Gorgar
Encyclopedia
Gorgar is a pinball
machine manufactured by Williams Electronics, now known as WMS Industries. Among many of the William's company's firsts, Gorgar was the first 'talking' pinball machine. With a vocabulary of seven words, the words could be combined together for different phrases. Such as "Gorgar Speaks" and "Me Got You".
It was designed by Barry Oursler, with art by Constantino Mitchell. It debuted in December 1979.
group Helloween
's album Walls of Jericho
contains song titled Gorgar. It was also covered by another german power metal
group Iron Savior
on their album Unification
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Pinball
Pinball is a type of arcade game, usually coin-operated, where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more metal balls on a playfield inside a glass-covered case called a pinball machine. The primary objective of the game is to score as many points as possible...
machine manufactured by Williams Electronics, now known as WMS Industries. Among many of the William's company's firsts, Gorgar was the first 'talking' pinball machine. With a vocabulary of seven words, the words could be combined together for different phrases. Such as "Gorgar Speaks" and "Me Got You".
It was designed by Barry Oursler, with art by Constantino Mitchell. It debuted in December 1979.
Notable features
- Flippers (2)
- Pop bumpers (3)
- Kick-out hole (1)
- 3-bank drop targets (2)
- Rollunder spinner (1)
- The Snake Pit has a magnet under the playfield to hold the ball while scoring lit value.
In popular culture
German power metalPower metal
Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...
group Helloween
Helloween
Helloween is a German power metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band was a pioneering force in the European Power Metal movement and their second and third studio albums, Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt...
's album Walls of Jericho
Walls of Jericho (album)
Walls of Jericho is the debut full length studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 1985 on LP and had an important development in the power metal giving some influences.In 1988 Walls of Jericho was released on CD...
contains song titled Gorgar. It was also covered by another german power metal
Power metal
Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...
group Iron Savior
Iron Savior
Iron Savior is a German power metal band that formed in Hamburg, Germany in 1996. Following a period of several years working behind the scenes in music production, multi-instrumentalist and producer/engineer Piet Sielck joined with former Helloween bandmate Kai Hansen and then-drummer for Blind...
on their album Unification
Unification
Unification, in computer science and logic, is an algorithmic process by which one attempts to solve the satisfiability problem. The goal of unification is to find a substitution which demonstrates that two seemingly different terms are in fact either identical or just equal...
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