Dr. Dude and His Excellent Ray
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| Manufacturer | Midway Games |
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| 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 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
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External links
- Dr. Dude and His Excellent Ray at the Internet Pinball Machine Database
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