Black Knight 2000 Music
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| Manufacturer | Williams |
|---|---|
| Release date | November 1980 |
| System | Williams System 7 |
| Design | Steve Ritchie |
| Programming | Larry DeMar |
| Artwork | Tony Ramunni |
| Voices | Steve Ritchie (Black Knight) |
| Production run | 13,075 |
Black Knight is a 1980 pinball game designed by Steve Ritchie (who also provides the Knight's voice) and released by Williams Electronics.[1] Ritchie designed two sequels: Black Knight 2000, released by Williams in 1989, and Black Knight: Sword of Rage, released by Stern Pinball in 2019.[2]
Description[edit]
This game is known for its two-level playfield (a first for a pinball game), and introduced the patented 'Magna-Save', in which a player-controlled magnet is used to prevent outlane drains. This was first of a series of four games that were both two-level and featured magna-save.[3] The later games (Jungle Lord, Pharaoh, Solar Fire, Grand Lizard) feature a variable type magna-save in that the magnet is energized as long as the player likes (up to the time they have earned); on Black Knight the machine controls the magnet time (adjustable by the operator from three to ten seconds). Magna-save was activated by pressing one of two buttons placed on each side of the cabinet, just above the flipper buttons. The sequel to Black Knight abandoned the variable magna-save which had become standard at that point and reverted to a fixed time. Balls drained down the outlane in spite of using magna-save caused the machine to laugh at the player, reinforcing the theme of the game as an evil knight vs. the player.
Black Knight was not the first game to have electromagnets installed - an earlier example is Williams' Electronics Gorgar (the first 'talking' pinball game), which features an area of the playfield that when hit, holds the ball on an electromagnet for a second or two while a speech call plays.
Other notable features of Black Knight are a loud riding bell instead of the old familiar knock when a special (free game) was won, three ball multi-ball that did not require any previous targets to be hit before allowing balls to lock, and random score targets.
Digital versions[edit]
Black Knight was formerly available as a licensed table in any version of The Pinball Arcade until June 30, 2018 - due to WMS license expiration. The table is also included in the Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection. Black Knight is ROM-emulated only in PC version, but in the rest of platforms this table is scripted, like in Pinball Hall Of Fame The Williams Collection (each platform). Unlicensed recreations of the game are available for Visual Pinball.
Black Knight 2000 was also released as a licensed table on The Pinball Arcade. This table features ROM emulation.
Both Black Knight (1980) and Black Knight 2000 had to be taken down just before June 30, 2018 - WMS license expiration date.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=310
- ^https://sternpinball.com/game/black-knight/
- ^Rossignoli, Marco (2011). The Complete Pinball Book: Collecting the Game and Its History (3rd ed.). Schiffer Publishing. pp. 215–216. ISBN978-0-7643-3785-7.
External links[edit]
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AwesomeMusic/Pinball
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Examples of Awesome Music in Pinball games, whether Physical Pinball Tables or Digital Pinball Tables.
Black Knight 2000 Music Group
- 1989's Black Knight 2000 is known for having one of the best soundtracks ever for a pinball game, composed by Brian Schmidt, Dan 'Toasty!' Forden, and the game's designer, Steve Ritchie. Take a listen here.
- Another contender is 1993's The Twilight Zone. It helps that they borrowed the Golden Earring hit song of the same name. Listen for yourself hereand also here.
- Dan Forden's mix of ZZ Top's 'La Grange' for The Getaway: High Speed II fits in here as well. As does the original High Speed's jackpot theme, by Steve Ritchie and Bill Parod.
- Also worth giving a listen to is the soundtrack from F-14 Tomcat. It features some ridiculously amazing music done by the people who did the music for Black Knight 2000. The main theme, high scorenote , and multiball themes, in particular, are well done.
- For Digital Pinball Tables, Pro Pinball: Timeshock! really stands out with its soundtrack, along with generally being one of the best computer pinball games ever. Here's a great video, if you have over an hour to spare.
- Elvira and the Party Monsters has a surprisingly awesome soundtrack, especially for the multiball jackpot and the three-million-point 'Elvira's Theme.'. It's even better actually playing the game, as the pinball playfield lights are synchronized to the music.
- TX-Sector, in all its eighties Chiptune glory. Listen to it here.
- White Water has some particularly memorable music, mostly the multiball songs, but the Vacation Jackpot sequence as well. The machinegoescrazy.
- Judge Dredd has some awesome hard rock music, especially the main theme.
- Everything in Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection, particularly the opening theme song. Notable because Chris Kilne did the majority of tracks for the game.
- Pretty much all of World Cup Soccer's soundtrack, particularly the main theme.
- Time Machine by Data East has some amazing music as well, even for a late 80s game. Particularly the Jackpot tune, the 70s tune, and the end karaoke ('Time Machine, where you go back in time...')
- The main theme ofIndianapolis 500, a swelling, adrenalin-filled tune that captures the speed and excitement of the Real Life race that it's based on. The theme could step into the climax of a Sports StoryFilm without a single change.
- Last Gladiators is already filled with numerous awesome Rated M for Manly soundtracks, but the topper is the opening title tune, over a minute-and-a-half of white-hot speed rock awesome.
- The main theme for Victory is rather catchy, in a late eightiesChiptune way.
- The main theme for Jackbot is a snazzy jazz rendition of the original Pin*Bot theme and boy is it catchy. Likewise, the Casino Run theme is an upbeat, frantic synth piece that perfectly describes the feeling of pressing one's luck.
- The Lightning Racer mode theme in 3D Ultra Pinball: Thrillride is one looping epic guitar solo. Who knew building your own roller coaster would rock so much? Then there's Nighttime Fantasy. Of all the choices of music to get you pumped for a Wizard Mode, what would be more fitting than a freaking ORCHESTRA?
- A lot of The X-Files' music is surprisingly goodnote — see the multiball, Jackpot Collected, and Smoking Man themes — but the best is Blood (the Wizard Mode's theme), which can be compared to a Boss Remix of the series' theme song.
- Banzai Run's soundtrack is highly energetic, as demonstrated here.
- DOOM's 2016 reboot had a deafening, wicked soundtrack alright, courtesy of Mick Gordon. Turns out that when Zen Studios turned it into a virtual pinball table, one would figure that it wouldn't feel like DOOM without that soundtrack...
- Swords Of Fury, in all its 80s musical glory, starts off slowly and melancholic, but the instrumentation builds as balls are captured. Come the start of multiball, the music changes into a charged-up battle anthem.
- No Good Gofers has this hard-rocking multiball theme.