Request Gottlieb - Haunted House

[night]

My vote for Haunted House.

 

[Sean]

Yeah I can remember when this table came out it was like, oooooh three playfields? They outdid Williams! Beyond that I have few memories of the machine as I was around ten and more into Defender and Pac-Man...definitely think it should be in the pinball arcade over most of the tables in the Gottlieb collection.

 

[androidlove]

Did someone mention Haunted House?

Really, Farsight, you could charge me $20.00 for it, and I'd fork it over without even testing the table.

 

[androidlove]

One of had been modified for multiball.

Could you please elaborate on this? The video only demonstrates the speech.

I wonder if FarSight would be able to include this "should have been".

 

[Kolchak357]

The original Haunted House has no multiball. I assume someone modified a Haunted House to include a multiball mode.

 

[Nik Barbour]

Yup

 

[androidlove]

The original Haunted House has no multiball. I assume someone modified a Haunted House to include a multiball mode.

Yes, I was asking for details on when and where the ball locked and how it was released. Was there a double score or a jackpot?

 

[BlindSpider11]

We need Haunted House!

 

[Animator_pin_fan]

Indeed, Haunted House is a classic!! and I know it would probably be difficult, but it would be great if they offered the multi-ball mod as an add-on. I'd definitely pay extra for it.

 

[Nik Barbour]

Yes, I was asking for details on when and where the ball locked and how it was released. Was there a double score or a jackpot?

Unfortunately I don't know the details.
Just to paint a picture it was play.expo @ Manchester where the 2 tables, modified & unmodified Haunted house were on show.
It was unbelievably busy 6500 people and approximately 70odd pinball tables (there were video games / consoles / wi-u not just pinball, but I stayed with the Pinball the whole day).
Each table always had at least 1 player or someone also cueing, so it was a case of walking around and diving on tables when they became available.
Every time I went past the HH tables, they were always busy, until towards the end of the day, I managed to get on the modified table. I'd never played a HH before, so I was simply happy to play the table and had no idea how to activate the multiball feature.
Only had a quick go, then someone cueing behind me, so had to vacate at end of game.
Awesome table though, soon as I came home that night I got the Visual Pinball Haunted House table so I could play it some more.
Don't know if a modified VP table exists, I'll have to check that.

I did a bit of Googleing, and found this weblink http://www.flippp.fr/special.php?lg=en
I believe this is the source of the parts for the modified machine. It rings a bell from the card displayed on the machine.
Unfortunately the rule sheets from this site explaining the multiball are in French and Dutch, neither of which I speak (i can do passable Italian, and order beer in 9 languages though).

Hope this helps - sorry I can't be more specific.

 

[androidlove]

I made a negative of the rules pic, did an online OCR, and ran it through Google Translate.

". Capturerla1ére ball Inthe SPECIAL bottom plate, puisla 2nd ball clansl'E} {TRA-BALL intermediate plate. Lancerla 3rd bille.Aux first points les2 other balls are ejected and multibilles begins. the point detous sontmultipliéspar3 trays with 3 balls challenge by 2 with 2 balls.

Lejackpot is obtained by lowering the target table row to Superiors less2 Sonten ball game, and is 50.0001: the number of balls."

I contacted the site to see if I could get the French rules in text form or a translation.

 

[Captain Rumwood]

I hope to see Haunted House on TPA in early 2013. I would hate to wait for next Halloween. . . . which I suspect might be the planned date for release.

 

[androidlove]

I have received the modified rules in English.

 

[Nik Barbour]

I have received the modified rules in English.

I wondered the other day if you'd had a reply - Thanks!

 

[timmyD]

First post... And major bump for this table!

 

[Animator_pin_fan]

Pinball news just posted a great write up on the multiball mod:
http://www.pinballnews.com/learn/hauntedhouse/index.html

It sounds like quite a difficult thing to retrofit on a real table, but it would be really easy for TPA if the creator of the mod agreed to share his work....

 

[smooverr]

Almost bought a fully restored one this week. It really is a gorgeous table! I love to see it in TPA. Lucky for me the best friend is buying it so ill get to play all the time!

 

[Kolchak357]

Almost bought a fully restored one this week. It really is a gorgeous table! I love to see it in TPA. Lucky for me the best friend is buying it so ill get to play all the time!

I read your post about that. I think you made a wise decision for a first pin. Haunted House has a rep for being difficult to keep up and running. I guess anything 30 years old will have issues.

 

[smooverr]

The guy has done all of the ground mods for it. Supposedly once done its rock solid for reliability.

 

[SilverBallFiend]

I'm the one who bought this Haunted House pin and I love it.
Such a great game (I am a big fan to lower play fields on pins) and this one has an upper too - I would definitely get this on TPA. They need to compliment Black Hole with this one!
(And I need to compliment my real Haunted House pin with a real Black Hole pin )