Also known as MNF
1989 · Data East
Monday Night Football
Known for Long Bomb, Spinner lanes and Up targets. Starry dark blue night sky with a teal comet or shooting-star streak behind the left player, stadium interior with yellow-lit arched bays and twin banks of round floodlights, crowd rendered as dense orange, yellow and cream speckles, row of small national flags on poles and united states flag on a pole below the centre signboard.
- Year
- 1989
- Maker
- Data East
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Alphanumeric
- Players
- 4
Known for
- Ramp
Long Bomb
- Lane
Spinner lanes
- Target
Up targets
On the playfield
Ramp 1
- Long Bomb
Hole 1
- B saucer
Targets 2
- Drop target banks
- Up targets
Lane 1
- Spinner lanes
Lights 1
- Shooting Up Raises Goalpost insert
On the backglass
Who and what
- man Left football player: adult male, white helmet with orange centre stripe and faceguard, cream jersey with orange shoulder pads and orange number, bright orange trousers, teal socks and white cleats; crouching forward and leaning left with both arms extended and fingers splayed, mouth open in a shout, floating against the sky
- man Right football player: adult male, white helmet with orange stripe and orange facemask, cream jersey with orange shoulder pads and a round chest emblem, orange trousers, white shoes; leaping with left knee raised and both arms stretched up, right hand holding a brown football, mouth open shouting, drawn larger and higher than the left figure
- other Bottom speaker panel: three male announcer portraits in dark suits, white shirts and ties, in a painted orange rectangle; left figure has a moustache and grey hair, centre figure has dark swept hair, right figure has greying hair, each with a small cursive signature-style name beneath
Setting
- Starry dark blue night sky with a teal comet or shooting-star streak behind the left player
- Stadium interior with yellow-lit arched bays and twin banks of round floodlights
- Crowd rendered as dense orange, yellow and cream speckles
- Row of small national flags on poles
- United states flag on a pole below the centre signboard
Text on it
- DATA EAST
- MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
- abc
- 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION
- 1 Million JACKPOT
- HOME 1
- VISITOR 2
- TARRING
- HOME 3
- VISITOR 4
- CREDITS 1
- 1.25 MILLION
- SPECIAL 500 THOUSAND
- 1.5 MILLION
- EXTRA BALL 500 THOUSAND
- 2 MILLION
- DOUBLE SCORE BONUS HOLD
- IN DIGITAL STEREO
- abc sports
- SUPER JACKPOT VALUE
How it plays
-
Modes 1
- Q-B Sneak
-
Goals 6
- Extra point
- Field Goal
- Light Everything
- Loop Record
- Football points
- Double Score
Made by
- Design
- Joe Kaminkow
- Design
- Ed Cebula
- Art
- Kevin O'Connor
- Software
- Lonnie D. Ropp
- Sound & Music
- David Thiel
Reference
Linked terms
- Long Bomb also called Bomb ramp also called right Bomb ramp
- Spinner lanes also called Locks
- Drop target banks also called Ordered drop banks
- Up targets also called U-P targets also called center targets
Playfield vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Playfield
- green
- blue
- yellow
- red
Fingerprint: Monday Night Football, green playfield with marked yard lines, huge yellow kick off sign running down right edge, blue star-spangled side lanes, two blue triangular ramp panels each bearing white-jerseyed player with arms raised, central multiplier stack with orange abc logo, text-heavy apron with license sticker
The most memorable element is the full football-pitch layout itself: a green playfield printed with yard lines, flanked by blue star-spangled side lanes, with a huge yellow KICK OFF sign running vertically down the right-hand edge. The repeated pair of blue triangular ramp panels, each bearing a white-jerseyed player with arms thrown up, are the strongest recognition cue from the middle of the field. A tall stack of 2X / 3X / 4X / 5X multiplier inserts runs straight up the centre between two sets of numbered round inserts, ending at the orange abc MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL logo. The apron is unusually long and text-heavy, with a full written instruction card on the left and a SPECIAL EDITION LICENSE sticker block on the right.
Setting
- Green american-football pitch with yard lines and numbered markers
- Brown/tan end-zone area at the top of the field
- Star-spangled dark blue night sky panel behind the upper score area
- White apron below the playfield
Symbols
- Orange abc network circle
- White five-pointed stars scattered over blue lanes
- Yard-line numbering on the green pitch
- Arrow-shaped yards value panels
- Red-and-yellow star burst
- Football goalpost posts at the top
- Red/yellow arrow markers
- Round cream-coloured inserts in numbered columns
Notable shapes
- Tall yellow kick off sign box running down the right edge
- Two large blue triangular ramp panels
- Central vertical ladder of round inserts
- Arched upper score panel spanning the top
- Cut-out at the drain below the flippers
Art motifs
- Yard lines and field markings
- Star-spangled banner panels
- Red-and-yellow gradient score arch
- Chrome wireform rails
- Clear plastics over the upper arch
Themes
- American football
- Sports
- Television tie-in
- Stadium
- Team play
Title on it
- Monday night football
Text on it
- BONUS
- 10
- 20
- 30
- 40
- 50
- TOUCHDOWN SCORE
- TOUCH
- DOWN
- RUSH
- RUN
- EXTRA TIME
- JACKPOT
- SUPER JACKPOT
- MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
- abc
- 2X
- 3X
- 4X
- 5X
- BONUS ZONE
- KICK OFF
- THE BOWL
- 30 YARDS
- 20 YARDS
- 10 YARDS
- KILL SHOT
- DATA EAST PINBALL INC.
- CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
- PINBALL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
- SPECIAL EDITION LICENSE
- Data East Pinball Inc., Chicago, Illinois
- (708) 673-2160
- (708) 673-2469
- LICENSED BY ABC
- sports
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Painted player in a white jersey with red trim, arms raised in celebration, on the left blue triangular ramp panel |
| Man | Painted player in a white and blue uniform on the right blue triangular ramp panel, similarly posed with arms up |
| Other | Caricatured head with a large nose and a red-and-white cap peering over the top-right ramp beside the vertical the bowl lettering |
| Man | Small painted footballer figure on the red-orange upper score panel, glowing red under the plastics |
Full-length football-themed playfield shot from above under glass, with the cabinet front and apron visible at the bottom of the frame. The field is green like a marked football pitch, with pale yard lines and a brown/tan end zone at the top. Blue side lanes edged with white stars run up both edges, and a wide blue sky-blue upper area with scattered white stars surrounds a large red-orange score panel. A vertical yellow-outlined sign on the right apron wall reads KICK OFF in black capitals. Down the right ramp flank sit stacked arrow value panels reading 30 YARDS, 20 YARDS and 10 YARDS. Two large blue triangular ramp panels, one each side, carry painted figures in white jerseys with red accents and arms raised. A vertical stack of inserts in the centre reads 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X, flanked left and right by red-and-yellow BONUS ZONE lettering. The centre carries a large MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL logo with an orange abc circle. The white apron carries a printed instruction card on the left, the show logo centre, and a SPECIAL EDITION LICENSE sticker on the right. Two white-and-blue flippers sit at the bottom.
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- orange
- black
- cream
- teal
Fingerprint: MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL in heavy cream block capitals, two helmeted football players leaping out on either side, left player diving with outstretched arms, right player catching football overhead, stadium scene under starry night sky, orange-and-cream helmeted players, 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION banner, DATA EAST blimp badge
A black circular abc logo pressed behind the words NIGHT and FOOTBALL of the stacked MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL title. Two orange-and-cream helmeted football players leap out of the playfield art on either side of a stadium, one diving with outstretched arms and the other catching a football overhead with both hands raised. A 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION orange banner paired with a DATA EAST blimp badge in the opposite top corner.
Setting
- Starry dark blue night sky with a teal comet or shooting-star streak behind the left player
- Stadium interior with yellow-lit arched bays and twin banks of round floodlights
- Crowd rendered as dense orange, yellow and cream speckles
- Row of small national flags on poles
- United states flag on a pole below the centre signboard
Symbols
- Black circle enclosing a yellow lowercase abc
- Red-and-white striped blimp with data east badge
- Football in the right player's raised hand
- United states flag
- Small national flags (germany-style black/red/gold, union jack, canada)
- Grid of round stadium floodlights
- Yellow arched stadium bays
- Abc sports logo in a red circle
- Outlined arrow-head trapezoids framing the jackpot boxes
Lettering
- Heavy cream block capitals with dark navy outline and thin green inner keyline, stacked in three lines on a pink-to-teal gradient signboard; smaller white sans-serif capitals on orange gradient banners; dot-matrix amber segment lettering on the two-line score window
Themes
- American football
- Televised sport
- Stadium
- Night sky
- Sports broadcast
Title on it
- Monday night football
Text on it
- DATA EAST
- MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
- abc
- 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION
- 1 Million JACKPOT
- HOME 1
- VISITOR 2
- TARRING
- HOME 3
- VISITOR 4
- CREDITS 1
- 1.25 MILLION
- SPECIAL 500 THOUSAND
- 1.5 MILLION
- EXTRA BALL 500 THOUSAND
- 2 MILLION
- DOUBLE SCORE BONUS HOLD
- IN DIGITAL STEREO
- abc sports
- SUPER JACKPOT VALUE
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Left football player: adult male, white helmet with orange centre stripe and faceguard, cream jersey with orange shoulder pads and orange number, bright orange trousers, teal socks and white cleats; crouching forward and leaning left with both arms extended and fingers splayed, mouth open in a shout, floating against the sky |
| Man | Right football player: adult male, white helmet with orange stripe and orange facemask, cream jersey with orange shoulder pads and a round chest emblem, orange trousers, white shoes; leaping with left knee raised and both arms stretched up, right hand holding a brown football, mouth open shouting, drawn larger and higher than the left figure |
| Other | Bottom speaker panel: three male announcer portraits in dark suits, white shirts and ties, in a painted orange rectangle; left figure has a moustache and grey hair, centre figure has dark swept hair, right figure has greying hair, each with a small cursive signature-style name beneath |
A modern-style American football backglass framed in black, with a stadium scene under a starry night sky. A large rounded-rectangle signboard in the upper centre, shaded pink-to-teal, carries the stacked title MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL in heavy cream block capitals with dark outline, with a black circle holding a yellow lowercase abc tucked behind the words NIGHT and FOOTBALL. Orange gradient banners run across the top corners: left a small blimp beside DATA EAST in white-and-grey, right 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION. Two helmeted players flank the signboard, left one crouching forward with arms outstretched and orange trousers, right one leaping with both arms raised and a football in one hand; both wear orange-and-cream pads and white helmets with orange stripes. Below, floodlight banks, a US flag on a pole, rows of small national flags, and yellow-lit arched stadium bays sit above a crowd of speckled orange and yellow dots. A large black-framed alphanumeric display reads HOME 1 / VISITOR 2 / TARRING and HOME 3 / VISITOR 4 / CREDITS 1, flanked by white jackpot boxes reading 1.25 MILLION, SPECIAL 500 THOUSAND, 1.5 MILLION, EXTRA BALL 500 THOUSAND, 2 MILLION, DOUBLE SCORE BONUS HOLD. A speaker panel below carries an orange plaque with three suited announcer portraits.