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 the use of ColorDMD that is used to replace the standard mono color dot-matrix displays or the addition of features, e.g. figures or other toys. A few notable examples of custom pinball machines include a "Ghostbusters" theme machine, a "Matrix" style game, Bill Paxton Pinball, "Sonic", "Star Fox", and "Predator" machines. Data East was one of few regular pinball company that manufactured custom pinball games (e.g. for Aaron Spelling, Michael Jordan and the movie "Richie Rich"), though these were basically mods of existing or soon to be released pinball machines (e.g. "Lethal Weapon 3" or "The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard").