It’s Finally Time to Party With Elvira!

Game Restoration,Playfield Restoration,Shop Notes

We’re always more than happy to finish another long-term project, especially when it turns out as well as this Elvira and the Party Monsters! We had some help from the owner with this one, which made it go a lot faster. Check it out!

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Bally came out with Elvira and the Party Monsters in 1989, and produced around 4,000 units, IPDB reports.

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The game came out one year after Cassandra Peterson made her big-screen debut as her most famous character, in Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Peterson had been playing Elvira since the early ’80s on an L.A. TV station.

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This is a really fun machine, with lots of great touches. So of course its owner, Karl, wanted to get his game back to peak form.

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So Karl asked us to tackle the playfield while he worked on the cabinet, sanding it down and putting on new decals.

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We tore everything off the playfield, then did some extensive touchups, and then clearcoated it too.

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We installed full LEDs, too, and some nice custom touches, like the bony flippers, Super Bands, and more.

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Then Karl brought back the cabinet (did we mention what a great job he did?!), and we put everything back together.

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Enjoy the game, Karl. You deserve it after all your hard work!