Laser War (Data East 1987)

[Herweh]

https://vpinball.com/?post_type=cmdm_page&p=157736

‘Laser War’ is the first pinball machine from Data East and the first machine from any manufacturer to feature stereo sound and 2.1 channel sound (stereo plus subwoofer).

For sure one of the top 10 tables when it comes to the ugliest backglass of a pinball machine. But the table offers a lot fun to play and a great light show. I tried to capture that as best I could.

Very special thanks to

• Schreibi34: Thank you so much for the awesome laser tower and for cleaning up the plastic ramp
• OldSkoolGamer: For providing me all the wonderful artwork he designed for the VP9 build
• Francisco666: For the reworked playfield image of the VP9 build

Special thanks to

• OldSkoolGamer, ICPjuggla, Herweh (:-): For creating a very cool VP9 build from where I borrowed a few table elements
• Flupper: For his plastic and wire ramp tutorial and for the flasher domes
• Dark: For the gates primitives template and the flipper primitives from ‘Jurassic Park’
• Dark and nFozzy: For locknuts and screws
• DJRobX, RothbauerW and maybe some other ones: For some code in my script like the SSF routines
• Mark70, Thalamus and digable: For beta testing and a lot great helpful feedback. Without you guys the table wouldn’t be what it is
• VPX development team: For the continous improvement of VP
• All I have forgotten. Please send me a PM if you think I should add you to the ‘Thx’ section here. My fault!

Check out the script options at the top of the script. There are options for GI and ramp color modes, a more or less jumping ball, playfield shadow depth and more.

Toggle thru the silver or black ramp with the left MagnaSave button and thru the standard or a very colorful GI with the right MagnaSave button.

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Total of 85 users thanked author for this post. Here are last 20 listed.

Marcio, Vladaymir, Conehead, xenonph, freezermeat, Darren, pacboy, Cenobyte, rudil24, tomate, andymcrae, Ben Logan2, Rebel Oz, jcksu3, TNT2, flstclasic, kwaaizaat, Onevox, Hawyer, TXT11

[ashleyb]

Looks great, thanks all involved and Herweh!

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[Teahaus]

Looks and plays great!!  Thanks for all the work in bringing this to the community.  Really steller look to this table.

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[sheltemke]

So beautiful…so beautiful . Perfect start of the weekend! Thank you so much!

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[rgarriott]

Excellent job. Thanks

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[marie]

Epic table. Muchas gracias!!

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[Al Mundy]

Thanks so much for this beautiful table Herweh! I was hoping for a VPX version and yours looks and plays just like I remember except the coils don’t smoke out like all the real ones did. How well I remember that Data East was still working out the bugs back in 1987. Virtual beats real on this one!

Pinball Is My Life

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[Tom]

Did a great job on the table.  The color changing objects and sounds are my absolute favorite.

BTW the wife and kids have been spending a lot of time down at the beach over the holidays.  My mom gave all the kids $20 to donate to charity.  The kids didn’t want to just give money away so they took garbage bags with them every time they went to the beach in Panama City Beach.  They have probably filled up 20 bags of trash and they love it.

If your thinking, why is he writing this here, check out all the great options that were added to the script!

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[Pinbolt]

Thank you and all the involved for this great table.

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[Schreibi34]

Great job my friend. Can’t wait to see the lightshow!

Thanks to all involved!

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[RallyRally]

Great job, very pretty. Get the Ion Cannon!

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[Thalamus]

Hi @Herweh. You already should by now know how much I love this table. I can assure you that I’ll be playing it a lot in the future. Thank you so much !

Thanks also to the various contributors mentioned.

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[Peter222]

What’s going on here!?! …almost every day, a new table that knocks you off your feet. Can my body handle it? ;)

Thank You @Herweh – great job!

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[Mark70]

Thanks a lot @Herweh and all involved for creating this superb looking and playing table!
It couldn’t be any better! One of my all time favorites.

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[DeathInc]

Thank you herweh and all involved.  Looks amazing.

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[STAT]

Boah … two great L – Tables in a day, or 2 … and this one is also an Eyecatcher, same for bord’s latest, here i just fight with “my” Sound Issue …

Thanks Herweh & Team !

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[digable]

Clever use of the magna saves to switch options on the fly, I like being able to toggle back and forth on the lighting.  It makes me want to LED my table someday.  Also, the laser kick is almost exactly the same strength as mine.  Awesome job.

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[randr]

This looks fantastic! thanks for the table its a work of art

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[htamas]

This is totally awesome. Thank you.

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[joeplainfield]

Thank you.

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