pinball was illegal into the seventies

I know, right?

Stop talking about my cock

lewd audio

So did it use a tape loop or what? My guess would be a 1/4" loop cartridge like radio stations used, with the different voice loops on separate tracks and a movable head to select which one is played, like an 8 track player.

I've played Gorgar and I think it was digital, done with very early sampling technology. It doesn't sound like a tape loop..the game moves way too fast for something like that.

HA! I actually played this thing as well, in the basement of an infamous nightclub in lower manhattan. It had been tricked out with a better sound system ( it looked to be a car stereo embedded in the side of the machine ) and improved lighting ( the incandescent bulbs replaced with high brightness colored leds ). I didn't get a chance to pop the cover, so I can't say how the sound was done.

It's funny, I never thought to check but I think it was digital. I liked to take apart EM machines and mess around but I find solid states more difficult, kind of like how you can fix an old car by yourself, but now that they've got computers and such you should probably call the pros.. right now I only live with a High Speed which I think has the same voice technology and it's not mine so I can't fuck around if I want to.. grumble..

In 79 that must have been pretty expensive. Although actually I have a Milton and I think he was '80 or '81.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgIwzPrG5Dk

I used to live with a guy who had one of those but he circuit bent it. I always thought it sounded like Cleveland from Family Guy. He's still doing a lot of stuff, I might as well just leave this here because I think you might like his stuff. There's a lot more on the interwebs.

https://youtu.be/UgemvzRyQ-A

Actually this is more like what he's doing, but a lot of it is circuit bent speak and spells, furbys and stuff. Dude's awesome.

https://youtu.be/untL6N_7cvc

I've considered bending it but the payoff rarely seems worth the effort with bending, for me. I love some of the stuff other people have done, though.


What I would really like is phoneme-level control of the voice synthesizer in it, via MIDI.

I've never heard of another voice synthesizer, new or old, that was designed to sound like uncanny valley Fat Albert.

I was all set to move to Austin about 5 years ago and was reading up on Pinballz. The closest thing we have in Portland to a dedicated Pinball place is a barcade called Ground Control, which isn't bad, because it's all ages during the day and after 5 it's a bar. I think there's 24 pins there, but the dedication goes more into the arcade machines and usually I'll find problems, probably because everyone plays so aggressively and deathsaves these poor old machines (the only machines built for that are Data East/Sega) and plus there's a ton of pins I've never heard about or played down there, which is worth the trip alone. But here's the question: their website makes it sound like super kid friendly, which is fine, but what I do like about Pinball is getting drunk and playing it until bartime at 2:30AM. I guess what I'm asking is are they cool with drunkies or is it more like going to an exhibit at the museum where you immediately regret eating those mushrooms?