Manufacturer | Data East |
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Release date | January 1994 |
System | DataEast/Sega Version 3 |
Design | Joe Kaminkow, Ed Cebula, Lonnie D. Ropp, Lyman F. Sheats Jr. |
Music | Brian Schmidt |
Sound | Brian Schmidt |
Production run | 4,700 |
The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard is a pinball machine based on the rock musical The Who's Tommy, based upon the band's 1969 rock opera album of the same name, which was also adapted into a 1975 motion picture. The machine features twenty-one songs from the musical sung by original Broadway cast members. The game was designed by Joe Kaminkow, Ed Cebula, Lonnie D. Ropp, and Lyman F. Sheats Jr. The machine was built using Solid-state electronics type components.[1] The backbox of the machine has a dot matrix display with animations by Kurt Andersen and Markus Rothkranz. 4,700 machines were manufactured by Data East in January 1994.[1]