The Simpsons (pinball) game to the press as "fun – a whole package ... voices, music, artwork, great ramps." He also noted that "This game is already on its way to becoming a monster hit." In 2007, Stern said in an interview with "License!" that "While we export about one-third of our games, that first ["The Simpsons" pinball] model did especially well in the U.S." The "Simpsons" pinball machine won the award for best pinball game in 1990 by the Amusement and Music Operators Association, a group that represents coin machine operators. According to the "Chicago Sun-Times" article, pinball players have cited Data
Checkpoint (pinball) orange when ionized by a high voltage electric current pass through the segment. A DMD on a pinball machine is usually 128 pixels wide and 32 pixels high (Checkpoint used only 16 pixels high). Designers achieved, according to Beresford, amazing effects over the years despite such limitations. Other display innovations on pinball machines include pinball video game hybrids like Gottlieb's "Caveman" and Bally's "Baby Pac-Man" in 1982 and Bally's "Granny and the Gators" in 1984 and the use of a small color video monitor for scoring and minigames in the backbox of the pinball machine "Dakar" from manufacturer Mr. Game