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) replace the standard mono color DMDs. In 2015, the new British pinball manufacturer Heighway Pinball released the racing themed pinball machine "Full Throttle". The game has its LCD screen for scores, info & animations located in the playfield surface at player’s eye view. Checkpoint (pinball) Checkpoint is a 1991 pinball machine released by Data East. It featured the first dot matrix display (DMD) ever incorporated into a pinball game. For "Checkpoint", Data East used a "half-height" DMD. By way of comparison, Williams later produced machines with standard DMDs that were twice the height. "Checkpoint" also features video mode minigames on