1996 · Sega
Twister
Known for Spinning disk, Cannister hole, Cannister target and Wind orbits. Smoky black-and-blue storm clouds across the top, golden orange and yellow sunset sky in the middle right, dark silhouetted treeline beneath the sunset, a pale tornado funnel descending from the cloud and a night-time blue-toned strip along the bottom with trees, a house and a church steeple.
- Year
- 1996
- Maker
- Sega
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Dot matrix
- Players
- 6
Known for
- disk
Spinning disk
- scoop
Cannister hole
- Drop target
Cannister target
- Orbit
Wind orbits
- Multiball
Cannister Multiball
- Multiball
Chase Multiball
- Multiball
Cow Multibull
On the playfield
On the backglass
Who and what
- woman Left, large: blonde woman, cream blouse, stethoscope round her neck, mouth slightly open, looking forward; held in an embrace
- man Left, large: dark-haired man in a bright blue denim shirt, hand on the woman's shoulder, faint smile, looking forward
- man Right edge: grey cap, dark blue shirt, holding a small object up near his mouth, glancing left
- woman Bottom right: dark curly-haired woman, hands on a steering wheel, looking left with parted lips
- child Bottom centre-right: a small child in a night scene, holding a tabby cat, looking upwards
- animal Bottom left: a police dog, tan and black, lying down
Setting
- Smoky black-and-blue storm clouds across the top
- Golden orange and yellow sunset sky in the middle right
- Dark silhouetted treeline beneath the sunset
- A pale tornado funnel descending from the cloud
- A night-time blue-toned strip along the bottom with trees, a house and a church steeple
Text on it
- SEGA
- TWISTER
- The Dark Side of Nature.
- KENTUCKY STATE POLICE
- POST
How it plays
-
Modes 6
- Weathervane
- Super Pops
- Debris
- Damage
- Chase Hurry Up
- Double Scoring
-
Multiballs 4
- Cannister Multiball
- Chase Multiball
- Cow Multibull
- Super Lock
Made by
- Design
- John Borg
- Art
- Paul Faris
- Software
- Lonnie D. Ropp
- Software
- Orin Day
- Display animation
- Marc Raneses
Reference
Linked terms
- Spinning disk also called Twister disk
- Cannister hole also called lock hole also called lock scoop
- Cannister target also called lock target
- Wind orbits also called orbits
- Compass targets also called Compass also called Compass bank
- Cannister Multiball also called Canister Multiball also called Dorothy 2 Multiball
- Chase Multiball also called Chase
- Cow Multibull also called Cow
Playfield vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Playfield
- black
- blue
- purple
- red
Fingerprint: twister: Painted storm-chase tableau rather than cartoon—six realistically rendered people gazing up at red semi truck crossing top while lightning forks across black sky; man in white cap and sunglasses at mid-right holds miniature red car in outstretched hand; single huge purple vortex disc sits left of centre beneath figure group; photoreal airbrushed scene under black night sky
Painted storm-chase tableau rather than a cartoon: six realistically rendered people gazing up at a red semi truck crossing the top of the playfield while lightning forks across a black sky. A man in a white cap and sunglasses at mid-right holds a miniature red car in his outstretched hand, an unusual detail. A single huge purple vortex disc sits left of centre beneath the figure group, with three brightly coloured pop bumpers stacked above it. The apron art is a red muscle car seen head-on between the two flippers, under large outlined title lettering.
Setting
- Black night sky with yellow lightning bolts
- Storm clouds and wind-blown debris
- Open road with traffic cones and a rail line at the lower right
- White grid-patterned apron panel
Symbols
- Yellow lightning bolt motifs
- Black-and-yellow hazard chevron stripes
- Orange traffic cones
- Oval jackpot arrow and arrow signs
- Round yellow-bordered medallions
Notable shapes
- Large circular purple vortex disc, three-bumper cluster, sweeping clear ramp, wireform loop, two open-top metal ball-guide tunnels in the right mid-field, and a deep trough running down the left side
Art motifs
- Vortex and spiral forms
- Speed streaks
- Debris and dust clouds
- Chrome reflections
Themes
- Tornado
- Storm chasing
- Trucks
- Road traffic
- Lightning
Title on it
- Twister
Text on it
- TWISTER
- LOCK BALLS
- LOCK 3 BALLS THEN HOLD LOCK FOR NEXT BALL
- MULTIBALL LOCK
- JACKPOT
- DRIVE AGAIN
- BEGINNERS' GUIDE TO TWISTER PINBALL:
- SEGA
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Grey-haired older man at centre-left in a pale shirt, head turned up-right, arms forward |
| Man | Dark-haired man beside him in a deep purple shirt, also looking up-right, mouth open |
| Woman | Dark-haired woman at mid-left in a yellow-gold top, hair blown back, looking upward |
| Man | Man at mid-right in a white cap, dark sunglasses and a green shirt, one arm outstretched holding a small red model car |
| Child | Small figure in red and orange clothing below the right-hand jackpot arrow, arms raised |
| Woman | Red-haired woman at the right edge in a red top, partly hidden by the wireform |
| Vehicle | Red semi truck with trailer and twin chrome exhaust stacks crossing the top of the playfield |
| Vehicle | Red muscle car illustrated head-on across the apron between the flippers, a driver visible through the windscreen |
Full-length glass-covered playfield photographed under cabinet glass, with the apron and part of the backbox below. The artwork is a photoreal airbrushed storm-chase scene under a black night sky streaked with yellow lightning bolts. At the top a red semi truck with twin chrome exhaust stacks and a trailer crosses the field, flanked by a curved yellow instruction card and a row of round lamps; a clear plastic ramp sweeps down the left side from the upper left. Painted figures count six: a dark-haired woman at mid-left, a grey-haired man and a dark-haired man in a purple shirt side by side in the centre, a man in a white cap and sunglasses at mid-right holding out a small red car, a small red-and-orange clad figure below the jackpot arrow, and a red-haired woman at the right edge. Hardware includes three coloured pop bumpers in an upper cluster, a large purple spinning disc left of centre, two slingshots, a wireform lane, chrome posts, yellow-bordered target banks, orange traffic cones and a red car illustration across the apron. The apron carries large outlined lettering and a rules card. Dominant colours are black, blue, purple and red.
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- black
- orange
- white
Fingerprint: Enormous white brushstroke "TWISTER" title on smoky blue-black sky, black tornado funnel dropping from golden sunset flinging red convertible into air with debris, blonde woman with stethoscope and dark-haired man in bright blue denim shirt, blue SEGA logo, ribbon of blue-uniformed police officers with dog and circular police seal along bottom, 1980s airbrushed action-movie realism.
The single most memorable element is the enormous white brushstroke TWISTER title scrawled across a smoky blue-black sky. Just as striking is the black tornado funnel dropping out of a golden sunset and flinging a small red convertible into the air trailing debris. Third is the tightly framed embrace of the blonde woman with a stethoscope and the man in the bright blue denim shirt filling the left half. A ribbon of blue-uniformed police officers, a police dog and a circular police seal runs along the bottom edge as a horizontal band.
Setting
- Smoky black-and-blue storm clouds across the top
- Golden orange and yellow sunset sky in the middle right
- Dark silhouetted treeline beneath the sunset
- A pale tornado funnel descending from the cloud
- A night-time blue-toned strip along the bottom with trees, a house and a church steeple
Symbols
- Circular police department seal
- Police car roof beacon
- Flashlight beam
- Stethoscope
- Steering wheel
- Binoculars
- Camera
- Headsets
- Laptops
- Church steeple
Lettering
- Very large rough-edged white brushstroke capitals, hand-painted and slightly irregular, with a smaller white serif sentence-case tagline centred beneath
Themes
- Tornado
- Storm chasing
- Police
- Law enforcement
- Danger
- Romance
- Disaster
Title on it
- Twister
Text on it
- SEGA
- TWISTER
- The Dark Side of Nature.
- KENTUCKY STATE POLICE
- POST
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Left, large: blonde woman, cream blouse, stethoscope round her neck, mouth slightly open, looking forward; held in an embrace |
| Man | Left, large: dark-haired man in a bright blue denim shirt, hand on the woman's shoulder, faint smile, looking forward |
| Man | Right edge: grey cap, dark blue shirt, holding a small object up near his mouth, glancing left |
| Woman | Bottom right: dark curly-haired woman, hands on a steering wheel, looking left with parted lips |
| Child | Bottom centre-right: a small child in a night scene, holding a tabby cat, looking upwards |
| Animal | Bottom left: a police dog, tan and black, lying down |
| Animal | Bottom centre: a tabby cat held by the child |
| Vehicle | Centre: a small red open-top car lifted into the air by the tornado, debris and papers flying around it |
| Vehicle | Bottom right: a dark police car with headlights on and roof lights flashing |
| Other | Bottom left strip: a line of about eight uniformed police officers in blue, one with binoculars, one with a white headband and camera, several with headsets, two bent over open laptops |
| Other | Small airborne rectangular debris pieces scattered around the tornado funnel |
A wide backglass painted in airbrushed 1980s action-movie realism, dominated by deep blue, black, orange and yellow. Across the top runs a huge word TWISTER in rough, hand-brushed white brushstroke capitals on a smoky black-and-blue cloud background; beneath it, small white serif text reads The Dark Side of Nature. A blue blocky SEGA logo sits in the top-left corner. Left of centre is a large embracing couple: a blonde woman in a cream blouse with a stethoscope round her neck, and a dark-haired man in a bright blue denim shirt with his hand on her shoulder and a silver wristwatch on his wrist. The right two-thirds shows a golden-orange sunset sky with a black tornado funnel descending and a small red open-top car being lifted and spun in mid-air, debris and papers flying. On the right edge a man in a grey cap and dark blue shirt holds a small object near his face; below him a dark-haired woman grips a steering wheel. Along the bottom runs a strip of uniformed police officers in blue, a police dog, laptops, a night-time scene with a flashing patrol car and a small child holding a cat, all in dark blue monochrome.
Backglass
- blue
- yellow
- orange
- black
Fingerprint: Yellow-orange funnel-cloud fireball with red rally car being hurled through debris. Embracing blonde and dark-haired man filling left half. TWISTER title in white brush strokes, The Dark Side of Nature tagline. Workers with blueprint at bottom. Airbrushed photorealistic storm scene.
A giant yellow funnel-cloud fireball with a red rally car being hurled head-on through the debris. Second most memorable is the embracing blonde woman and dark-haired man in a blue shirt filling the entire left half of the artwork. The title TWISTER in rough white brush-stroke capitals with the tagline The Dark Side of Nature. underneath is the loudest lettering. A cluster of hard-hatted workers in blue overalls huddles over a blueprint at bottom-left, and a woman holding a telephone receiver sits at bottom-right.
Setting
- Stormy night sky with dark blue clouds
- Tornado funnel cloud on the horizon
- Bursting yellow-orange fireball
- Wheeling debris and dirt
- Blue lightning streaks
- Open ground
Symbols
- Funnel cloud
- Fireball
- Rally car
- Lightning
- Flying debris
- Blueprint map
- Telephone receiver
- Car steering wheel
- Dog
- Hard hats
- Cable tie
Lettering
- Large rough white brush-stroke capitals for the title, slightly arched, with a small white serif tagline centred below; blue outlined corporate logo at top-left
Themes
- Tornado
- Storm
- Natural disaster
- Adventure
- Field workers
Title on it
- Twister
Text on it
- SEGA
- TWISTER
- The Dark Side of Nature.
- pinslide.com
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Fair-skinned blonde woman, windswept shoulder-length hair, cream open shirt, hand raised onto the man's chest, wearing a wristwatch |
| Man | Fair-skinned dark-haired man, strong jaw, bright blue shirt, cable tie at the neck, close embrace |
| Man | Fair-skinned man in a grey cap and dark coat, holding a pen at his lips, looking left |
| Woman | Dark-haired woman with very large eyes and pale face, holding a telephone receiver to her ear, behind a car steering wheel |
| Child | Fair-skinned blond child at bottom centre, looking upwards, partly behind the steering wheel |
| Animal | Dark dog head with a bright eye at bottom centre, beside the child |
| Man | Worker in blue overalls shielding his eyes with a hand, far bottom-left |
| Man | Worker in blue overalls and white hard hat standing at bottom-left |
| Man | Worker in blue overalls and white hard hat holding a long pole, bottom-left |
| Man | Worker in blue overalls and white hard hat leaning over a pale blueprint map |
| Man | Worker in blue overalls seen in profile, bottom-left group |
| Man | Worker in blue overalls, face partly shadowed, bottom-left group |
| Other | Round grey emblem or badge behind the worker group, lettering too small to resolve |
| Vehicle | Red open-top rally car with a roof-mounted light bar, thrown into the foreground by the storm |
Painted backglass in a cinematic, airbrushed photorealistic style. Across the top, on a dark stormy blue-black sky, the title TWISTER appears in large white brush-stroke capitals, slightly arcing, with the small serif slogan The Dark Side of Nature. immediately beneath; a blue SEGA logo sits top-left. Left of centre is a large embracing couple: a fair-skinned blonde woman with windswept shoulder-length hair in a cream open shirt, her hand with a wristwatch resting on the man's chest, and a fair-skinned dark-haired man in a bright blue shirt with a cable tie round his neck. The centre-right is dominated by a huge yellow-orange fireball funnel cloud with a dark tornado funnel and a red open-top rally car with a roof light bar thrown into the foreground by wind-blown debris. Bottom-left is a huddle of about seven field-workers in blue overalls and white hard hats around a pale blueprint map, one shielding his eyes, with a round badge partly visible behind them. Bottom-right shows a fair-skinned man in a grey cap with a pen at his lips and, below him, a dark-haired woman with large eyes holding a telephone to her ear beside a car steering wheel, with a blond child and a dog peering forward. Blue storm lightning fills the lower background; a pinslide.com watermark sits bottom-right.