you drop awful are eight drop targets there are lights behind it see the pac-man And whenever you hit the targets behind it You spell pac-man. So if the special light is lit In the middle there It gives you that opportunity Extra ball one extra ball for ball in either saucer when lit All right extra ball light bonus score 5,000 for each pack maze light So at the end of the ball it counts down all of the lights that you have lit up So whatever you're moving around you're basically lighting up the maze instead of eating the dots. You're basically leaving a trail Like he's doing right there Additional bonus score 50,000 for each lit pac-man at end of game Twenty two hundred fifty thousand for each completed pack maze at end of game Tilt penalty ball in play. All right. So there you go. Now the arts pretty cool It's kind of like the cartoon was so you've got pac-man miss pac-man There's a little streetscape in the middle of the play field this weird little guy, that's the Fire hydrant or whatever You've got a ghost over here You've got pac-man BAM Aggressive when lit Hitting the ghost over there. You've got pac-man up here, too. So you've got everything. So one of the neat things that I was going to show you is the skill shot is one of the hardest skill shots in pinball So basically the skill now if you don't know about skill shots whenever you start a game a pinball machine Usually they have a skill shot where if you make this one shot Whatever shot that is will have a switch on it And so if that's the oh if that's the first switch you hit then it knows that you made that shot If you make this one skill shot you get this big bonus Pac-man and so on this one it is Go up through the through the line and Then you go around here, and you have to do what it says there skill shot you have to go up just enough That you fall down through here into the saucer if you do it too much you go past it if you don't do it enough You only go to here and fall back down, so it's a really tough skill shot. I don't know if there's any skill involved so But there you go, we'll attempt it here shortly Check that out Bali So I will set up the tripod. We'll turn it up a little bit And we'll play through it a little and you can tell me what you think in the comment section below be back in just a second Alright folks We will try it out Like I was saying this isn't a game that has like really great flow or anything. Oh and the sound there's three types of sound There's kind of like some This has the squawking talk Bally squawking talk board on it It's what it was actually called and it does like when you hit targets. It just does little bells and stuff like that But it has the ability to do digital sound which sounds really cool So it does the pac-man theme song and some stuff like that that sounds awesome, and then it also Can do speech and the speech? They can kind of change the pitch of it so some of its really freaking creepy, so We'll try it out a little bit. See what you think Missed it so that's that sound is that's the sound you make when you land in the saucer So if I go in the saucer now, it's gonna start the maze Missed it and it's held that over so it's still wanting me to go into the saucer Pretty good, so I used up all my moves. He didn't catch me There we go moves it wasn't qualified There we go now I got three moves, I think you got to have six before it'll let you start the maze All right, we'll try it again I didn't get him. I thought I had him Man, he got away. So when it's pac-man aggressive, you're actually trying to catch the This is the ghost Like I would have had at that time, but I Got a play it where you can hear when the ghost catches you what happens Hmm it keeps getting caught in that one part Or didn't make it too much that was horrible That too much I'm trying I'm trying Lucky there we're trying we're trying mr. Creepy pac-man ghost Man tough game That's nice rough, man So if I get 900,000 I get a free game Too much Not enough now, come on. Oh, there we go lucky Look at this There's a little Bad move there's a little lip right there on that display it tilted wonder why I Need to raise that a little bit Hmm not enough. That's why it keeps hitting the glass too. It's coming down and there's a little lip and it's popcorn enough Redo I Gotta just that display thing a Lot of times when we shoot these videos this is part of us testing it too, you know It's not really for sale yet. We just finished it earlier today Yeah, yeah Catch them could not catch them people try it again. I want the ghost to catch me so you can hear Close but no cigar That in lanes killer Missed I didn't have enough moves yet too much This thing's brutal So this came out in like May five months later. They made baby pac-man, which is even more brutal So, I don't know what was going on at the time. I Guess they just wanted to make some hard games Too much and then right down the middle come on Look at that. I think the pinball is aggressive. I'm gonna get aggressive Missed it missed it From the display there Nope not quite enough left ramp Not ramp shot. There we go Craps creepy gotcha. Gotcha. Yes, I did Go to pack maze go to pack saucer Not enough, let's try that again too much Pac-man people What a weird game Just strange. I wonder if everything in 1982 was this strange. I was very young then I don't remember too much about it But there you go folks that is valleys as it's spelling out there valleys mr. And mrs. Pac-man pinball Very weird game, but fun. It's kind of cool. Like I was saying earlier the theme Is out of the world out of this world? So, you know they tried to make something that kind of had More than just a pinball to it, you know so they wanted to make this this maze in the middle to play off the pac-man thing and so a lot of the game is kind of designed around that maze so hmm Has its good parts has its bad parts now by the time you see Pac-man this this video mr. And mrs. Pac-man pinball this game may have Waka waka waka waka waka ate its way over to somebody else's house and may not even be available for sale anymore But don't fret check out our website and you can see all of the games that we have for sale as of right now Even if it's ten years after we film this video just go check out our website. You'll see what we've got in now We've got a showroom here in downtown Rock Hill, South Carolina That's about 15 minutes south of Charlotte, North Carolina. 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