The Pinball World

Also known as: TOM
First released on: 3/28/1995
Manufactured by: Midway Mfg. Co., as a subsidiary of Williams

General Machine Details
Production run: -
Players: Four
Display Type: Dot Matrix
Cabinet Type: Normal
Plunger: Manual
PF Multilevels: No
Cust. Speech: Yes
Buyin Option: Yes
'Shaking': No

Playfield Details
Multiball: 4
Flippers: 2
Ramps: 3
Bumpers: 3
Captive Balls: 1
Magnets: 4
Ball Cannons: 0
Droptargets: 0
Spinner(s): Yes
Kickback: No
Spindisc(s): No
Mini Orbit(s): Yes

Playfield Toys
Spinning magic trunk. One side has a whole allowing the ball inside the trunk. One has a 'spiral' looking plate which can magnetically pick up the ball, one side has 'nothing'.

Hocus Pocus Magnasave: On top of both outlanes are eddy sensors that can 'feel' a ball that is about to drain and turn on magnets that suck the ball back in the inlanes.

A mirror is mounted above the roll over targets in the upper right side of the playfield, to allow you to see them better. The freaky thing is that the mirror turns the ball movements upside-down.

The Spirit Ring is a magnet hovering above one of the ramps. It can pick up the ball and drop it onto another ramp.

Marketing Slogans
There's more.. Than meets the eye.

It's got that magic touch.

Stupendous displays of spellbinding power! Amazing acts of enchantment! And incredible achievements in pinball engineering!

It can even make money appear out of thin air.

Comments and Trivia
Originally, the "Poof" target was labeled "Raise Magic Post". Hitting it would raise the post between the flippers for a short time. As the post was removed from the game early during development, the target lost its purpose and was renamed to "Poof", only scoring points when hit.

Design Team
Game Design: John Popadiuk
Artwork: Linda Deal
Animation: Adam Rhine, Brian Morris
Software: Jeff Johnson
Sound: Dave Zabriskie
Music: Dave Zabriskie

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