Heighways first pinball production run?

[aaronhicksuk]

Not sure if anybody else caught a glimpse of the pinball machine on ITV news this evening played by Nick Clegg?

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014...e-to-bash-coalition-colleagues-at-conference/

I reckon it could well be the secret machine mentioned in the recent Pinball News article on Heighway Pinball, especially as according to the internet they have had grants from TSB.

 

[dave]

LOL

I was watching this when he was drinking the ale, but I must've missed the first bit with the pinball. I would've spat my tea out.

 

[Sam C]

Any idea what the machine was? Usually when you see something like this is an older game that's been converted. It certainly looks like it has the slightly fatter Bally flippers from the 80's.

 

[aaronhicksuk]

Any idea what the machine was? Usually when you see something like this is an older game that's been converted. It certainly looks like it has the slightly fatter Bally flippers from the 80's.

I know what you mean about the flippers being slightly fatter like an 80s Bally. You don't really get a very good view of the table in the video but the playfield looks totally bespoke, its got weird shaped playfield inserts like the big one of the British Isles. The back box also looks unlike anything on an early table, similar in shape to the Full Throttle in my opinion which is pretty unique.

Hopefully Andy Heighway will be at NLP at the weekend and I'll be able to ask him if its his work in person.

 

[Matt Vince]

That is a conversion from an 80's era machine by the look of it, hard to tell what because the inserts are so different.