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
Pinball reproduce full-sized machines to The Pinball Factory. Stern Pinball remained the only manufacturer of original pinball machines until 2013, when Jersey Jack Pinball started shipping "The Wizard of Oz". Most members of the design teams for Stern Pinball are former employees of Williams. After the closure of most of the pinball manufacturers in the 1990s, smaller independent manufacturers started appearing in the early 2000s. In November 2005 The Pinball Factory (TPF) in Melbourne, Australia, announced that they would be producing a new "Crocodile Hunter"-themed pinball machine under the Bally label. With the death of Steve Irwin, it was announced that