INDIANA JONES

Continuing our coverage with the first pictures of Indiana Jones from the Enada Show in Rimini, we can now bring you more and improved pictures of the game, courtesy of Federico.

IJ4 playfield
Full playfield picture

As we saw before, the four movies are all represented with the Holy Grail sitting atop one of the pop bumpers, the Ark of the Covenant at the top centre, the Crystal Skull over the right ramp and a rotating stone wall allowing the captive ball to launch a second and third ball into a bank of targets.

Upper playfield
The upper half of the playfield

The front ball is captive while the two behind are free to bounce around the map room. An initial hit sends the ball at the back into the targets while a second hit give two ball multiball.

The map room
The Map Room

The loose balls can spot the M-A-P letters on the yellow standups and there are slingshot kickers on the side rubbers to increase the action. Completing the M-A-P letters lights the 8-ball multiball.

Captive ball and the map room

And what happens when that stone wall revolves?

The stone wall

The four movies are colour-coded yellow, red, blue and green with appropriately coloured inserts and playfield artwork. The crystal skull appear to be a static object and only interacts through its lighting.

Close-up of the playfield
Detail of the Ark and the Crystal Skull

The ark looks nicely detailed and includes a magnet in front. The seven green standups are not individually lit so must act as bank instead much like in Attack From Mars.

But the ark is more than just an elaborate toy. It holds balls within and raises them on a platform to be released through the top as the lid opens.

The ark releasing the locked balls
Four locked balls about to be released

The palform pivots to send the balls rolling off the front of the ark and onto the playfield for multiball.

Balls released from the Ark
It's multiball!

There are spinners on both orbits which can be lit for super spinner.

Playfield detail
The shot through the pop bumpers, the holy grail scoop
and the levitating captive ball.

Lower playfield
The lower half of the playfield

The modes from each movie
The movie modes

Sadly the stand-up budget and space didn't stretch to a full "Indiana", so we just get "Indy Jones" spelled out on the playfield instead.

The game continues the split-display DMD started on Wheel Of Fortune although it will be interesting to see what happens when the score gets above 1 billion points.

Indiana Jones DMD
The Indiana Jones display layout

The instruction card gives more information about the game's features.

Instruction card
The game's instruction card

Indiana Jones's front
The front of the game

But Indiana Jones wasn't the only new Stern game at Enada. He had a friend to accompany him.

The two new Stern games at the show
Indy back-to-back with Shrek

We'll have lots more coverage of both Indiana Jones and Shrek soon here at Pinball News.

 

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