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- A unique Tour back in 1990 of the pinball manufacturing factory DATA EAST while THE SIMPSONS was being made! Unseen for 27 years, take this neat journey back in time with Todd Tuckey and see this fascinating look at this production line! The back to the Pinball Expo in Chicago and all the machines on display including a prototype Data East Checkpoint and the unreleased King Kong!
John Norris shows how to play pinball on a Gottlieb whitewood of VEGAS and the banquet to honor pinball designer BARRY OURSLER and introduced by Steve Kordek!
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All the circuit boards were made in Schaumburg Illinois by a company called Electronic Design and Manufacturing. I was their lead tech and worked on the test fixtures for the all the boards. Any white sticker with the initials DM is me. I met Gary Stearn back when he made the Star Wars game and he was so impressed with our work he gave me a Star Wars backdrop sign, I still have it.
Thanks for all you do.
Todd do u know how valuable your work is ??your videos will be here long after we all have gone...keep the videos coming!
Boy, oh boy...I hope its a LONG time before I am gone!
Thank you so much for this video !
It allowed me to share with my 9 years old daughter a pinball I owned for 20 years, which I sold it ten years ago...
...Then she goes to play to our Royal Rumble !
Glad it helped!
WOW talk about a flash back! I know about 4 people in the testing area! I was hired in this Data East location in 1990-1991when back to the future was rolling out..followed by The Simpsons was rolling out after Back to the Future..i have that backglass and a Checkpoint backglass! Must have missed this filming or was to new to be on camera. ...classic!! Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it Sal....do you ever go to the pinball shows? Would love to interview you on camera of your memories!
Hello TNT ! that´s beautyful sharing your love for retro arcades and their history here in youtube ! that´s amazing to see the magic happening the final result are our memories from 80´s and 90´s !
Thanks for commenting!! We all love these classics here at TNT
Great share Toddster, thankyou! So this is where my Tales From The Crypt was born!
yes...a really neat factory...so little video exists from here too!
I use to work there as a driver at that very same time....thank you for the great memories....
Glad I filmed the tour that day! It seems there is virtually no video of Data East!
Incredible, color footage. What a find.
This should be the new TNT Amusements training video.
Cowabunga
I think the floating head method really worked here! Felt like we were just watch this video together!
Glad you liked my "Floating Head!" I do this on the 4/3 ratio videos!! (look at our old infomercials)
28 year old videotape and no dropouts! Hats off to your storage technique.
Dry dark place in the house...all lined up...
You were a visionary to be filming this back then, and no surprise that you now own a successful company. Huge cool points to your daughter for finding this.
Thanks Todd, that was fun to watch!
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice to see were my Data East Batman Pinball was made great video 👍🏻
WOW ! Fast alles in Handarbeit gefertigt. Gegenüber den heutigen von "Stern" mit der Qualität nicht mehr zu vergleichen.
Danke für diesen Einblick !
Mach bitte weiter
Vielen Dank!!
Thanks a million for taking the time to post this.
Thank you for the excellent video, although the floating head was a little unsettling. LOL
:-)
Awesome Todd. Great to go back to a better America and better times in this video. Back when pinball was booming.
Glad you enjoyed the video Wyatt...a wonderful time for pinball!
I think bingo games are going to be come back again that was a lot of fun
Great video Todd!! So cool to find footage from 1990!!
Thanks!! Another find!!
This is great Todd. I love the made in America theme this tour represents. We dominated the pinball industry and I believe we still do if I'm not mistaken.
I believe we still do!!
I'm only 5 minutes in and I'm amazed at the pace these people assemble these machines!
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Todd, Its really awesome that you filmed this all those years ago and your daughter found it. It's a piece of lost (and found ) history. Hopefully she stumbles onto some more! Thanks for sharing.
I hope she does too!
@ 14:53 it's John from John's Arcade! lol.
yes...I can see it!!
Thanks for sharing and all your efforts with the editing Todd !
Thanks Darren!!
Great nugget of history preserved! Thanks for sharing. A lot of hard work went into them. I think I'd go postal hearing Apu say "Thank you! Come again!" all day testing the Simpson's tables though...
Yes...I was glad I filmed it...I had so long ago forgotten doing it!
Some quality mustaches in that video.
Those were the days!
You got a new fan. I follow a lot of youtube channels that become huge later, you guys will be next. Great humour and great work overall! You guys kick ass.
Glad to have you aboard! Wish that would happen!
I love your channel! your are such a cool guy, would love to talk shop with you and hear more about what it was the pinball world in the 90s :) thanks for sharing!
Maybe you will visit or be at a show I go to!
@@tntamusements I am in Canada, so who knows, maybe one day I will go there and snatch a good deal on a 90s game? is that even a thing these days? lol Cheers
@1:38 1990 janice ave melrose park illinois- home of data east, sega and then they moved 2 buildings down to 2020 janice ave as stern up until a couple years ago. google maps show the building same as it was then- the 2020 building still has the stern sign on google maps.....outstanding video, todd.
Thanks for the trivia!!
And to think the Simpsons are still around.
Yes...they re still popular!
Interesting to see this and think that making a pinball machine is still very much a labor intensive process.
SO much goes into them!!
Simply AMAZING , TODD !
Thanks!!
Thanks for sharing these awesome videos, greetings from Argentina
Thank you...for telling me!!
Fantastic footage! Thanks for unearthing it and sharing!
Glad you liked it!
Wow that King Kong...Sounds are like Simpsons & JP & Checkpoint & Batman mixed together!!!
Great video ! It was so cool seeing all those Delta East games being built !!!
Thanks Michael!
Thank you for sharing this video. I really enjoyed watching the assembly line.
Glad you liked it!
Great video Todd, very enjoyable to watch. I played King Kong in a private collection a couple years back, cool to see it again. Your energy and enthusiasm for pinball back then and still going strong after all these years...thanks for sharing this with us!
Thank you for your comments!
I have A nightmare of floating heads ......but how amazing is it that those machines still work
I love doing that! It allows me to put stuff below my head!
Very cool video, like all of you stuff here, thx for sharing.... :-)
Thank you!!
Yes, it finally happened! I've been wanting for this video to be uploaded for ages.
Glad you enjoyed it Tom!
Thanks sir for sharing such great moments! And what a great looking pin was King Kong, love the cab and backglass
Thank you David!
Thanks for sharing! Really enjoyed the Data East tour video. I'd be scared to let my kids go through some of my old videos might find a naughty movie lol
Glad you enjoyed it...and no naughty movies will ever be found!
Back to the Future the pinball came out that year from Data East! Marty, you gotta come back with me!
Yes it did...I think right after
Todd this is great - thanks as always for sharing these with us!
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
more incredible footage of history..you are the shit sir!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very cool. I have to wonder if the DE Simpsons i owned was shown in your filming. We'll never know. Thanks!!!
Glad you liked it!
Yay, 10pm and a new video shows up! I can watch this before I go to bed sweet!
:-)
that was very interesting . thanks for sharing this video. Love that you were so passionate about it already back then you filmed the entire process just for yourself.
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Awesome video!! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you!!
Thanks Tammy for rummaging :) gosh what was I doing in 1990. other than getting Confirmed and starting high school. Probably rummaging thru grandpa's stuff :) and taking photos. I do have myself on video (there's at least 3 I don't have and nobody's shared from 1987-1989) doing a bad Injun Joe from Tom Sawyer, but can't share it publically (and have lost that link now and then :P) youtube also removes stuff from time to time because of copyright) araghhhh. think King Kong is the big table I confuse with the other one ?? The one I played had basically pool tables instead. Played it just once and it was a rather long line and I could barely see over some of the tablet :P You've shown it. Not sure if it's in digital though.
If you keep clips and music to 29 seconds, you are usually okay but some copyright holders won;t let anything appear!
great footage thank you
@7:43 Hmmm...looks like there is a random Bally game up there next to those checkpoints. Wonder why that's there.
Fantastic!!! LOVE data east
Glad you liked the video!
Thoroughly enjoyed video thank you TNT
Thank you!!
Amazing that they make the playfield harnesses on their own like that. I would have thought they did them right on the playfield as it was being assembled.
Yes...all hand made!
Thank you Todd (and Tammy)! Great video, very interesting to see!
Thanks Mike!
Todd,that was a fantastic video. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks!
Amazing what kind of footage you can find on old videos. Irreplaceable stuff!
Yes...so glad it was still clear!
I have burned 24 minutes of my life on less interesting things 🤔🤔but today I can say I'm satisfied giving this one away👍🏾very nice footage and thanks for sharing your memories 🥇digging the ghost head🤣🤣🤣
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Great footage, thanks a lot. If you will ever go on holiday to southern spain, I will invite you for dinner here.
+The Kong I will hold you to that dinner!!
cheap off course, that's how I am :D
(just kidding, before I become a creep of the week :S )
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Wow that was so awesome, I have two Data East pins and one is a checkpoint that is strangely customized to a NW tire store chain.
Interesting! A clever idea for a store...maybe they had it in their store for awhile!
My god that was awesome! Such memories.
Fantastic Tour! Thanks TNT! I❤TODD
Glad you liked it!!
Awesome!
:-)
That was REALLY cool to see.. And thank you for releasing it!! But IMO I've never met a Data East game I liked..
Glad you enjoyed it!!
great video, King Kong would have spectacular.
Thanks Robert! I can imagine it with LED's!
amazing video. Keep them coming!
Thank you!
Great video Todd!
Thanks Bobby!!
Big Big Fan, Really Cool Thanks for Sharing
Thanks!!
Thanks for putting this vid up. I'm not a pinball buff but this is interesting nonetheless.
Glad you enjoyed it!
And that rosin smoke getting blown by fans away from the workers. Wow. I'd have a headache after 30 minutes of working there.
Likely sucked away.
Awesome!!!!!
:-)
15:05. There was game from 1968 called Comics from rally pinball in France. It had nixie score display. Super rare.
That would be neat to see!
Welcome back, Todd! Did you put your Disney Land trip? Did you put TNT stickers on their games? 😃
I sneak sticking them on everything I can find!
Tod can you take a road trip to visit galloping ghost arcade they have over 450 games open to the public to play and a place they repair there own games would be great to see you visit and maybe bring Frank along to film they have one of the largest arcade in the USA
If I ever get in the area. I cannot just do a road trip for just this unless someone is paying the expenses! That would be expensive!!
Freeport was an experimental slot/pinball machine
Okay...I think it may have been mentioned in another comment a couple years ago too...
Awesome video Todd, keep 'em coming!
Thanks!!
chris here from Australia luv your videos thanks
Thanks Chris!
Like the look of that Ratrace game.
I would love to play it!
Hello , love your channel !I wanted to ask if you could send me a card from your shop along with stickers & possibly autographs of all your staff yourself & your brother?Yes I know it's asking a lot but I am a huge fan and would love to frame and display all of it in my pinball man cave.Please.............
just email me a request... tntquality@aol.com
I have been waiting forever for you to reveiw Tutankham from Konami.... My all time favourite from childhood.... It seems to be very rare....
Maybe one day we will get another in!
TNT Amusements Inc Which means you did actually have one in the past ? If one would speculate, in the production figure of the game Tutankham are we talking a 5000+ prod run... .? The one we had in the Rec center was in the Corps of Engineers compound, Dhahran Saudi Arabia. Never saw it in Europe.
Even though I'm at Williams Bally's and midway fan boy.
But do love Data East, Stern Gottlieb and Capcom and Sega pinball machines as well.
All the companies made good machines for the most part!
Now, if only you could dig up some footage of Williams' pinball factory.
wish I had some...we were not aloud to film when we toured Williams when the last game was on assembly line--Star Wars Episode One...and they closed 4 days after we had that tour!
Love those factory videos! Do you have any more videos from back then of factory tours?
there was another tour of Alvin G and company...while Mystery Castle was being made.
Terrific video! What is the guy stapling into the cabinet at 10:37?
That is for the air to flow through the cabinet...covering the cent holes!
Hey Todd, awesome piece of archive you found there thanks. Nice camera too. Do you remember what model it was? Had a decent zoom and focus for 1990, wouldn't have been cheap!
I only had sony's for many years...then when they no longer made DV tape cmeras, I had a Canon...then I went back to Sony for the digital camera....and on my second one...first one had a couple issues
Thanks for sharing this great piece of pinball history! Now I'm wonder what a new Simpsons pinball cost in 1990. Did distributors sell them for around US$3000???
Yes...that was about the cost new...and now a reconditioned Simpsons is $3500!
The slingshot plastics on King Kong looked like they would move when hit. Was this a new concept tested on that game?
+RJ Vending i.know Elvira had moving slingshots too.
So is Stern still using the same building or did they move out?
They moved to a building I think twice as large...maybe bigger
Tod I was wrong not 450 games but something like over 650 arcade games and it's $20 bucks but that includes free play and read if you keep ticket go out for lunch your welcome back to continue playing till they close that is a true bargain just thought seing you and Frank there would be great and you probably get a behind the scenes stuff us regular folks would. Never get to see
Thats true!
Great new video, liked as always!
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Tod do they still make pinball machines here in us ....they used to make ms Pacman arcade games in the USA
Yes...Stern and Chicago Gaming in Chicago, Jersey Jack in New Jersey...and other independents make small runs....Pinball is coming back a bit!
Color don't mean a damn thing unless your a racist fuck but do you know what the funny part is? Your the one buying their games regardless how and who bought it later on, just remember a Mexican built it for you. :)
Now stop that foolishness talking about Mexicans and just enjoy the games and less who made it by, damn people these days I tell you what.
Mexicans are Americans too :^).
Cool!
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This is one of my favorite videos that you have done! Do you have any other older tour videos? Will you ever do a "Top Ten" favorite pinball list or "Top Ten" Moments in TNT History? I think you could have a lot of fun with that!
Yes...several tours...I provide links at the end of this video...but our channel has one playlist full of tours, trips, etc
21:00 Looks like one of the World Trade Center tower, because it definitely doesn't look like the Empire State Building.
Not sure...I assumed he Empire!
Mr Todd Tuckey DONT let your daughter look thru your unmarked video tapes.
Now do you think I would actually have videos like THAT???
Zardoz !
The pot of gold!
Dose data east still make pinball machines? As of 2018?
Yes, now they are Stern
OK soo...
If Stern owned data East?
Why isn't they doing anything with Data east? Never mind I get it.
Stern is doing what data east did.
And making PINBALL games based on Metallica acdc and Aerosmith and not coming up with anything new.