''Dr. Dude and His Excellent Ray'' is a

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machine designed by Dennis Nordman and released in 1990 by Midway (under the

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label). The theme of the game revolves around gaining coolness.

Gameplay

The ultimate goal of the game is to become a cool ''Super

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'' by visiting the ''kinetic clinic'' with the ''excellent ray'' as a treatment. To achieve this, the player has at first to collect the ingredients of ''ultimate hipness'' to increase the ''Dude-O-Meter'': the ''Heart of

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'', a '' Magnetic Personality'', and the '' Gift of gab''. Further gameplay features include the ''Excellent Ray'' to start multiball, ''Big Shot'' - a

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figure that insults the player, the ''Molecular Mixmaster'' - a spinning disc with a rubber post on it, surrounded by targets and a ''

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point shot'' with scoring that potentially can reach multiple millions of points.

Description

''Dr. Dude and His Excellent Ray'' has a colorful

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theme and features many playfield toys. The game has 1980's style music, a hidden playfield magnet and an alpha-numeric display. The game was one of the last machines in pinball mainstream with such a display made before switching to the newer

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score displays. The

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of the machine includes a lenticular flip image of ''Ben A. Glich'' before and after coolness treatment.

Digital versions

''Dr. Dude and His Excellent Ray'' was available as a licensed table of ''

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'' for several platforms prior to the loss of the WMS license in 2018. After the license passed to

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, the company announced in 2020 that the table will be part of a forthcoming sixth wave of tables being added to its own curation of Williams pinball tables, available as

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for ''

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''.

References

External links

* 1990 pinball machines Bally pinball machines {{pinball-stub