Item: Addams Family Pinball Machine #955 of 1000
Sold For: $8,993.42
Bids: 11
Date: May 22, 2012
Auction: Ebay
Seller: bkeithco
Description and Image By: bkeithco
The Addams Family is the best selling pinball machine since the 1930s, having sold 20,270 units. Manufactured by Midway (under the Bally name), it is a solid state electronic game. It was based on the 1991 movie of tThe Addams Family is the best selling pinball machine since the 1930s, having sold 20,270 units. Manufactured by Midway (under the Bally name), it is a solid state electronic game. It was based on the 1991 movie of the same name, and features custom speech (mostly drawn from the movie) by the movie’s stars, Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston. In October 1994, Bally produced a “Special Collectors Edition”, often referred to as The Addams Family Gold. In the original run of The Addams Family a few machines had been produced with golden features to celebrate the machine’s sales record. The Collector’s Edition similarly featured specially designed accents such as golden side rails, a golden lock bar, golden legs and a slightly enhanced software program. The game also included a number of gameplay enhancements. New scoring rules were added, most notably to the Mansion. Some rooms randomly awarded players items from Cousin Itt, such as a hair dryer or brush, with an accompanying number of points. Wednesday and Pugsley also made their first in-game appearance in the form of a “trap door”, that would sometimes let a player move from one room to another, awarding them both. Numerous new quotes and dot-matrix effects were also added. Only one thousand Collector’s Edition units were produced.stly drawn from the movie) by the movie’s stars, Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston.