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
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