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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

  • black
  • blue
  • purple
  • red
Twister playfield
Spotted in this photo
  • 2 flippers
  • 3 pop bumpers
  • 1 spinner
  • 2 target banks
  • 2 slingshots

Full vision analysis

Toy 1

  • Spinning disk disk

Orbit 1

  • Wind orbits

Hole 1

  • Cannister hole scoop

Magnet 1

  • Orbit magnets

Drop target 1

  • Cannister target

Targets 2

  • Twister targets
  • Compass targets

On the backglass

  • blue
  • black
  • orange
  • white
Twister backglass

Full vision analysis

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

  1. Modes 6

    • Weathervane
    • Super Pops
    • Debris
    • Damage
    • Chase Hurry Up
    • Double Scoring
  2. 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.

Twister playfield

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

Distinctive

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
Drop targets
Two yellow-bordered banks, one angled at upper right and one in the left mid-field
Ramps
Large clear plastic ramp curving down the upper left; wireform ball guide lane running down the left side; raised metal ramp structure in the upper right quadrant
Slingshots
Two standard triangular slingshots flanking the lower flipper area
Upper playfield
Crowded: truck lane at the very top, three pop bumpers, a wireform loop and a raised ramp assembly on the right
Apron and lower playfield
White grid-patterned apron panel with a rules card at lower left, large outlined title lettering at centre, and a red muscle car illustration between the flippers
Who and what
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 description

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.

Twister backglass

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.

Distinctive

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
Who and what
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
Full description

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.

Twister backglass

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.

Distinctive

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
Who and what
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
Full description

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.