2014 · Spooky Pinball
America's Most Haunted
Known for Hellavator, GLIR lanes, Right scoop and Hellavator Multiball. Stormy teal night sky with forked white lightning, graveyard with leaning and broken gravestones, bare black twisted leafless trees, white translucent ghost silhouettes between the trees, green ground fog pooling across the bottom and owl or bat silhouettes in the upper corners.
- Year
- 2014
- Maker
- Spooky Pinball
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Dot matrix
- Players
- 4
Known for
- Toy
Hellavator
- Lane
GLIR lanes
- scoop
Right scoop
- Multiball
Hellavator Multiball
- Multiball
Minion Multiball
- Mode
Photo Hunt
- Mode
Bumps in the Night
- Wizard mode
Demon Battle
On the playfield
Toy 1
- Hellavator
Orbit 1
- Ghost loop loop
Holes 2
- Right scoop scoop
- Basement
Magnet 1
- Ghost magnet
Targets 2
- Elevator target
- Ghost targets
Lane 1
- GLIR lanes
On the backglass
Who and what
- woman Young blonde woman, left, pink crop top and pink mini skirt, white boots, blowing a large pink bubble-gum bubble, holding a small camera up at chest height
- man Black-haired man, centre-left, long dark teal trench coat over shirt and tie, carrying a bulky shoulder-mounted video camera with a large lens and side handle
- woman Auburn-haired woman, centre-right, floor-length purple robe with deep neckline, gold arm bracelets, green circular pendant and a forehead jewel, right palm raised, glowing white crystal ball cradled in her left hand, mouth open
- man Man on the right, red short-sleeved shirt, blue jeans, green-tinted glasses, camera on a neck strap, gripping a fishing rod with a small fish-like creature hanging from the line
- animal Black cat sitting low in the green fog at the bottom right, eyes forward
Setting
- Stormy teal night sky with forked white lightning
- Graveyard with leaning and broken gravestones
- Bare black twisted leafless trees
- White translucent ghost silhouettes between the trees
- Green ground fog pooling across the bottom
- Owl or bat silhouettes in the upper corners
Text on it
- AMERICA'S
- MOST HAUNTED
- TO THEM,
- THE PARANORMAL ISN'T
- REC
- 666MIN
- 2014
- WILSON
How it plays
-
Modes 9
- Minion
- Photo Hunt
- Bumps in the Night
- Hospital
- Prison
- War Fort
- Haunted Bar
- Hotel Ghost
- Theater Ghost
-
Multiballs 2
- Hellavator Multiball
- Minion Multiball
-
Goals 2
- Location Tours
- Ghost investigations
-
Wizard modes 1
- Demon Battle
Made by
- Design & Art & Mechanics & Software & Sound & Music & Display animation
- Ben Heckendorn
- Art
- Kevin Hill
- Mechanics
- Charlie Emery
- Mechanics
- Joel Fonseca
- Software
- Parker Dillman
- Software
- Chris Craft
- Software
- Andrew Edgerton
Reference
Linked terms
- Hellavator also called Elevator also called Elevator ramp
- Ghost loop also called Minion ball park
- GLIR lanes also called GLIR also called GLIR lane
- Right scoop also called Mode scoop also called Scoop
- Hellavator Multiball also called Hellavator Multiball Lock
- Minion also called Minion battles
- Bumps in the Night also called Bumps also called Night
- Prison also called Prison Jackpots
- Haunted Bar also called Bar Ghost
Playfield vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Playfield
- purple
- black
- orange
- white
Fingerprint: Six brightly framed haunted-location windows stacked centre, each different colour ending in green ABANDONED HOSPITAL; two big white cartoon sheet-ghosts with stubby arms on either side; large dripping green-white slogan COMPLETE INVESTIGATIONS TO BATTLE GHOST BOSSES; whole board bathed in purple LED wash making red and orange panels read violet
The single most memorable thing is the run of six brightly framed haunted-location windows stacked up the centre of the playfield, each a different colour, ending in a green ABANDONED HOSPITAL panel. Set against that, two big white cartoon sheet-ghosts with wide open mouths and stubby arms rise on either side of the board, and a large dripping green-and-white slogan across the middle reads COMPLETE INVESTIGATIONS TO BATTLE GHOST BOSSES. The apron plate below is a black rectangle with horror-style dripping lettering reading AMERICA'S MOST HAUNTED, framed by a small CAM marking in the corner. Everything is bathed in a strong purple LED wash, making even the red and orange panels read violet.
Setting
- Haunted-house and graveyard scenery
- Bare twisted trees
- Silhouetted rooftops and a church-like steeple
- Candle-lit interior panels
Symbols
- Playing-card suits
- Round ghost-face medallions
- Letters o r b i t in white ovals
- Numbered disc markers 1 2 3
- Arrow decals
- Skull and crossbones motifs
- Pointing hand next to $1.00
Notable shapes
- Vertical ladder of six coloured rectangular window panels
- Black bat-wing spreader across the upper middle
- Green rimmed circular psychic roundel
- Orange rectangular spook again button plate
- Arched black habitrail orbit rails along the right and top
- Printed ghost face medallions flanking the upper playfield
Art motifs
- Coloured rectangular window panels
- Dripping horror lettering
- Graveyard silhouettes
- Twisted leafless trees
- Ghostly blue-white flames
Themes
- Ghost hunting
- Haunted
- Supernatural
- Investigations
- Demonic
- Haunted house
Title on it
- America's most haunted
Text on it
- AMERICA'S MOST HAUNTED
- COMPLETE INVESTIGATIONS TO BATTLE GHOST BOSSES
- DEMON BATTLE
- CLEAR TARGETS TO FIND GHOST BOSSES
- JACKPOT
- LOCK
- ORBIT
- ADVANCE 3
- SCORE MULTIPLIER
- PSYCHIC
- TECH
- OLD PRISON
- LANDMARK HOTEL
- HAUNTED BAR
- WAR FORT
- HISTORIC THEATER
- ABANDONED HOSPITAL
- BALCONY
- THEATER
- SPOOK AGAIN
- COMPLETE ALL FOUR TO LIGHT FIGHT DEMON
- BOSSES BEATEN
- MULTIBALL COMPLETE
- PHOTO ACE
- MINION MASTER
- MONSTER BATTLE
- PHOTO HUNT
- MYSTERY GHOST
- EVIL GHOST
- MONSTER GHOST
- FLIPPER
- LANE CHANGE
- TAP DURING VIDEO MODE
- $1.00
- CAM
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Creature | Large white cartoon sheet-ghost toy on the left of mid-playfield: teardrop and bell-shaped white body, two round black eyes, wide open black smiling mouth, stubby outstretched arms, small tufts at the crown |
| Creature | Matching white sheet-ghost toy on the right side near the green psychic roundel: rounded head, two black oval eyes, open mouth, draped scalloped lower edge |
| Creature | Small outlined purple ghost figure printed on the wooden lower left apron, angry slanted eyes and open fanged mouth, drawn in glowing line art |
| Monster | Red-and-orange horned demon face emblem painted at the centre above the demon battle window, with black slit eyes and swept horns |
| Creature | Green and purple ghost illustrations printed beside the demon battle area and near the psychic roundel |
A ghost-hunting themed electro-mechanical-era playfield photographed under heavy purple/magenta LED lighting, so the whole board reads violet with orange and green accents. A row of small rectangular haunted-place windows runs up the centre-lower area, each in its own coloured frame: OLD PRISON on tan, LANDMARK HOTEL on grey-green, HAUNTED BAR on blue, WAR FORT on red, HISTORIC THEATER on orange, ABANDONED HOSPITAL on green. Large chunky green-outlined white lettering across the middle reads COMPLETE INVESTIGATIONS TO BATTLE GHOST BOSSES, with a red DEMON BATTLE window above it. Two big white sheet-ghost toys with round black eyes and open mouths stand mid-playfield, one on the left beside a wire ramp and one on the right near a green PSYCHIC roundel. Clear plastic ramps, chrome ball guides and posts crisscross the upper half, with a black bat-wing spreader across the centre and a cluster of oval O R B I T letter targets high up. The wooden-framed apron carries a black plate reading AMERICA'S MOST HAUNTED in dripping horror capitals, plus yellow FLIPPER / LANE CHANGE, $1.00 and TAP DURING VIDEO MODE cards.
Playfield
- purple
- black
- blue
- white
Fingerprint: Ghost: Huge transparent sheet printed with giant white cartoon ghost with outstretched arms and startled open mouth laid over centre playfield, row of eight separate grinning ghouls peering over top edge, playfield dotted with rectangular hotel-fort-theatre name labels in orange cream blue red yellow green down centre, icy blue flippers with white flame decals, purple haunted-house night backdrop, translucent overlay effect
The most memorable feature is a huge transparent sheet printed with a giant white cartoon ghost, its arms flung out and a startled open-mouthed face, laid over the entire centre of the playfield so it washes everything beneath in pale fog. Second is the ghostly upper strip of a whole ghost gang - eight separate grinning ghouls in hats and specs peering over the top, each drawn differently. Third, the playfield is dotted with rectangular hotel/fort/theatre name labels in orange, cream, blue, red, yellow and green running in a single column down the middle. Fourth, two icy blue flippers with white flame decals and a huge white misty swoosh painted around the apron.
Setting
- Haunted house exterior at night
- Full moon and starry sky
- Black leafless tree
- Glowing yellow house windows
- Green graveyard ground
- Orange flames on the horizon
Symbols
- Cartoon ghost
- Full moon
- Leafless tree
- Flames
- Lit house windows
- Card-suit shapes
- Arrow symbols
- Star shapes
- Target rings
- Record/disc symbol
Notable shapes
- The enormous ghost-shaped translucent overlay sheet spanning the whole centre
- The long straight chrome wire guides hugging the right wall
- The white mist or smoke swirl painted in a horseshoe around the lower playfield
- The circular disc target on the right sidewall
- The star- and arrow-shaped target faces scattered around the mid playfield
Art motifs
- Ghost gang strip
- Column of hotel name plates
- Orange fire licks
- Moonlit suburban street
- Translucent ghost overlay
Themes
- Ghosts
- Haunted house
- Horror
- Haunted hotels
- Monster hunt
- Cemetery
- Night
Title on it
- Ghost
Text on it
- GHOST
- COMPLETE
- INVESTIGATIONS
- TO BATTLE
- GHOST BOSSES
- OLD PRISON
- LANDMARK HOTEL
- HAUNTED BAR
- WAR FORT
- HISTORIC THEATER
- ABANDONED HOSPITAL
- BOSSES BEATEN
- MINION MASTER
- MULTIBALL COMPLETE
- PHOTO ACE
- COMPLETE ALL FOUR TO LIGHT FIGHT DEMON
- STOP PHOTO HUNT
- LOCK
- FLIPPERS
- LANE CHANGE
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Other | One huge white cartoon ghost high in the centre, arms flung wide, small round black eyes and an open oval mouth, standing on a grey pedestal, printed on a translucent overlay sheet covering the middle of the playfield |
| Creature | A row of eight smaller white cartoon ghosts across the top banner, all differently drawn: one with round glasses, one in a brown fedora with a red scarf, one with black spiky hair and a long neck, one in a black top hat with a monocle, one in a grey hat waving, one lanky one with drooping arms, plus two plain grinning ones at the edges |
| Other | Several flat dark-blue silhouetted figures of people in the lower half - pairs of hunched ghost hunters with lanterns and capes, plus a few standing villagers, drawn as plain shapes against the green ground |
| Monster | A small skeletal or ghoulish figure printed on the overlay near the lower middle, drawn in thin grey outline |
A tall, glossy, backbox-translucent-covered pinball playfield photographed under glass, with the whole surface tinted by a large translucent white ghost-shaped overlay sheet running down the middle. The backdrop is a purple-to-midnight-blue haunted-house night scene: a bare black tree silhouetted centre, a full grey moon upper-left, crooked houses with glowing yellow windows, bare green ground at the bottom, and orange flame licks rising behind a dark hill. A big white cartoon ghost with outstretched arms stands high centre on a pedestal. Across the top is a strip of small ghost characters. Down the centre is a vertical stack of brightly coloured rectangular building labels. Two blue-and-white flippers at the bottom with a chrome ball-drain between them. Green and blue LED strips edge both side walls.
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- purple
- green
- black
Fingerprint: Four paranormal investigators in fog-filled graveyard, "MOST HAUNTED" jagged white brush letters, man with shoulder-mounted video camera, woman in purple robe holding glowing crystal ball, young woman in pink, man in red shirt with fishing rod, ghost silhouettes, gravestones, black cat, camcorder viewfinder frame, REC indicator
The four-parter cast of ghost hunters standing in a fog-filled haunted graveyard, led by a man hauling an enormous shoulder-mounted video camera. Beside him a woman in a purple robe holds a glowing crystal ball aloft. The title MOST HAUNTED is rendered as huge jagged white brush lettering with a black outline, cracked by white lightning. Gravestones are scattered through green ground fog with white ghost silhouettes between bare black trees, and the whole piece is framed like a camcorder viewfinder with REC and 666MIN. A black cat sits at the feet of the red-shirted man holding a fishing rod with a fish dangling from it.
Setting
- Stormy teal night sky with forked white lightning
- Graveyard with leaning and broken gravestones
- Bare black twisted leafless trees
- White translucent ghost silhouettes between the trees
- Green ground fog pooling across the bottom
- Owl or bat silhouettes in the upper corners
Symbols
- Camcorder viewfinder corner brackets
- Red recording dot beside rec
- Battery level icon
- Crystal ball
- Shoulder-mounted video camera
- Hand camera
- Camera on neck strap
- Fishing rod and fish
- Gravestones and headstones
- Ghost silhouettes
- Owl silhouettes
- Bubble-gum bubble
- Lightning bolts
- Bare trees
Lettering
- Jagged horror-comic brush lettering, white fill with thick black outline and drop shadow; america's in smaller hand-brushed capitals above the title
Themes
- Haunted house
- Paranormal investigators
- Graveyard
- Ghosts
- Crystal ball
- Occult
- Video camera crew
- Camcorder viewfinder
Title on it
- America's most haunted
Text on it
- AMERICA'S
- MOST HAUNTED
- TO THEM,
- THE PARANORMAL ISN'T
- REC
- 666MIN
- 2014
- WILSON
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Young blonde woman, left, pink crop top and pink mini skirt, white boots, blowing a large pink bubble-gum bubble, holding a small camera up at chest height |
| Man | Black-haired man, centre-left, long dark teal trench coat over shirt and tie, carrying a bulky shoulder-mounted video camera with a large lens and side handle |
| Woman | Auburn-haired woman, centre-right, floor-length purple robe with deep neckline, gold arm bracelets, green circular pendant and a forehead jewel, right palm raised, glowing white crystal ball cradled in her left hand, mouth open |
| Man | Man on the right, red short-sleeved shirt, blue jeans, green-tinted glasses, camera on a neck strap, gripping a fishing rod with a small fish-like creature hanging from the line |
| Animal | Black cat sitting low in the green fog at the bottom right, eyes forward |
Full-colour painted backglass framed like a camcorder viewfinder: four white corner brackets, a battery icon top left, the word REC with a solid red dot and a squiggle signature with 2014 bottom left, and 666MIN bottom right. Across the top, AMERICA'S in small white brush capitals sits above the large title MOST HAUNTED, in jagged white brush letters with heavy black outline and drop shadow, over a teal sky cracked by white lightning. Four human figures stand in a graveyard: a blonde young woman in a pink crop top and pink mini skirt blowing pink bubble-gum and holding a small camera; a black-haired man in a long dark teal coat carrying a bulky shoulder-mounted video camera with a big lens; a long-haired auburn woman in a floor-length purple robe with gold bracelets, a green pendant and a forehead gem, one palm raised and a glowing white crystal ball in the other hand; and a man in a red shirt and blue jeans with green-tinted glasses and a camera on a neck strap, gripping a rod with a small fish-like creature dangling from the line. A black cat sits bottom right. Bare black twisted trees, white ghost silhouettes and leaning gravestones fill the mid-ground, with green fog pooling along the bottom.