Bally CLASSIC Eight Ball Deluxe 1984

[Bastardboy]

This often gets confused with a few other "8-ball" Pinball games, but is this out yet on ANY Zen Pinball? ... and does Zen have the license for it? I know it was released on Pinball Arcade, just before their licences expired... and I dang missed it... It used to be in a corner fish-and-chip shop, and the taunt of "Quit Talkin' and Start Chalkin'" Super Loud, was hardwired into my brain. Please conjure up a classic !!! Two Vids, below! ... to avoid confusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20OtbscyYZ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BwjlPsryTc

[Matt Beeching]

EBD should be possible under the current Zen: Williams/Bally licensing agreement, originally a 1981 table using the Bally 'MPU AS-2518-35' system.

It's probably up there with Centaur (1981) as a popular choice should Zen pursue some earlier table emulations. As things currently stand, Space Station (1987) is the earliest using Williams 11-B.

[MikeFulton]

I would love to see it, but I doubt that the PTB at Zen have much interest. It's older than any other Bally-Williams table we've seen in FX so far.

[Bastardboy]

I know Zen are working on other platforms, so hopefully they'll get around to it, someday. This is one of those tables that would hang around nearly every pool hall and alot of other venues, so hopefully it knocks up some nostalgia (and sales) for people when they hear...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GM17B658Yw

[4MIGO]

Would love to see a billiard theme table!
I really like Cue Ball Wizard, has also the "quit talkin' and start chalkin" voice line. It's great! :)

[Bastardboy]

"Cue Ball Wizard" is the table that this is most confused with, which is also cool.
Eight Ball Deluxe had probably the first "Elaborate" (Thank you Chat-GPT, for elaborating on that) pinball play, that I played, which was awesomely guided by that awesome voice (Trying to find the Actors Voice, but found some other interesting Video's I'll link next post). It was the first time I realised pinball had set rules for the best scoring, and challenges (Which I finally started reading on every pinball's "Instruction Card" (Thanks again GPT)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BwjlPsryTc

[Bastardboy]

The "Squawk and Talk" Soundboards were derived from Texas Instruments - Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) Speech Synthesis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE3uXCboM74

[Bastardboy]

O.k, I've kinda diverted from Pinball to Speech Synthesis... but it's too damn cool :) This was posted 7 years ago, and I'm sure you know how far it's come since then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVr8gnQcGoI

[4MIGO]

Originally posted by Bastardboy:

O.k, I've kinda diverted from Pinball to Speech Synthesis... but it's too damn cool :) This was posted 7 years ago, and I'm sure you know how far it's come since then :WololoDE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVr8gnQcGoI

Nice Video! At https://youtu.be/OVr8gnQcGoI?t=294 you can hear "Huge Harry" :D
Maybe this track has the same voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1cHll-MIqg, just pitched down a bit. ^^

[Bastardboy]

That one you posted might be it !!! ... but distinctly not in this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5812dvFNEZY

[Bastardboy]

Yeah, Arcades were a funny place, just before consoles came out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMSap7ZbJA0

[Bastardboy]

Sorry for the bump... Just a reminder. By the way, this was the Movie Version... Extra Bass, more drums, other stuff, I hear. It was put into the movie before the single was released. This version sounds better to me, also, it has movie sounds for added... Fireworks :) ... and Good Ol' Burgess Meredith, An Actors Actor... whatever that means :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsJK7tlBQOQ

[Bastardboy]

The Second Platter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WDb2NkcZBg

[Bastardboy]

The 80's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-_6FsTn57g

[Bastardboy]

Mike Tyson, we salute you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsaTFcXVCNU