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
Northern Lights Pinball Show the chair were also synchronised to the in-game sounds. This is a unique, custom built machine, made specially by friends of the Northern Lights group. 2015 also saw the raffle of a new-in-box 'Wizard of Oz' pinball machine from Jersey Jack Pinball, which helped raise a record amount for charity from the group In 2016 the event took place on the 8th and 9th of October, and featured 121 machines including a large collection of rare Gottliebs The special feature for the 2017 show which took place on the 15th and 16th October 2017, was the 'Play Expo Pinball Battle'.