Dr. Dude and His Excellent Ray

Dr. Dude and His Excellent Ray
Manufacturer Midway Games
Release date November 1990
Design Dennis Nordman
Artwork Greg Freres
Music Chris Granner
Production run 4,000

Dr. Dude and His Excellent Ray is a pinball machine designed by Dennis Nordman and released in 1990 by Midway (under the Bally label).[1] The theme of the game revolves around gaining coolness.

Gameplay

The ultimate goal of the game is to become a cool Super Dude by visiting the kinetic clinic with the excellent ray as a treatment.[2] To achieve this, the player has at first to collect the ingredients of ultimate hipness to increase the Dude-O-Meter: the Heart of Rock 'n' Roll, a Magnetic Personality, and the Gift of gab.[3]

Further gameplay features include the Excellent Ray to start multiball, Big Shot - a bully figure that insults the player, the Molecular Mixmaster - a spinning disc with a rubber post on it, surrounded by targets and a Gazillion point shot with scoring that potentially multiple millions of points.[2][4]

Description

Dr. Dude and His Excellent Ray has a colorful cartoon theme and features many playfield toys.[2] The game has 1980's style music, a hidden playfield magnet and an alpha-numeric display. The game was one of the last machines in pinball mainstream with such a display made before switching to the newer dot-matrix score displays.[2] The backbox of the machine includes a lenticular flip image of Ben A. Glich before and after coolness treatment.[3] [5]

Digital versions

Dr. Dude and His Excellent Ray is available as a licensed table of The Pinball Arcade for several platforms.

References

  1. "Dr. Dude And His Excellent Ray". Ipdb.org. Internet Pinball Machine Database. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "A modern classic... DR. DUDE!". Pinballclinic.com. The Pinball Clinic. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Say "Ahh-Some!" – Dr. Dude Is In!". Groundkontrol.com. August 12, 2013. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  4. "System 3 is delighted to announce the release of Pinball Arcade: Season 2!". System 3. March 2015. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  5. "DR DUDE". Vegasstore.de (in German). Retrieved August 15, 2015.
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