The Addams Family Special Collectors Edition is a deluxe, limited version of Bally’s record-breaking 1992 classic — the best-selling solid-state pinball machine ever made, designed by Pat Lawlor and Larry DeMar. Created to honor the original’s staggering success (more than 20,000 units sold), this Collectors Edition adds premium trim and refinements to a game whose personality and engineering firsts have kept it beloved for over three decades.
At its heart it’s pure Addams Family. Thing, an animatronic hand, springs from its box to magnetically grab the ball and carry it beneath the playfield, while a computer-controlled mini-flipper cleverly learns a tricky cross-playfield shot. The defining feature is “The Power”: magnets hidden under the playfield that seize and fling the ball unpredictably, summoning the family’s supernatural chaos exactly when you least want it — so experienced players cradle up and wait it out.
The ruleset still rewards a knowing hand, flowing through the mansion’s stackable modes at the chair, spelling GREED at the optical bookcase to light multiball locks, and racking up Bear Kicks on the center ramp for extra balls and mansion rooms toward the 50-million Tour finale. A clean three-way combo of center ramp, left orbit, and left ramp builds serious points. Funny, fast, and impeccably designed, The Addams Family Special Collectors Edition is the most coveted way to own a genuine all-time great — a machine that defined the licensed pinball era and still plays like a dream. Mysterious and spooky, and altogether collectible.