Scared Stiff

Mfr Date:  1996 – Bally

Qty Made:  Production Model – approximately 3,500 were made.

Designer:  Dennis Nordman, Mark Weyna

Artwork:  Greg Freres

Reasons We Like This Game:  Scared Stiff – one of our all time favorite games! This is her SECOND pinball machine, and is one of the best overall machines ever created!  (The first Elvira machine was made in 1988 and is called "Elvira and the Party Monsters".)  Scared Stiff is quite simply - awesome! It has some of the best artwork, best sounds, best music and best engineering we've ever had the pleasure of working on!  You'll find fantastic ball flow, game play, challenging rulesets, a complex animated mechanical backbox etc.

To begin with, the game has one of the best animated mechanical backboxes we've ever seen. (Safe Cracker, Cirqus Voltaire, Cyclone, Riverboat Gambler and more have this feature, but in our minds Scared Siff is the best!)  You need to stop the spinning spider to light one of many targets, and you'll get a mode or surprise with each one you light!  Some people are unaware that if you get ALL of the objects lit, you'll get the special "spider" multi-ball!  It's VERY hard to do! The backbox is also considered 3D, which means there’s stacked objects and artwork in addition to the translite artwork.

The game features six unique modes that you must complete before reaching the beginning of the wizard mode.  To actually start the wizard mode, you need to make ten shots without losing your ball. It's tough to do, and if you don't make it, you must complete the six modes again to get another shot at it!  Scared Stiff features FOUR different types of multi-ball play! (2-ball, 3-ball and two different 4 ball multi-balls). The game has two cool looking ramps with bones on them, and check out the two boney flippers!  The sounds, music, and hilarious Elvira sound bites are seemingly endless!  Scared Stiff might not be appropriate for younger kids, but don’t worry, there’s a “kids only mode” that you can turn on and off yourself.  Scared Stiff is already considered a collectors piece, and overall is a VERY fun, well balanced game!

Special Features:  The Mistress of the Dark must be proud that one of Bally's best games was produced is in her honor.  The game has so many unique features simply not found on most games! First of all, Scared Stiff is one of the few games created with LEDs on the playfield. (Indianapolis 500 and Twister also have this feature.)  Check out the LEDs on the crate!  They look like the red eyes of creatures trapped inside! The game also has a working coffin on the playfield! (the coffin opens up and balls come out during "coffin" multi-ball.)  Did we mention the skeleton ramps and "claw" light posts?  Try your luck with the mechanical spinning spider inside the 3D backbox!  There's so much to shoot at, look at and do, that you'll have fun just watching someone else play your game!

Unique Special Features:  This machine is a production game with some extremely rare prototype items that we've added on.  These prototype additions were originally intended for use on the production game, but were never installed by Bally because it exceeded the budgeted production costs for the game.

First of all, the pile of skulls (the Deadheads) in the upper right hand corner of the game were originally intended to have red LEDs in their eye sockets.  The updated rom software makes use of this, and we have installed the 12 LEDs for each of the six pairs of eyes!  As you complete each of the six modes, a different skull's eyes will light up!  Second, the slingshot mechanisms have extra long, spring loaded linkages with cute little monsters on top.  Whenever the slingshots activate, these little monster guys actually jump around and shake their limbs!  Additionally, there  is a special mode that makes use of these guys!  They actually do a mirrored ball disco dance that is totally hilarious!  Finally, we will install a special eyeball plunger knob that was originally intended for the game when it was created as a prototype!  With these extra prototype gadgets, this machine will be the envy of fellow pinball players for sure!

As with all of our games, we have installed the latest rom revision. - Revision 1.4

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Price:  $ 5295

Call 847-973-2337 to order!