Gorgar

1979 pinball machine

Gorgar

Arcade flyer

Manufacturer| Williams Electronics
Release date| December 1979
Design| Barry Oursler
Artwork| Constantino Mitchell, Jeanine Mitchell
Sound| Eugene Jarvis
Production run| Approximately 14,000

Gorgar is a 1979 pinball machine designed by Barry Oursler and released by Williams Electronics. It was the first speech-synthesized ("talking") pinball machine, containing a vocabulary of seven words ("Gorgar", "speaks", "beat", "you", "me", "hurt", "got") that were combined to form varying broken-English phrases, such as "Gorgar speaks" and "Me got you". The pinball machine also has a heartbeat sound effect that increases in speed during longer gameplay.[1]

A promotional record for the machine titled Gorgar Speaks was produced by Bud Solk & Associates and recorded at Zenith Cinema Service Studios. John Doremus was the announcer, Tom Erhart portrayed Gorgar, Phyllis L. Fineberg wrote the script, and Ron Crause directed.[2]

## Digital versions

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Gorgar was available on FarSight Studios' 2012 release The Pinball Arcade for multiple platforms until June 29, 2018, when the license for inclusion of Williams and Bally tables in the game expired. The table is included in the Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection. Unauthorized reproductions of this table are available for Visual Pinball.[citation needed]

## In popular culture

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The machine appears in the 5th episode of the 2nd season of Highway to Heaven, appropriately an episode in which the Devil himself appeared. German power metal band Helloween's 1985 album Walls of Jericho included a track titled "Gorgar" that symbolized the machine as a form of gambling addiction.

## References

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1. ^ "Internet Pinball Machine Database: Gorgar". August 24, 2013.
2. ^ Gorgar Speaks. Evatone Spreadsheets. 1979.

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