The Simpsons (pinball) a cow, man," "Way to go, man," "You blew it, man," and "Hey, man, we're both underachievers." This was also the last pinball machine by Data East Pinball to utilise an alphanumeric display before changing to the dot-matrix display. The pinball game was released by Data East Pinball in 1990. It was licensed by Fox Broadcasting Company and produced in Data East's factory in Melrose Park, Illinois. According to an article in "Chicago Sun-Times", the producers took advice from "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening while developing the game. On November 9, 1990, Data East executive vice-president Gary Stern described the
Twilight Zone (pinball) in the Spiral orbit (standard machines only have two magnets). This allows the machine to lock all three balls in the Spiral Magnets and then release them simultaneously. Additionally, many more "Twilight Zone" references appear in the translite artwork. Two of the most prominent features of the game – the gumball machine and "The Power" – do not appear in the TV series at all. "Twilight Zone" is available as a licensed table of "The Pinball Arcade" for several platforms. Unlicensed recreations of the game are available for Visual Pinball and Future Pinball that run on Windows. Twilight Zone (pinball)